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Release Date: 1968

Label: Deroy Sound Service

Needs some verification but this does have Deroy style matrix numbers that point strongly to a mid '68 pressing and contains 'basement tape' material seemingly recorded by needle drop from an already existing unofficial release. It also might be connected to a Deroy acetate from around the same time. The acetate in question has Deroy style Labels with no matrix numbers in the run-outs and is fully documented inc photographs in Andrea Brillo's book, 'Basement Tales'. On this acetate the song, 'Nothing Was Delivered' fades out before the end.
Also documented is a 1968 article from a Dutch newspaper alleging that Dylan's Basement Tapes were already in circulation in the UK at the time and had even found their way onto vinyl. All of which gives credence to the possibility that vinyl ADM 506 is indeed the very first rock bootleg!
Sound quality is terrible and there are some big gaps between songs where you can even hear muffled talking through the recording stylus, so evidence of an extremely lo-fi private pressing that in all probability was done as a very small run given it's rarity.
It's also entirely possible that those pressing it had no idea it was Dylan because the audio is that bad. Speed is too fast for a start so vocals are a bit 'chipmunk'.

This copy has blue paper insert glued to generic sleeve which is probably not original to the pressing but added later with small pic on back. Labels are plain white.

If anyone has any other info on this please feel free to comment!