|
Post by B.E. on Dec 8, 2020 17:31:47 GMT
And yeah, he might "lose" if they end up worth more than the *cough cough* $300 million or so he's getting now. But one--or three hundred million--in the hand is worth two in the bush, as they say. Not to mention, his family might "gain" much more by not being involved in the business. This way, he can distribute those royalties to them directly, as he sees fit, while they are all that much younger. It's cleaner, I think. (Of course, I say this without any knowledge of his family, their dynamics, or his intentions.)
|
|
|
Post by Kapitan on Dec 8, 2020 17:56:51 GMT
It's a bit like the logic for accepting a lottery prize as the immediate cash rather than the installments over decades. Yes, it's less in face value, but it's under your control earlier meaning you can (in theory) make more out of it than the installments projected to be. It's also riskier, but it's all on you.
Similar, but not exact.
Of course, his family was presumably long-since well taken care of already. But even so, the point remains.
|
|
|
Post by Kapitan on Dec 18, 2020 22:57:47 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Kapitan on Dec 19, 2020 14:37:17 GMT
Well, well, well, it seems this is now going to be a full release: Bob Dylan 1970. The 3-disc set includes outtakes from Self Portrait and New Morning. Among them are nine tracks with George Harrison and Dylan playing together.
|
|
|
Post by lonelysummer on Dec 25, 2020 6:36:42 GMT
Well, well, well, it seems this is now going to be a full release: Bob Dylan 1970. The 3-disc set includes outtakes from Self Portrait and New Morning. Among them are nine tracks with George Harrison and Dylan playing together.
We've sure gotten a lot of material from this era. Travelin' Through with Johnny Cash, Another Side of Self-Portrait, and now this. And critics said he was all washed up by Self Portrait.
|
|
|
Post by B.E. on Dec 28, 2020 15:11:28 GMT
Call me crazy, but I found myself really enjoying Dylan's Christmas album yesterday. Maybe I was just in the perfect mood, but I'm looking forward to listening to it again. I picked up Christmas In The Heart years ago, but only listened to it a few times. Revisiting it yesterday, I thought the production was great. I loved the instrumentation and the backing vocalists. I liked the arrangements. I even thought Dylan's voice was perfectly mixed - which is no easy feat! Too loud, and it's overexposed and abrasive. Too quiet, and it's harder to decipher and it feels like you're trying to hide it. Basically, I thought the production as a whole (including the contrast between his voice and the backing vocalists) did the best possible job of supporting the state of his voice. Consequently, I heard an album of sincerity and maturity, with a requisite amount of playfulness; whereas, others might think the record is some kind of joke. Quoting myself from a year ago in the 'Christmas Music' thread to express my continued enjoyment of the album. It has earned 3 or 4 listens this year, with "Little Drummer Boy" being my favorite track. Also had the opportunity to "torture" my brother with it as I drove him and his girlfriend to a family gathering (she's also a fan!). So, that was fun.
|
|
|
Post by B.E. on Jan 2, 2021 18:05:18 GMT
Well, I finally got a new iPod, which means I'll be ending my streaming subscriptions. In preparation, I've decided to put my iTunes balance to good use and fill out my Dylan collection. I added: Dylan, Blood On The Tracks, Hard Rain, Street Legal, Slow Train Coming, Saved, Shot Of Love, Infidels, Under The Red Sky, Good As I Been To You, and World Gone Wrong. I had the LP of about half of those, the rest were entirely new to my collection. So, I think it's a safe bet that my Dylan kick will only intensify in 2021! Yesterday's album of the day was Slow Train Coming. Today's is Street Legal. I'm pretty sure the song was mentioned recently, but I'm absolutely loving "Where Are You Tonight?" It's got a great groove - it's a toe-tapper, a head-nodder, it kind of sways. It's got nice energy. The lyrics are so cool, so good. His voice has just the right amount of rasp, and his performance is perfectly emotive/impassioned. Talk about a quality deep cut! The opening verses are great. Well, I like nearly all the verses. Especially lines like: "The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure, to live it you had to explode." Or partial lines like "strong men belittled by doubt" or "it felt out of place, my foot in his face". Or terms (phrase?) like "invisible self". Anyway, reading these examples out of context lessens them. Listen to the song! Again, so cool. (By the way, the lead guitar at the end is incredibly Beatle-y.)
|
|
|
Post by Kapitan on Jan 5, 2021 15:13:45 GMT
Today one of my favorite latter-day Dylan songs popped up on shuffle, "Mississippi." But it wasn't the official Love & Theft version; it was the first of two unreleased Time Out of Mind sessions versions from Tell Tale Signs.
