Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (3LP, Coffret, Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering, 45 tours)
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Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano [click here to see more vinyl featuring Bob Dylan]
Bill Aikins – keyboards
Wayne Butler – trombone
Kenneth Buttrey – drums
Rick Danko or Bill Lee – bass guitar (New York)
Bobby Gregg – drums (New York)
Paul Griffin – piano (New York)
Jerry Kennedy – guitar
Al Kooper – organ, guitar
Charlie McCoy – bass guitar, guitar, harmonica, trumpet
Wayne Moss – guitar, vocals
Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano, keyboards
Robbie Robertson – guitar, vocals
Henry Strzelecki – bass guitar
Joe South – bass guitar, guitar
3 LPs, box set
Limited edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Half-speed Mastering
GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ LP
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 45RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded January – June 1966 at Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville
Engineered by Al Kooper, 'Pig' Robbins, Joe South, Kenny Buttrey, and The Band's Rick Danko and Robbie Robertson
Produced by Bob Johnston
Remastered by Krieg Wunderlich
Originally released in 1966
Reissued in 2013
Tracks:
Side A:
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
- Pledging My Time
Side B:
- Visions of Johanna
- One of Must Know (Sooner or Later)
Side C:
- I Want You
- Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
- Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Side D:
- Just Like a Woman
- Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine
- Temporary Like Achilles
Side E:
- Absolutely Sweet Marie
- 4th Time Around
- Obviously 5 Believers
Side F:
- Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Awards:
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 38/500
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - "Visions of Johanna" - Rated 413/500, "Just Like A Woman" - Rated 232/500
Winner of a Gruvy Award, chosen by AnalogPlanet's editor, Michael Fremer, for vinyl records that are musically and sonically outstanding and are also well mastered and pressed.
Michael Fremer's 100 Recommended All-Analog LP Reissues Worth Owning - Rated 67/100!
TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal
2014 Stereophile Magazine Record to Die For!
1000 Recordings you must hear before you die - Ranked 64
Reviews :
"If Highway 61 Revisited played as a garage rock record, the double album Blonde on Blonde inverted that sound, blending blues, country, rock, and folk into a wild, careening, and dense sound. Replacing the fiery Michael Bloomfield with the intense, weaving guitar of Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan led a group comprised of his touring band the Hawks and session musicians through his richest set of songs. Blonde on Blonde is an album of enormous depth, providing endless lyrical and musical revelations on each play. Leavening the edginess of Highway 61 with a sense of the absurd, Blonde on Blonde is comprised entirely of songs driven by inventive, surreal, and witty wordplay, not only on the rockers but also on winding, moving ballads like "Visions of Johanna," "Just Like a Woman," and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." Throughout the record, the music matches the inventiveness of the songs, filled with cutting guitar riffs, liquid organ riffs, crisp pianos, and even woozy brass bands ("Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"). It's the culmination of Dylan's electric rock & roll period -- he would never release a studio record that rocked this hard, or had such bizarre imagery, ever again." AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Ultra Analog™ : The GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ Series stems from the use of the Gain 2 system, mastered at half speed from the original master tapes where possible, capturing and uncovering as before undiscovered sonic information.
Half-speed mastering. In half-speed mastering, the whole process is slowed down to half of the original speed. A typical 33 1/3 rpm record is cut at 16 2/3 rpm. The source material is also slowed down (reducing the pitch in the process) meaning the final record will still sound normal when played back. Slowing the whole process down allows more time, which means the end result sounds better and is more efficient — allowing engineering to minimize the effects of inherent limitations within the vinyl format. The result is a more accurate and more open high-frequency response in the half speed vinyl when compared with a normal speed recording.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,57 / 5 , Michael Fremer : 10/11 Music, 10/11 Sound