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Bob Dylan Center
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2018
Dedicated to the study and appreciation of renowned American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and his cultural significance, the Bob Dylan Center offers unprecedented access to the creative life of one of America’s most important and influential artists.
Located in the Tulsa Arts District, the Bob Dylan Center serves to educate, motivate and inspire visitors to engage their own capacity as creators.
Learn more at bobdylancenter.com.
Located in the Tulsa Arts District, the Bob Dylan Center serves to educate, motivate and inspire visitors to engage their own capacity as creators.
Learn more at bobdylancenter.com.
One Record to Rule Them All
In 1978, music fanatic David Eckstrom was living on the outskirts of Los Angeles and out for a drive when an unfamiliar song suddenly blasted from the car radio. Struck by the R&B-style call-and-response vocals between the throaty lead singer and soulful trio of backup vocalists, and digging the smooth saxophone, Eckstrom pulled over so that he could listen with purpose, patiently waiting for the DJ to announce the name of the artist behind this great new song.
Sure enough, Eckstrom had just heard Bob Dylan’s “Baby Stop Crying,” the lead single from his newly released album “Street-Legal.” The song served to reintroduce Eckstrom to Dylan, who no longer sounded like the guy whose early ‘60s albums he remembered as mainstays of his older brother’s turntable. Back on the road, Eckstrom rerouted to the nearest record store in Santa Monica and purchased his first small batch of Dylan records, including “Street-Legal.” This was the auspicious start of an ongoing odyssey.
Today, Eckstrom’s personal record collection contains some 6,000 Dylan releases, with an additional 4,000 or so by various well-known and obscure artists hailing from every corner who have covered Dylan, all vying for shelf space with an extraordinary array of Dylan items dating back to his years at Hibbing High School and stretching far beyond. All in all, Eckstrom maintains one of the preeminent private collections of Dylan music and memorabilia. Case in point: Dylan's longtime graphic designer Geoff Gans came calling when searching for visual cues to inspire the look and feel of "The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006.”
Beyond the size of Eckstrom’s collection, it’s the rarity and condition of so many of the recordings that make it truly special and the envy of fellow Dylanologists worldwide. In 1991, Eckstrom secured his crown-jewel item-one of three known copies of a stereo recording of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” featuring four tracks on the label and pressed into the grooves but that were quickly deleted from all subsequent released-for a cheeky $12,345.67.
This is the one-the record that everybody wants but almost nobody has. A few hundred mono copies were pressed and sent out in a single shipment from a plant in Santa Maria, California in early ’63; Eckstrom has some of those, too. Only these first pressings of “Freewheelin’” contained the controversial song “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues,” which CBS-TV prevented Dylan from performing on “The Ed Sullivan Show” that spring. CBS Inc. followed suit by removing the track from Dylan’s second album, which already had been fully approved and prepared. For reasons still debated by fans and collectors today, three additional tracks were stripped from the intended commercial release, and four new songs shuffled in. Whatever the record execs were thinking, the conundrum at Columbia Records produced a fever dream for crate-diggers in perpetual search for the Holy Grail of Dylan records.
It's fun stories like this, shrouded in mystery and myth, that help keep the candle burning on physical media. Perhaps, at times, it takes human error to make something special, and something a streaming algorithm can’t compute.
Watch to learn more about Eckstrom’s remarkable collection, his 11,000-square-foot Dallas record store, and the rare pressings he loaned to the Bob Dylan Center for the current exhibition “How Many Roads: Bob Dylan and his Changing Times, 1961-1964.”
Sure enough, Eckstrom had just heard Bob Dylan’s “Baby Stop Crying,” the lead single from his newly released album “Street-Legal.” The song served to reintroduce Eckstrom to Dylan, who no longer sounded like the guy whose early ‘60s albums he remembered as mainstays of his older brother’s turntable. Back on the road, Eckstrom rerouted to the nearest record store in Santa Monica and purchased his first small batch of Dylan records, including “Street-Legal.” This was the auspicious start of an ongoing odyssey.
Today, Eckstrom’s personal record collection contains some 6,000 Dylan releases, with an additional 4,000 or so by various well-known and obscure artists hailing from every corner who have covered Dylan, all vying for shelf space with an extraordinary array of Dylan items dating back to his years at Hibbing High School and stretching far beyond. All in all, Eckstrom maintains one of the preeminent private collections of Dylan music and memorabilia. Case in point: Dylan's longtime graphic designer Geoff Gans came calling when searching for visual cues to inspire the look and feel of "The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006.”
Beyond the size of Eckstrom’s collection, it’s the rarity and condition of so many of the recordings that make it truly special and the envy of fellow Dylanologists worldwide. In 1991, Eckstrom secured his crown-jewel item-one of three known copies of a stereo recording of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” featuring four tracks on the label and pressed into the grooves but that were quickly deleted from all subsequent released-for a cheeky $12,345.67.
