Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello duet on “I Shall Be Released” at the Brixton Academy, London, March 30, 1995.
And again on July 26th, 1999 at Tramps in New York:
And this one also from the Brixton Academy, London, March 30, 1995; Dylan with Elvis Costello & Chrissie Hynde.
“Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”:
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Cool interview with Thurston Moore over at Vulture magazine.
Jennifer Vineyard interviewed Moore. Here’s an excerpt:
I was born in 1958, and the Velvet Underground disbanded in the early ’70s, so I was aware of the Velvet Underground as a young kid. I remember finding the banana LP at Sears, because you’d buy records in places like department stores. It wasn’t until later I found a record store in New Haven, Connecticut, called Cutler’s, where we’d find records that were more obscure. You would see them written about every once in a while, either in Rolling Stone or CREEM or the magazines of the time, like Circus, Hit Parader, and Rock Scene. Rock Scene was the most important one because it was primarily events that were happening in New York City. They would have all the heavyweights in there, like Led Zeppelin and David Bowie, but they were also covering what was going on in the margins. That was really exciting, wondering what was going on in these little clubs in New York City, because the people just looked fabulous, and the music sounded more intriguing than what was going on at the time with youth culture, which was sort of a fallout from hippie and post-Vietnam kind of vibe. At that time, the hip thing was going back to the country, escaping the city and smoking pot with Joni Mitchell and David Crosby on the porch with the dogs. And there was all this music from Europe and England that had more pomp to it, like prog rock—Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. So to me, seeing images of Patti Smith standing on the subway platform—all of a sudden it was like this new idea that it was kind of cool to be urban. And that was like our new definition of identity. I wanted to investigate that. The reality of it was the city was destitute, and it became this kind of postapocalyptic landscape for artists, and there’s something very enchanting in that. I ran to it. I wanted to see Patti Smith.
Connecticut was a great place to be, because the bands would come to you. But I was very curious about going to New York City, to Max’s Kansas City. So as soon as I could figure it out, I drove to New York City and sought out Max’s Kansas City. I knew it was on Park Avenue—which is a very long avenue, by the way! So I drove along Park Avenue, and I yelled out the window, “Where’s Max’s?” [Laughs.] I eventually found it at the very bottom of the avenue, right near Union Square.
Read the rest here.
Thurston Moore, “Detonation”:
Rolling Stone Keith Richards has spent $10.5 million on a Manhattan penthouse, according to Realty Today, a real estate website.
According to Realty:
The new duplex penthouse of the English musician is a combination of three separate units. Located in Greenwich Village, the home includes four bedrooms and four bathrooms. The floor plan of the property shows an outdoor space, which includes three terraces on its lower level. The co-op home comes with a variety of custom features comprised of marble slab bathrooms and white lacquer millwork, as well as Lutron lighting and a Sonos sound system.
According to StreetEasy’s listing history, the penthouse was designed by acclaimed architect Joe Serrins, who imagined it in the form of an interior landscape, with “rooms flowing into one another.” The staircase is oversized and wrapped with walnut panels, while the handrails are custom-made using bronze and burgundy leather.
Read more here.
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This is a terrific cover of Bob Dylan’s Blood On the Tracks song, “You’re A Big Girl Now” by the New York folk group, Ollabelle.
It was performed in 2004 at The Blood On The Tracks Project concert in York City’s Merkin Concert Hall and broadcast live on WFUV.
Some info about the concert from the concert producer’s website:
The Blood On The Tracks Project
In 2004 David Spelman was hired to curate and produce The Blood On The Tracks Project, a concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s landmark album Blood On The Tracks. The sold-out event took place at New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall and was broadcast live on WFUV and later as a two-hour radio special, syndicated to over fifty NPR affiliates.
A distinctive roster of singer-songwriters, bands and instrumentalists performed their own arrangements of the album’s ten songs, as well as instrumental interludes. Featured artists included Joan Osborne, Citizen Cope, Jesse Harris, Vernon Reid, Chocolate Genius, Toshi Reagon, Alex de Grassi, Ollabelle, Jeffrey Gaines, Brandon Ross, Richard Barone, Tony Visconti, Joel Harrison, and Buddy Cage.
Located in the vibrant Lincoln Square business district just north of Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall is well known for its unparalleled acoustics and has been hailed as an ideal venue for chamber music since its opening in 1978. Merkin Hall was twice awarded first prize for Adventurous Programming by ASCAP/Chamber Music America.
And here’s a version by Bob Dylan from his Rolling Thunder Review show in San Antonio, Texas, May 11, 1976:
Birmingham October 5, 2002:
Denver, Colorado, July 15, 1988:
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On January 17, 1965, Bob Dylan appeared on “The Les Crane Show” at WABC studios in New York.
He was interviewed at length by Les Crane, and he performed two songs: “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” and “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleedin’)”
Here’s a bit of the interview. The entire interview is reprinted below the audio.
Dylan: Well, I’m gonna try to make a movie this summer. Which Allen Ginsberg is writing. I’m rewriting …
Crane: Allen Ginsberg, the poet?
Dylan: Yeah, yeah.
