He’s since put out six more volumes (always with better sound quality than what’s previously circulated), but it’s done nothing to stop the flood of underground releases. In 1991 he decided to beat the bootleggers at their own game by releasing the three-CD set, The Bootleg Series, Vols. In the four decades since, Dylan has been bootlegged more than any other artist. Great White Wonder flew off shelves, kicking off the age of the rock & roll bootleg. Nobody realized it at the time, but it was the first commercially available bootleg. One record consisted of the tracks from the long-rumored Basement Tapes, while the other one was largely folk covers taped live in 1961. The words “GF 001/2/3/4” were stamped on the cover, though later editions were called Great White Wonder. In the summer of 1969 a strange new Bob Dylan double LP hit record store shelves in a plain white sleeve.
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