Well, what's next didn't take long. It wasn't 1967, but it was 1966, the year Bob Dylan's famous double album set, BLONDE ON BLONDE, was released. I had an early pressing, but not early enough. On the very first pressing, Dylan included a picture of Claudia Cardinale. Very soon after, Dylan was forced to remove the picture due to copyright infringement. This first release was also notable because after it was released rumor has it that Dylan demanded one of the songs, Visions of Johanna, be remixed because the inspired guitar playing was uncomfortably (for Dylan at least) competing with Dylan's singing. To this day in all subsequent pressings the searing guitar can barely be heard on that particular song. I have searched in record bins for years in the U.S. for this release and there it was at Disc Union. Japan is being amazingly good to me.
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