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
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 3 August 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Duke, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
it'll have to be amazing to knock Christmas In The Heart from that place on the pedestal.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Duke, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
I like "Modern Times" better than "Love and Theft" but I guess I'm in the minority.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Time Out Of Mind is right there at the bottom for me.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a big TOOM fan. Perhaps above Love and Theft in my esteem.
― Duke, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
Mod Times > Love/Theft > TOOM >>>> TTL
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
much prefer TOOM to all the leon redboney guff on L/T
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KawJXM64xrQaccordion definitely makes it sound like it could've been on the together through life. lyrics are great.
― tylerw, Monday, 13 August 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
I can dress up your wounds with a blood-clotted rag / I aint afraid to make love to a bitch or a hag
― tylerw, Monday, 13 August 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
should have been 'bitch on the rag' imo
― goole, Monday, 13 August 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
Great song, great sound. Looking forward to this more and more.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 13 August 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
transformation into John Lee Hooker is complete, I see
― the choogler and the chosen one (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 August 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, this is so good.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 13 August 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 August 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ 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.
― tylerw, Monday, 13 August 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
& 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 25The Story Of Bob Dylan & The Band Features exclusive new interviews with Garth Hudson, Ronnie Hawkins, band producer John Simon & tour drummer Mickey JonesIn 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.
― dow, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
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==
― dow, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
actually I disliked TTL because the tunes weren't memorable. I don't mind the words.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
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==
― dow, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
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
― dow, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
oh well, use all that ugly stuff to link, it works
― dow, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://youtu.be/BYI75pGzwr8
― Choogle Image Search (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Eh, I tried.
Looks interesting enough, but it also looks like they didn't/wouldn't/couldn't secure the music rights.
― Choogle Image Search (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 August 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
A lot of that stuff is on the expanded "Don't Look Back" DVD that came out a few years back.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.docurama.com/docurama/bob-dylan-dont-look-back/
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Choogle Image Search (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 17 August 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 August 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 17 August 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 August 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Friday, 17 August 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I mean its a real mess in alot of ways, but a compelling mess if yr a dylan nerd
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 August 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― dow, Friday, 17 August 2012 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― dow, Friday, 17 August 2012 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
https://p.twimg.com/A01dr4WCAAASPTB.jpg:large
― niels, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
the look on his face is "10? come on, not even"
― goole, Friday, 24 August 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― tylerw, Friday, 24 August 2012 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
here's a snippet of scarlet town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMAsndtUCCM10/10 snippet
― tylerw, Friday, 24 August 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
thanks--niels, could we see the rest of that Uncut review, please, and maybe larger? I know how Uncut is, but still.
― dow, Friday, 24 August 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
my eyes aren't great, but i think the first line is "I love you, Bob Dylan."
― tylerw, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yup! Still not great quality, it's from a thread on expectingrain.com
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/1072/photony.pnghttp://img687.imageshack.us/img687/875/photo1to.pnghttp://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5125/photo2i.png
― niels, Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
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 :-)
― niels, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link