Bob Dylan - Tempest, Sept. 11, 2012

Dylan should add Jim Dandy on electric washboard to his touring band for this album.

We live in a world where Lou Reed made an album with Metallica. Jim Dandy jamming with Dylan is basically fated to happen at this point.

Junior Dandy

i know, someone at billboard dropping heavy english major science!

And: "Tempest," Bob Dylan's 35th studio album that is scheduled for release on Sept. 11.

So the guy's releasing 35 albums on the same day? Ace! It's a record record.

noticed this tour billed as Bob Dylan w/ Mark Knopfler (!). getting tix to see him @ the greek in berkeley and i think that's a great place to see him

yo my numbers are always the tightest and my lines scan like nobody's business and if I don't get some "accentual-syllabic" love in the next cycle after this I'm gonna be pissed off, once you open that door Billboard you gotta start respecting the real

The Guardian newspaper reckons this is Dylan's "strongest album since Love And Theft"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/aug/06/bob-dylan-tempest-first-listen?intcmp=ILCMUSTXT9387

it'll have to be amazing to knock Christmas In The Heart from that place on the pedestal.

Admittedly -- that is a bit like saying "it's his best album since his last one". But still, I find it oddly encouraging since my expectations were/are rather low.

I like "Modern Times" better than "Love and Theft" but I guess I'm in the minority.

I think most people like Modern Times quite a lot, but maybe not as much as Love And Theft. I know I'm in the minority in that I think Modern Times is his worst record since the 80s.

Yikes! I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. FWIW, I don't like "Time Out of Mind" and a lot of people seem to regard that as a return to form.

Time Out Of Mind is right there at the bottom for me.

I'm a big TOOM fan. Perhaps above Love and Theft in my esteem.

Mod Times > Love/Theft > TOOM >>>> TTL

much prefer TOOM to all the leon redboney guff on L/T

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KawJXM64xrQ
accordion definitely makes it sound like it could've been on the together through life. lyrics are great.

I can dress up your wounds with a blood-clotted rag / I aint afraid to make love to a bitch or a hag

should have been 'bitch on the rag' imo

Great song, great sound. Looking forward to this more and more.

transformation into John Lee Hooker is complete, I see

Oh man, this is so good.

What killed the last one is fucking Robert Hunter. Who wants a Dylan record where Dylan doesn't write the words? I can handle blues boilerplate as long as Bob is writing the lyrics, and these sound ace (and he sounds ever closer to Tom Waits).

^^^ yeah you may be right -- hunter can be good, but i get the feeling he gets a call from dylan asking for lyrics and then throws together some dylan pastiches in a couple days.

& if he starts playing this new stuff on tour this fall, i will definitely go see him.

Could've gone on several Dylan threads, but since this is the most current:
Bob Dylan & The Band "Down In The Flood"
Comes to DVD on September 25
The Story Of Bob Dylan & The Band
Features exclusive new interviews with Garth Hudson, Ronnie Hawkins,
band producer John Simon & tour drummer Mickey Jones
In 1966 Bob Dylan began his first electric world tour. It was a landmark moment, both for Dylan and for the history of rock music, and it bitterly divided his audience.
Backing Dylan on stage was an obscure group of Canadian musicians collectively known as The Hawks. In the months following the tour they would join Dylan during a lengthy convalescence in New York's Catskill Mountains; when both parties re-emerged, Dylan had undergone an artistic transformation that sent ripples across American music and The Hawks had become simply 'The Band', one of the most important recording groups of their generation.
This is the story of the relationship between Dylan and The Band, the legendary amateur recordings that they made together in Woodstock, their re-invention of American music and their continued albeit sporadic relationship during the 1970s.
Featuring new interviews with Garth Hudson; Band producer John Simon; The Hawks' 66 tour drummer, Mickey Jones; the man who assembled and tutored the Hawks and from whom they took their name, Ronnie Hawkins; Dylan guitarist, Charlie McCoy; Band biographer Barney Hoskyns; Basement Tapes Archivist, Sid Griffin, Isis magazine's Derek Barker and Rolling Stone's Anthony De Curtis.
Also features rare footage, archive interviews, seldom seen photographs and the music that changed the world, all at once making for the finest program on this element of Bob Dylan and The Band's respective and communal careers yet to emerge.

Here's the trailer:
http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Sos3yFtht7H8Filb-bgffXnaPYjHv7Ny9hgAobo_pxcHOJtRqs0CpjNiD-Dr3Zs7YHd2Sqm5ELH2Z5TOqebUWVK5YlH_JUpYesnLqQAZJhRc-upzvoQ9rEXmAd1QhpwPGFR7uZKn_QAodx5yOZb8Rn4WLLaTEMnZo73ovXuZ4_a4SQKG-zi-qyBgnZ6-_jnd3WRG--Ngvq6ddwj1I7tLSjOgDzjQTz_FYrNCCRFj3rbsguTRWHWDzh7tlYb8voY1CCU6ESyi3muAK5HURkDu27TSMtZSktY7lzriOx-8dgQUdyJ82cALCbFQQa2gpIMkFgN4m09hm2WGBEGdn3syZA==

actually I disliked TTL because the tunes weren't memorable. I don't mind the words.

Or like this (warning: Anthony DeCurtis ahead)
http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Sos3yFtht7H8Filb-bgffXnaPYjHv7Ny9hgAobo_pxcHOJtRqs0CpjNiD-Dr3Zs7YHd2Sqm5ELH2Z5TOqebUWVK5YlH_JUpYesnLqQAZJhRc-upzvoQ9rEXmAd1QhpwPGFR7uZKn_QAodx5yOZb8Rn4WLLaTEMnZo73ovXuZ4_a4SQKG-zi-qyBgnZ6-_jnd3WRG--Ngvq6ddwj1I7tLSjOgDzjQTz_FYrNCCRFj3rbsguTRWHWDzh7tlYb8voY1CCU6ESyi3muAK5HURkDu27TSMtZSktY7lzriOx-8dgQUdyJ82cALCbFQQa2gpIMkFgN4m09hm2WGBEGdn3syZA==

damn, I'm trying to get the image!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYI75pGzwr8&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=Bob+Dylan+%2526+The+Band+%2522Down+In+The+Flood%2522+DVD+on+9%252F25&utm_campaign=Dylan+and+The+Band&utm_medium=email

oh well, use all that ugly stuff to link, it works

http://youtu.be/BYI75pGzwr8

Eh, I tried.

Looks interesting enough, but it also looks like they didn't/wouldn't/couldn't secure the music rights.

good idea for a doc, but it definitely looks like one of those endless parades of talking heads and no new footage/music. would love it if they finally released pennebaker's 66 tour film on DVD. eat the document too!

A lot of that stuff is on the expanded "Don't Look Back" DVD that came out a few years back.

http://www.docurama.com/docurama/bob-dylan-dont-look-back/

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