Crane: He was on this program you know.
Dylan: Yeah.
Crane: Extolling the virtues of marijuana one night.
Dylan: Really? Allen?? (audience laughter). Sounds like a lie to me (audience laughter).
Crane: That’s really … You think I’m lying?
Dylan: No, I didn’t mean that.
Crane: Allen Ginsberg was sitting in that chair where Caterina Valente is sitting right now and he said that he thought that we ought to legalize pot.
Dylan: He said that?
Crane: Right on the television.
Dylan: Pheeeww!
Crane: Can you imagine that?
Dylan: Nah. Allen is a little funny sometimes (audience roars with laughter).
Crane: Allen’s funny sometimes, huh? Yes … what is this movie going to be about?
Dylan: Oh it’s a, sort of a horror cowboy movie (audience laughter). Takes place on the New York Thruway.
Crane: A horror cowboy movie that takes place .. I don’t think that’s exactly what Tommy Sands had in mind.
Dylan: No, well, its, that’s the kind of movie it’s gonna be though. You know.
Crane: It’s gonna be one of those underground pictures, right?
Dylan: No. It’s gonna be all straight. On the up and up.
Crane: Yeah? Are you gonna star in it?
Dylan: Yeah, yeah, I’m a hero.
I’ve included the songs, audio of Les and Bob’s conversation, and a transcript of the interview.
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”:
Les Crane interviews Bob Dylan, February 17, 1965:
“It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleedin'”:
Here’s the interview in full:
Crane: Mr Bob Dylan, Ladies and Gentlemen! (applause) (shouts) Hello Bobby!
Dylan: I’m alright!
Crane: Are you plugged in? All right.
Dylan: [sings It’s All Over Now Baby Blue]
Crane: Thank you Bob and I’ll be right back.
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Crane: How’d it feel?
Dylan: Fine.
Crane: Did it feel good?
Dylan: Felt good.
Crane: Yeah, you were groovy. What’cha doin’ with that?
Dylan: Oh, I’m just trying to get it down so it doesn’t fall in the way of my voice you know.
Crane: We had … looking at that harmonica, have you ever met Jesse Fuller?
Dylan: Sure.
Crane: Jessie was on the show a couple of weeks ago. We didn’t get a chance to talk much but next time he comes back, I want to because he looks like an amazing gentleman. Talking about amazing gentlemen, how old are you?
Dylan: 23!
Crane: 23 years old!
Dylan: Yeah, I’ll be 24 in May!
Crane: Yeah. A lot’s happened to you in just 23 years hasn’t it?
Dylan: Yeah, yeah, fantastic!
Crane: Are you happy about it?
Dylan: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Crane: You oughta be. Because you’re successful at doing, I think, what you want to do more than anything else.
Dylan: Yeah, yeah, I don’t have much to think about.
Crane: You don’t have much to think about? I think you must be thinking about an awful lot of things to write the kind of things you do.
Dylan: Yeah, yeah.
Crane: Tell ’em!
Dylan: Yeah.
Crane: Tell ’em, just for those out there in the audience that might not know all of the songs that you’ve written. Just name a few of the big ones!
Dylan: Oh.
Crane: This is the composer of …
Dylan: SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES!
Crane: No! That ain’t one of the big ones! (audience laughter)
Dylan: No?
Crane: No.
Dylan: Let’s see, One Too Many Mornings.
Crane: How about Blowin’ In The Wind?
Dylan: Yeah? (applause)
Crane: Do you folks. maybe you remember the night that Judy Collins…, and I kept saying “You gotta sing this song, you gotta sing this song” and Judy Collins came out and and sang the full original version of Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall? Well, Bob wrote that!
Dylan: Yeah, I wrote that (applause).
Crane: Who are you waving at?
Dylan: Odetta!
Crane: Odetta! (To audience) Do you know who Odetta is? (lots of applause). Put a light on that lady!! How are you darling? … Talk about great artists! That’s one of them! (To Odetta) You are going to be on show in a while aren’t you?
Odetta: Next month.
Crane: Next month. Yeah, Odetta is all booked …
Crane: When did you first start pickin’ and singin’, Bob?
Dylan: Oh… When I was about ten, eleven.
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In early 1962, very possibly February, Bob Dylan and his friend/radio host/singer Cynthia Gooding recorded a show that was broadcast on WBAI radio in New York.
A review of a CD of the recording at bobsboots.com:
The recording was made in February 1962. The date of March 11, 1962 is listed on the back cover, though this is most likely a re-broadcast date. The original radio show broadcast could have been as early as February. History is a bit fuzzy here.
Gooding’s interview with Bob is a good one. You can read the transcript at Expecting Rain.
Here’s some of the flavor of the conversation:
Cynthia Gooding: When I first heard Bob Dylan it was, I think, about three years ago in Minneapolis, and at that time you were thinking of being a rock and roll singer weren’t you?
Bob Dylan: Well at that time I was just sort of doin’ nothin’. I was there.
CG: Well, you were studying.
BD: I was working, I guess. l was making pretend I was going to school out there. I’d just come there from south Dakota. That was about three years ago?
