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Yeah, that's a great concert. For those who don't do dime or trade live CDs/DVDs, I guess I would pay some to the bootleggers... great band in great form on that night! A couple of great photos from Dave Liebman's site: and some bits on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO4sloGk3P0

The Ellis is fine as well, though I guess more of a side-note in his oeuvre... I played it back to back with "Tears of Joy" (Wounded Bird reissue, I think, 2 CDs) and that wasn't the most favorable comparison.

Only found this one, but it's the thread I was thinking of: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=42958

And the two Ingfried Hoffmann (one comes as "Hammond Bond", disguising it contains a complete album with some bonus tracks), the Dexter Gordon/Slide Hampton... there are a few others containing complete albums: Ella Fitzgerald Live in San Francisco, and that Clark Terry ballad album. Also the Jimmy Webb album by Kurt Edelhagen is fun (and should be to your liking, I guess, TTK!) These have been discussed here before, I assume in various threads...

"Love and Theft" was the original, "Modern Times" the copy or second helping... Seriously: "Love and Theft was the first "Jack Frost" production (Dylan's alias, I gather?), and it was there where he found a new simplicity, yet not excluding some swampiness (Lanois, the Mississippi influence...), but it's much straighter than "Time Out of Mind", which indeed is a brooding dark album. But that is exactly why I love it... "Cold Irons Bound"... "Love and Theft" catches (mostly) the working band (with Augie Meyers added on accordion and organ) in their usual, swinging style of that time (before they got harder/rockier again, they did more acoustic stuff back then, with Tony Garnier on upright bass etc). --------------------- Anyway, the objections against "Joey" made me think of some other Dylan oddities... He liked Dubya He likes Sarkozy (who went backstage at one of the two April '09 Paris concerts and chatted with Dylan - a silly Rolling Stone article about Dylan, I guess in the June issue, mentioned that). He played for his popeness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKuWX-Pyb5s He did an ad for Victoria's Secret: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAAUV6E9tYo...feature=related (a song from "Time out of Mind", btw) And just now, there's a massive campaign for an ugly watch bearing his name: Some other bobbish silliness I found on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPHybJvBKeY...feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X450KgAlgIQ...feature=related

Yeah, I wondered about that as well!

Well, I'd be all for some more of those brown vinyl twofers... just make sure one of them contains the "Cliff Jordan" LP and some of that Pacific stuff will be reissued as well! I'm sure the missing Lighthouse Crusaders could nicely be extended to a 2LP set with some OOP tracks... I remember I once had one of the white w/orange photo vinyl twofers from somebody, with some Blakey or Brownie stuff that probably at that time was pretty rare... of course later on it was all on CD, but hey, if that's what the brown bag time will bring, then bring it on!

What a sad story! I always liked his light touch on all those classic Smith sides. Hope he'll pull through it and be able to perform for some more time!

Yes the Nonet is mighty fine! Get well soon, Joe!

just finished my first watch of this DVD: info: source: http://www.bjorner.com/DSN03275%201976%20R...II.htm#DSN03340 Pretty nice indeed! Got this by chance as it was offered cheaply by zweitausendeins.de a while back and added it to some other things I ordered, had no idea this even existed. It lacks in quality though, and there are annoying (Japanese?) subtitles for all the lyrics and even some "info-bars" popping up not at the bottom end but right through the middle of the image... They really ought to dig out the master videotapes and do a proper DVD reissue of this one! Edited to add: this is a release of the Hard Rain TV film, I forgot to mention.

Happy Burrn user here, ever since Nero almost drove me mad, quite a few years ago... there's also ImgBurn for DVDs and data CDRs. Easy and small programmes, very nice.

That's the problem, that it makes no sense to them. It's all so short term... that's the sad thing about the nowadays entertainment industry.

Thanks for the reminder! Gee, I completely forgot... just sent you an email, Daniel!

Yes, got it in the meantime. I think it's even better than the first! But live, it was different, harder, more edge, more "body" to the music, more bass, less ethereal stuff... quite good. They should do a live disc!

what the hell is that? I hope it doesn't involve small children or animals!

Why do they lose money if they re-print the Jordan and Washingtons from some existing masters? They could at least do that, and not have them remastered again. I'm sure there'd even be some good Japanese remasterings around. I don't see how they can lose money if the production of one unit is 1 or 2 or even 3$. I'm sure they'd sell a couple of thousand, no? It's sad that these silly corporations aren't interested in such "peanuts"... I guess the idea was to bundle production, administration, advertising, marketing and all, but in the end it also made it unfeasible to release good music where *some* profit could be made, but not the kind of profit the big jerks need to buy their next dose of heroin and hookers...

