Dylanology

[Jake]

For those among you who are Bob Dylan fans, starting Sunday, May 17 at 8pm EDT on whrb.org (Harvard University radio - 95.3FM) they are going to be playing and streaming the complete discography of Bob Dylan -- in alphabetical order. Not chronological so it is pretty random but complete. Capture the stream and enjoy -- about 52 hours in total with no interruptions except some DJ commentary.

And if Dylan doesn't do it for you, on Sunday, May 24 whrb.org is streaming & playing a 12-hour tribute to Abraham Lincoln -- words and music.

And finally on May 25 they are playing Dick’s Picks -- the essential bootleg recordings of the Grateful Dead. Spanning 36 albums (some six discs and hours in length), the years of 1968 to 1992, and the great cities of our nation, the Dick’s Picks series could be considered one of the greatest productions in the history of modern music. From thirty-minute jams out of Dark Star in in Columbus Ohio, to the Dead version of Johnny B. Goode in San Francisco, the Grateful Dead are unquestionably one of the greatest performing troupes ever. We will be playing the entirety of the Dick’s Picks series in chronological order of recording, leaving nothing out. The requests for more guitar, the imperfections in the tapes, the fifteen minute guitar and drum solos – pure Dead.

 

[strat1117]

For those among you who are Bob Dylan fans, starting Sunday, May 17 at 8pm EDT on whrb.org (Harvard University radio - 95.3FM) they are going to be playing and streaming the complete discography of Bob Dylan -- in alphabetical order. Not chronological so it is pretty random but complete. Capture the stream and enjoy -- about 52 hours in total with no interruptions except some DJ commentary.

And if Dylan doesn't do it for you, on Sunday, May 24 whrb.org is streaming & playing a 12-hour tribute to Abraham Lincoln -- words and music.

And finally on May 25 they are playing Dick’s Picks -- the essential bootleg recordings of the Grateful Dead. Spanning 36 albums (some six discs and hours in length), the years of 1968 to 1992, and the great cities of our nation, the Dick’s Picks series could be considered one of the greatest productions in the history of modern music. From thirty-minute jams out of Dark Star in in Columbus Ohio, to the Dead version of Johnny B. Goode in San Francisco, the Grateful Dead are unquestionably one of the greatest performing troupes ever. We will be playing the entirety of the Dick’s Picks series in chronological order of recording, leaving nothing out. The requests for more guitar, the imperfections in the tapes, the fifteen minute guitar and drum solos – pure Dead.

The Dylanology sounds great. I'm in NY, so I'll have to pick it up on the interwebs.

Just for clarity, Dick's Picks are everything you say they are, except that they are not bootlegs. They are the original 2-channel mixing board tapes. The multi-channel tapes go to the "Vault" series, but the 2-channel jobs became Dick's Picks. I believe that they are some of the best, most natural sounding Dead recordings ever to be released. (I own them all.)