Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

very cool. (check out the "Super Secret Bonus")

but duke what if on the "i ain't no monkey but i know what i like" line in "buckets" bob switches out different animals — "i ain't no hamster but i know what i like"

― tylerw, Thursday, 20 September 2018 19:11

Haha. That's it, I'm sold

haha

this is going to rule, I can feel it

There's a terrific verse I'd never heard, in the version of "Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat" linked above:

Honey, can I be your chauffeur, Honey can I be chauffeur
Well, you can ride with me, honey I'll be your chauffeur
Just as long as you stay in the car, if you get outside and walk you just might tumble over
In your brand new... (etc.)

This is also v. cool:

Medicine Sunday appropriately concludes with the epic that never was, “She’s Your Lover Now”. Using pieces of Takes 15 and 16 on The Cutting Edge, I was able to create a complete performance of the song by editing a proper intro onto take 15 and crossfading into take 16 at the point where the band trails off, hopefully giving the illusion that The Hawks intentionally stopped playing and Dylan finished the song solo. A further edit was made at the outro so that Dylan concludes with the tonic of the song, giving it a resolve and a remorseful vocal improvisation to end the album.

I love that song so much...

She'll be standing on a barstool, with a fish head and a harpoon, and a fake beard plastered on her brow
Better do something quick, she's your lover now

Downloaded. Thanks Tyler

The album from that blog ^^ is great. I'd never heard that version of Johanna (Freeze Out) - it's like it's fallen through some weird time slip and landed midway through Highway 61.

yeah I gave it a good listen last night, really impressive edits there

has that Sidetracks comp been discussed at all here? is that the only place you can get "George Jackson"? (I should look upthread, but...)

The 7" single (which I may still have somewhere) incl. an acoustic solo version, dunno where that is nowadays, but Spotify has the other side, labelled as the Big Band Version, ho-ho: mainly it's got a beat, and black gospel singers on the chorus, eventually seconded by steel guitar---atypical of the times, and taken by some (like me) as a solidarity-of-the-People move:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2led9vlFlwVVpEBt9TSyae
Also it's on youtube--via this site if you want to see the lyrics etc. too
https://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/george-jackson-a-song-by-bob-dylan-1971/

oh I'm familiar with the song, was more curious about that comp - is it just a copyright hedge?

I have the "Side Tracks" CD -- I think it was released in Japan only?

George Jackson was included on the "Masterpieces" comp from 1978

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpieces_(Bob_Dylan_album)

xxp -- Looks like "Side Tracks" was released on 3xLP for Record Store Day in 2013, and 2CD in Japan.

If You See Her, Say Hello - Take 1 is out
https://open.spotify.com/track/4o8ASl77G362BEVsp3TuvB

The one I always come back to. The ultimate breakup song

The ultimate Tangier-relocation song.

re: "George Jackson," Masterpieces has the "Big Band Version" and Sidetracks has the "Acoustic Version." The single is always pretty cheap and has both, personally go with the BBV. There's a live cover by Fairport Convention on the Tree with Roots compilation of Fairport and friends Dylan covers that came out last month to mark the 50th anniversary of the Basement Tapes acetate arrival in London.

If you want to do a deep dive on GJ: http://www.searchingforagem.com/1970s/1971George.htm

Love that take of IYSH,SH, stoked for this.

Hey, thanks for mentioning that collection! Mr. D. cover got Fairport on Tops of the Pops:
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/fairport-convention-sing-bob-dylan-new-compilation-tree-roots/

And lots of live on there, cool. Thanks Spotify.

Just listening to the (magnificent) I Was Young When I Left Home from No Direction Home and wondering if the rest of the Minnesota Tapes are worth tracking down or if they're even available?

That early period is really killing me right now.

Surely easy to track down? Tylerw to thread!

I confess I've sort of gone off very early Bob. That may change again.

The sonic embodiment of mid-October.

the mono mixes that were released in the box the few years ago really turned me around on the early albums

Greil Marcus does an in-depth thing on the new "Blood on the Tracks" set here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/real-life-rock-top-ten-746600/

he's one of those canonized journalists where I can't understand a word of his writing

Especially once the Weissberg outfit was out of the room, with their eight consecutive takes on the stupid hoedown “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome when You Go” — yeah, that’s a real heartbreaker of a breakup song, especially if you can’t remember the name of the person you’re supposedly breaking up with — the New York performances are pure, real, acoustic, searching, pure, anguished, soulful, unencumbered and pure. You can see right through them, to the person who’s singing! It’s like reading his autobiography! This is the truth!

seems so insider-y

Yeah, I honestly can’t even tell if he’s being “serious” or “sarcastic” in any part of that chunk you quoted.

I did think it was interesting how he pointed out that a lot of the songs employ the format where every verse ends with a repetition of the title phrase; guess I never thought of that.

They edited that out on "Rainy Day Women no 12 and 35"

Haha, well I meant the BotT songz

(I knew)

DOIN’ THE “BOTT”
HEY PRETTY PRETTY

irl lol

Really excited for the Blood on the Tracks set.

I am subscribed to a related Spotify playlist but so far only two of the tracks are from that set.

Dylan stuff doesn't seem to come to Spotify right away, at least in complete form. Triplicate just had a sampler for about a year.

yeah, in the past, they haven't put up the complete deluxe bootleg series stuff, as far as I know.
here are my initial thoughts on the new one: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2018/10/29/bob-dylan-more-blood-more-tracks-the-bootleg-series-vol-14/

Thanks! Paul Griffin!

didn't get into it in the review, but Griffin's contributions are still best heard via the acetate bootleg — the new mix is not as good imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBLViMLws10

great little review

yeah, in the past, they haven't put up the complete deluxe bootleg series stuff, as far as I know.
here are my initial thoughts on the new one: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2018/10/29/bob-dylan-more-blood-more-tracks-the-bootleg-series-vol-14/

― tylerw, Monday, October 29, 2018 2:55 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i just don't what they want from me
it's like the more blood we come across, the more tracks we see

Hm. That’s

didn't get into it in the review, but Griffin's contributions are still best heard via the acetate bootleg — the new mix is not as good imo.

📹

hmm, i did not pay to watch that video. anyway, the acetate mix is out there ... somewhere.

I can watch the video without being asked to pay

Hm. Tried again and then again and it finally worked, third time was the charm. Sorry for the kerfuffle.

Maybe a stupid question but... Does the "correct speed" version of BOTT sound noticeably different? I can't imagine it does, but I'd be interested in opinions. I'd be tempted to buy the mp3s if it were worth it.

does the box set include the chopped&screwed version of BotT?