No, but it does seem Cuscuna dislikes Les McCann (who's on that other Teddy Edwards album), or at least he's not a big fan. There'd also be another Lighthouse album by the Jazz Crusaders and their collaboration with McCann - these were said to appear on CD (Bluerein reported so long ago... never happened, see Jazz Crusaders Mosaic thread)

I'll certainly find my copy of the Hubbard... there are a few other BNs I still need. But the thing about their archives being exhausted, I don't quite buy it. There's still no readily available reissue of Cliff Jordan or of Tyrone Washington's album. We discussed this before, but there'd certainly be enough good material for another two or three batches of RVGs. And there'd be tons of fine stuff from Pacific (not just "ethereal" west coast music that didn't sell well in the WCC series, there'd also be some hard-blowing stuff, like more Teddy Edwards, Les McCann... but I guess Cuscuna just doesn't like all of that...)

Allen, I respect your opinions about Dylan and his losing his creativity, in fact some of your comments have been rather thought-provoking, so keep them coming! I do disagree of course... I mean clearly his peak was 65/66, I can fully agree with that. Maybe up to 67 (including the Basement stuff)? But because of that, I feel no need to put down the good stuff he made later on (Blood, Desire, Rolling Thunder, Slow Train, Empire Burlesque, Oh Mercy, Time Out of Mind, Love and Theft...), and I love the weaker stuff as well (mostly).

I didn't/don't have any background on these songs... sorry, no offense intended or anything... is it possible to just enjoy these as songs? I guess it's not after one does know... will have to do my homework there, I guess. Any yes Lon, Planet Waves is wonderful! Robertson doing these almost mandoline-like acoustic guitar runs on one of the "Forever Youngs"... marvellous! It's one of the simples, straightest, happiest Dylan albums, I think.

There you go again! Happy Birthday!

And yes on Desire! Great album! Some more favorite epics (Joey, Hurricane), some almost tex-mex, Oh Sister, Durango... hell of a great album in fact! Also the Bootleg volume dedicated to the Rolling Thunder Revue might be of interest (and two or three titles included in "Biograph" are NOT duplicated there). It's from the first tour. The second is documented (well, that's an exaggeration, you get a glimpse of it) on "Hard Rain", which seems to be among the least regarded of his albums as well. The Bootleg volume with the Manchester 1966 concert is effing amazing, too. The Hawks! Say no more! The power and immediacy of the sound is incredible, you can really feel the raw energy there - a fascinating document! Also for anyone in love with the "big three" (Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde), the soundtrack from Scorsese's great film is a must buy (it's also a volume in the Bootleg Series - sorry, I'm too lazy to check all those right now and give the numbers...) - lots of fascinating outtakes and a couple of more live tracks (some others are on The Band's "Musical History" box, which also has a few from the 1974 US tour they did together... which brings us to "Before the Flood", another good one... and then on to "Rock of Ages", where Dylan turns up on some of the bonus tracks on the expanded 2CD version, as well as to his little set on "The Last Waltz", all with The Band...)

"Time Out of Mind" from 1997 is another excellent one. I think "Love and Theft" is more fun, but it's very different, much straighter, simpler, while "Time Out of Mind" is a somewhat swampy Daniel Lanois production. Some wonderful stuff there, including "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", one of my favorite Dylan epics. For those willing to look into the 70s/80s period as well, I found "Biograph" to be excellent. It also contains some early rarities (including a couple of singes/b-sides), some rehearsals and outtakes, as well as a very good selection from his albums up to the time it appeared (1986 I think? That would make it end with the weird but excellent "Empire Burlesque"). The liners are mostly based on a long interview with Dylan, summing up his career to that point. Even to a longtime fan like me, getting that box, listening and reading was a delight! And for those who like the country-rock stuff, I'd recommend the soundtrack album for Samuel Peckinpah's film "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" - it's not much of a typical Dylan album (only two or three songs contain vocals), but it's a very nice listen. Btw: those who love "Nashville Skyline" probably know, but his voice there is so flexible and all, it's quite fascinating he could do that... almost crooner like in some spots. I don't think he sounds like that anywhere else.

I've yet to get the Hubbard - I've never seen it in any local store, and it's been out for half a year... I love the Monk/Trane, Mingus and Silver discs - more along those lines would be great indeed!

The Chu Berry set contains recordings from the late 1930s/early 1940s, while the Tal Farlow dates stem from the 1950s. You can't compare those two sonically, it's apples and oranges. Well, as apples are clearly superior to oranges, the question is: which of the two is the apples and which the oranges Glad to see the backordered sets coming back in stock, although after Cindy told me so (around the times of the Great Mosaic Debacle, or GMD as it will be known to future generations), I had no doubt that they would return to stock!