I don't think I've ever found much "humor" in Dylan, once you get past, say, the Blonde on Blonde era (and not counting some of the bizarre humor on The Basement Tapes).
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
Romeo, he said to Juliet, “You got a poor complexionIt doesn’t give your appearance a very youthful touch”Juliet said back to Romeo, “Why don’t you just shove offIf it bothers you so much”
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
Yeah Love and Theft is full of jokes
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
"Othello told Desdemona, 'I'm cold, cover me with a blanket/ By the way, what happened to that poison wine?"/ She says, "I gave it to you, you drank it."
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
Guess I should revisit L&T
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
100 Funny Bob Dylan Moments
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
I really like Modern Times but it doesn't seem to get the love
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
"Ain't Talkin'"'s my favorite of his recent Long Doomy Album Closers.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
Modern Times may be my favorite Dylan album. I certainly listen to it more than any of his peak-era '60s records. And Alfred otm re: "Ain't Talkin'."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
"I was WUUUN-der-in where in the WOOORLD alicia KEEEEYs could BEEEEE" is one of my fav Dylan funny lines
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
I don't think I've ever found much "humor" in Dylan
you may be a preacher, full of spiritual pride. might be a city councilman, taking bribes on the side. you might be working in a barbershop: you may know how to cut hair.
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
i rode with himin a taxi onceonly for a mile and a halfseemed like it took a couple of monnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnths
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
and WHEN HE DIED! i was HOPING! that it WASN'T CONTAGIOUS!
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
well i dunno which is worse:doing your own thingor just being cool
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
(sorry. should be in the other thread.)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
You're gonna need my hel,p sweetHEARTyou can't make looooove all bah yourselffff
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
l+t in partic does have a lot of direct actual "jokes", some of which he deliberately overnudges-- "i'm stark naked but i don't care / i'm goin off into the woods / i'm... HUNTIN... BAAAARE"-- but also as ever his delivery of "normal" lines can be exhilaratingly funny-- "i see your loverman coming / coming across the barren field / well he's not a gentleman at all / he's ROTTEN to the core / he's a COWARD and he / STEALLLLLLSSSZZZSZSSZ"
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
that stealllzzzzee might be my favorite Dylan pronunciation of the new century
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
In other words, morrisp, you can't separate Dylan's humor from his delivery. Like any joke, really.
Well, you're certainly making the case!
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
last night the wind was whisperini was trying to make out what it wasyeah last night the wind was whisperin somethini was tryin to make out what it waswell i tell myself “something’s coming”but itnever does!!!
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
I guess my humor is more on the "Make love to Elizabeth Taylor, catch hell from Richard Burton" level
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, February 1, 2023 11:23 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
you gotta serve somebody has so many weirdly matter of fact lines like that which are super funny to me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
a classic with the setup/punch rhythm of standup:
they say i shot a man named gray,and took his wife to italy.she inherited a million bucks,and when she died,it came to me.i can't help itif i'm lucky.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 2 February 2023 00:22 (one year ago) link
^Yeah, forgot about that one
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Thursday, 2 February 2023 00:36 (one year ago) link
I got a cravin’ love for blazing speedGot a hopped up Mustang FordJump into the wagon, love, throw your panties overboardI can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mindI’m no pig without a wigI hope you treat me kindThings are breakin’ up out thereHigh water everywhere
I mean, with his really over-top-delivery, this is pretty funny coming from a 56 year old
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 2 February 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
I’m a little torn on the de-Lanois-ing, in part, because I think when that pairing is at its best, it’s exceptional and I don’t think you can take him out of those recordings. For instance, while it was nice to hear some alternate versions of “Most of the Time” on Tell-Tale Signs, the best is absolutely still the completed track on Oh Mercy!, which is an All-Time Bob Song for me. I actually notice the Lanois (and de-Lanois) effect a little bit less on Time Out of Mind and Fragments. Not sure how different I find it but the remix of “Highlands” sounds pretty great.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 3 February 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link
Ah well, it's been a good run.
Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Is ‘Definitely Winding Down’
― birdistheword, Friday, 3 February 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link
We don’t have a lot of good tapes of the ’78 tour,” says the source. “There’s something coming. The ’78 tour will be revisited at some point in the future. I’m not at liberty to say how.”
there day 1 for at budokan bootleg series
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 3 February 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link
Who's the "source" quoted throughout that piece – Rosen himself?
What's funny is, despite the expectation-setting, he does seem to tease at least three(?) likely forthcoming sets...
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Friday, 3 February 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
I'm guessing the '78 tour may have a videotaped show, so maybe a documentary film? They seem to like making those, as they did with the Rolling Thunder Revue and the evangelical shows.
― birdistheword, Friday, 3 February 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link
He seems to specifically rule that out? (“I wish there was a movie,” says the source. “But there’s very little footage.”)
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Friday, 3 February 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link
ah, never mind then!
― birdistheword, Friday, 3 February 2023 22:08 (one year ago) link
(Probably should've read the whole article rather than lazily read what they displayed behind the paywall.)
