FTR | From The Reels

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Note:the version documented at https://theband.hiof.no/albums/boot_from_the_reels_complete_basements.html has slight variations from the one used here, both in terms of tracks order and artwork. I do not remember where I have found this version back in the early 2000s.

11 CD Dylan & The Hawks/Band bootleg set from 2001. It was originally a 10 disc set. Disc 11 was added later by someone else for some reason. There's a lot of repetition of tracks.

Here is the concept of the original 10CD set. The order on the GBT series is unsatisfactory (and the way the bootleggers missed out Band tracks and even one Dylan track), and I preferred the order on the original tapes. Of course the order on the tapes is not the reel order either so with the help of Invisible Republic / Heylin it is possible to work out a very rough reel order. It got too hard for reels 5-7 so they are just lumped together (these are the mostly original basement tracks anyway, and they sit nicely together). As you all know the details of the reels is sketchy at best, so at times just rough 74min groupings are used. An overriding principle was to preserve the reel order. Somewhere along the line it was realised that the 'historical artifacts' associated with the Basements were not represented, so the 14 song Acetate disk needed to be added. Then of course the alternate takes were not represented either, so the '20 song Acetate disk' was added . I know that this completly duplicated the '14 song Acetate', but the 14 song one was the acetate that was very special, and deserved a disk in it's own right!. The Publisher's demos were different again. Different tracks and different mixes. So these were added to this set as well. Finally, there were all those 'mostly Band' tracks that had emerged over the years, so they are just assembled onto a misc CD (#10). In the time since this 'fan project' was completed, there have been a couple of other 'Basement' releases, one a 5 CDR set, nice quality, but lacking many tracks (..almost nothing from reel 1) emerged, and more recently the 4CD 'Tree with Roots' emerged. These have been carefully compared as well, and where appropriate, tracks were upgraded to the original 10CD set. Recently, someone else seems to have gotten hold of this set and and thinks that there were some other missing tracks (I'm not particually convinced that reel 11 contains any new basement tracks at all...) and added these tracks to reel #11. ( --from rec.music.dylan, August 2001. )

Tracklist (source)

Reel One

Lock Your Door
Baby Won't You Be My Baby
Try Me Little Girl
I Can't Make It Alone
Don't You Try Me Now
Young But Daily Growing
Bonnie Ship the Diamond
The Hills of Mexico
Down on Me
One for the Road
I'm Alright
One Single River
People Get Ready
I Don't Hurt Anymore
Be Careful of the Stones That You Throw
One Man's Loss
Instrumental
Baby Ain't That Fine
Rocks, Salt, and Nails
A Fool Such As I
Silhouettes
Bring It On Home
The King of France
Young But Daily Growing
Baby Ain't That Fine

Reel Two

Nine Hundred Miles
Goin' Down The Road
Spanish is the Loving Tongue
Piano/Harmonica riffs
Piano instumental
On A Rainy Afternoon
I Can't Come With a Broken Heart (False Start)
I Can't Come With a Broken Heart
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
Under Control
Ol' Roison the Beau
I'm Guilty of Loving You
Johnny Todd
Cool Water
Banks of the Royal Canal
Po' Lazarus
Spanish Is The Loving Tongue
Under Control
Ol' Roison The Beau
I'm Guilty Of Loving You
Johnny Todd
Cool Water
Banks Of The Royal Canal
Po' Lazarus

Reel Three

Belchezaar 1 & 2
I Forgot to Remember to Forget
You Win Again
Still in Town
Waltzin'with Sin
Waltzin' with Sin
Big River
Big River
Bells of Rhymney
Folsom Prison Blues
Million Dollar Bash
Too Much Of Nothing
You Ain't Going Nowhere
Going to Acapulco
Don't Ya tell Henry
Please Mrs. Henry
Get Your Rocks Off
Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
Belchezaar
I Forgot To Remember To Forget
You Win Again
Still In Town
Watzin' With Sin
Big River
Folsom Prison Blues
Bells Of Rhymney

Reel Four

I'm a Fool For You
Next Time on the Highway
The Big Flood
You Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog
See You Later Allen Ginsberg
Won't You Please Come Home (?)
The Spanish Song take 1
The Spanish Song take 2
I'm Your Teenage Prayer
Four Strong Winds
The French Girl take 1
The French Girl take 2
Joshua Gone Barbados
I'm in the Mood for Love
All American Boy
Bourbon Street
Tiny Montgomery
Sign of the Cross
This Wheel's on Fire
You Ain't Going Nowhere
Katie's Been Gone
Ruben Remus
Yazoo Street Scandal
All American Boy

