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Long Distance Operator
source: Berkeley, CA  1965

Tracks:
Tombstone Blues
I Don't Believe You
Baby Let Me Follow You Down
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Long Distance Operator
It Ain't Me Babe
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Positively Fourth Street
Like A Rolling Stone

Review:
The quality of this CD is well below average by today's standards, but for a 1965 audience recording, it's not bad at all. Get over the low fidelity buried sound, and you'll be rewarded with a gem whose historical value cannot be overstated. It's a great performance, to start with. Very unlike the raw power that was to follow in the coming year.. but just as good in it's own rights. Consider it being the only recording of any substance of Dylan & The Hawks (The Band) of that year,... consider that it contains the only know version of the title track,... consider that some of the arrangements are like no other known recording, .... and this CD becomes a masterpiece.
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Information:
source:
Berkeley Community Theater, CA  Dec. 4, 1965

Manufacturer / Catalog No.
Wanted Man  /  WMM001 
 
Released:
1991
Other commercial releases of Berkeley
Before and After the Flood
Ghost of Electricity
Give The Anarchist A Cigarette
What Are You Trying To Say?

Quality: 
3½ stars

Bob's Boots ref  #
BB-l60 

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