Yeah, I'm at a loss what it could be if they don't have many good tapes. Without footage, it sounds like the best you could do is release another live album or show. If they were willing to update Street-Legal with a remix, I can see another 1978 live album as a corrective to the disappointing Budokan.
― birdistheword, Friday, 3 February 2023 22:14 (one year ago) link
There are hours of Rundown rehearsal sessions from that era — a lot of it has already been bootlegged, but I think there's more ... I've got to hear Dylan's cover of "Rainbow Connection" before I die, anyway.
― tylerw, Friday, 3 February 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
Any tracks in particular that you'd recommend Tyler? This is my least favorite Dylan era, the only one where I didn't keep a single track on iTunes or a disc on the shelf, but I imagine there must be something I've overlooked.
― birdistheword, Friday, 3 February 2023 22:31 (one year ago) link
It would be funny if all the quotations in the RS article were from Bob Dylan.
― the pinefox, Friday, 3 February 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
If it was obvious by the words that it was Dylan and they still insisted he was an anonymous source, that would be truly hilarious
― birdistheword, Friday, 3 February 2023 22:47 (one year ago) link
“I didn’t like any of the takes from that one,” said the source. “My pipes were shot. The band couldn’t follow my lead. We gave it a few more weeks, then I thought I’d be better off doing this myself. That’s how Jack Frost was born.”
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Friday, 3 February 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link
I've always liked this one —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTtcDE9-4oM
I'd just dive back into one of the bootlegs, there are some great vocals and some bonkers arrangements.
― tylerw, Friday, 3 February 2023 23:10 (one year ago) link
Ok, this Not Dark Yet (Version 1) is as good as the released version in some ways.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Friday, 3 February 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link
feel like this is a digestible comp of some of the best stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LxDipG0i1c
― tylerw, Friday, 3 February 2023 23:15 (one year ago) link
Real heads are waiting for the de-Jack Frosted L&T.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Friday, 3 February 2023 23:24 (one year ago) link
thx for that tyler, enjoyable
why did they tape rehearsals? bob doesn't strike me as a person to listen to tapes of his own recordings, much less rehearsals
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 4 February 2023 09:28 (one year ago) link
"The Bootleg Series, that's like a runaway train", said the source. "Calling at Tupelo, Indianapolis, Jackson and Dee-troit. It's a journey into a hog fire at an old cowboy camp". Indicating that further releases were unlikely, the source added: "The brakeman's waving his red flag and the lines have been crossed. The pistons are wheezing and you're on the way down. The smokestack's powering on sending those black clouds into the Western sky, but you know it's coming to an end at the next railhead. There's whisky in the next saloon and you can't wait".
― the pinefox, Saturday, 4 February 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
Loool!
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 February 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
Hahaha you've got a gift
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 February 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
those early 60s gigs mentioned (I suppose the source might have in mind The Gaslight Tapes etc) are reminding me of backstory mentions re Omnivore's excellent previously unreleased Mountain City Four 60s folkie assemblage:
Originally members of The Pharisees, Jack Nissenson and Peter Weldon recruited Kate and Annd McGarrigle to become the Mountain City Four...In 1962, Nissenson recorded a Bob Dylan show at Montreal’s Finjan Club on reel-to-reel. It remains one of the most sought-after early Dylan recordings.
(Beyond or aside from Rolling Bootlegs, I'd like expanded reissues of the early studio albums, up through Bringing It All Back Home. seems like RB has the 60s-early 70s after that pretty well covered, alt and outtake-wise---although an expanded Planet Waves might be good.)
As for the 78 tour, I saw a lot of footage played on a VCR across the aisle from my own table at a record show in the late-ish 90s: it was being hyped as a series of shows, or from a series, though I noticed he was always dressed in seemingly the same scruffy matador or Cisco Kid outfit as tge Birmingham Al show I'd attended on that tour. B'ham had were about 20 musos onstage most of the time (only exception I recall: a duet "Blowin' In The Wind," with flute player he introduced as saxist on some 60s hit, title of which I've forgotten). Otherwise, he might have them all playing, on a very fast "Masters of War," for inst, but more often it was subsets, incl. recombinant combos formed for the moment from platoon A, sqaud 2 and so on (would also beckon others from the wings). Female chorus featured in various ways, like all vocals on "Rainy Day Women," while maestro accompanied with guitar and the usual tennis shoe toe-tap. Hope they've got a good tape of that one.
― dow, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
formed for the moment by individuals or sub-subset duos, trios etc. from the ranks of platoon A and squad B etc, who would then go back to previous placement---we might later hear from all of platoon A etc. as such--or not. Overall seemed tighter than expected, though they'd been touring quite a bit that year, and some of them were recognizable Rolling Thunder veterans.
― dow, Saturday, 4 February 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
"expanded reissues of the early studio albums, up through Bringing It All Back Home"
Surely this last is covered on THE CUTTING EDGE?
I seem to recall that a release of outtakes from ANOTHER SIDE also occurred though I've never seen it.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 5 February 2023 09:21 (one year ago) link