BOB DYLAN 1965 REVISITED
Great Dane Records CD9419 14 CD box [T-480]
DISK ONE
(1) Bringing It All Back Home sessions (New York, NY);
January 13-15, 1965
(2) Hawks session (New York, NY); January 27, 1966
(3) Les Crane Show (New York, NY); February 17, 1965
Tracklist: (1) I'll Keep It With Mine, It's All Over Now Baby Blue,
Subterranean Homesick Blues, Farewell Angelina, You Don't Have To
Do That, She Belongs To Me, Love Minus Zero, If You Gotta Go Go
Now, If You Gotta Go Go Now, If You Gotta Go Go Now, If You Gotta
Go Go Now
(2) I'll Keep It With Mine (instr.)
(3) It's All Over Now Baby Blue, interview, It's Alright Ma (I'm
Only Bleeding)
DEEP: Quality is excellent throughout, comparing favorably
to other unofficial releases, except the official ones, of course.
Fine quality sound on the Crane performances and interview.
DISK TWO
Civic Auditorium (Santa Monica, CA); March 27, 1965
Tracklist: To Ramona, Gates Of Eden, If You Gotta Go Go Now, It's
Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Love Minus Zero, Mr
Tambourine Man, Don't Think Twice, With God On Our Side [cut], She
Belongs To Me, It Ain't Me Babe [cut], Lonesome Death Of Hattie
Carroll [frag], All I Really Want To Do, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
DEEP: 13 tracks cloned from Songs That Made Him Famous
(which had 5 bonus trax). Sound quality is listenable but annoying.
I know the historians will say any Dylan 1965 show on tape is
important, but it is the standard show/setlist, and the Manchester
Trade Hall is much better.
NOTE: Although apparently sharing the source tape of Songs That Made Him Famous, this disc is not an exact clone; it includes the 30-second fragment of "Hattie Carroll" that the earlier disc omitted.
DISK THREE
(1) City Hall (Sheffield, UK); April 30, 1965
(2) Don't Look Back soundtrack
(3) Levy's Recording Studio (London, UK); May 12, 1965
Tracklist: (1) Times They Are A-Changin', To Ramona, Gates Of
Eden, If You Gotta Go Go Now, It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding),
Love Minus Zero
(2) Times They Are A-Changin', To Ramona (Sheffield, 4/30);
Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Leicester, 5/2); Lost Highway,
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Savoy Hotel, 5/3-4); Little Things
(Newcastle hotel, 5/6); Don't Think Twice (Newcastle, 5/6); It's
All Over Now Baby Blue (Savoy Hotel, 5/8); instrumental
improvisation, Times They Are A-Changin', Talkin' World War III
Blues, It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Gates Of Eden; Love
Minus Zero, All I Really Want To Do (London, 5/9)
(3) Miami Sales Message, If You Gotta Go Go Now
DEEP: Sheffield is lame quality, distant, historical
significance be damned. The rest of the disk contains
interviews/press conferences from the 1965 tour and the complete
live and backstage performances found in Don't Look Back,
all in excellent quality. Great to have it all in one place and in
such good quality.
NOTE: This entry principally relies on the tracklist supplied by the issuer, and is not entirely consistent with the standard Dundas listing.
DISK FOUR
Free Trade Hall (Manchester, UK); May 7, 1965
Tracklist: Times They Are A-Changin, To Ramona, Gates Of Eden,
If You Gotta Go Go Now, It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Love
Minus Zero, Mr Tambourine Man, Talking World War III
Blues, Don't Think Twice, With God On Our Side, She Belongs To Me,
It Ain't Me Babe, Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll, All I
Really Want To Do, It's All Over Now Baby Blue
DEEP: Absolutely essential show, available on several other
releases in comparable, perhaps identical sound. If you don't get
this box, do grab one of the other disks. The definitive '65
acoustic Dylan best quality available.
DISK FIVE
Royal Albert Hall (London, UK); May 10, 1965
Tracklist: Times They Are A-Changin, To Ramona, Gates Of Eden,
If You Gotta Go Go Now, It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), Love
Minus Zero, Mr Tambourine Man, Talking World War III
Blues, Don't Think Twice, With God On Our Side, She Belongs To Me,
It Ain't Me Babe, Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll, All I
Really Want To Do, It's All Over Now Baby Blue
DEEP: Same setlist as Manchester, but in barely listenable
quality. More a curiosity piece.
DISK SIX
BBC TV (London, UK); June 1, 1965
Tracklist: Ballad Of Hollis Brown, Mr Tambourine Man, Gates Of
Eden, If You Gotta Go Go Now, Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,
It Ain't Me Babe, Love Minus Zero, One Too Many Mornings, Boots Of
Spanish Leather, It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), She Belongs
To Me, It's All Over Now Baby Blue.
DEEP: A great performance previously available on The Circus Is In Town; while
the sound quality differs, it is hard to say which is better. The
sound on here has a bit more hiss but appears more natural. Anyway,
you need to have one or the other, if not a tape.