This is the one-the record that everybody wants but almost nobody has. A few hundred mono copies were pressed and sent out in a single shipment from a plant in Santa Maria, California in early ’63; Eckstrom has some of those, too. Only these first pressings of “Freewheelin’” contained the controversial song “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues,” which CBS-TV prevented Dylan from performing on “The Ed Sullivan Show” that spring. CBS Inc. followed suit by removing the track from Dylan’s second album, which already had been fully approved and prepared. For reasons still debated by fans and collectors today, three additional tracks were stripped from the intended commercial release, and four new songs shuffled in. Whatever the record execs were thinking, the conundrum at Columbia Records produced a fever dream for crate-diggers in perpetual search for the Holy Grail of Dylan records.
It's fun stories like this, shrouded in mystery and myth, that help keep the candle burning on physical media. Perhaps, at times, it takes human error to make something special, and something a streaming algorithm can’t compute.
Watch to learn more about Eckstrom’s remarkable collection, his 11,000-square-foot Dallas record store, and the rare pressings he loaned to the Bob Dylan Center for the current exhibition “How Many Roads: Bob Dylan and his Changing Times, 1961-1964.”
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❤ Awesome, Thank you for sharing
I never missed a dylan concert. i saw him first in the? 60's? When he lived in NYC ..now i cannot afford a ticket.. it is not fair!
I got to see Mavis open for Dylan at Starlight Theater in Kansas City Missouri years ago around 2010 or sometime in the middle 2010s , it was summer and hot and she came out and just nailed it, she was so good, and she talked about her love of Dylan, and that they wanted to marry but Pop Staples would not allow it, she was just amazing
Hàu! A:[ho! Yes & thank you!!!❤️🔥
Loved his work with Taj Mahal back in the late 1960s
me too heard him many times at the Ash Grove in L.A. I imitated his chops
John Lennon's favorite guitar player.
All the great’s favorite guitar player!🤗
Nice!
Great to see that Jessie is getting greater recognition!
This is great! Thank you!🙌
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That's so Bob! 😂 Man of mystery or mist!
I just missed this iconic image going up having visited the Center last month... But I had the pleasure and the privilege of interviewing Steven Jenkins to showcase why this is a very special, must-visit place th-cam.com/video/l_eFIac0P1M/w-d-xo.html
I'll be seeing you in two weeks! My first visit to Tulsa.
Blowing up a famously blurry photograph -- why?
It’s a magical continuation of Bob’s commentary that all art is not only blurry but it gets blurrier with age.
I love these updates!
Amazing thanks
Dylan is one of most import name of current times. He is more than a great songwriter. He is the greatest poet in live and one of greatest of all time. He is a genius. He deserve every honor. Congratulations to american people.
That's really cool! But, are you also displaying the original Claudia Cardinale inside cover?
Short n sweet
Bob Dylan is a genius. Never had somebody like him
I see pete !! Never knew
YES . ❤
I first saw Dylan in St Louis back in 1973 or 1974 , with The Band, it was a great show, then I saw The Rolling Thunder Revue in Austin Texas and The Gospel Show at The Uptown Theatre in Kansas City Missouri, I have seen Mr.Dylan several times since then and he just gets better, love him with Charlie Sexton and The late Denny Freeman, God Bless you Bob and keep you safe
That guy has such a sweet energy.
Nashville Skyline
i was a lifelong jazz freak ( still am ) one day i walked into my favorite record store Canterbury records in Pasadena, Ca. and i was stopped cold in my tracks by what i heard. it was Dylan, this was 1962. loved his music ever since!!🙏🔥🎸
what a lovely man!
Great! 😊
Amazing! Thank you for showing off!😎
Dude I was collecting Dylan in 72 and saw him 74 and I was late
I’d say Bringing it all back home raw awesome and intense song writing and playing
Now I can finally put a face to the biggest price gouger on Discogs. At least Eckstrom’s listings are good for a laugh.
Lol I was thinking the same. I always see his listings.
Planet Waves
He was all washed up in the 80's. Then I heard Infidels and became a fan from the 80's onwards and liked a couple of the earlier electric records. In term of spins, The Basement Tapes is probably my favorite.
So great!
My favorite album is....The Times They Are a- changin' ..........Let..ALl the ticket I clocks tick awayyyy
Wow fantastic store, amazing Bob Dylan contents, great video
The Bob Dylan Center is knockin' it out of the park with these terrific videos. I like how they shine a light not just on Bob but also on the fascinating, disparate characters in his extended universe. Such a treat to get to know David Eckstrom! He's a national treasure.
Great video, thanks for posting! My favorite Dylan LP might be John Wesley Harding.
Desire today blood on the tracks tomorrow etc etc
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This is so incredible! Overwhelming really! 🙌❤️
Amazing. Thank you for sharing your passion.
I am not sure what's mine in depend what I feel like listerning to love them all
I really like the iced tea / hot beverage story!.. nm.
I was at that concert, Patti Smith at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa in May 2022 and by midway through I was realizing, "This is the best concert I have ever been to!!!!" I love Patti Smith, everything about her.
How cool you did this with stuff in the Center and the people who were with him. He is yet to be recognized for his acting and screening writing talents, but this is a film for our times.
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Used in my Dylan class...and students got hooked. University in Kerrville, Texas.