Bob Dylan

[johncorrigan]

Here’s Dylan’s version of ‘Three Angels’ from the 1970 ‘New Morning’, an album I don’t have. Perhaps I should?

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=w_e38Yif09o

JR

Good version by the Persuasions of a Dylan classic, in my book anyway. I love 'New Morning' - so many great tunes. I've been listening to Bob's soundtrack for Peckinpah's 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' this last week or two - I had forgotten how great it was, how atmospheric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEi83f_CEqM
When the film came out in '73 my girlfriend of the time was in some meeting on the first day out - she said she wanted to go to the film. I couldn't wait and went to see the film anyway, and then took her to it two days later, having to watch it like I'd never seen it because I didn't tell her I had already seen it. Even now I recall how uncomfortable I felt throughout the film.

[johncorrigan]

There's a lot of attention on Bob and the Band with the release of over four hundred songs on the boxset based on recordings they did for the 1974 tour that becames 'After the Flood'.
Author Geoff Dyer concentrates on just one of those songs, a rarity called 'Nobody 'Cept You' in a very interesting article which he uses to explain his relationship with Dylan's music and poetry in an article for 'The Observer' at the weekend. Here's the article:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...from-him-to-me

...and here's the track in question, which I have to say I wasn't previously aware of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lr01DhpBDA
Rather wonderful, I thought.

[Jazzrook]

There's a lot of attention on Bob and the Band with the release of over four hundred songs on the boxset based on recordings they did for the 1974 tour that becames 'After the Flood'.
Author Geoff Dyer concentrates on just one of those songs, a rarity called 'Nobody 'Cept You' in a very interesting article which he uses to explain his relationship with Dylan's music and poetry in an article for 'The Observer' at the weekend. Here's the article:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...from-him-to-me

...and here's the track in question, which I have to say I wasn't previously aware of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lr01DhpBDA
Rather wonderful, I thought.

Many thanks, jc.
It’s a pity ‘Nobody ‘Cept You’ is currently only available on the expensive 27CD box set. Maybe the 1974 live ‘sampler’ will be issued as a CD soon?

JR

[johncorrigan]

Many thanks, jc.
It’s a pity ‘Nobody ‘Cept You’ is currently only available on the expensive 27CD box set. Maybe the 1974 live ‘sampler’ will be issued as a CD soon?

JR

For the moment the 1974 Live Recordings Sampler is only available to stream, JR. Here's the spotty link

https://open.spotify.com/album/5x6WnUtS1wQU9MRHQWzPQa?si=gkcjiUGtTfyjT0nL7BeHJA

- it's a great listen, I should say.

[Jazzrook]

A spellbinding version of ‘Hard Rain’ in 1975:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=iUD5snx-XOo

JR

[johncorrigan]

A spellbinding version of ‘Hard Rain’ in 1975:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=iUD5snx-XOo

JR

Wish he'd played that when I saw him last week when I saw him in the RAH, JR. But it was a very entertaining show. Among the highlights a great version of 'Desolation Row' in an almost Buddy Holly-inspired manner complete with some moothie. He popped out from behind the old joanna to do his Charlie Chaplin dance; and then had to quickly zip back in to check the lyrics. Good old Bob.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8HYffsZ1iU

[Jazzrook]

Many thanks, jc - some unique piano playing! Wish I’d been there.

JR

[johncorrigan]

Many thanks, jc - some unique piano playing! Wish I’d been there.

JR

I thought his piano playing was much improved from last time I saw him, JR. He seemed to keep the band on their toes. He would play a wee run and seem to like it, so play it again, and the band would have to re-sort themselves. Still the joker and the thief, Bob. I hope we'll see him again though this fine article from the Spectator doubts it.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/so-long-bob-dylan/

[Jazzrook]

I thought his piano playing was much improved from last time I saw him, JR. He seemed to keep the band on their toes. He would play a wee run and seem to like it, so play it again, and the band would have to re-sort themselves. Still the joker and the thief, Bob. I hope we'll see him again though this fine article from the Spectator doubts it.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/so-long-bob-dylan/

Richard Williams has written an excellent piece on Bob’s final night at the RAH(Rougher and rowdier, take 2):

https://www.thebluemoment.com

JR

[johncorrigan]

Bob won an oscar back in 2001 for 'Things Have Changed'. A cracking song and a great video with Bob in top form.
https://youtu.be/L9EKqQWPjyo?si=4Rx6KmrQci_0cZYd

[Jazzrook]

Bob won an oscar back in 2001 for 'Things Have Changed'. A cracking song and a great video with Bob in top form.
https://youtu.be/L9EKqQWPjyo?si=4Rx6KmrQci_0cZYd

Wonderful, jc - can’t believe that song came out around 24 years ago!
As the 61st anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination has just passed here’s the powerful ‘Murder Most Foul’:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ZWtzNJz1Q-c

JR

[johncorrigan]

Thanks JR. It was one of those moments of celebration when Bob released this gift out of nowhere, in the dark days of lockdown. Still great to immerse in it for a wee while.

Last night I was on the bus back from Glasgow and I stuck an old playlist that I had made of a Bob setlist from when I saw him six of seven years back. At the time I chose this live take of 'Tangled' from a Wembley performance in '84, and was delighted by how fresh it sounded and how there are some songs of Bob that are never quite finished.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJjyU1mhg2A

[johncorrigan]

It's a month till 'A Complete Unknown', the Dylan docudrama, arrives in our cinemas. Cerys had a great interview with the director James Mangold on her Radio 6 show this morning. Looking forward to seeing it very much. My pal, a big Bob fan, saw it at an early screening a couple of weeks ago, and proclaimed it excellent. The half-hour interview is a couple of hours into the show.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025vlt

[Jazzrook]

A wonderful video of ‘Tangled Up In Blue’:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM

JR

[cloughie]

It's a month till 'A Complete Unknown', the Dylan docudrama, arrives in our cinemas. Cerys had a great interview with the director James Mangold on her Radio 6 show this morning. Looking forward to seeing it very much. My pal, a big Bob fan, saw it at an early screening a couple of weeks ago, and proclaimed it excellent. The half-hour interview is a couple of hours into the show.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025vlt

Cerys played ‘Tombstone Blues’ on her Monday evening R2 Blues programme as a trailer for the film - sounded as fresh now as it did when Highway 61 was first released, great Band and Bob’s voice probably as well as it ever sounded.