Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975

Long Out of Print 2003 Bootleg Series Release Back On Vinyl with 64-Page Booklet; Companion Piece to the New Film Rolling Thunder Revue – A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

This vinyl 3LP box set (originally released in 2003 and now long out of print) includes 22 highlights from the mythic first leg of Bob Dylan's groundbreaking Rolling Thunder Revue and serves as a companion piece to the new film Rolling Thunder Revue – A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese. Packaged in a slipcase and including a 64-page booklet with liner notes and extensive photography.

Launched in the fall of 1975, Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue flouted the touring conventions of the time by featuring an eclectic cast of characters and playing small and unusual venues with little advance notice. The shows would often stretch to more than four hours long, generating some of the artist's most dramatic and dynamic on-stage performances ever. Dylan debuted the new songs he'd written for his forthcoming Desire album (which became one of the most acclaimed and popular in his canon) with a fire and intensity that Dylan had reached ten years earlier with his incendiary tours with musicians who became The Band. He also took wild, interpretative rides through his back catalog and broke out some unexpected covers.

Dylan gathered amazing friends and collaborators for his ensemble – dubbed Guam for the tour – that included T Bone Burnett, Mick Ronson, Joan Baez, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Bobby Neuwirth, Scarlett Rivera, Ronee Blakely, Steven Soles, David Mansfield, Rob Stoner, Howie Wyeth and Luther Rix. Poet Allen Ginsberg and Joni Mitchell also brought their talents to the show's encores. Dylan, the consummate band leader, managed to take these musicians from various backgrounds and sensibilities and mold them into a tight musical unit on stage.

Features:
• Long out of print vinyl 3LP box set originally issued in 2003
• Featuring 22 highlights from the mythic first leg of Bob Dylan's groundbreaking Rolling Thunder Revue
• 64-page booklet with liner notes and extensive photography
• Packaged in a slipcase
• Companion piece to the new film Rolling Thunder Revue – A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese