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''The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete'' is a compilation album of unreleased home recordings from 1967 by Bob Dylan and the group of musicians that would become The Band, released on November 3, 2014. The liner notes for ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 11'' are by Sid Griffin, American musician and author of ''Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band, and The Basement Tapes''. ==History of recordings== The basement recordings were made during 1967, after Dylan had withdrawn to his Woodstock home in the aftermath of a motorcycle accident on July 29, 1966. Recording sessions began in a den known as "The Red Room" in Dylan's home, before moving to an improvised recording studio in the basement of a house known as Big Pink, where Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson lived. The sessions lasted roughly from May to October 1967. In October 1967, a fourteen-song demo tape was copyrighted and the compositions were registered with Dwarf Music, a publishing company jointly owned by Dylan and his manager Albert Grossman. Acetates and tapes of the songs then circulated among interested recording artists.〔The songs on the demo were: "Million Dollar Bash", "Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread", "Please Mrs. Henry", "Down in the Flood", "Lo and Behold", "Tiny Montgomery", "This Wheel's on Fire", "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", "I Shall Be Released", "Tears of Rage", "Too Much of Nothing", "The Mighty Quinn", "Open the Door, Homer" and "Nothing Was Delivered" ().〕 Dylan has referred to commercial pressures behind the basement recordings in a 1969 interview with ''Rolling Stone'': "They weren't demos for myself, they were demos of the songs. I was being PUSHED again into coming up with some songs. You know how those things go."〔. Capitals as printed in original interview.〕 Peter, Paul and Mary had the first hit with a basement composition when their cover of "Too Much of Nothing" reached number 35 on the ''Billboard'' chart in late 1967. Ian & Sylvia, also managed by Grossman, recorded "Tears of Rage", "Quinn the Eskimo" and "This Wheel's on Fire". In January 1968, Manfred Mann reached number one on the UK pop chart with their recording of "The Mighty Quinn". In April, "This Wheel's on Fire", recorded by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity, hit number five on the UK chart. That same month, a version of "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" by the Byrds was issued as a single. Along with "Nothing Was Delivered", it appeared on their country-rock album ''Sweetheart of the Rodeo'', released in August. The Hawks, officially renamed the Band,〔When Albert Grossman was shopping around for a recording contract for the Hawks in late 1967, the group instructed him to sign them under the name the Crackers—a derogatory term for poor white Southerners. The band also mischievously dubbed themselves the Honkies. It was only when Helm joined them in Woodstock that they settled on calling themselves the Band ().〕 recorded "This Wheel's on Fire", "I Shall Be Released" and "Tears of Rage" for their debut album, ''Music from Big Pink'', released in July 1968. Fairport Convention covered "Million Dollar Bash" on their 1969 album ''Unhalfbricking''. In July 1969, the first rock bootleg appeared in California, entitled ''Great White Wonder''. The double album consisted of seven songs from the Woodstock basement sessions, plus some early recordings Dylan had made in Minneapolis in December 1961 and one track recorded from ''The Johnny Cash Show''. One of those responsible for the bootleg, identified only as Patrick, talked to ''Rolling Stone'': "Dylan is a heavy talent and he's got all those songs nobody's ever heard. We thought we'd take it upon ourselves to make this music available." The process of bootlegging Dylan's work would eventually see the illegal release of hundreds of live and studio recordings, and lead the Recording Industry Association of America to describe Dylan as the most bootlegged artist in the history of the music industry. The basement recordings became the basis for Dylan's 1975 official release ''The Basement Tapes''. This album was criticised by Dylan critic Michael Gray because it contained recordings by the Band on their own, and because important Dylan songs were omitted from the selection. Subsequent to the official 1975 release, more than 100 recordings from the Basement Tapes began to circulate in bootleg form, catalogued by Greil Marcus in his book ''Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes (1997)'', and by Sid Griffin in ''Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, the Band, and the Basement Tapes (2007)''. ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete'' presents the original recordings, and places them in roughly chronological order.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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