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Re: Re: Got my TREE WITH ROOTS:Follow Up


my comment about the Silent Sea approach was in regards to the sequencing: putting only one take of a song on any single disc, bundling the best performances and the best sounding all together and so on... The Silent Sea sets feel more like actual albums to me, while the GENUINE BASEMENT TAPES/ TREE WITH ROOTS sets feel more like historical documents. And as much as I can appreciate the later, I usually prefer to listen to the cherry-picked results of BEST OF THE BASEMENT TAPES (even if I don't agree with all their choices).




As for the sound, A TREE WITH ROOTS does offer an improvement over the Silent Sea sets, but not as much as it does for the GBT series. BEST OF/ REST OF took advantage of some of the improved tape sources that have circulated since GBT, but to the same extent. In any case, the sound upgrade is by no mean night and day, and if that's the only thing that you're looking for, you probably will be disappointed.

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Thank you for two extremely informative postings but can you clarify - and maybe I'm being dimwitted here - is this new set a definite upgrade on the two Silent Sea sets? You seem to hesitate in recommending A Tree With Roots wholeheartedly in comparison with the Best Of/Rest of discs. For someone hovering on purchasing the Scorpio version of 'Tree' (if only for the anticipated GBS-type packaging) what advice? Does this new set have a definite advantage in terms of sound quality (I ask because you say: "As a listening experience, I tend to prefer the approach taken by Silent Sea"?


Rgds


Chalawler

Re: Re: Re: Got my TREE WITH ROOTS:Follow Up

Thanks for that....much to ponder....I know what you mean about the 'listening experience' ie, I hate those Beatles bootlegs that have the same song eight times in a row with infinitesimal differences between them. Of course, the other point, I guess, is that Tree With Roots isn't too hard to find....the Silent Seas, on the other hand.....

Re: Re: Re: Re: Got my TREE WITH ROOTS:Follow Up


Well, Silent Sea are one of the new crop of "Desktop Publishers" in the bootleg world, so *all* their releases are CD-Rs. However, the originals are NICE packages, with some vivid Wyeth paintings appropriated as the artwork, whereas there are also clones circulating with slightly lesser production values. I got mine in New York, too, with BEST OF THE BASEMENT TAPES being an "original" and my REST OF THE BASEMENT TAPES being the knock-off.




I'm moving to NYC next month. I can't wait to be in the midst of so dang many bootlegs! I won't name specific shops or dealers on this board, but, boy, they sure ain't hard to find in Manhatten!









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Thanks for that....much to ponder....I know what you mean about the 'listening experience' ie, I hate those Beatles bootlegs that have the same song eight times in a row with infinitesimal differences between them. Of course, the other point, I guess, is that Tree With Roots isn't too hard to find....the Silent Seas, on the other hand.....