Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

Hmmm...trying to justify being OK with just the 2 disc version of this...you guys are making it difficult!

i don't have the book yet...

it better come with some where's waldo-type puzzles or something to be worth the $$

"where's levon?"

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/01/bob-dylan-basement-tapes-nonsense-released

huh, the motorcycle accident is disputed/perhaps mythical? I'd never heard that before

he was using tarantula venom to stimulate creativity iirc, the conspiracy theory goes that it results in the same spinal damage

lol

Thought it might be based on his buddy, Richard Fariña.

think there was always some skepticism that the crash was an excuse to get off the road/out of the public eye. i imagine some kind of accident happened, but the details of how badly dylan was actually hurt seem foggy.

Never saw the accident disputed anywhere else, only the severity of his injuries.

some details here:

http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2014/07/29/bob-dylan-motorcycle-accident-1966/

i mean, in a certain sense i assume everything that i've ever heard about Dylan is about 50% myth

It's actually "Highway 30.5 Revisited."

There were 4 persons killed and he was at the wheel

wheel was on fire iirc

went all the way till the wheels fell off and burned etc

probably 2nd street

arguably 4th street

you might be going somewhere after all

She has half of what she needs

This is no fun, the originals are all better.

I liked See You Later Allen Ginsberg when the Zombies did it

Think this was the first biography to confirm that motorcycle accident actually occurred, though haven't read it, so don't know details. Also revealed the marriage to gospel singer (they had kids? B'lieve so).And that was just the first edition!
http://www.howardsounes.com/assets/images/book_covers/bob_dylan_uk_new.jpg

Tyler, did you score a ticket to see Mr. D.?

i didn't :/ -- tough for me to shell out the cash (even though tix were just about $50 at the box office). oh well!

FWIW, this is selling at Amazon Germany for two-thirds of the price Amazon UK are asking for it: €85 at Amazon Germany (= £66) compared with £102 at Amazon UK. Might be worth UK residents ordering from Germany and paying a little shipping to save a few quid.

Fopp are selling it for £70 in the UK

Why is there a picture of Don Was on the cover of that book?

Good point by Matos, re "Clothes Line Saga"and"Ode To Billy Joe." The former is life as many a young boondocker (def me 'n' Bobby Pre-D.) lived it much of the time, any real or reverie Billy Joes aside. Reminds me, was already thinking "Silent Weekend" is kissless cousing to "Lonely Weekends" by mid-60s Charlie Rich (wisely minus any paraphrase of the part where country, bluesy cat Charlie suddenly roars, "Well I make it all RIGHT," slams into a wall, and bops off into the rest of the chorus, which coming around again, "From-uh Mon-day mornin' 'til Fri-day night/But oh-h-h, those lone-some weekends").
Great fucking song, and recall BD name-checking Rich, along with Percy Mayfield (think Sir Douglas was mentioned in same mid-ish 60s interview). Also, R. Stone recently mentioned a reel labelled "Charley Rich" among the Basement (it was actually an attached garage) trove, maybe a home tape of Rich records, the reporter thought (what if it's all Rich covers though?!)

kissless *cousin*, that is; damn.

if charlie rich secretly made a record with the band in saugerties ca. 1968 or something i'd be over the fucking moon

lol

Have you heard Charlie Rich version of "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby"?

yeah it rules, isn't that before the sam & dave version?

Just seen a mini review of a Charlie Rich late 50s/early 60s compilation in the new Mojo. Love the Smash recordings set.

& just got the 2cd Raw set today and so far only heard 1st disc once but it sounds great. Looking forward to becoming familiar with it.

what's the name of the new charlie rich comp? i eat that shit up.

ooh i like the version of the fleetwoods' "mr. blue" on this. so pretty.

Charlie Rich compi is 'Lonely Weekends' on Hoodoo. It covers 58- 62.
Can't remember title of Smash recordings set but it's great. Is it 'It Ain't Gonna Be That Way'? Mainly hearing tracks at random on my walkman recently.

what's the name of the new charlie rich comp? i eat that shit up.

ah, I would never have guessed that.

Arrived in the mail today. Lots of reading material. Took me a while to actually locate the six CDs!

"Mary Lou, I Love You Too" is so good, can't believe this never made it out before. would be a jam on a Doug Sahm record. I guess Bob knew Doug by then? wonder what Springsteen thinks of this tune too. so good.

what's the name of the new charlie rich comp? i eat that shit up.

See, I laugh at my own jokes..

Have we discussed this yet?

Now that the whole experience is behind him, Wikingsson has one final dream: "I want Dylan to release an official Columbia EP of the concert called Songs for Fredrick."

Awwwwwwwww....

"How does it feel to be on your own?"

"JUDAS!!!"

Ahah. It would have been a classic (and gutsy) thing to do !

I selected all Dylan songs, but they just had these crappy Byrds versions."I've been there.
Thanks, will def check his podcast too. I hadn't read it before because I thought it would be some cybermogul treating himself to a million-dollar bash, or a dying fan's request, thus too sad.

About 23 tracks in, and it's fine: coverage tends to over-emph. the "realness": laidback stoner vibe and the good business move of stockpiling no-budget new song demos for coverage by other hitmakers. These tracks are fluid, but intense, or intent, and mostly covers so far (think most of the total is not original, but I haven't checked allll those credits yet). We get the emotional/stylistic range and levels at the core of his appeal from the beginning. Incl. the humor: much enjoy that "Folsom Prison Blues" here sounds like the Band is playing "dum dum dum dum doo wah diddy, talk about the boy from New York City," which totally fits the loose flair of D.'s singing (the convict, still regretful, is also getting cranked up on cellblock cocktails). This performance of "The Bells of Rhymney" starts reminding me of "All Tomorrow's Parties," to the further credit of both songs and their performers, incl. writers.

*press* coverage tends to over-emph, I meant.

haha I almost copied that same karaoke quote

No matter how he tortures his voice, it all works out (though: he knows when to start over in another key (not very often) and the road vets are unfazed, they've seen it all (prob had the occasional club patron come up onstage, when there was a stage. and demand to sing). Roots seem to incl Beats (the Beats were often, maybe always, at their best as performers, at least as recorded): festive & fatalistically-inclined, which go w both blues & country o course---no fingerprinting or sneers here, tho' the laid-back zingers of "Clothesline Saga" are up ahead.
But no matter how self-mocking or plain fun-loving he gets, or deeply empathetic for that matter (and so often relishing the flavor and texture and structure of songs and singing), what's coming through more and more is a sense of freaked-out, unappeasable accountability, I can't un-know that this is when he was supposedly all happy as a young hubby and pappy (they're in the garage so as not to disturb the tots). And while. sure he's letting off steam, and already "yowling like a tomcat up the backstairs," as I think xgau said of Planet Waves, he's also not million miles from the strung-out, mental relationship trap of "Dirge, also on PW, or the version of "Ballad of A Thin Man" (which recalls an interview: "When I say "you" I mean 'I') on Before The Flood. Both of those albums have him back with the Band, like something else has to come out, at least for a while (even if it has to get by "Forever Young). All going back to these sessions, at least as much as the '66 tour weirdness.