Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

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

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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

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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?

That clip is great! More please.

yeah, very cool to see the interaction onstage... i know there's more audience footage out there, some dylanologist is probably working hard right now to sync it up.

Unbelievable backing vocals on Mighty Quinn almost worth the cost of the deluxe version. Is there footage of that performance out there?

here's the tracklisting for that sidetracks thing - pretty boring, looks like it's mainly the unreleased stuff from biograph?

Baby, I’m in the Mood for You
Mixed-Up Confusion
Tomorrow Is a Long Time (live)
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Percy’s Song
I’ll Keep It with Mine
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
Positively 4th Street
Jet Pilot
I Wanna Be Your Lover
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (live)
Visions of Johanna (live)
Quinn the Eskimo
Watching the River Flow
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Down in the Flood
I Shall Be Released
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
George Jackson (acoustic version)
Forever Young
You’re a Big Girl Now
Up to Me
Abandoned Love
Isis (live)
Romance in Durango (live)
Caribbean Wind
Heart of Mine (live)
Series of Dreams
Dignity
Things Have Changed

Yeah, non-album singles and Biograph. I think it's smart, in that it rescues the Biograph tracks and keeps the Bootleg Series as a separate entity. At least you can sell Biograph along with all the albums you already have to get $40 to put toward the box.

wow great clip - nice find

Remember Bob Dylan? He's back! In app form!

that app is a neat idea, though not perfect functionally. Looking forward to more versions, videos, etc.

there seems to be some confidence that the next one will at least include the Blood on the Tracks sessions.

yeah it'll be interesting to see how they do it -- i can see them just doing a two-disc Blood On The Tracks sessions thing, but they might also do a broader 73-75 kinda thing, including material from pat garrett, planet waves the 74 tour w/ the band and desire? might prefer the latter...

on a broader note this whole bootleg series thing is so great--dylan is obv uniquely suited to it but surely there's a few other acts out there that could sustain something similar.

Neil young is doing it, Springsteen too...

Bruce is being too control freak about it. His archive releases keep getting finessed into essentially new albums, polished with new sessions. Several if not most tracks on "Tracks" included new vocals or other new additions; a least one track on "The Promise" is completely re-recorded. Neil is going about things his own way, which mainly means ... slow, and designed to satisfy no one. Dylan, or whomever he pays, is pretty much of the only one doing the official bootleg thing right, imo.

Pete Townshend did a good job with his Scoop series.

yeah, i mean, the bootleg series is a good argument for the artist not being involved in it at all. young and springsteen might just be too fussy.

Pete Townshend did a good job with his Scoop series.

Yeah, but the rest of the Who's reissue program is a fucking disgraceful mess.