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Post by lonelysummer on May 27, 2022 0:38:32 GMT
About a month back I'd posted that T-Bone Burnett developed a new analogue recording medium that was intended to create one-of-a-kind objects serving both as art and music medium.
Well, Bob Dylan has recorded "Blowin' in the Wind" as the first such "Ionic Original" (which is "one-of-a-kind aluminum discs painted with lacquer featuring “a spiral etched into it by music.”"). It will be sold at auction by Christie's, and is expected to bring in as much as a million pounds.
That is an expensive single...
So, in other words, another object for the elitists.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 17, 2022 19:12:52 GMT
A new Bootleg Series album has been announced, Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-97). It includes a remix of the album that apparently takes some of Daniel Lanois's effects away to make a more natural sound, as well as alternate versions, outtakes, and live versions of that material and the (almost entirely previously released) songs from that era that didn't make the album.
From my first glance, the only song Dylan hasn't released elsewhere that is included is the traditional "The Water is Wide." However, especially the tunes recorded in early sessions with a small group at Teatro studio in Oxnard with Daniel Lanois could be interesting. (The group was Dylan, Lanois, Tony Garnier, and drummer Tony Mangurian.)
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Post by lonelysummer on Nov 18, 2022 2:43:28 GMT
Time Out of Mind...excuse me, TOOM, is one of my favorite Bob albums, but (I sound like a broken record) I don't need an entire box set devoted to remixes and outtakes. I'm waiting for Bootleg Series or copyright extensions devoted to the Planet Waves sessions, the 74 Dylan/Band tour, and the 78 world tour. They've done most of the other stuff I wanted.
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Post by B.E. on Nov 19, 2022 0:06:43 GMT
A new Bootleg Series album has been announced, Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-97). It includes a remix of the album that apparently takes some of Daniel Lanois's effects away to make a more natural sound, as well as alternate versions, outtakes, and live versions of that material and the (almost entirely previously released) songs from that era that didn't make the album. Now that is interesting! Lanois was pretty heavy-handed. I'll definitely check it out. Beyond that, one could get seriously lost listening to all of Dylan's "bootlegs". I'm not there yet.
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Post by lonelysummer on Nov 19, 2022 7:29:24 GMT
A new Bootleg Series album has been announced, Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-97). It includes a remix of the album that apparently takes some of Daniel Lanois's effects away to make a more natural sound, as well as alternate versions, outtakes, and live versions of that material and the (almost entirely previously released) songs from that era that didn't make the album. Now that is interesting! Lanois was pretty heavy-handed. I'll definitely check it out. Beyond that, one could get seriously lost listening to all of Dylan's "bootlegs". I'm not there yet. I like what Lanois did on Oh Mercy and Time Out of Mind.
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Post by B.E. on Dec 14, 2022 3:06:25 GMT
A friend just sent this to me. Shaky start to #1, but strong finish. The rest is funny...and impressive. The attention to detail is much higher than I anticipated when I clicked on it. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CljrAG4rOko
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 14, 2022 16:27:22 GMT
That's hilarious, and spot on.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Dec 14, 2022 21:47:31 GMT
That is so great. I keep repeating it. I want more. I wonder if Dylan's seen it?
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Dec 23, 2022 13:20:15 GMT
A really good NEW Bob Dylan interview:
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 23, 2022 13:49:28 GMT
Seems every decade or so he gives a long interview. It's funny reading his list of artists he likes or has gone to see, from Jack White (with whom I knew he's friends) to "the Oasis brothers" (I'm assuming he means the Gallaghers previously of Oasis, unless there are Oasis brothers that I've never heard of) to Metallica, all name-checked beside the Kinks and Frank Sinatra and the Andrews Sisters ... and Ronnie James Dio.
And what about this quote? He's still Bob Dylan...
(Also, I'd bet anything this interview was conducted via email and he wrote those answers. There is something a little too clever and crafted about them to be spoken off the cuff, though of course I could be wrong.)
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 23, 2022 13:57:56 GMT
You ought to read it yourself, of course, if you like Dylan. But here are two little excerpts about specific artists I liked a lot.
On Zappa:
"I listened to The Mothers of Invention record Freak Out!, that I hadn’t heard in a long, long time. What an eloquent record. “Hungry Freaks, Daddy,” and the other one, “Who Are the Brain Police,” perfect songs for the pandemic. No doubt about it, Zappa was light years ahead of his time. I’ve always thought that."
On Ringo: "I love Ringo. He’s not a bad singer, and he’s a great musician. If I’d had him as a drummer, I would’ve been the Beatles, too. Maybe. Didn’t know he was a cook, though. That’s encouraging."
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Dec 23, 2022 14:08:57 GMT
Do you really think he wrote those answers? I assumed it was a phone call. But, then again, how could anybody, off the top of his head, come up with this:
"We jumped into the mainstream, the big river, with all the industrial waste, chemical debris, rocks, and mudflow, along with Brian Wilson and his brothers, Soupy Sales, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. The earth could vomit up its dead, and it could be raining blood, and we’d shrug it off, cool as cucumbers."
How did he come up with that combination of Brian Wilson, Soupy Sales, and Tennessee Ernie Ford? Such a fascinating character...
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 23, 2022 14:58:28 GMT
Do you really think he wrote those answers? I assumed it was a phone call. But, then again, how could anybody, off the top of his head, come up with this:
"We jumped into the mainstream, the big river, with all the industrial waste, chemical debris, rocks, and mudflow, along with Brian Wilson and his brothers, Soupy Sales, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. The earth could vomit up its dead, and it could be raining blood, and we’d shrug it off, cool as cucumbers."
How did he come up with that combination of Brian Wilson, Soupy Sales, and Tennessee Ernie Ford? Such a fascinating character...
That's just it. It seems to me it's very intentionally eclectic. It's like the person whose 10 favorite albums end up with a suspiciously intriguing combination of unknown artists, hipster favorites, and totally disrespected pop artists; or almost irrationally include representatives from an absurd span of genres. It's too good. I'm betting he wrote it.
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Post by lonelysummer on Dec 23, 2022 20:52:01 GMT
I think he wrote these answers. He treated it like an excerpt from his book.
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 30, 2022 17:43:58 GMT
Today I saw, and on impulse bought, the new Bob Dylan book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song." It was something that, when first announced, I was pretty excited for ... and then I almost entirely forgot about it. Even in the past few months, when I've seen mention of it, I've just as quickly forgotten it again. Now I'm glad to have it here on hand. I'll report back as I get into it.
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