the tourist

All Things Must Pass is the best post-Beatles album.

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get into it.

Zootlesque

Okay I've gotten over my sudden hate for Yoko now.

Besides, I only own Lennon solo stuff. McCartney and Harrison stuff are still on the wish list.

Zootlesque

And now for something completely different...

I love Stipe's lower register so so much!

smack, crack, bushwhacked
tie another one to your racks, baby

lazarus

Does anyone here remember Woodstock '94? My friends and I pitched in for the Pay-Per-View and I remember filling up like 12 VHS tapes with the thing.

Bob Dylan's performance that third night is what really created the fan I am today. I had heard his recent live shows weren't very good, and I wasn't prepared for how amazing he was. The announcer introduced him with "We've waited 25 years for this, ladies and gentlemen, Bob Dylan!", from the opening of Jokerman I was hooked, and when I saw him in Boston several months later my fate as a Dylanologist was sealed.

I just found an audio recording of this show today, and it all came back to me. Thought I'd share the video of his set closing performance of It Ain't Me Babe, still one of the best things I've ever seen from the man. His final, delayed utterance of "...BABE", and the harp solo at 6:05... No words can express:



Not as good quality as the audio bootleg, but to see him and the crowd makes up for it. The acoustic Don't Think Twice It's Alright from the same set is equally fantastic, such a great vocal:



Lastly, his electric guitar playing has to be seen to be believed on I Shall Be Released. Most people probably don't even know how killer of an axeman he could be when he wanted to. His is the lower, dirtier-sounding one, and really kicks in around 2:30 if you want to skip to it, almost 2 minutes of jamming bliss, and the ending kills too:



For the record, the setlist was:

Jokerman
Just Like A Woman
All Along the Watchtower
It Takes a Lot to Laugh...
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Masters of War
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
God Knows
I Shall Be Released
Highway 61 Revisited
Rainy Day Women #12 and 35
It Ain't Me Babe

One for the ages.

GirlsAloudFan

Wow, he really switches up the vocal melodies from the studio versions on It Aint Me and Dont Think Twice. Especially It Ain't Me Babe. Interesting...not sure if I like it. Could just be because I've never heard it done like that before.

mad1

Hey ZOOTS, if you check in here, remember Deep Menace and Spank?

LemonMelon

I can dish it out, but I can't take it.

One thing we do agree on: All Things Must Pass is certainly the best Beatles solo album. I adore Ram, but how can you deny an album that features about half of the truly classic Beatles solo tracks? I laugh every time I look at the track listing...it plays like a greatest hits.

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lazarus

No, I don't think it's the best. Plastic Ono Band for me. And here's a little quip from one of my favorite music writers, "Dean of American Rock Critics" Robert Christgau (formerly of the Village Voice):

"Of course the lyrics are often crude psychotherapeutic cliches. That's just the point, because they're also true, and John wants to make clear that right now truth is far more important than subtlety, taste, art, or anything else. At first the music sounds crude, too, stark and even perfunctory after the Beatles' free harmonies and double guitars. But the real music of the album inheres in the way John's greatest vocal performance, a complete tour of rock timbre from scream to whine, is modulated electronically--echoed, filtered, double-tracked, with two vocals sometimes emanating in a synthesis from between the speakers and sometimes dialectically separated. Which means that John is such a media artist that even when he's fervently shedding personas and eschewing metaphor he knows, perhaps instinctively, that he communicates most effectively through technological masks and prisms."

lazarus

He's been doing that for most of his career. The songs don't sound like that anymore, either. It's often difficult to realize what you're hearing at first because of this. Listen to these songs from Rolling Thunder and they're different again. Hell, on Dylan at Budokan he does a reggae version of Don't Think Twice!



I wasn't so attached to the originals that this was hard for me to appreciate, but I've never been a huge fan of the early albums compared to my love for everything 1965 and onward.

the tourist

I'm probably in the crazy minority that liked Mind Games best when it comes to Lennon albums. But I do.

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Starflyer 59: "rocking your world since '93"

get into it.

the tourist

All Things Must Pass, Ram, and Mind Games.

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Starflyer 59: "rocking your world since '93"

get into it.

GirlsAloudFan

I think the reason I find the changes in vocal delivery and melody so strange is because I am kind of attached to the original studio versions. And I haven't heard very much live Dylan so it's something I'll just have to get used to. But I can certainly appreciate an artist who isn't afraid to mess with a classic song and try something new.

I know a few people who have seen Dylan live recently who have come away disappointed...saying that he stood at his keyboard the entire time and didn't interact with the audience at all. Even if that's the case I'd still love to see him and would feel privileged to be in the same room with the guy. I'm sure he has his reasons for performing the way that he does.

martha

We saw him at the Pantages here in SoCal, and not only did he do just that, but he had some weird-ass mic that distorted his voice.

The second time was at the Forum (I think), and it was a regular rock show. He still messed with the melodies, but it was a much better, more accessible show. (And Kings of Leon kicked ass when they opened.)

He's a weird guy.

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Zootlesque

No idea who they are. Eurodance?

mad1

dude I thought you were in 98 music!

bloody Aqua and Barbie Doll and stuff!