Matthew

Stolen Moments. Love this tune and all the various covers....

I am seeing him at the end of the month. Every couple of days I go to Bob's Links to check out the set list. How were new songs? Did he try and keep them exactly like on the CD or did he change them up in anyway? The new songs sounded much better live, had a harder edge that on the cd. Thunder On The Mountain, for sure, was way better live. By the time you see him, I wouldn't be surprised if the set had six tunes from Modern Times. You should be in store for a great concert, it seems as if the band is getting better each night.

Chewy, you should check out the review in the PI, the Unintentional Comedy factor is off the chart!!! Here's my favorite: Four decades into my Dylan obsession, I certainly didn't expect to hear any of my more obscure favorites, but in the middle of the concert, he swung into "Tangled Up in Blue," from the late 1970s.

Set list from last night: Seattle, Washington Key Arena October 13, 2006 1. Maggie's Farm 2. She Belongs To Me 3. Lonesome Day Blues 4. Positively 4th Street 5. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 6. Just Like A Woman 7. Highway 61 Revisited 8. When The Deal Goes Down 9. Tangled Up In Blue 10. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 11. Watching The River Flow 12. Workingman's Blues #2 13. Summer Days (encore) 14. Thunder On The Mountain 15. Like A Rolling Stone 16. All Along The Watchtower The Bobster was in awesome form last night. I lucked out and got a third row seat that was looking straight on to Dylan. The boys came out in the now traditional gray suits with black hats, Dylan in black (of course), who played keyboard/harmoncia. Dylan very much into the show last night, moved around a lot, smiles galore among the musicians, even plaing up to the crowd at times! Very nice vibe to the whole evening. Highlights for me were When the Deal Goes Down, Tangled Up In Blue, Workingman's Blues #2, and Thunder On The Mountain. This was one of the better concerts I've been to in a while -- even the opening act Kings of Leon were very good. I think having the new cd go #1 was a big boost to Dylan, gave some added enthusiasm to his music... and yes, that kind of stuff matter very much to Dylan. Go and see Dylan when he comes around, he and the band are in great shape right now.

Friday, In Seattle:

Sad to see that both Seattle stores are goners, now I have to go to Silver Platters who are just as expensive as Tower. The closing sale is only 10% off cds -- cds that are already marked way too high. *sigh* I use to go to the Tower Records across the San Diego Sports Arena all the time growing up in Fun Diego. Another way this modern world kicks me in the butt, telling me I'm getting old...

I must admit that the ending to this series of novels was a let down for me -- it had too much of a sixties flavor (in a bad way) for me. Also, the plot twist of having the first image and last image of a character be running, was too contrived for me. Still, all-in-all, I enjoyed it much more the second time through than the first. Still thinking of reading it for a third time.

Completely off topic: Wasn't the "Twizzle" the name of the dance that Buddy and Sally found happening in a bowling alley in the Dick Van Dyke Show?

I, for one, am very glad to have Mr. Yanow contributing to the board. Damn, I'm just trying to learn all I can about this music that I love, and I welcome anyone's well thought out opinion. IMHO, some people here are taking themsleves way to seriously, and treating someone like shit whom they've never met -- after awhile, it just is embarrassing, all this trying to score points and using Mr. Yanow to do it with.

You bunch of land lovers! How soon you forget!

Out of town the past couple of days, so I'm late for the party but Happy Birthday Dan!!!

I've opened about ten of my order so far, and the one I've had the most fun listening to is Al Sears: Swing's The Thing. What a wonderful session, just old school swing, played in a nice, relaxed manner. Mr. Sears has payed attention to the way Johnny Hodges plays, that's for sure. I play it all the time now.

Ghost, you and I appear to have similar reading interests. I've been reading a ton of Hammet, Raymond Chandler etc this summer. I can hardly get enough of it! Lately, I've been reading Ross MacDonald (the Lew Archer stuff). I just finished the Galton Case. Have you read Paul Elie's biography of Merton, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor? Really enjoyable and interesting to see the intersections among those great lives. The real story of Dorothy Day has yet to be written -- much to dangerous in today's religious climate. She'd pop people's minds and assumptions like a ballon. She also seems to have met, and influenced, with every important catholic thinker of the 20th century.

I was looking through a discography of Evans, and this was Evans' only release on CTI (????). How'd that happen? Didn't think Creed Taylor had that much contact with Evans. This will be a nice pick up though.

Young But Daily Growing is one of my favorite Dylan cuts.

Thanks Tom for the info. I'll get the FLAC thingy, and try jumping in. The Vine has interesting shows that I want to record. Thanks again, and I'll keep in touch if I have any questions.

Oh man! Me and torrents/shn files, don't get along!

Or else tell them that this year we're giving them the gift of music, i.e., that we're going to let them listen to our new Concord CDs. Our buy 100+, and give out two or three as presents. "See, I did spend that money on presents."

yeah, I meant copy the cd. Though the last time I tried that, I made a complete hash of it. I think Lon is still waiting for those Bob Dylan cdr's I promised eighteen months ago.

Hmm...I see Ballads By Five, Meets the Rhythm Section and Winter Moon, all of which were offered up when I ordered in July. Though I know from past reports, especially in the Coltrane section, discs come & go repeatedly. Are there more than 3 Pepper discs that you're seeing? And what on earth I am doing looking at the Concord sale again! Darn! I ordered three time, and never saw "Ballads By Five" or "Winter Moon." Maybe old age played its part, and you're right, I, too, should just keep far away from that site.

I've joined the Yahoo Jazz Vine group and I haven't gotten the courage to leap in yet. Does it work like this: Get the email notification, and you respond with your Yahoo I.D. name, hopefully you get on the vine; receive the cd; download, copy cd, and then I reopen the vine and send the original cd to the next person? Anyone else on the vine -- it really as easy as it looks? Signed: 2Chicken

Interesting, looking at the sale today, they have added some new titles -- at least two new Art Peppers and some others.

Sounds like the best way to go is to use them for box sets only. Thanks for the input.

Can't "Gold Wave" do that? When I download a file, some kind of graph comes up.

Looking at the 2001, the prices are great. For shipping to USA, does that add a lot to the cost?