CG: Yeah?
BD: Yeah, I’d come there from Sioux Falls. That was only about the place you didn’t have to go too far to find the Mississippi River. It runs right through the town you know. (laughs).
CG: You’ve been singing … you’ve sung now at Gerdes here in town and have you sung at any of the coffee houses?
BD: Yeah, I’ve sung at the Gaslight. That was a long time ago though. I used to play down in the Wha too. You ever know where that place is?
CG: Yeah, I didn’t know you sung there though.
BD: Yeah, I sung down there during the afternoons. I played my harmonica for this guy there who was singing. He used to give me a dollar to play every day with him, from 2 o’clock in the afternoon until 8.30 at night. He gave me a dollar plus a cheese burger.
CG: Wow, a thin one or a thick one?
BD: I couldn’t much tell in those days.
CG: Well, whatever got you off rock ‘n roll and on to folk music?
BD: Well, I never really got onto this, they were just sort of, I dunno, I wasn’t calling it anything then you know, I wasn’t really singing rock ‘n roll, I was singing Muddy Waters songs and I was writing songs, and I was singing Woody Guthrie songs and also I sung Hank Williams songs and Johnny Cash, I think.
The music is superb. Be sure to click on play all!
The songs:
1. Lonesome Whistle Blues (Hank Williams/Jimmy Davies)
2. Fixin’ To Die (Bukka White)
3. Smokestack Lightning (Howlin’ Wolf)
4. Hard Travelin’ (Woody Guthrie)
5. The Death Of Emmett Till
6. Standing On The Highway
7. Roll On, John (trad., arr. By Bob Dylan)
8. Stealin’, Stealin’ (trad. arr. Memphis Jug Band)
9. Long Time Man (trad., arr. by Alan Lomax)
10. Baby Please Don’t Go (Big Joe Williams)
11. Hard Times In New York Town
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This is a raw but exciting recording from 1976 and 1978 posted at YouTube by “Sir Eddie Graf.”
The following info is direct from the YouTube post:
John Cale & Friends – Ocean Club, NY 1976
Friends: Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Mick Ronson, David Byrne, Alan Lanier, and Chris Spedding.
First 11 tracks live at The Ocean Club in New York, July 21, 1976.
Last 6 tracks are recorded at Max’s Kansas City, New York, October 3, 1978 with Chris Spedding on guitar.
01. 00:00 Ghost Story 2:38
02. 02:37 Buffalo Ballet 2:56
03. 05:33 You Know More Than I Know 2:53
04. 08:26 Guts 3:39
05. 12:05 I’m Waiting For The Man 5:53
06. 17:58 Close Watch 2:03
07. 20:01 The Jeweller 11:51
08. 31:52 Gun 4:10
09. 36:01 Pablo Picasso 3:53
10. 39:54 Cable Hogue 5:50
11. 45:43 Baby, What You Want Me To Do 4:43
12. 50:26 Pablo Picasso 2:01
13. 52:26 Mary Lou 2:38
14. 55:05 Nasty Gasses 8:52
15. 1.03.56 Unknown 2:24
16. 1.06.19 Solo Instrumental / Fear 3:19
17. 1:09:38 Thoughtless Kind 3:03
Thanks “Sir Eddie Graf.”
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Neil Young performs Bert Jansch’s “Needle of Death” and other songs, January 6, 2014, at Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium in New York City.
Here’s the setlist.
Here’s the New York Times’ review.
(Also check my posts with videos from the January 7 show here and the January 9 show here.)
“Hank To Hendrix”:
“On The Way Home”:
“Only Love Can Break Your Heart”:
“Love In Mind”:
“Mellow My Mind”:
“Someday”:
“Old Man”:
“Ohio”:
“Ohio” (different perspective)”:
“Southern Man”:
“Needle Of Death”:
“Heart of Gold”:
“Comes A Time”:
“Long May You Run”:
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Psychic TV performed at Brooklyn Night Bazaar on December 27, 2013.
Watch 30 minutes of quality video:
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Earlier this year Johanna’s Visions did a great post about Bob Dylan’s April 12, 1963 concert at Town Hall in New York.
However, only some of the songs were posted.
The concert — 23 songs plus a poem — was an amazing one. Hopefully Sony will release it as a Bootleg Series recording in the near future.
Meanwhile, between this post and Johanna’s Visions, you can get a listen to the concert.
Town Hall, April 12, 1963:
1 Ramblin’ Down Thru The World
2 Bob Dylan’s Dream
3 Talkin’ New York
4 Ballad Of Hollis Brown
5 Walls Of Red Wing
6 All Over You
7 Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues
8 Boots Of Spanish Leather
9 Hero Blues
10 Blowin’ In The Wind
11 John Brown
12 Tomorrow Is A Long Time
13 A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
14 Dusty Old Fairgrounds
15 Who Killed Davey Moore?
16 Seven Curses
17 Highway 51
18 Pretty Peggy-O
19 Bob Dylan’s New Orlean’s Rag
20 Don’t Think Thrice, It’s All Right
21 Hiding Too Long
22 With God On Our Side
23 Masters Of War
24 Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie
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