Searching For A Gem: Recent Updates
The "Never Ending Listing"
(Title suggested by Gerd Rundel)
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"I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't
remember what it's like."
Bob Dylan, "Idiot Wind", © 1974/2002 Ram's Horn
Music"By popular demand", here's a
list of
the latest Bob Dylan Rarity Updates made to the site. If you have any
items to add to the site, please contact me
here.
Please make sure the subject of your message includes the
word "Dylan"- this will ensure it's not deleted by the site Spam
filter. This is absolutely vital - incoming Spam has been up to 13,300 messages per
day, and I'm sure some of your valuable messages have been missed! Please retry
if your message was rejected or if you haven't received a reply.
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"News" and "Updates" are now two separate pages - for "News", see
here. The font used for the titles of each page is appropriately
called "Jokerman", if you can't see it, download it here:
Revised:
27 September, 2023
Recent Updates
This list by date covers the last two months, and only
includes new entries, not changes or corrections to existing entries.
My free time
these days is extremely limited. Therefore there is at present a
long backlog for additions, for this and the
up-to-date list of wanted releases, see
here. The last item to be added was
submitted on 26 Aug 2023. Please check the backlog list before submitting entries, too many duplicate submissions
(especially of new releases) have been received in the
past. Please note, in order to reduce the huge number of submissions, only
submit scans of new items. If you have a variant copy of an item already
listed on the site, please submit only a text description of your item that can
be pasted into the web page. This will make the additions significantly easier
to handle, and avoid web pages becoming too long. This is a permanent
policy for the site, now being enforced. Thank you for your co-operation.
Work
on my long-standing projects, including a new Dylan discography book, is still
very incomplete.
I shall therefore still be giving
this priority over web-site updates, so please be patient if your contribution
does not appear for some time.
The main Rarities
List is now in individual year pages, which now contain only the main Rarities
List. Access the yearly pages by going to the appropriate decade (Part 1 - the
1960s, etc.). The Rarities header
page for each decade contains links to the other audio pages for that
decade. To remove some confusion I no longer use separate R-numbers for mono
and stereo rarities - a mono version now has the same R-number as the stereo
version with an "M" suffix, e.g. the mono version of
"R-0001" is "R-0001M". This has released several R-numbers
which have now been reused.
International Mono Releases has a page per official album plus several more for compilation albums. Mono
7" Singles & EPs (up to 1976) also have their own pages.
International Stereo Releases
is split into "Regular Albums" (again with one page per album), "Dylan-Only
Compilations", "Various Artists Compilations" (each in multiple sections) and
"International Stereo Singles". All stereo promo album releases including Radio
Station albums are included in the appropriate album page
in International Albums
(Regular). Similarly, all stereo promo singles are included in the appropriate singles
pages of International Singles.
Stereo singles are in a single multi-part chronological list. For links see below.
"VHS & DVD" is split into multiple pages by
decade. All Honourable Mentions are
here. Traveling Wilburys rarities are here.
[VHS
& DVD] [International Mono Releases] [International Stereo Releases]
In answer to queries about making the pages
"printer-friendly", the volatility of the site means I strongly
discourage people from printing out these pages. Any printed page would soon be
out-of-date! For proof of this, just see above. Also, because of the regular
page restructuring that seems to be required as the site expands, if you link to the site, it's best to link to the Home Page
only.
Contacting Bob Dylan
This is
a fan site with no connection to Bob - that means you
can't contact him through me! I used to have a postal address
for Bob's New York business office that I thought was correct, but I have since
been informed by someone who
wrote to that address that their mail was returned. I have never had an
email address. I can only suggest you contact Bob's publisher Simon &
Schuster or use the feedback page at www.bobdylan.com.
I also have no means of helping anyone who wants to meet Bob Dylan or
obtain his autograph!
Ongoing virus and spam effect on mail
services
I obviously have to make this site's email address openly
available so it's being abused by third parties to send Spam. Some correspondents use ISPs
whose Anti-Spam policies now reject replies from me as Spam. If I can't
send a message to you, I'll post a reply on this page. Therefore, if you're expecting a reply from me and
haven't received one, please look here.
Picture Submissions:
Because of the huge number of submissions
to this site I would be very grateful if you could submit scanned pictures
100% ready to be added to a page. Sadly, digital photos are usually
disappointing with unrealistic colours, unwanted reflections and badly
distorted geometrically, so I prefer not to use them. Taking digital
photos and sending them to me is usually a waste of your
time! That means all pictures should be aligned so they're exactly horizontal
and vertical, especially label pictures, and cropped to be exactly square
(or 2:1 if gatefold). I add pictures to the site at 320x320 (640x320 for
gatefold) but I like submissions to be 300 dpi so I can show details if
necessary. Pictures of sleeve/label details you submit should be either
1:1, 2:1 or 3:1, I can't easily use pictures on my pages with different
width/height ratios as they spoil the look of the pages. Scan LP sleeves in four
sections on a flatbed scanner and "stitch"
them together in a program like Adobe PhotoShop or Paint Shop Pro to show
the whole sleeve. (It's easy!)
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So long, eBay! In view of the
poor quality of description and illustration of items from eBay and other online
auction sites, together with the high probability that items are counterfeit, no
more items from such sites will be considered for inclusion here. I've also been
told that featuring eBay items here has led to higher prices. Thanks to those
who have submitted eBay links in the past, but please don't do so in future
under any circumstances.
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Rarities Yearly Lists] [Traveling Wilburys]
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& DVD]
[International Mono Releases] [International Stereo Releases]
[Questionable
Releases] [Released Rarities] [Honourable
Mentions]
[News] [Red Herrings]
[Trading] [Other Pages]
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