A rare Bob Dylan film from 1976.

[Jazzrook]

This rare film by Howard Alk captures Bob Dylan in energised form with his Rolling Thunder Revue at Colorado State University, Fort Collins on May 23, 1976(the day before Dylan's 35th birthday).
It was first shown on NBC-TV in September 1976 and still awaits official release on DVD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0o_0b5abwA

Also, video of 'Jokerman'(1983) from 'Infidels':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XSvsFgvWr0

JR

[gurnemanz]

Thanks for that. A nice accompaniment to the Hard Rain album to which this video is a very useful adjunct. I would say the whole thing works better as a video. Five tracks from the video, I read, are on the album. I only checked Shelter from the Storm on the album which seems to be the Fort Collins version.

[johncorrigan]

This rare film by Howard Alk captures Bob Dylan in energised form with his Rolling Thunder Revue at Colorado State University, Fort Collins on May 23, 1976(the day before Dylan's 35th birthday).
It was first shown on NBC-TV in September 1976 and still awaits official release on DVD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0o_0b5abwA

JR

Thanks JR - great stuff!

[Richard Tarleton]

And thanks from me!

[AmpH]

Many thanks from me too.

[johncorrigan]

So much to enjoy, but I surprised myself by loving the version of 'Mozambique' - don't think I ever enjoyed it so much before!

[johncorrigan]

Bobbles was 77 a couple of days back. Here's a crackin' 11-minute take on 'It ain't me, Babe', complete with moothie solo. Top notchness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_1lGmTJK-U

[Lat-Literal]

Bobbles was 77 a couple of days back. Here's a crackin' 11-minute take on 'It ain't me, Babe', complete with moothie solo. Top notchness!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_1lGmTJK-U

My goodness me - 77 - I don't like it much but it is better than what could have been the alternative. I'd like to throw down a challenge here, AK thinks that his last great album was "Blood on the Tracks" and I don't wholly disagree. In fairness, he hasn't dismissed all that followed. But can we find 10-20 songs since 1975 that really cut the mustard? I think we can:

Bob Dylan - Man Gave Names To All The Animals - https://vimeo.com/190014922

[johncorrigan]

My goodness me - 77 - I don't like it much but it is better than what could have been the alternative. I'd like to throw down a challenge here, AK thinks that his last great album was "Blood on the Tracks" and I don't wholly disagree. In fairness, he hasn't dismissed all that followed. But can we find 10-20 songs since 1975 that really cut the mustard? I think we can:
Bob Dylan - Man Gave Names To All The Animals - https://vimeo.com/190014922

I'm a big fan of Andy, but here he is just plain wrong, Lat.
For example:
High Water Rising(for Charley Patton) - Love and Theft
Summer Days - Love and Theft
Delia - World Gone Wrong
Precious Angel - Slow Train Coming
Dusquesne Whistle - Tempest
Blind Willie McTell
Early Roman Kings - Tempest
Workingman's Blues #2 - Modern Times
Cold Irons Bound - Time out of Mind
Changing of the Guard - Street Legal

...to name but ten, and I could go on, Lat!

[Lat-Literal]

I'm a big fan of Andy, but here he is just plain wrong, Lat.
For example:
High Water Rising(for Charley Patton) - Love and Theft
Summer Days - Love and Theft
Delia - World Gone Wrong
Precious Angel - Slow Train Coming
Dusquesne Whistle - Tempest
Blind Willie McTell
Early Roman Kings - Tempest
Workingman's Blues #2 - Modern Times
Cold Irons Bound - Time out of Mind
Changing of the Guard - Street Legal

...to name but ten, and I could go on, Lat!

And:

Ring Them Bells - Oh Mercy
Highlands - Time Out of Mind
Hurricane - Desire
Saved - Saved
I Believe in You - Slow Train Coming
Death is Not the End - Complete Album Collection Vol 1
Disease of Conceit - Oh Mercy
Beyond Here Lies Nothin' - Together Through Life
Political World - Oh Mercy
Mississippi - Love and Theft

Etc. Etc.

I need to check out quite a few on your list.

[johncorrigan]

And:

Ring Them Bells - Oh Mercy
Highlands - Time Out of Mind
Hurricane - Desire
Saved - Saved
I Believe in You - Slow Train Coming
Death is Not the End - Complete Album Collection Vol 1
Disease of Conceit - Oh Mercy
Beyond Here Lies Nothin' - Together Through Life
Political World - Oh Mercy
Mississippi - Love and Theft

Etc. Etc.

I need to check out quite a few on your list.

Good one, Lat...and we never even mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus

[Jazzrook]

I'm a big fan of Andy, but here he is just plain wrong, Lat.
For example:
High Water Rising(for Charley Patton) - Love and Theft
Summer Days - Love and Theft
Delia - World Gone Wrong
Precious Angel - Slow Train Coming
Dusquesne Whistle - Tempest
Blind Willie McTell
Early Roman Kings - Tempest
Workingman's Blues #2 - Modern Times
Cold Irons Bound - Time out of Mind
Changing of the Guard - Street Legal

...to name but ten, and I could go on, Lat!

Here's a great video of 'Cold Irons Bound':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hO-83CIVKM

JR

[Lat-Literal]

Thank you both and now that I am very old I can have the permission to repeat myself. My favourite Dylan song since 1975 is "Ring Them Bells". It is also one of my top three 20th Century "hymns". And the performance in Japan, weird audio, uncertain voice, a celebrity-ish with long hair, words out of sync and all, is absolutely stormin'. It is beyond brillliant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-0tiTiUdv0

[Lat-Literal]

News by e-mail from Joe including on Geoff Muldaur and 'Boots of Spanish Leather':

Hey! I'm still alive. No particularly good reason for the long silence, but I can assure you I've been working on the book each and every day - the end is in sight! And of course, I've been on a few little tours with our Albanian group, Saz'iso (standing beside the sound man and kibitzing, mostly). I have a couple of other newsletters up my sleeve but they're a bit ambitious and I haven't had the time to finish either of them.

This one is short and sweet: Geoff Muldaur is touring the UK starting at the Green Note in Camden Town (London) Friday June 1. I have always resisted plugging gigs other than my own since I want this to remain a simple, unambitious newsletter and don't want it to become a bulletin board. But this is different. Geoff and I grew up in the '50s (!) listening to records together. I can still hear Lonnie Johnson, Don Redman, Claude Jeter and Skip James in his singing and he just keeps getting better with age.

Last week he was invited to sing 'Boots of Spanish Leather' in NYC's Town Hall at the Dylan anniversary concert and a lot of younger people are starting to realize what a remarkable musician he is. The rest of the tour looks like this - if you're in the vicinity, you won't regret going - promise!

3rd June Whitstable, UK Whitstable Sessions (whitstablesessions.co.uk)
5th June Menai Bridge, UK Victoria Hotel (www.vicmenai.com)
6th June Hebden Bridge, UK Trades Club (thetradesclub.com)
7th June Milton Keynes The Stables (stables.org)