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Welcome to my web-site dedicated to one of the greatest artists of the 20th century - Bob Dylan. After more than 40 years as a performer and recording artist, he continues to make fascinating and powerful music. While many of his competitors are either dead, retired or just simply forgotten, he travels around the world with his “Never Ending Tour” and gives hundreds of concerts every year. Most significant with Bob Dylan is his integrity and constant refusal to give the audience and critics what they want. This may not have been the best choice at all times commercially speaking, but today it’s one of the main reasons why he receive more admiration and respect than any other artist. When he changed from acoustic troubadour and folksinger to electrified poet backed by The Band in the mid-sixties, many people shook their heads and thought he was heading in the wrong direction.

 

 

 

 

 

When others experimented with drugs and made psychedelic music during the “flower power” period a few years later, Dylan went to Nashville and made a country & western album! This “strange” behaviour  has continued over the years and culminated in the beginning of the eighties, when he was “born again” and performed only sacred material on records and on stage for almost 3 years. By this time, both his audience and critics dismissed him and by the end of the eighties, after several unsuccessful albums, many thought of him as a has-been. But at the last moment of a disappointing decade, he released one of his finest albums ever in 1989. With “Oh! Mercy”, Bob Dylan was re-established as an artist and since then he has made some of his finest and best-selling albums of all times. Both “Time Out Of Mind” from 1997 and the latest “Love & Theft” from last year, indicates that Bob Dylan hasn’t painted his masterpiece yet.

 

 

 

Since there are lots of excellent sites on the internet who deals with Bob Dylan in a more biographical way, I only concentrate on presenting my collection of records and other items. Although I have quite a lot, I don’t consider myself being a person who must have every recording available. That, in combination with a few bad experiences, is why I’m a bit restricted when it comes to trading. That doesn’t mean you can’t write me with suggestions, but I think there are lots of other collectors out there with a much greater interest in such activities than me. But if I trade, I prefer to do it interactively and in MP3 format. I know that most people want SHN files these days, but my personal opinion is that MP3s are good enough for bootleg recordings and that SHNs are way too big and often unreliable. I also would like to get in touch with someone who are familiar with Bob Dylan rarities and perhaps could help me out  in order to determine the value of some of the items in my lists. I’m thinking especially of the vinyl bootlegs and some of the titles in the “Singles & EPs” section.

 

Enjoy and thanks for visiting! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                          

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