DISK
SEVEN
Highway 61 Revisited sessions (New York, NY); June 15 - July
31, 1965
Tracklist: Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence (mono), Sitting On A
Barbed Wire Fence (stereo), Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence (stereo
acetate), Phantom Engineer (mono), Phantom Engineer (stereo
acetate), Phantom Engineer (stereo), Like A Rolling Stone (stereo);
Like A Rolling Stone (mono), Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
(mono), Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (mono), Positively
4th Street (mono), It Takes A Lot To Laugh (mono), Tombstone Blues
(mono), From A Buick Six, From A Buick Six, From A Buick Six
DEEP: Mono, stereo, and/or acetate versions of familiar
material. A few of the acetate versions sound the same as the mono
and/or stereo mixes, so you are sometimes getting the same take
from a different source. Quality is excellent throughout. Many of
these versions are found on other releases. A worthwhile disk,
though I find it hard listening to so many takes of a song in succession.
DISK EIGHT
(1) Highway 61 Revisited sessions (New York, NY); August 2,
1965
(2) Newport Folk Festival (Newport, RI); July 24-25, 1965
Tracklist: (1) Desolation Row, Queen Jane Approximately, Highway 61
Revisited, Ballad Of A Thin Man, Just Like Tom Thumb's
Blues
(2) All I Really Want To Do, Maggie's Farm, Like A Rolling Stone,
Phantom Engineer, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, Mr. Tambourine
Man
DEEP: Five excellent quality mono mixes available elsewhere.
Quality here is excellent; "Desolation Row" is markedly
different in this incarnation and has to be heard. So exhaustively
reviewed I won't bother to comment other than to say that the
quality here is up to snuff, which is to say very, very, good.
DISK NINE
Forest Hills (New York, NY); August 28, 1965
Tracklist: She Belongs To Me, To Ramona, Gates Of Eden, Desolation Row, Love Minus Zero/No Limit, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, Mr. Tambourine Man, Tombstone Blues, I Don't Believe You, From A Buick Six, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
DEEP: I call this the curiosity piece of this set, much like
the Elephant Man's bones. Cool to check out once or twice, but
beyond that not very fulfilling. Quality is dire, though I hesitate
to say unlistenable. The sound is really bad and hard to enjoy, so
let's put it in the "historical significance only"
category.
DISK TEN
(1) Forest Hills (New York, NY); August 28, 1965
(2) Hawks sessions (New York, NY); October 5 - November 30,
1965
Tracklist: (1) Maggie's Farm, It Ain't Me Babe,
Ballad Of A Thin Man, Like A Rolling Stone
(2) Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window, Can You Please Crawl Out
Your Window, Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window, I Wanna Be Your Lover,
Jet Pilot, Medicine Sunday, Number One, Freeze Out
DEEP: The Hawks sessions are in excellent quality, with
multiple takes and variant mixes, same quality to these ears as
what is previously been available. Disk ten is a winner.
DISKS ELEVEN & TWELVE
(1) Allen Stone interview (Detroit, MI); October 24, 1965
(2)
Nat Hentoff (unpublished) Playboy interview (New York, NY);
October or November 1965
DEEP: Excellent quality interviews, revealing, playful, fun
to listen to, no doubt. As cool as these are, how often are you
gonna play 'em? A good listen, once, but better to have it
in print to refer back to for specific quotes.
DISK THIRTEEN
(1) KQED Studios Press Conference (San Francisco, CA); December 3,
1965
(2) Berkeley Community Theater (Berkeley, CA); December 4, 1965
Tracklist: (1) press conference
(2) Tombstone Blues, I Don't Believe You, Baby Let Me Follow You
Down
DISK FOURTEEN
(1) Berkeley Community Theater (Berkeley, CA); December 4, 1965
(2) Columbia press conference (Los Angeles, CA); December 16,
1965
Tracklist: (1) Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Long Distance Operator,
It Ain't Me Babe, Ballad Of A Thin Man, Positively Fourth Street,
Like A Rolling Stone
(2) press conference
DEEP: The press conferences are hilarious, vintage BD. Play
it for your friends!! The classic tape from December 4 is not great
quality, but oh so listenable; to my ears the same quality as found
on Long Distance Operator. The Hawks
cook up a sizzling brew, white hot
flame on top of BDs scorching vocals. The press conferences serve
as nice bookends to the show.
DEEP: So, is it worth it you ask? Most of this material is
available on other CDs in the same quality. Granted, there are a
few takes of some outtakes which may appear here for the first
time, but the "first-time on CD" release of Forest Hills,
RAH '65, Newcastle '65 does not warrant the investment when you
consider the quality. The interviews are cool also but can be just
as enjoyable on tape. On the other hand, if you have nothing and
want to get started, this would not be a bad place. Another factor
in your decision might be whether or not you can get this material
on tape from someone. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the fine
packaging job on the set. Each disk individually packaged in its
own jewel case, some double slim lines. Large format 12x12 booklet
with source information (how accurate it is I've yet to check) and
nice photographs, all previously published. A fine overall job, yet
I really believe a 10CD box with the interviews transcribed would
have been better and more affordable.
AMG: A gift to Dylan archaeologists from enterprising
bootleggers, 14 CDs' worth. The results are imposing, to say the
least, as is the price. Nevertheless, extremely worthwhile.