Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings - Sony 36-CD box-set - November 11th 2016

(More tomorrow, folks.)

 

It sounds to me like he's saying, "Bob Dylan is the greatest living angel since Dylan Thomas." ...Not that it makes sense. What do you think?

 

You deserve some kind of award, notesfrom.

 

You are right that people have used tape recorders ever since they were invented. I'm just trying to say that it was still not an obvious thing to do for an average rock band from the mid-sixties. I am aware that there are many live recordings of Jazz from the '50's, and a similar thing happened to rock music in the '60's. Once people started saying things like 'they're better live than on record' live recordings started to proliferate. Of course Bob was being recorded right from the beginning too, but in the 50's and early 60's maybe live rock music just wasn't good enough... Jazz music did have a very big influence on sixties rock n roll.
Anyway any Velvet Underground fan would understand how I feel.

That being said, the first ever VU concert WAS recorded(and lost), by Al Aronowitz(sic) no less who I believe came from Dylan's camp.

 

Nicely done, Reasoner.

Doesn't the puppet look like Charles De Gaulle?

 

Thanks, these venue pictures are amazing.

How long was the intermission between Australia and Europe/UK?
It always seemed to me like the group changed ever so slightly in that interval.
They became a little more muscular and aggressive as a band. Judging from the tapes.

 

Outstanding travelogue, thanks for doing all that work.

(Clinton Heylin, take note -- you should include photos & info like that in your new book.)

 

More and more I also think that 1966 was the coolest year ever. That critical point when "rock and roll" took that definitive turn to "rock", with all the best characteristics from both epochs in full bloom...

 

I just wanted to chime in quickly. You can also count me as one more person who has been thoroughly enjoying this thread. A great thank you to all of you.

 

Thank you.

I had to look up who De Gaulle was (for those wondering, he was the President of France at the time), but yes, it does look a bit like him!

According to the article, the puppet's name was "Monsieur Finian".

 

Takes a lot of nerve to sit before a press conference with a puppet head of that country's president poking out of your jacket as if you kept it in your pocket all the time. What was Dylan thinking?

 

Anyone else notice how much he looks like Cate Blanchett's 'feminized' Dylan from the I'm Not There biopic here?

 

I certainly am glad that we at least get them at the end, rather than not at all!

Bob Dylan: "Next question"

With the crowd at Forest Hills this past July, it would have been all too appropriate (and much appreciated on my part) if he had told the audience to shut up.

 

We have ample evidence to suggest that what Dylan was thinking was "I'm an actor." He actually was Robert Zimmerman on his first three albums. Starting with Another Side...he started to take on the persona of Bob Dylan. And to boot, he was facing increasingly naive questions about his "message." Whether he had one or not by '65, Dylan wasn't willing to just state it in obvious terms; to me, a clear departure from his vocal message in '62-early '64. My take, anyway.

 

There is an enhanced version of Guitars Kissing that was issued in April 1997? I bought this bootleg in 1996. It was somewhere between Februray and April.

 

... paved paradise somethingsomethingsomething... big yellow bulldozer somethingsomething...

 

Not enamoured with the cover art.
As if to say,your getting 36 cds is that not enough. Didn't want to pay a photographer for cover pic it seems.
High content, low asthetics packaging.

 

plenty of pictures in the box...

 

I wonder how far he was aware of the situation in former Indochina and if any of the political side of the US-French relations actually factored into decisions for the puppet, or if he just finds it easier to keep a prop (eg: the light bulb) as another distraction to flummox journalists or obscure himself with?

 

certainly not new to most, if not all, here, but one of my favourites from the tour!

 

A coffee table book has been suggested before. It would be great to have a section for each concert complete with this kind of pictures of the venue and all the known pictures of Dylan, color and b&w, from and surrounding his concert. I would buy it.
Any publisher here?

 

Money burns a hole in my pocket for such a book. Any publishers here?

 

I love hearing pictures in reverse!

 

I believe it was a DAT that circulated, but the DAT was said at the time to be made from a standard audio cassette. So both statements are true.

Tim

 

I concur. There isn't a dedicated 1966 photo book as far as I recall.