The Genuine Royal Albert Hall Concerts

The Genuine Royal Albert Hall Concerts is a bootleg produced by bootleg label Scorpio. It includes the actual Royal Albert Hall recordings and parts of the acoustic set from Manchester (the title is a reference to the official CD being recorded at Manchester).
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Part of a 8 CD box set entitled Genuine Live 1966, the recordings are from a soundboard recording from Royal Albert Hall. There's vinyl noise throughout due to the fact it was recorded off a vinyl. There is a rarity in this recording, Bob Dylan introduces the band in the final track on the 1st disc (Like a Rolling Stone, which is also from a cleaner pristine tape)
1966 World Tour Controversy
Please see Bob Dylan World Tour 1966 and Electric Dylan Controversy
Dylan and his backing group, The Hawks (later renamed The Band) gave concerts sporadically all over USA and Canada while Blonde on Blonde was being recorded. By April Dylan had finished the sessions and embarked on the tour outside of North America. The Tour was heavily bootlegged. Crowds were extremely polarized with either their opposition or support of Dylan's new musical direction.
Faced with repetitive and often obtuse questions from journalists (e.g. "Are you a protest singer?") Dylan increasingly responded with oblique non-sequitur replies, although he was remarkably patient and good-natured on most occasions, considering the intense pressure he was under -- at the end of his first Australian press conference, in response to a suggestion from manager Albert Grossman, he engaged the last remaining TV film-crew and light-heartedly interviewed himself.
Dylan first travelled to Australia, where he performed seven concerts over ten days in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. The tour group then flew to Scandinavia for conerts in played in Stockholm and Copenhagen. After Scandinavia, Dylan toured all over The UK (including Northern Ireland) in May. He made a short trip to Paris before he finished the tour in London.
On 29 July 1966, two months after the last concert of the World Tour, Dylan was involved in a motorcycle accident while riding on the property of manager Albert Grossman. The true nature and extent of his injuries has never been publicly disclosed; he reputedly suffered fractures to several vertebrae in his neck, although an ambulance was not called and he apparently spent no time in hospital. Although Dylan still had bookings for the rest of 1966 and beyond, he canceled all engagements for an indefinite period after the accident.
Dylan continued to record in the period following the accident, taping a large body of work with The Band at their home in Woodstock, NY, which became known as The Basement Tapes, followed by his official return to the studio with the albums John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline. In 1969 he began making occasional one-off appearances, usually at festivals or large charity concerts, including his highly anticipated perormances at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival and George Harrison's 1971 Concert For Bangladesh). However, Dylan did not undertake another full-scale concert tour until the "Before The Flood" tour that reunited him with The Band in January 1974.
Track Listing
Disc 1
1.She Belongs To Me
2.4th Time Around
3.Visions Of Johanna
4.Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
5.One Too Many Mornings
6.Ballad Of A Thin Man
7.Like A Rolling Stone
Disc 2
1.She Belongs To Me
2.4th Time Around
3.Visions Of Johanna
4.It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
5.Desolation Row
6.Just Like A Woman
7.Mr. Tambourine Man

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