Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

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Setlist.fm also has Dylan concert information

Irish folk song “The Roving Blade”

https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/bob-dylan-1bd6adb8.html?songid=5bcf6314

curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 March 2024 19:11 (two months ago) link

https://www.flaggingdown.com/p/guitarist-jj-holiday-talks-bob-dylans

Guitarist Jj Holiday and the bassist and drummer of the Plugz rehearsed a bunch with Bob Dylan 40 years ago and backed him on David Letterman. Holiday talks about the experience in this long q and a

curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 March 2024 19:52 (two months ago) link

You should post that to this thread as well: Bob Dylan's punk period

let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Saturday, 23 March 2024 20:11 (two months ago) link

two months pass...

On producing the Hard Rain concert, incl. dealing w film crew:

The TV people grabbed our local carpenter. I'd known him since he was 12 years old. They started berating this guy about, they needed some table [built]. He didn't have any lumber available to build them a little table. They’d seen some scrap lumber around and said he should go get it. They pointed to what they thought was scrap plywood. He cut it all up and built them a little table.

Somebody right before showtime, “Wurpel! Wurpel!” “What?”

“Who the fuck cut up Bob Dylan's paintings of Christ?”

dow, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 00:40 (three days ago) link

Furthermore:

Then the other craziness that was going on: this was Passover. Barry Imhoff comes running up to me. “Look, motherfucker, we need a blender. We need it right now."

Of course, when you're in the middle of producing a fairly substantial show and it's crazy anyway and there are lots of nuts running around, when somebody says they need a blender, it's not the top priority on your list. Barry Imhoff just went absolutely crazy because I wasn't being responsive to this request. I finally said, “What is it for?” He goes, “It's for the seder.”

I said to Barry, "Barry, I've been through a few seders in my life. I remember bones, and I remember horseradish. I don't remember a blender."

That really pissed him off. I said, “I'll find a blender, but what's it really for?" I think it was for daiquiris. The daiquiris at the seder.

Ah yes, the seder tradition handed down for generations: the daiquiris.

It was a circus, but it probably wasn't the worst show circus I've ever seen. One of my clients for years was Willie Nelson.


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dow, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 00:44 (three days ago) link


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