Bob Dylan - Tempest, Sept. 11, 2012

I imagine Sony is sitting on a pretty sizable chunk of '66 footage, just waiting to cram it into an insanely expensive coffee table box or something.

don't think any of the eat the document footage is on the don't look back expanded DVD -- that's all 1965 afaik. pennebaker put together a a 1966 tour film (called Something Is Happening Here) which Dylan rejected. He took the footage and made eat the document.

i got to see eat the document in the now-gone oak street theater in minneapolis, was shown off of a VHS projector off a VHS loaned to the theater by dylan himself

that would be fun. it really is an interesting movie -- maybe not great, but anyone who's into dylan should see it sometime. it's funny that dylan spent more time working on eat the document and renaldo and clara than any of his albums, and yet he doesn't want anyone to see them.

Saw Eat the Document years ago at the Roxie in SF and enjoyed it well enough. I remember being irritated at the way the live footage was edited (extended close-ups of the back of Dylan's head while the band is raging, for ex). The bit with John Lennon is very funny.

yeah i think dylan may have purposely used live footage that was disorienting -- the whole thing is sort of an anti-documentary. obviously a bunch of new stuff turned up in No DIrection Home, but I do wish they'd just let someone go through Pennebaker's footage and put together a definitive 66 Tour Film. the footage of him and johnny cash singing "So lonesome i could cry" is amazing.

Yeah I mean its a real mess in alot of ways, but a compelling mess if yr a dylan nerd

The version I saw fairly recently on YouTube was pretty uneven, and not much music. Although I did like the disorienting sensation of seeing this scrawny little scruff, not at all the imposing figure of mid-60s publicity pix, stooping over a piano and calling on "Mr. Johhhnes," in a fairly off-handed way--receptionist got the power after all. Like in some of the early audio boots, he's giggling and scratching and suddenly comes up with this song...

Also a scene of snorting something, and a sequence where Manuel is trying to buy a guy's girlfriend--all three looking pretty, "uh-h-h, goofing for the camera--right-?" But Dylan's in predatory suspense.

https://p.twimg.com/A01dr4WCAAASPTB.jpg:large

the look on his face is "10? come on, not even"

lol

here's a snippet of scarlet town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMAsndtUCCM
10/10 snippet

thanks--niels, could we see the rest of that Uncut review, please, and maybe larger? I know how Uncut is, but still.

my eyes aren't great, but i think the first line is "I love you, Bob Dylan."

Yup! Still not great quality, it's from a thread on expectingrain.com

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I know someone who saw a recent show, and they were raving about it, but I suspect they saw it through Bob-tinted glasses, because the last time I saw him, a few years back, was so bad I swore "never again," and I can't imagine he could come back from that, no matter who is in his band. Though obviously I'm curious about the new album, Uncut masterpiece review aside.

So, like, is Uncut the only publication in the world that has heard it?

Plenty of people heard it I think http://www.google.com/search?q=tempest+first+listen but Uncut seems like the only publication allowed a proper copy/review or something.

Everybody's real positive tho :-)

Damn that review got me excited

"Duquesne Whistle" streaming at NPR:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/08/27/160015988/song-premiere-bob-dylan-duquesne-whistle?sc=tw&cc=share

Sounds great.

Yeah, this is great! If early roman kings was very TTL this is def love and theft to me, kinda "Summer Days". Resolution must be low on the stream, wonder if it's as muddy/lofi on the album. I can see the basement tapes comparison bc of production sound... I guess it's all recorded live as well?

Hope there's more drama/emotion on the title track, would love something like When The Deal Goes Down, Workingman's Blues, Nettie Moore, Charlie Patton.

btw wtf @ http://www.loveandtheft.com/us/home ? hehe...

maybe a christmas in the heart feel as well?

digging it

I like this. Quite a bit.

Wanted to see him Saturday in Indianapolis, but played a show instead. I heard mixed reviews (totally normal; although I like seeing songs get butchered sometimes), and it was an outdoor show (not my thing. keep sound indoors, plz)...still a little bummed.

