― don, Monday, 10 October 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
I finished my consecutive listen to Bootlegs 1-3 the other day. It is worth doing, I think. An odd thing is that I have listened to CD3 a lot in the past but certain tracks seemed almost previously unheard to me: 'Tell Me', for instance. I note that the sleevenote on this track is misleading.
PJM is right about the acoustic, quiet 'Idiot Wind', so much better than the LP version; yes, right too about 'If You See Her. Say Hello'. But PJM, I thought you already liked heads-down, no-nonsense boogie rock!!
I'm glad Don likes 'Golden Loom' with ELH. Big surprise for me from the notes: it's not ELH singing on 'Every Grain of Sand', but Jennifer Warnes! I almost think this must be another mistake.
Has anyone explained the barking dog yet?
'When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky' is disappointing. 'Blind Willie McTell' is more about the US South than I had realized. 'Series of Dreams' is still good.
I think I need to listen to 'Eternal Circle' again.
― the bobfox, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bobfox, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Today I almost went and re-bought some 'proper' albums. But I think I probably have enough with the Bootlegs and Biograph. Enough to be going on with.
I wonder if I kept that Mo-Jo comp or if I threw it away like a pranny.
PS: This is the only thread I like now. I may 'subscribe' to it.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Miller, I am glad that you like the thread.
― the bobfox, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― don, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Last night I went to The Fopp to re-buy Blonde on Blonde, but the queue was too long and they kept messing about and I was missing the football.
However, perhaps I would be better off getting Volume 7 instead. Thing is, it's £15, whereas the previous volume was £13.99 (I still have the receipt). That's £1.01 more expensive. Perhaps if I think about it long enough, the urge will pass.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 13 October 2005 06:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, I note that Germany has entered a Grand Coalition.
― the bobfox, Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
More troubling is a member of the Animals going uncriticized for opening a bottle with a hotel piano. Does Dylan let pass from a star what he would justly rebuke in an ordinary person? It happened behind Dylan's back. Maybe he was unaware of it.
The LC album is called I'm Your Man.
The Grand Coalition seems to have been shunted off the front pages since last this thread was updated.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 October 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
The story I heard is that this take was a home demo. You can also faintly hear a door close after one of the barks.
― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 24 October 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link
or so the Germans would have you believe... I think careful editing amps up this impression. I do agree that NDH exposes the kind of crap Dylan had to put up with at the time. Or as a recent Stereogum post put it, "Suck On Your Glasses, Judas!" I usually don't laugh out loud at things I find on the Internet, but that did me in.
― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― gewsgf, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link
How about 'I Was Young When I Left Home'? Does vol 7 repeat the version issued with Love & Theft; either way, does anyone save me rate the latter? Its very guitar playing seems poignant.
― the bobfox, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link
It seems that vol 7, unlike other volumes, repeats existing and possibly familiar material.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Lou Reed NYC Man - a best of, 2 CDs for a fiver, from Fopp. So it was a part-exchange.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― the pinefox, Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Sung with such beauty, control, and weight, I can't get over it. Devastates me every time.
No. It's my single favourite Dylan performance.
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 28 October 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link
I like the alternate take of "Stuck Inside of Mobile" the best.
― John Hunter, Friday, 28 October 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
I am glad to hear about Vol 7. I'll have to get it!
― the bobfox, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
it was sitting in the back of my memory untill cat power did it so damnedwell...these days i cant decide which i like better...
i've meant to dig up some old versions of it. a co-worker knows it from houseparty sessions when she was a kid..but hasn't pointed to any recorded versions..allmusic herei come
― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
has anyone bought/heard the starbucks tapes?
― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tyler Wilcox (tylerw), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bobfox, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
So great.
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― don, Thursday, 24 November 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Really enjoying the The Witmark Demos, but as I've been searching out reviews of the set I'm getting a little sick of the Dylan fanatics whining "well I've heard all these before, so this is nothing new and I can't believe they bothered to package this". Gee, thanks, but some of us like to not have to scrounge through tons of bootlegs and will happily pay for this stuff all collected and cleaned up nice.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, yeah, this is a great set, even though i may have been one of the fanatics complaining originally. second disc in particular is just a joy to listen to. i definitely prefer some of the versions here to the album versions.
― tylerw, Monday, 1 November 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I am listening to that second disc now!
I wanted to hear what 'I'll keep it with mine' sounded like in its very first instance.
And now I am hearing 'Boots of Spanish Leather' - my goodness. Such depth he seems to have found, to have plumbed or fallen into.
About 'keep it with mine', have I others mentioned before the basic difficulty with this song, namely that the 'everybody / will help you' line doesn't really fit vs the music, so every cover (and so many covers have occurred) has to solve this problem anew?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 10 February 2011 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
[= have I and / or others mentioned]
― the pinefox, Thursday, 10 February 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Just listening to Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Take 5) from Vol.7. So great.― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 23 November 2005
― the pinefox, Thursday, 10 February 2011 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
my download code for the brandeis vinyl i bought in case anyone wants it:
http://www.myplaydirect.com/bobdylan/redeem_short_pin?cid=lg:4ve&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=retail
code: 349j3p56d57nd72
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 April 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone know where i could find a version of "when i paint my masterpiece" from the rolling thunder revue tour?
― Moreno, Sunday, 24 April 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
just uh "replaced" the taped copy I had of the Bootleg Series Volume 2, as I'm sorta going through a mid-60s through the late 70s Bob-listening period at the moment and I am wondering at just how much there really is in the vaults from that '65-'67 period. Volume 2 really only includes a smattering - I have an unauthorized bootleg that I got back in the 90s called "Thin Wild Mercury Music" that has at least a dozen more tracks from the same sessions (Pilot Eyes, Just a Little Glass of Water, numerous alternate versions). Does anybody have any particular insight into this period or resources that would be worth checking out?
Also, did Dylan even tour the US with his electric band during this period? I mean I know about the inaugural folk festival shows and whatnot, but it seems like the live stories/bootlegs from this period are always from the two UK tours.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link