Jeff Gold, a music collector and historian has revealed that he has acquired a huge collection of Dylan acetates that had been discovered in an apartment building in Greenwich Village earlier this year.
For those who do not know, acetates are aluminum discs cut for artists and producers who want to hear what a song sounds like outside of a recording studio when it is in progress. In this collection of more than 149 acetates, there are versions of Dylan’s “Self Portrait” and “New Morning” albums along with single songs as reported by the New York Times. The acetates also have comments written on them, so you can see what Dylan thought of the version recorded, and the ways that it could be improved.
In his blog recordmecca.com Jeff Gold talks about the process Dylan used to produce his albums, with Bob Dylan sending the acetates back and forth between his then-producer Bob Johnston who was situated in Nashville and New York.
While Mr. Gold will be selling some of the disks, according to the New York Times, he will be probably be keeping most of them himself, saying, “To me, this is not about money, it’s about history and art.“
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