It's one of the very few songs I can think of where there are multiple versions, all very good, all significantly different, where I honestly can't decide which is the best. I wonder whether you all have feelings on that particular song and its various renditions.
|
|
|
Post by B.E. on Jan 5, 2021 15:17:40 GMT
I've yet to hear the earlier versions on Tell Tale Signs. I'll check them out later today (assuming they are available on Spotify).
|
|
|
Post by Kapitan on Jan 5, 2021 15:22:30 GMT
They are: and in fact there's a third unreleased one that I forgot all about, also from Time Out of Mind sessions. They kick off discs one and two, and then the third is on disc 3.
|
|
|
Post by lonelysummer on Jan 7, 2021 6:58:12 GMT
Well, I finally got a new iPod, which means I'll be ending my streaming subscriptions. In preparation, I've decided to put my iTunes balance to good use and fill out my Dylan collection. I added: Dylan, Blood On The Tracks, Hard Rain, Street Legal, Slow Train Coming, Saved, Shot Of Love, Infidels, Under The Red Sky, Good As I Been To You, and World Gone Wrong. I had the LP of about half of those, the rest were entirely new to my collection. So, I think it's a safe bet that my Dylan kick will only intensify in 2021! Yesterday's album of the day was Slow Train Coming. Today's is Street Legal. I'm pretty sure the song was mentioned recently, but I'm absolutely loving "Where Are You Tonight?" It's got a great groove - it's a toe-tapper, a head-nodder, it kind of sways. It's got nice energy. The lyrics are so cool, so good. His voice has just the right amount of rasp, and his performance is perfectly emotive/impassioned. Talk about a quality deep cut! The opening verses are great. Well, I like nearly all the verses. Especially lines like: "The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure, to live it you had to explode." Or partial lines like "strong men belittled by doubt" or "it felt out of place, my foot in his face". Or terms (phrase?) like "invisible self". Anyway, reading these examples out of context lessens them. Listen to the song! Again, so cool. (By the way, the lead guitar at the end is incredibly Beatle-y.) I thought ipods had gone the way of the dinosaur. When I was working at Goodwill a few years ago, we got dozens of them donated - many with the songs still on them. That's not a criticism - I say, whatever floats your boat where music listening is concerned.
|
|
|
Post by B.E. on Jan 7, 2021 21:51:09 GMT
Well, I finally got a new iPod. I thought ipods had gone the way of the dinosaur. When I was working at Goodwill a few years ago, we got dozens of them donated - many with the songs still on them. That's not a criticism - I say, whatever floats your boat where music listening is concerned. Oh, they're endangered, but not yet extinct. To me - what could be better than carrying around your entire music collection in your hand? (Well, at least your CD/digital collection, but I grew up in the CD age.) I've got an extensive, highly organized library in iTunes, so an iPod is ideal. The frustration is the price, changes to the iPod, and lack of storage size options. Now it looks like a (small) phone and includes a bunch of apps and capabilities I don't need, and the available sizes jump from 32GB to 128GB (which is INSANE). Last year they still offered a 64GB, which would have been perfect. Oh well, they got an extra $50-75 bucks out of me. I'll save money over streaming subscriptions in the long run.
|
|
|
Post by lonelysummer on Jan 7, 2021 23:15:16 GMT
I thought ipods had gone the way of the dinosaur. When I was working at Goodwill a few years ago, we got dozens of them donated - many with the songs still on them. That's not a criticism - I say, whatever floats your boat where music listening is concerned. Oh, they're endangered, but not yet extinct. To me - what could be better than carrying around your entire music collection in your hand? (Well, at least your CD/digital collection, but I grew up in the CD age.) I've got an extensive, highly organized library in iTunes, so an iPod is ideal. The frustration is the price, changes to the iPod, and lack of storage size options. Now it looks like a (small) phone and includes a bunch of apps and capabilities I don't need, and the available sizes jump from 32GB to 128GB (which is INSANE). Last year they still offered a 64GB, which would have been perfect. Oh well, they got an extra $50-75 bucks out of me. I'll save money over streaming subscriptions in the long run. I have a spotify account - the free one, with ads, but i rarely use it. When I'm out of the house, I mostly use youtube to listen to music. I never did have an ipod, but it sounds like a better deal money-wise than a paid streaming subscription. Spotify has a lot of music on it, but nowhere near everything I would have using my own collection.
|
|
|
Post by B.E. on Jan 9, 2021 19:15:52 GMT
Today one of my favorite latter-day Dylan songs popped up on shuffle, "Mississippi." But it wasn't the official Love & Theft version; it was the first of two unreleased Time Out of Mind sessions versions from Tell Tale Signs.
It's one of the very few songs I can think of where there are multiple versions, all very good, all significantly different, where I honestly can't decide which is the best. I wonder whether you all have feelings on that particular song and its various renditions. All right, I finally got around to listening. I agree - they're all good versions, and hard to rank. That said, I think I prefer both of the Time Out of Mind outtakes to the Love & Theft version (I didn't listen to the 3rd Time Out of Mind version). I'm not overly familiar with the song itself. I like it, but it's not really a standout for me. The only thing I can really point to is that the lyrics become inconsistent in the final (three and half) verses. I could be misinterpreting, but the outlook seems to become more romantic and positive in a few lines and that clashes with the rest of the song (both the earlier verses and parts of the final verses), IMO.
|
|
|
Post by Kapitan on Jan 11, 2021 18:47:40 GMT
I love it: for me, this is one of his best latter-day songs.
As for the lyrics, I don't necessarily hear them as inconsistent. I think of it as finding the small pleasures (of temporary love) in a world that doesn't care about you, and a life that will bring hardship and pain...and death. He sets the stage first about the difficulties, then sneaks in the hope of companionship.
But that said, I usually don't even approach Dylan songs as if they were meant to tell stories unless they're obviously story-songs (like "Hurricane," for one example). I think just as often they're just collections of couplets that might be of a part, but might not. They might come from the same place, or from different ones--and that's just as interesting to me. Sometimes I just take them on their own.
|
|