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Madhouse on Castle Street
Just to let you know another editor is taking the above article to Good Article review. --Richhoncho (talk) 17:26, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

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 * FA - Our project now has another Featured article added to its ranks - "Like a Rolling Stone". Thanks to the entire collaboration team!
 * TfD - Template:Dylan under construction has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.

- I.M.S. (talk) 02:47, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Onwards & Upwards
Congratulations to everyone for great collaborative effort on Like A Rolling Stone WP:FA. What shall we do next? The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan? The Basement Tapes? Mick gold (talk) 08:14, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Congratulations, everyone! Yee-haw! I'd be happy to work on either one of those next. What do other people want to do? Moisejp (talk) 09:12, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm leaning towards The Basement Tapes, although Freewheelin' is still high on my list. The Basement Tapes would probably be more of a challenge. Let's see what others think. - I.M.S. (talk) 16:13, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * To be totally honest, I also have a slight preference for The Basement Tapes, although like I.M.S., Freewheelin' is high on my list, too. Moisejp (talk) 10:18, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I think we should begin on it soon. The lead needs a little tidying; here's a few things I've noticed (we can shift to the article's talk page when ready):
 * The opening paragraph is standalone, and we should find a way to merge it.
 * The sleeve notes of the album were written by Greil Marcus paragraph is probably not appropriate for the lead, and should be merged with the main text.
 * I think we should re-arrange the following, emphasizing sales first, and long-time legacy last:


 * The basement recording sessions laid the foundation both for the approach of Dylan's 1967 album John Wesley Harding, and for the Band finding their own voice on 1968's Music from Big Pink. The Dylan LP, a critically-acclaimed departure from the surrealist rock and roll he had recently pioneered on his milestone trio of albums from 1965 and 1966, was as much of a shock to his fans as were those records to his earlier folk audience. Both it and Music From Big Pink would greatly influence the turn, by many contemporary popular musicians, away from the psychedelic music that reached its height in 1967, toward an embrace of country-influenced folk styles.


 * Material from the sessions had been heavily bootlegged since 1968, with the most famous being 1969's Great White Wonder.


 * The Basement Tapes peaked at #7 in 1975 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart[7] and reached #8 in the UK. In 2003, the album was ranked number 291 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.


 * - I.M.S. (talk) 16:38, 23 February 2010 (UTC)


 * IMS, thanks for starting the ball rolling but there are difficulties with The Basement Tapes we’ll have to wrestle with. This article is about the official CBS release of 1975, which was released eight years after the recordings were made in 1967. That makes it a very unusual album. I don’t think it can be compared to any other album by Dylan. With Blonde On Blonde and John Wesley Harding, Dylan went into the studio with some songs, and released an album a few weeks/months later. The Basement Tapes is more like a process, recorded in three different locations over the course of a year. As Rick Griffin points out in Million Dollar Bash: we’ll never know for certain which track was recorded where. Also the official albums bizarrely carries eight songs by The Band with no Dylan connection. Three of these songs were recorded in 1975. I would think that these oddities make The Basement Tapes different from other Dylan albums, and should be acknowledged in the lead.


