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Bob Dylan Appreciation Thread - Favorite Album/Song/Cover
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For those with TCM on cable DON'T LOOK BACK, the 1967 Pennebaker doc covering Dylan's '65 England tour, is scheduled to air at 7:45am on New Years Day. Saw it years back, but don't remember liking the doc. As I remember, a lot of songs were interrupted or shortened, but I hope to DVR it. I saw the first show of the U.S. leg of this tour in '66, when Dylan did the first half solo and second half with the band.
Also scheduled on that day are two Hendrix docs, Stones (Shine a Light - 2006 shows), Zeppelin, Tommy, and A Hard Days Night. A busy day for my DVR, if I can remember and have room on it.
Also scheduled on that day are two Hendrix docs, Stones (Shine a Light - 2006 shows), Zeppelin, Tommy, and A Hard Days Night. A busy day for my DVR, if I can remember and have room on it.
I love Them’s version of Dylan’s.. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue…Van Morrison’s voice really conveys the gritty lyrics superbly
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Did anyone happen to see the new Dylan movie “A Complete Unknown?” I saw it over the weekend with some friends and was entertained by it. I thought Chalamet did a great job portraying Dylan. I don’t think someone else could have done any better. He apparently was extremely focused on the role, sang all the songs himself with voice coaches, and I think he nailed it. I read somewhere that Bob Dylan himself actually went over the script with Jim Mangold, the producer, very closely and Chalamet has the annotated version and values it tremendously. The movie is based on a book written a few years ago detailing the time when Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend it.
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I haven't seen it, sir. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it.
I tried to watch Don't Look Back, and it was as bad as I remembered. Not one complete song, the longest being a couple verses of Baby Blue in a room with Donovan. Most were just snippets of Dylan singing in between crowds, managers & reporters following him around. There's better stuff on youtube.
TCM has Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) scheduled this month Jan 11-13. Check your local listings for day & time. Not sure if it's the latest Criterion version or older one.
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I listened to Springtime in NY again this morning... Lovely album.
I have some Swinging Pig bootleg LPs from the 70s, but not this one.
Just as I can't remember what I had for breakfast today, I can't remember if I previously posted this review of my first Dylan concert in college in 1966. I was a folkie/Dylan fan in high school, and had forgotten this show was the first leg of the "Judas" UK tour. $4 was about average for a concert in those days, and I was fairly close to the stage. Dylan did the first half solo folk, but the only song I still remember was Desolation Row. After a break he came back with the Hawks. The only songs I remember of that set were Ballad of a Thin Man with Dylan at piano, and finishing with Like A Rolling Stone. In the 2nd half, there were a few calls of "we want Bob Dylan". I believe it was because sound systems sucked in the 60s and you couldn't hear Dylan's vocals. As a Dylan folk fan I loved his electric songs, and can still remember the first time I heard Homesick Blues on the radio, while playing a game of chess in the dorm.
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There were I think a couple of Dylan records in my brother's collection but I don't remember listening to them. Maybe too adult for my kid ears. And I've heard the songs forever of course but never had an album. It was maybe twelve years ago, I sort of found Dylan a little. I had found the Scorsese Blues thing at my library, I watched the videos and read the accompanying book. Got turned on to some artists I had never heard of, I had been doing Blues light since 1986 or so. Anyway, somehow got turned on to Dylan going through the Scorsese thing. I got Dylan's first two records (from the library), that's all I've really listened to. I'm sort of a love guy, I like The Freewheelin' record. I like a song like Corrina Corrina, I don't think he wrote it. I miss being partnered, I miss the good ones. So difficult. In ways, I miss all women. This song maybe speaks to that too, for recent times.
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Interesting... I listened to that whole album earlier today. It's one of my favorites.
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Yes, Tell Tale Signs is a great collection, my friend.
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