If that is the door that both Dylan and Sinatra walked through when Frank asked Dylan to teach him Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, please grab it for me. It is really too bad that Dylan would not shorten the song to 4 minutes as Frank requested. Frank also wanted to bring the tempo up a bit. Frank lightened it up and got Bob to laugh, when Frank said to Bob, "You're just like a woman!" That door may be worth quite a lot.
Better late than never I recently bagged a new sealed "Best Of The Cutting Edge" 3LP / 2CD set for next to no money. What a beauty the large format booklet is! It won't surprise regular visitors to the Bootleg Series threads to learn that I think there are a couple of bits of unique artwork in the LP booklet that do not appear in the inserts and booklets and books of the single CD sampler, the 2 CD set, the 6 CD set or Big Blue. At least, I can't find them in the other editions. This photo, and this ad. One day I'll get around to logging it all - he said, lying through his teeth - but I think this means that there is some unique artwork in each of the five editions.
I've struggled to find who played on what recording, but one of my favorite guitar licks is found on Temporary Like Achilles. In the bridge of the song where you can hear the electric blues licks pouring through your speakers with incredible tone... On Wikipedia there are five guitarists listed on just that song. My guess is Robbie but just a guess. Bob Dylan – vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica Charlie McCoy – guitar Robbie Robertson – guitar Wayne Moss – guitar Joe South – guitar, bass guitar
I always assumed it was Robbie as well. In fact, it's the only time I can really pick him out on the album.
Charlie played bass. @Daryl Sanders, in his book, indicates that Wayne Moss sat this one out and only Robertson and South played guitars, so it is bound to be Robbie you are hearing.
I love it when new posts pop up on this thread. This is the one Dylan archive release that makes it all worth while.
I'm hoping for the Big Brown. Meaning a box-set of the complete studio sessions 1962 -1964, accompanied by a box-set of live concerts, partnered with The Villager collection of home tapes and club tapes. The Big Brown will be the Alpha. Then Big Blue will be the Omega.
Yep. Could not agree more. This is the music that gets buried in the time capsule for future generations. It broke the mould and no-one has come close since.
The sheet music of Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? was, as far as I know, never included in any contemporary Dylan song album. This particular copy of the rather elusive individual sheet music has just sold on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/125314998053?ntype=bns&mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11002.m43.l2648&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=6673ac8479174edaa1af996253ecb398&bu=43139529005&exe=0&ext=0&osub=-1~1&crd=20220521161051&segname=11002&sojTags=ch=ch,bu=bu,nqt=nqt,nqc=nqc,mdbreftime=mdbreftime,es=es,ec=ec,eprlogid=eprlogid,exe=exe,ext=ext,exe=exe,ext=ext,osub=osub,crd=crd,segname=segname,chnl=mkcid Curiously, the arrangement appears not to be that of the official single, but that of the version accidentally released under the title Positively 4th Street (and covered by the Vacels). Maybe that explains why it wasn’t included in any contemporary song album…
Yes, you're right. Curiously (or maybe not so curiously, given the reference to "genocide fools"), that third verse was omitted from the Vacels version. So we have no idea what they would have made of it.
Further to the images of tape boxes on the jewel case insert in the sampler, I just found this image on the Bob Dylan Center Archive page. It's probably been there for yonks... J92478: 13 January 1965, the first day of sessions for "Bringing It All Back Home". The job number can be found on the page in Big Blue housing Disc #5 Bob Dylan Center Archive
I realise this mystery (to me) was answered by @lukpac in another thread. "Stereo Work Reel" I pulled out my old Columbia CD of Dylan's JOHN WESLEY HARDING just to be sure....
This a hilarious. Seems Mike may have taken the comment a bit too seriously (?), of course I wasn't there to see the 'delivery' lol. Seems more like a humorous 'jab', classic Dylan.
Someone got what I think is a great deal: the book and 18 CDs for under $200 shipped - Bob Dylan Bootleg Series The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 Vol 12 Collector's Ed 18 CDs | eBay
Will probably never happen, but I wish they released the whole set on Blu-ray. If they want to max out the resolution, it can even be a three Blu-ray disc set, with one disc for more or less each group of album sessions, but they could fit the entire contents of 18 CD's on to one Blu-ray disc and still have enough room to bump up the resolution. I'm not sure how much lower the price would be since the sheer number of tracks will still keep the price up, but it's a hell of a lot easier to explore this set when you have it all in one place rather than shuffling through a large number of individual discs.
If they did that and added a book and a souvenir pressed leaf from Dylan's Malibu property, that would probably go for about $479, or $550 after tax and shipping to USA. In Europe, it would be $750
I have two copies of the 18 CD box. The day Percy Song posted his photo of two box-sets I knew I had to get the slightly used copy my local record shop had been trying to sell for a couple of years. $700, but I had a lot of trade credit. I'm thinking of selling it for top dollar now. Discogs has one for L1,325.00 BP > $1,638.00. Ebay has one for $2,399.00. I want more. Much more.