 * So I think it is not right to say: “The Dylan LP, a critically-acclaimed departure from the surrealist rock and roll he had recently pioneered on his milestone trio of albums from 1965 and 1966, was as much of a shock to his fans as were those records to his earlier folk audience.” The album that transformed Dylan into a country artist was JWH (1968), followed by NS (1969). When Basement Tapes was released, there was dismay that the album did not contain "I Shall be Released" or "Mighty Quinn", two of the most famous songs from the demos circulating. The first the public knew of these songs was when cover versions by Julie Driscoll, Manfred Mann, The Byrds et al went into the charts in 1968, followed by the bootleg album Great White Wonder.  I remember listening to that bootleg in 1969 and being puzzled by it, because it mixed Basement Tapes songs with songs recorded in Minneapolis in 1961. It was not until I read an article by Greil Marcus (in 1969 I think) that I began to understand this collection of songs. It was only much later (in the 1990s) with more & more bootlegs, that we realised that The Basement Tapes contains 16 songs from a total of more than 100 that Dylan recorded in Woodstock in 1967. Greil Marcus's Invisible Republic, published in 1997, finally revealed the scale of what Dylan had achieved and also analysed more than 100 songs. Sorry, this is long-winded way of suggesting we spell out what was different about the 1975 album, and the differences between that album and the 100+ songs Dylan recorded in 1967.  Mick gold (talk) 16:39, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Very good points, Mick gold - I have pondered what you brought up in the first paragraph of your post as well. As I mentioned, it would be very challenging to bring the article to GA/FA class. How does the idea of an "umbrella" article sound? Say, Bob Dylan and The Band in Woodstock, or Bob Dylan and The Band in 1967. Do you think that Freewheelin' is a better choice? I'm starting to get a headache thinking about all of this... - I.M.S. (talk) 17:17, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't think an umbrella article would help. Moisejp & I wrestled with this material and we came up with two articles: The Basement Tapes about the official 1975 album, and List of Basement Tapes songs about the totality of what Dylan and The Band recorded in 1967. But as you say it would be very challenging to get this article to GA/FA. I find Freewheelin' tempting, because there is a lot of material already in the article, which should probably be edited, and because it was the breakthrough album which propelled Dylan's songs to international fame. What do you think? Mick gold (talk) 18:31, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I take back what I said earlier ("I'm leaning towards The Basement Tapes"). If we do go with The Basement Tapes, we'll probably make good progress for a month or two, but we'll hit the barriers that you mentioned above, stall, and the entire thing will eventually grind to a halt. I think the prospects of us working on FW are promising and a good deal better than TBT; it would be faster, easier, and more rewarding for us and the project as a whole. As Mick stated, there's a massive amount of information already waiting for us to work with at FW. I am leaning towards that. I'm interested in knowing Moisejp's opinion as well - let's decide, TBT or FW? - I.M.S. (talk) 19:14, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi! Well, if both of you want to do FW next, I don't mind. TBT is my personal area of special interest, and I do sincerely hope we tackle it sooner or later. I agree it will present certain challenges, but I hope at some point (hopefully not too far in the future) we will be able to come together to take a stab at it. If you both feel more confident about FW, then maybe it's best to that first. Since this WikiProject is still young, maybe it'd be better to get a few successes under our belt before we take on an article that has some possibility of being too challenging. OK, so we're going to do The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan next, then? Do we want to go for GA or FA? Part of me thinks the most sensible choice would be to not be too ambitious and to start with GA. But another part of me thinks that if we just go for GA, we probably won't get a chance to come back to it for a long time, with so many other articles to do. From that point of view it might be an idea to go all the way and try to take it to FA. But another consideration is that it might take us twice as long to bring it to FA as GA, so we could do two GAs in the same amount of time as it'd take to do the one FA. Maybe after the long process of LARS it'd be an idea to do something quicker and less ambitious this time. But I don't have a definite preference either way. What do you think? Moisejp (talk) 12:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Perhaps we should complete FW first, then go on to TBT. I'm fine with both of those articles... should we ask some other members of the project to comment here? - I.M.S. (talk) 14:16, 25 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Because there is an implied request for other members to comment, I would support FW for all the reasons given. As my contribution would merely be supporting cast while you guys will take the deserved top billing, I am equally happy to go along with what you chose. Fortunately there is no barbed wire on this particular fence. --Richhoncho (talk) 16:20, 25 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Richhoncho, thank you for your feedback and also for bringing up an issue that I have been wrestling with: to what extent should we actively invite the input of all the WikiProject Bob Dylan members when deciding the next article to tackle. There are 20 members now. We could go as far as sending them each a message inviting them to vote. But if, say, we get several votes for Blonde on Blonde, but many of the people who voted don't end up contributing much, then it ends up being the "core" members who will have to write the subject everyone has voted for. But on the other hand maybe some members just need a little encouragement to get more involved? Maybe that's the way to foster a bigger, stronger WikiProject? But really I kind of think that people who are going to get involved will do so on their own initiative. But I'm not sure which is better either way. This is possibly a prickly issue so I avoided bringing it up at first, but maybe it is better to decide clearly what our stand is on this issue. Moisejp (talk) 22:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I think the best course of action is that I post a comment on all the WP members pointing out LARS & MOCS are elevated, an invitation to suggest a next project, in reality I suspect many have found something else in real life or WP to keep them amused. Unless anybody has a better idea, I'll do it over the weekend. Probably not an exercise to be repeated in any event, the project is either on a watchlist or it isn't. --Richhoncho (talk) 23:25, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I like the idea of a notice to generate interest in the collaboration. Also, if we're going to !vote, we'll need to follow by these guidelines. All we need is consensus; since most of the active editors of the project have commented here—save maybe Rlendog and Allreet (whose opinions would be very welcome)—and we seem to be leaning towards FW, I think a poll is not needed and would simply complicate things. - I.M.S. (talk) 01:07, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Like IMS, I'm not sure a poll is necessary. I'd be happy to start work on Freewheelin' and I believe we could take it to WP:FA if we are patient. There is a lot of material there already: 43,000 bytes! It needs to be edited and carefully sourced and re-written, but there's a good beginning. After that, we could tackle TBT, which we are all interested in. Mick gold (talk) 08:33, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * PS. What do folks make of this ? Mick gold (talk) 08:47, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I concur, no poll is necessary, anybody could actually say (or not even say) I am working on this or that article either independently or with others who may or may not be members of this project. All is good providing it it "onwards and upwards." Talking of which, I added all (I think) the sound files and images into the main category, but I didn't tag them as part of the project, should I do this? --Richhoncho (talk) 12:12, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I also agree a poll is not necessary. Any doubts I had were erased from this Wikipedia is not a democracy in the link that I.M.S. included. We could go with I.M.S.'s idea of simply sending out a message to all members pointing out that LARS and MOCS (and MTM and IAONBB!) have been promoted in the last little while and that our next project will be FW. Maybe more people will get involved (or maybe they won't) and if so and if they stay involved long enough, they'll be around to give input whenever we decide on our next one.
 * So, Mick gold votes we aim for FA for FW. I don't mind that. Any objections?
 * About the "Dylan under construction" template possible deletion, I don't have a strong opinion either way. But if some of you feel it has been a useful thing I'd be happy to vote along with you to keep it. Moisejp (talk) 13:23, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I've been somewhat distracted lately, but I concur that FW is a good idea. As for GA vs. FA, it is not uncommon for collaborations like this to go for GA on the way to FA.  I is a nice milestone and provides valuable outside feedback. On the other hand, given the backlog at GAN, it is possible that the article could pass FAC while still waiting for a GA review. Rlendog (talk) 00:32, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

AfD on a couple of bootlegs.
If anybody is interested, The Genuine Royal Albert Hall Concerts and The Genuine Royal Albert Hall Concerts have been listed for deletion. --Richhoncho (talk) 18:59, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

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