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The 1970 copyright protection set is getting a proper release in late January –
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The 1970 copyright protection set is getting a proper release in late January –
Good thing but I found it goddamn awful! Funny to think that this genius (willingly?) produced more or less nothing worth remembering between 68 and 72.
If you compare this set to the Basement Tapes (1967) or the sublime complete "Blood On The Tracks" (1974) you can't help thinking "is this guy pulling our leg?". It's a bit like Kubrick shooting "Benny Hill" episodes after giving us "2001" and "A Clockwork Orange".
Very strange indeed!
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slewan
The 1970 copyright protection set is getting a proper release in late January –
Good thing but I found it goddamn awful! Funny to think that this genius (willingly?) produced more or less nothing worth remembering between 68 and 72.
If you compare this set to the Basement Tapes (1967) or the sublime complete "Blood On The Tracks" (1974) you can't help thinking "is this guy pulling our leg?". It's a bit like Kubrick shooting "Benny Hill" episodes after giving us "2001" and "A Clockwork Orange".
Very strange indeed!
True, that. Travelling Through, and now this 1970 compilation are the only Bootleg Series volumes I did not purchase, . ...together with Whitmark Years and Live 1964, but that's just me.
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The 1970 copyright protection set is getting a proper release in late January – see: [www.bobdylanisis.com]
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slewan
The 1970 copyright protection set is getting a proper release in late January –
Good thing but I found it goddamn awful! Funny to think that this genius (willingly?) produced more or less nothing worth remembering between 68 and 72.
If you compare this set to the Basement Tapes (1967) or the sublime complete "Blood On The Tracks" (1974) you can't help thinking "is this guy pulling our leg?". It's a bit like Kubrick shooting "Benny Hill" episodes after giving us "2001" and "A Clockwork Orange".
Very strange indeed!
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slewan
The 1970 copyright protection set is getting a proper release in late January –
Good thing but I found it goddamn awful! Funny to think that this genius (willingly?) produced more or less nothing worth remembering between 68 and 72.
If you compare this set to the Basement Tapes (1967) or the sublime complete "Blood On The Tracks" (1974) you can't help thinking "is this guy pulling our leg?". It's a bit like Kubrick shooting "Benny Hill" episodes after giving us "2001" and "A Clockwork Orange".
Very strange indeed!
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slewan
The 1970 copyright protection set is getting a proper release in late January –
Good thing but I found it goddamn awful! Funny to think that this genius (willingly?) produced more or less nothing worth remembering between 68 and 72.
If you compare this set to the Basement Tapes (1967) or the sublime complete "Blood On The Tracks" (1974) you can't help thinking "is this guy pulling our leg?". It's a bit like Kubrick shooting "Benny Hill" episodes after giving us "2001" and "A Clockwork Orange".
Very strange indeed!
New Morning is a helluva album IMHO. Interesting writing, using new fun harmonies and a certain joyful feeling that seems to be all over the place. I think it's proper genius. Not a desert island album obviously, but certainly a fitting chilled out doing-the-dishes-in-the-morning album.
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Max get yaself a decent dish washer and
chuck on Aftermath ... what a drag it is getting old
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Travelling Through, and now this 1970 compilation are the only Bootleg Series volumes I did not purchase
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Travelling Through, and now this 1970 compilation are the only Bootleg Series volumes I did not purchase
If TT had included 5 or 6 versions of AATW (all different... you know Bob can do it) that would have been a worthwhile purchase.
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slewan
Beside that I suppose Watchtower was just one song amongst others in those days. The song only became famous after Jimi Hendrix covered it. Had he instead released Drifter's Escape (which he in fact recorded, too) on Electric Ladyland most people might not remember Watchtower at all (and Dylan himself would have done Drifter's instead of Watchtower 1000+ times in concert)
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Beside that I suppose Watchtower was just one song amongst others in those days. The song only became famous after Jimi Hendrix covered it. Had he instead released Drifter's Escape (which he in fact recorded, too) on Electric Ladyland most people might not remember Watchtower at all (and Dylan himself would have done Drifter's instead of Watchtower 1000+ times in concert)
Interesting point but I still do think AATW is 100 more powerful than anything else on JWH (and Bob's last great track till 1973's "Heaven's Door" which marked his "recovery" as a major creative force).
J.H. cover or not it's a stand-out timeless song. The mysterious cryptic lyrics, the bare-bone haunting harmonica intro, the song that comes and goes so quickly (it's only 2.30!!!!) really make it special.
Remember "Watchmen" the comic book not the film : Alan Moore quoted at the end of one episode. He certainly wished he had written lines so powerful.
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Travelling Through, and now this 1970 compilation are the only Bootleg Series volumes I did not purchase
If TT had included 5 or 6 versions of AATW (all different... you know Bob can do it) that would have been a worthwhile purchase.
he could have done that, but he didn't do it.
In those days he didn't write his songs in the studio anymore but came to the studio with clear cut ideas and recorded the songs in a few takes.
Beside that I suppose Watchtower was just one song amongst others in those days. The song only became famous after Jimi Hendrix covered it. Had he instead released Drifter's Escape (which he in fact recorded, too) on Electric Ladyland most people might not remember Watchtower at all (and Dylan himself would have done Drifter's instead of Watchtower 1000+ times in concert)
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Travelling Through, and now this 1970 compilation are the only Bootleg Series volumes I did not purchase
If TT had included 5 or 6 versions of AATW (all different... you know Bob can do it) that would have been a worthwhile purchase.
he could have done that, but he didn't do it.
In those days he didn't write his songs in the studio anymore but came to the studio with clear cut ideas and recorded the songs in a few takes.
Beside that I suppose Watchtower was just one song amongst others in those days. The song only became famous after Jimi Hendrix covered it. Had he instead released Drifter's Escape (which he in fact recorded, too) on Electric Ladyland most people might not remember Watchtower at all (and Dylan himself would have done Drifter's instead of Watchtower 1000+ times in concert)
'John Wesley Harding' topped the UK album charts for 13 weeks and reached #2 in the Billboard charts despite having no singles or live appearances to promote it. I guess someone out there listened to 'All Along The Watchtower'
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Then I guess you're agreeing with me. The song was very well known before Hendrix covered it ten months later.
No Dylan album had been as commercially successful as JWH to that point and whilst he's had bigger selling albums since, none have had the same chart success as that one.
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Terrible news for Dylan fans :
[www.prosoundnetwork.com]
Yup someone has saved the studio tapes for the "Empire Burlesque" & "Knocked Out Loaded" from decay.
What a pity...