In June new expanded versions of the first three Led Zeppelin albums will be released.
To get us excited, a few of the alternate takes and live versions that will be on the albums have been made available.
Here’s a version of “Whole Lotta Love” quite different from what made it onto the album
Here are live versions of “Good Times, Bad Times” and “Communication Breakdown” recorded live in Paris in 1969.
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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When you pair the amazing Van Morrison with a Bob Dylan song you usually get magic, and such is the case with this live recording of “Just Like a Woman.”
It’s from the late show of a two set performance at the now defunct Lion’s Share club in San Anselmo, CA, August 8, 1971.
Morrison played the small club –it was really a hole in the wall, but a great hole int he wall — 13 times in the early ’70s. I caught one of those shows and it was incredible.
But then I saw a lot of Van Morrison shows. I saw him at Winterland and at the Inn of the Beginning in Cotati and at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and at the Old Waldorf, also in San Francisco.
He’s one of a kind, every show was different, every show was pretty damn excellent.
Anyway, enjoy Van Morrison covering Dylan for over seven minutes.
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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During Bob Dylan’s 1966 world tour he played at The Stadium in Sydney, Australia on April 13, 1966.
Here in all its glory, the music Dylan and The Hawks played that night.
Acoustic set
“She Belongs To Me”:
“Fourth Time Around”:
“Visions of Johanna”:
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”:
“Desolation Row”:
“Just Like A Woman”:
“Mr. Tambourine Man”:
Electric
Tuning
“Tell Me Momma”:
“I Don’t Believe You”:
“Baby Let Me Follow You Down”:
“Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”:
“Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat”:
“One Too Many Mornings”:
“Ballad of a Thin Man”:
“Positively Fourth Street”:
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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Black Keys on the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theatre.
Last night while Neil Young was over at “The Tonight Show,” the Black Keys were doing their thing on “Late Show with David Letterman.”
“Fever”:
“It’s Up To You Now”:
Plus more:
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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Bob Dylan and The Hawks, Hollywood Bowl, September 3, 1965.
Great performance!
Plus:
“She Belongs To Me”:
“To Ramona”:
“Gates Of Eden”:
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”:
“Desolation Row”:
“Love Minus Zero/ No Limit”:
“Mr. Tambourine Man”:
“Tombstone Blues”:
“I Don’t Believe You”:
“From A Buick Six”:
“Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”:
“Maggie’s Farm”:
“Ballad of a Thin Man”:
“Like a Rolling Stone”:
Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan)
Robbie Robertson (guitar)
Levon Helm (drums)
Al Kooper (organ)
Harvey Brooks (bass)
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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Thought it would be a blast to listen to a variety of artists covering Bob Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm.”
Below check out versions by Rage Against the Machine, the Grateful Dead, Uncle Tupelo, The Residents, The Waterboys, Toots Hibbert, The Specials, U2, Richie Havens, Stephen Malkmus, the Charlie Daniels Band and Solomon Burke.
Plus a version by David Grisman, John Hartford and Mike Seeger.
And Bob Dylan with and without The Band.
Hope you have as much fun with these as I did.
Rage Against the Machine, “Maggie’s Farm”:
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
Grateful Dead, “Maggie’s Farm,” 1987:
Toots Hibbert, “Maggie’s Farm”:
Uncle Tupelo, “Maggie’s Farm”:
Solomon Burke, “Maggie’s Farm”:
The Waterboys, “Maggie’s Farm”:
The Specials, “Maggie’s Farm”:
David Grisman, John Hartford, Mike Seeger, “Maggie’s Farm”:
The Residents, “Maggie’s Farm”:
The Charlie Daniels Band with Earl Scruggs, “Maggie’s Farm:
U2, “Maggie’s Farm,” Live at “R.D.S. Showgrounds”, Dublin, Ireland, May 17, 1986:
Richie Havens, “Maggie’s Farm”:
David Bowie, “Maggie’s Farm”:
Stephen Malkmus, “Maggie’s Farm”:
Bob Dylan and The Band, Oakland Coliseum, 1974, “Maggie’s Farm”:
Bob Dylan, “Maggie’s Farm”:
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Tuesday night at Citibank Hall in São Paulo, Brazil, Eddie Vedder played Neil Young;s “The Needle and the Damage Done.”
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
Cat Power’s “Good Woman” (partial):
“Last Kiss”:
The Ramones “I Believe in Miracles”:
The Beatles, “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away”:
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Last night tUnE-yArDs got funky on “The Tonight Show,” performing “Water Fountain” off the third album, Nikki Nack.
Dig it like I dig it!
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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On May 12, 1963, Bob Dylan was supposed to perform on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
He intended to perform “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues,” a song that he had recorded onApril 24, 1962 at Columbia Studio A in New York.
The suits at CBS decided they didn’t want Dylan to do that song, and he walked out. Check out the whole story, via Wikipedia, below.
“Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues”:
WBAI radio performance, 1962:
Live version at Town Hall, April 1963:
A different live version, terrific!:
Here’s Wikipedia’s version of what happened:
“Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” was at the center of a controversy that brought national attention to Dylan and played a significant part in shaping his second album, Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. On May 12, 1963, with the album about to be released, Dylan was scheduled to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS. The Sunday evening variety program, among the most popular shows on American television, had earlier introduced Elvis Presley to national audiences and in 1964 would do the same for The Beatles.
Dylan had auditioned for the show in early 1962, before the release of his first album. He played a few songs from the recording, but the network executives who sat in on the set weren’t exactly sure what to make of him. Unhappy with the experience, Dylan thought he wouldn’t hear from the network again. More than a year passed when the call came inviting him to make a guest appearance on the show.
For his one selection, Dylan chose “Talkin’ John Birch Society Blues” (as it was then titled). Sullivan and his producer heard him play it at the Saturday rehearsal on May 11 and were delighted with the song. However, when Dylan showed up for the dress rehearsal the next afternoon, the day of the show, a CBS program practices executive told him the song would have to be replaced because of possible libel against John Birch Society members. Refusing to do a different song, Dylan walked off the set.
The incident drew national attention with reports running in the New York Times, Billboard and Village Voice. Sullivan, meanwhile, backed Dylan, arguing that if network programs could poke fun at President John F. Kennedy, the John Birch Society should not be immune from similar treatment. Concerned about possible reprisals from the John Birch group, the network held to its decision. Worse, the controversy spilled over into Columbia, CBS’s records division. When the company’s lawyers learned that “Talkin’ John Birch” was slated for the album, they ordered the song removed.
Dylan was in a delicate situation. His first album had sold poorly, and he didn’t have the power at this point to fight his record company. Though upset by the order, he relented. The initial shipments of “Freewheelin”, which had already been sent out, were recalled, and the album was re-issued without “Talkin’ John Birch Society Blues”.
Dylan ultimately profited from the affair. Besides the favorable publicity from the Ed Sullivan Show walk-out, it gave him a chance to re-consider his selections for “Freewheelin”, which he felt had too many “old fashioned” selections, songs closer in style to his earlier material.[14] In addition to “Talkin’ John Birch Society”, he dropped three of his other older songs, including “Let Me Die in My Footsteps”, “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie” and “Rocks and Gravel”. In their place, he substituted four tunes recorded during the last of the Freewheelin’ sessions: “Masters of War”, “Girl from the North Country”, “Bob Dylan’s Dream” and “Talkin’ World War III Blues”.
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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Forty-eight years ago, on May 10, 1966, Bob Dylan and the Hawks played Colson Hall in Bristol, England.
Among the songs they performed was this devastating version of “Ballad of a Thin Man.”
And this is from a different show in England:
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