Fun to read your charming story about how your collecting began. The story also shows the goodwill and generosity of Dylan fans. In 1981 I attended the Drammen concerts in Norway. Then I travelled on Inter-Rail, catching Basle and Avignon. In the overnight line-up for the Drammen tickets I discovered that there existed a network af tape-traders. When I got home from my trip I received a copy of The Great White Answers that I had ordered before I left. Knowing that the author of the book, Dominique Roques, lived not so far from Basle, I wrote him a letter and asked him if he knew about whether a recording had been made and if so, how to acquire it. And, voila, soem weeks later a tape arrived in my mailbox! Armed with this tape and supplementary tapes that I had got from Steinar Daler, I started my tape trading career, that resulted in a complete tape collection of concerts until the early nineties. After that it just became to much. I never made it to the new format CDs and did not continue to trade, but I picked up a healthy collection of CD bootlegs after that and attended 269 Dylan concerts.
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Fun to read your charming story about how your collecting began. The story also shows the goodwill and generosity of Dylan fans. In 1981 I attended the Drammen concerts in Norway. Then I travelled on Inter-Rail, catching Basle and Avignon. In the overnight line-up for the Drammen tickets I discovered that there existed a network af tape-traders. When I got home from my trip I received a copy of The Great White Answers that I had ordered before I left. Knowing that the author of the book, Dominique Roques, lived not so far from Basle, I wrote him a letter and asked him if he knew about whether a recording had been made and if so, how to acquire it. And, voila, soem weeks later a tape arrived in my mailbox! Armed with this tape and supplementary tapes that I had got from Steinar Daler, I started my tape trading career, that resulted in a complete tape collection of concerts until the early nineties. After that it just became to much. I never made it to the new format CDs and did not continue to trade, but I picked up a healthy collection of CD bootlegs after that and attended 269 Dylan concerts.
Love that story. Thanks for sharing.