Reel Five

Odds and Ends
Nothing Was Delivered
Million Dollar Bash
Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
Crash on the Levee
Lo and Behold
Instrumental (Harmonica--12 Seconds)
You Ain't Going Nowhere
Quinn the Eskimo
Nothing Was Delivered
Open the Door Homer
Million Dollar Bash
Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
Too Much of Nothing
I Shall Be Released
I'm Not There
Please Mrs. Henry
Crash on the Levee
Lo and Behold
Odds and Ends
Get Your Rocks Off
Clothesline Saga (Including False Start)
Apple Suckling Tree
Going to Acapulco
? 9 seconds (Sounds kind of like a slower One Single River)
Blues Improvisation
Silent Weekend
Gonna Get You Now

Reel Six

Wildwood Flower
See That My grave is Kept Clean
She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
Instrumental
Flight of the Bumblebee
Confidential
Yazoo Street Scandal
You Say You Love Me
You Say You Love Me
Instrumental
Instrumental
Sonny Boy (With Tiny Tim)
All You Have to Do is Dream #1
All You Have to Do is Dream #2
Instrumental (All You Have to Do is Dream #3 intro-or ending? 15 sec)
Piano solo
Orange Juice Blues Instrumental
Ferdinand the Impostor
Instrumental
Be My Baby (With Tiny Tim)
I Got You Babe (With Tiny Tim)
Memphis Tennessee (With Tiny Tim)
Ferdinand the Impostor
If I Lose
Instrumental
Orange Juice Blues

Reel Seven - The Fourteen Song Acetate

Million Dollar Bash
Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
Please Mrs. Henry
Crash on the Levee
Lo and Behold
Tiny Montgomery
This Wheel's on Fire
You Ain't Going Nowhere
I Shall Be Released
Too Much of Nothing
Tears of Rage
Mighty Quinn
Open the Door Henry
Nothing Was Delivered

Reel Eight - The Twenty Song Acetate

This Wheel's on Fire
You Ain't Going Nowhere
I Shall Be Released
Too Much of Nothing
Open the Door Homer
Open the Door Homer
Open the Door Homer
Nothing Was Delivered
Nothing Was Delivered
Tears of Rage
Tears of Rage
Tears of Rage
Quinn the Eskimo
Quinn the Eskimo
Million Dollar Bash
Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
Please Mrs. Henry
Crash on the Levee
Lo and Behold
Tiny Montgomery

Reel Nine - Big Ben Demos

This Wheel's on Fire
Nothing Was Delivered
Open the Door Homer
Quinn the Eskimo
You Ain;t Going Nowhere
Too Much of Nothing
Tears of Rage
Please Mrs. Henry
I Shall Be Released
Million Dollar Bash
Apple Suckling Tree
Clothes Line Saga
Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
I'm Not There
Odds and Ends
Get Your Rocks Off
Crash on the Levee
Lo and Behold
Tiny Montgomery

Reel Ten

Jam
Gloria/Banana Boat Song 1 (with count in)
Instrumental
Ruben Remus Instrumental
Beautiful Thing
Beautiful Thing
Orange Juice Blues
Katie's Been Gone
Ruben Remus
Orange Juice Blues
Yazoo Street Scandal
Organ riffs
Blues Instrumental
Ferdinand the Impostor
If I Lose
Bacon Fat
Long Distance Operator
Spoken Word/Instrumental
Blue Moon (Instrumental)
Gloria//Banana Boat Song 2
Apple Suckling Tree
Apple Suckling Tree
Apple Suckling Tree
Apple Suckling Tree
Apple Suckling Tree
Katie's Been Gone
It's Just Another Tomato in the Glass
Don't Ya Tell Henry
Ferdinand the Imposter
Ain't that a Kindness (Cuts at 57 Seconds)

Reel Eleven - Odds and Ends

Silhouettes
Clothes Line Saga (False Start)
Clothes Line Saga
Sante Fe
Ginsberg Reads Poetry Over Music
Too Much of Nothing
Bessie Smith
Ain't No More Cane

Artwork