Post by William J. Clinton on Sept 15, 2004 19:18:04 GMT -5
The next issue of Rolling Stone ("greatest rock photos" will be the cover feature) includes several Dylan-related items, but the big news is the announcement that a new Dylan CD, including "live renditions" and "never-before-released original songs," will be released early next year, coinciding with the broadcast of the long-awaited Scorsese bio/documentary.
TOOM outtakes? Apparently not out of the question, but nothing specific promised. The Stone report implies only a single CD, and it might just be a companion to the documentary -- full versions of songs shown in excerpt, including Newport 1965. But it might also be the long-rumored Bootleg Series 7, by some accounts a 2-disc set -- one of standout live performances, the other of unreleased original songs. I don't expect Dylan to authorize a release heavy on his earliest, more lightweight/topical material, and I don't expect a stuff-not-good enough for TBS1-2-3 compilation -- which implies, I hope, some stuff from the last great caches of unheard studio recordings -- the TOOM outtakes and the late 1980, post-gospel, Rundown (and elsewhere) sessions. It could be just wishful thinking on my part, and it could be well-reasoned, but way off base, speculation. But we should know soon.
Other stuff: with Chronicles due in only a few weeks, RS quotes Dylan as describing the memoir as "published in the form of articles. The point of departure will be the different songs. I've noticed that it's a good way of remembering things from the past." Does this sound like those WGW album notes? This could be my first significant Dylan-related prediction to come true in, what, seven years or so.
The Scorsese documentary will include Newport '65 footage, outtakes from Don't Look Back, and Dylan's first on-camera interview in a couple decades. Interesting mostly in what's not mentioned -- no additional 1966 or 1975 footage, nothing from Howard Alk's post-RTR projects.
Willie Nelson tells RS that the just-finished ballpark tour was Dylan's idea, and that "We're both big baseball fans." Does anybody but me remember the "Bob Dylan Baseball Abstract" that ran in the Village Voice years back? His favorite Dylan songs are "Don't Think Twice" and "Forever Young." (And Willie's next album will include a duet with Lucinda Williams, a not-quite--Dylan-related point.)
And Annie Leibowitz remembers her 1978 photo session for an RS cover, part of the R&C media blitz. Dylan "was very reluctant" to go into the studio, she recalls; and was "being a bit goofy." He decided to wander through the neighborhood partway through the photo session, and pretty much took control away from Leibowitz. "It was easy and more interesting for me to just turn it over than come up with the ideas myself," she says.
There's also a few (familiar) photos, and maybe some other stuff. Looks to me like the most interesting RS in some time, not just for the Dylan content (although that's not saying a whole lot.)
Bill
TOOM outtakes? Apparently not out of the question, but nothing specific promised. The Stone report implies only a single CD, and it might just be a companion to the documentary -- full versions of songs shown in excerpt, including Newport 1965. But it might also be the long-rumored Bootleg Series 7, by some accounts a 2-disc set -- one of standout live performances, the other of unreleased original songs. I don't expect Dylan to authorize a release heavy on his earliest, more lightweight/topical material, and I don't expect a stuff-not-good enough for TBS1-2-3 compilation -- which implies, I hope, some stuff from the last great caches of unheard studio recordings -- the TOOM outtakes and the late 1980, post-gospel, Rundown (and elsewhere) sessions. It could be just wishful thinking on my part, and it could be well-reasoned, but way off base, speculation. But we should know soon.
Other stuff: with Chronicles due in only a few weeks, RS quotes Dylan as describing the memoir as "published in the form of articles. The point of departure will be the different songs. I've noticed that it's a good way of remembering things from the past." Does this sound like those WGW album notes? This could be my first significant Dylan-related prediction to come true in, what, seven years or so.
The Scorsese documentary will include Newport '65 footage, outtakes from Don't Look Back, and Dylan's first on-camera interview in a couple decades. Interesting mostly in what's not mentioned -- no additional 1966 or 1975 footage, nothing from Howard Alk's post-RTR projects.
Willie Nelson tells RS that the just-finished ballpark tour was Dylan's idea, and that "We're both big baseball fans." Does anybody but me remember the "Bob Dylan Baseball Abstract" that ran in the Village Voice years back? His favorite Dylan songs are "Don't Think Twice" and "Forever Young." (And Willie's next album will include a duet with Lucinda Williams, a not-quite--Dylan-related point.)
And Annie Leibowitz remembers her 1978 photo session for an RS cover, part of the R&C media blitz. Dylan "was very reluctant" to go into the studio, she recalls; and was "being a bit goofy." He decided to wander through the neighborhood partway through the photo session, and pretty much took control away from Leibowitz. "It was easy and more interesting for me to just turn it over than come up with the ideas myself," she says.
There's also a few (familiar) photos, and maybe some other stuff. Looks to me like the most interesting RS in some time, not just for the Dylan content (although that's not saying a whole lot.)
Bill
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