Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

wow

so is this "circulating" yet?

well you can listen to a bunch of it on that NPR link upthread

xpost to Euler: do your own homework, young man. Think this might be the same take of "Barbed Wire Fence" (Bloomfield playing those bob wire riffs?) as on the excellent Series of Dreams, and seem to recall SoD incl. even faster "It Takes A Lot To Laugh..."--anyway, past the okay acoustic and maybe semi-acoustic versions, some with not-quite-there-yet lyrics, the fast versions are all fun, and I def. never thought of "Johanna" as a fast girl, but can see why he chose the slower masters, as effective changes of pace: world-weary "up all night" "Train" between the spiky roadkill races and mood-swing ballads on Highway 61, slower, spookier prowl in the dank smokey mood halls of Blonde on Blonde's "Visions," where we also got cooler, dryer blues for "Leopard-Skin" and "Pledging My Time," etc. But yeah good to have these; also wish he'd found room on one of the original LPs for the Stonsey "If You Gotta Go (Go Now)." Sounds like he's in some kind of triangle on "She's Your Lover Now"; don't remember that one!

lol @ bob wire

"She's Your Lover Now"

this was bootlegged a lot, incredible song

yeah, the solo piano version was booted, the (barely) incomplete version showed up on the first bootleg series, both incredible. take on the NPR stream is very different. actually sounds very close to the early waltz-time "rolling stone"s actually. will be interesting to hear how it developed ... and then undeveloped, I guess, since they gave up on it at some point.

Sure I remember Greil Marcus quoting it in Mystery Train

on this unreleased take i think he says "what are ya some kinda moose - Ain’t there nothin’ you can say?" lol

have been avoiding even thinking about this but that ^^^ may have trapped me

Dunno if this was its first appearance, but the same take on The Bootleg Series showed up on this (presumably 70s) boot:
https://bfrenzy.s3.amazonaws.com/items/221605627688.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG8Hi-fpyLI

Nothin tu to turn off imo

the over-the-top THUD THUD THUD THUD loud/fast version of johanna from the no direction home soundtrack was my #1 on the dylan poll for some reason. this one is warm+thoughtful in comparison. better prob but less melodramatic + bobvoice-stuffed (like vocal gifs). still the most amazing song.

should be an all-johanna bootleg comp called versions of johanna.

"cutting edge" version does come at the bottom of this partic heap imo:

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xp ha i actually did that a while ago -- though i called it Freeze Out ...
think this latest version of VofJ is the loud/fast version! i mean, it couldn't be any faster, i don't think. the one on no direction home is kinda stately...

yeah yr prob right. just punchier.

I'm pretty into this so far....for me, Dylan bootleg series entries generally fall into 3 categories:

1) official release of some legendary shit (Live 66, Basement Tapes Complete)

2) ones that attempt to redefine your perception of an era (Another Self-Portrait, Rolling Thunder, Tell-Tale Signs)

3) Catnip for hardcore Dylan dorks

This is squarely in category 3 (it's not like this era is exactly in need of critical reappraisal), but it's pretty fun for me

I think my 2 dream Bootlegs at this point are:

1) Christian era outtakes/live/etc a la Another Self-Portrait/Tell-Tale Signs

2) A 3-CD version of Blood on the Tracks that breaks the album down into 2 different version - the NYC version and the Minneapolis version, then a 3rd CD of outtakes

4) A compilation of great never ending tour live material with great sound

Lol my count's terrible

xxp luckily for you I think both of those will probably happen in the next decade

4) A compilation of great never ending tour live material with great sound
this would be great, but i'd probably prefer like a dick's/dave's picks kinda approach w/ this stuff, with full shows, rather than a comp? i don't know, i'd take anything. i love the neverending tour.

do you know if they've made a habit of recording it (i mean Dylan's actual crew in a professional manner not just tapers)?

Full shows would be great too, and probably more in the spirit of the neverending community

Really hope someone's been taping good - but iirc judging from audio quality on live takes from tell tale signs maybe not

some shows sound like they might be professionally recorded---maybe not soundboard, but maybe by a professional? Like Pete Cosey mentioned to an interviewer that he was in the habit of recording while onstage with Miles (kept a box of tapes under his bed, listened when he felt like it).

After this sampler, I wanna hear a fast-ass "Sad-Eyed Lady Of Thee Lowlands."

Surprised there hasn't been talk of a live '65-'66 box.

OK wow this double time boogie Visions of Johanna

you know what this reminds me of a bit? Jason & the Scorchers' cover of "Absolutely Sweet Marie"

Surprised there hasn't been talk of a live '65-'66 box.
wouldn't be tooooo surprised if this came out next year? complete newport set, hollywood bowl, the rumored carnegie hall tape, and various euro 66...

I don't think I ever realized Like a Rolling Stone was in 3/4 until hearing this rehearsal take. Is the released version in 4/4? Now I can't remember....

it switches up to 4/4 at some point

Released version 4/4

samples of all the six disc tunes here: http://www.bobdylan.com/us/music/bootleg-series-vol-12-cutting-edge-1965-1966-deluxe-edition

is it just me or does the cover art look very amateurish? maybe they're mimicing unauthorized boots

http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2015/10/150924_boot12_cover-575x560-575x5601-575x560.jpg

Ah

See what you're getting at

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/music/194509/a-j-weberman?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=fe29e8a762-Sunday_November_1_201510_30_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-fe29e8a762-207197409

Weird article about wacky guy A. J. Weberman, who would go through Bob Dylan's trash

A conversation with the noted garbologist about Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Meir Kahane, being a drug dealer, and what’s wrong with NY today

you can never get at the good garbage anymore

not lie in the old days

great picture of a very, very strung out dylan

take 1 of just like a woman here: http://www.vulture.com/2015/11/hear-alternate-version-of-bob-dylans-just-like-a-woman.html#

I believe there was an incident of fisticuffs between the two (xpost)

i have thrown dumbs many a bime in my time, right on this thread in fact

There was a bootleg consisting of Dylan and U-Don't-AJ-Weberman screaming at each other on the phone (or that's the way it was billed: somebody was screaming at somebody, apparently, although I never heard it). Also supposedly, AJ put all of Dylan's lyrics into a computer, which deduced that they were all about heroin.

duh?

AJ put all of Dylan's lyrics into a computer, which deduced that they were all about heroin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwh1INne97Q

the weberman thing is kind of interesting as an example of an artist actually engaging (briefly) with a truly nutso fan -- almost (not quite haha) like the Beatles having a sitdown w/ Charles Manson.

isn't it weird that even in a 30-second commercial, bob dylan cannot do a convincing line reading to save his life?

i don't know what ever gave them the idea that he should or could be in films.

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CPg5bekUsAEYkds.mp4

damn it!
https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CPg5bekUsAEYkds.mp4

xpost

that's just one of the ways that neil young takes after his idol. he, too, has negative screen presence.