Much to my surprise, I like "Duquesne Whistle." The music reminds me of George Harrison doing one of his Hawaiian-sounding songs.

oh man, love this!!

guess that robert hunter is involved again -- hadn't read that til the npr write up.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9fut8PG0X1qde2qno1_400.jpg

lololol

duquense whistle is soooo good guys

xp Brilliant

The heavy guitars are a slightly bizarre presence throughout, but those classic rock breaks at 3:51 and 4:50 are over the top.

There's an official video for "Duquesne Whistle" over at Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/bob-dylan-debuts-shockingly-violent-new-video-20120829

Dylan has a posse.

The song's good.

I agree. But the video is pretty dumb.

i like it!

haha yeah it was like the dark version of a zooey flick

also:

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/Dylan%20Vid.jpg

SHOCKINGLY VIOLENT.
would be cool if that was actually gene simmons in the kiss makeup walking with dylan.

http://www.billboard.com/news/simmons-taps-dylan-zappa-songs-for-solo-1909701.story#/news/simmons-taps-dylan-zappa-songs-for-solo-1909701.story

The Dylan co-write, "Waiting for the Morning Light," was born out of a one-day writing session at Simmons' home in Los Angeles six or seven years ago, the Kiss bassist/vocalist reveals.

"Bob came up with the chords, most of them, and then I took it and wrote lyrics, melody, the rest of it," says Simmons, adding that he kept urging Dylan through the years to put lyrics to the song. "I'd see him on tour, and I'd say, 'Bob, you wanna write the song? And he would say, 'No, man, you write it, Mr. Kiss.'"

Of the one-day session, Simmons says, "We understood each other right away. He picked up an acoustic guitar, and we just tossed it back and forth, 'How 'bout this, how 'bout that?' And he started to strum, because he -- at least with me -- tended to talk and strum guitar at the same time. And as soon as I heard the first three or four chords, I went, 'Wait, wait, what's that? Do that again.' So I went and started to write a lyric around that."
Read more at http://www.billboard.com/news/simmons-taps-dylan-zappa-songs-for-solo-1909701.story#0XSuoSbM6iTDX1Ih.99

so ... it is gene simmons?

Mr. Kiss!

Simmons mentioned the Dylan collaboration in his memoir.

(which I have had the fortune to read a few chapters)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZr2TWiE69I
pretty good, sounds like thin lizzy.

Glen Frey must be pissed that he missed this one.

Dylan also cowrote a song with Michael Bolton ("Steel Bars").

pretty rockin. wait for the boltonface tattoo omg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPSg0QpkPBs

this is really a media blitz! what in the lord's name is the point of this kind of thing:

On Friday, August 31, fans who visit listentobobdylan.com will find a map of locations in the U.S. and nine other countries where selected songs from Tempest will be streamed to mobile devices. The tracks will be randomly streamed only when users are within the Tempest-tagged geographic areas, utilizing the free web-based Sound Graffiti app (which can be accessed directly through listentobobdylan.com). In addition to the U.S., other countries in which Sound Graffiti locations will be found include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Fans who stream the song will also be given an opportunity to pre-order Tempest from iTunes while they listen.

also:

On Monday, September 10, dedicated Bob Dylan Tempest "pop-up" stores will open for a seven day period in New York City, Los Angeles and London. At these stores, fans can purchase the new album, as well as other Bob Dylan releases and exclusive merchandise commemorating these week-long events, including a limited quantity of CDs hand-signed by Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan Tempest stores will be open from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday, September 10 so that fans can buy Tempest a full day in advance of its official release, and will remain open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Sunday, September 16. Stores will be located at the following U.S. locations:
819 Washington Street, New York, NY 10014
7763 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046
A Bob Dylan Tempest store will also open in London on Monday, September 10 and remain open through Monday, September 17 at the following location:
47 Beak Street, London, W1F 9SE

none of the PR surrounding this release makes any sense to me (ERK on that silly tv show trailer, weird video, what you just said, lame overpriced bundles http://www.myplaydirect.com/bobdylan) BUT fortunately the songs sound good. I'm guessing Dylan has nothing to do with anything but the music.