Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

omg that guitar sound--what year is that?

that song seems to have been a favorite among "heavy" bands--stooges did it in concert.

this is a wonderful collection of songs. really happy i bought this. i would be curious to hear the vinyl, but the CDs sound fine. i wonder who they got to put it on vinyl. its all from old tapes, so, it could sound great if they did a good job.

Nazareth's version roolz, ditto their ultrapainful, truthful "Love Hurts." I'd like to hear a whole metal or "proto-metal" album of Dylan covers. More links please!
One seemingly likely reason for not doing JWH w The Band: he wanted somrthing much more austere and near the knuckle; droll smoke ring curlicues and occasional death marches, re grimy Basement Tapes, would have blunted these songs. (The album was trippy enough: my personal acid folk.)

yeah, i agree, JWH is perfectly realized in its own ultra stripped down way. but the isle of wight versions are quite nice, maybe it's just too bad they didn't play a few more shows around that time. this one from 74 is killer -- the only time it's ever been performed iirc
http://vimeo.com/63727027

I'd like to hear a whole metal or "proto-metal" album of Dylan covers. More links please!

Otm

i brought my 45 of "love hurts" to music class to share when i was a little kid and everyone was like whuuuuuu-getthefuckoutofhere...more styx please! kind of embarrassing.

Also their Joni Mitchell cover: shriek of "Turn this crazy bird around" is word to "Freebird."
xp Tyler: Oh yeah, thanks for the link!Good to have both, but better to have the existing LP first, and then live explorations with the Band, in the great tradition. As far as austerity goes, they could say,"No prob, Boss!", cos they're consummate pros, but, for one thing, there are five of them, and while there may possibly be five instruments on some Harding track, never sounds like near that many, at least on my old LP. Even on Planet Waves' "Dirge", which may be just Dylan's outreach vocals, plod piano, and Robertson's one-take guitar response, the latter is kind of barbed wire flamenco--still too fancy for Hardingville. The Band is just too colorful for this dark grey charred backwoods prowl.

yeah JWH is mostly just dylan + bass & drums (with a little pedal steel there at the end).
no dylan doom comp would be complete w/o this one of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBU9pEQwtQE

JWH = acoustic power trio

Yeah, that xp works too: the slow Indian burn, meditation of the torturer. Even better: Dylan and his road crew in the early 90s, galloping toward the Hendrix/D & The B '74 extended guitar solo--and then right past it, fading away,faking out the quality along the watchtower and we'uns in the mountainside ampitheater cheap seats too. Then back for another turn, over and over. Never got used to that, and it didn't end, just turned into another golden oldie.

JWH = acoustic power trio Amen.

thanks to a kind board member i'm listening to the isle of wight festival

not bad...though i'm a bit disappointed....that killer "highway 61 revisited" on the 2CD box might have raised my expectations too high.....not that this is bad but i'm glad i didn't drop 100 to get it

would be happy to be another bro helped out there!

not so doomy but one of my favorite dylan covers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8IodIxh5S4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-h1K64LusY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-hqaBHC7Ek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_iE_RqiljQ

Ha, was just about to post that! Best collection of Dyl covers I've heard (although that title track gets very high-pitched at the very end of choruses)

(they make joek)

hollies dylan album is bad. post-nash album. or i remember it being boring and i love the hollies.

didn't nash quit because he knew it was going to be bad or something?

Nash quit cuz he had to go fight in Vietnam iirc

this is true. graham and stephen stills led an elite fighting squad into the bush.

Meanwhile, Crosby went native and lorded over his jungle kingdom with the help of Dennis Hopper.

pretty amazing how loose the isle of wight show is -- dylan realizing mid song he has the wrong harmonica for "tambourine man," the sound of Robertson reminding Dylan how "lay lady lay" goes...

Wild Mountain Thyme!

yeah that one is pretty amazing. kinda perfect for a pastoral English setting like the isle of wight.

Younger me, who only knew at most the Dylan hits, was introduced to JWH by way of Yo La Tengo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73qny9RqVEM

I remember thinking, huh, what a pretty song, maybe there are other Bob Dylan songs beyond the hits that I should hear ...

That's like me with Robyn Hitchcock covering "odds & ends" at the Croc in Seattle in 94 or so. I had never heard the basement tapes yet...

And on thread topic rh has covered at least two self portrait tunes (copper kettle and let it be me).

I guess Dylan probably got "Copper Kettle" from Joan Baez, who recorded it in 1962, but how do you get from this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLf1fDfSMN8

to Dylan's version? They're not even on the same planet.

yeah wow that's different

yeah on that one i assumed that dylan nicked his arrangement from someone (dave van ronk maybe?) but i can't really find any precedent for it.

I had to read Jon's post a few times before I worked out he didn't cover Bob Dylan with Robyn Hitchcock there...

Haha

My rich fantasy life

man joan baez's voice is just unbearable

^

OTM

Against us is the power of poliiiiice

Younger me, who only knew at most the Dylan hits, was introduced to JWH by way of Yo La Tengo:

"i threw it all away" is on nashville skyline, not JWH

xpost

i like that morricone/baez sacco & vanzetti song

http://25.media.tumblr.com/6095624797cc27029119fe29c481571b/tumblr_msxbbz5KxA1qay9wgo3_1280.jpg

awww

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61D537fsLAL.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Dogs-Run-Free-Bob-Dylan/dp/1451648790

"i threw it all away" is on nashville skyline, not JWH

Yeah, exactly! There's even less of a chance younger me had that one, since JWH at least has Watchtower.

man, the overdubbed 'sign on the window' would have made it seem like the sky were opening up if it were on 'new morning'

Yeah I want to make a new new morning with with that, plus the alt versions of time passes slowly and dogs run free

pretty great -- someone's synced up the sbd isle of wight recordings w/ this audience footage
http://johannasvisions.com/bob-dylan-the-band-at-isle-of-wight-1969-video-clip-wgreat-sound/

the more i listen to this show, the more i'm bummed that there aren't more band/dylan gigs from this period, such a cool sound. no idea what it would've been like if dylan had toured in 1969, just from a cultural standpoint. mayhem?