The next 48 hrs. will be a Perfect Storm of Ebay, Discogs, and Amazon deliveries as I eagerly anticipate the arrival of VU's 1969 Live Vols. 1&2, the Super Deluxe eponymous album (WOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!), Stiff Little Fingers Ultimate Albums, and 3 releases by the Dead Boys - the latter 2 being my most recent punk discoveries.
Anyway, today's trail run in staggering 68F temps and partly sunny skies - that earned a facial sunburn (good heaven, only 2.5 weeks ago I ran when it was 7F with a wind chill of -5F!!), - was accompanied by the mid-career magnificence of Dylan during the '75 Rolling Thunder tour (though I guess the '70s aren't exactly "mid" for a 40+ yr. run), my latest "classic" re-discovery (I hate that adjective because now people are calling Asia, Foreigner, and Hall & Oates "classic rock"). As a staunch originalist, I was loathe to branch far beyond Dylan's nascent electric era - and even then, haven't listened for awhile, but the Bootleg Series Vol.5 release, in conjunction with Budokan ('78), have reinvigorated my intrigue in BD's work; honestly, if you're a Dylan fan and you've not heard the various contributions of Scarlet Rivera and David Mansfield on electric violin, or the fast tempo rearrangements of the staple song catalogue, then you really must, must, must hear vol.5 before you pass from this earthly sphere!
Musical selection in the 4Runner en route to the pool pre-dawn and national park for afternoon runs is always a disparate matter, and today I've followed yesterday's selection of my favourite D[B]ick's Picks[/B] - being volume 12 (Fall '73) - with my likely runner up, volume 14 (June '74); good heavens, each time I listen the 2 become fluidly interchangeable. The first '73 show (11/30) is not only a fuzzy, feedbacky, acid-drenched redux of '68, but a perfectly executed symposium of even routine set fillers that characterize great shows like 3/1/69 and 5/8/77 (no, I don't think you can 'overrate' the latter!).
Yet! Yet! Yet, sets from the '74 shows, especially those insane jams from 6/26 (i.e., Unlabeled, Mind Left Body, and Spanish, in that order) are paradigmatic studies in musical group speak and reflective of Keith's burgeoning jazzy influence on the band's sound./peace, K
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Anyway, today's trail run in staggering 68F temps and partly sunny skies - that earned a facial sunburn (good heaven, only 2.5 weeks ago I ran when it was 7F with a wind chill of -5F!!), - was accompanied by the mid-career magnificence of Dylan during the '75 Rolling Thunder tour (though I guess the '70s aren't exactly "mid" for a 40+ yr. run), my latest "classic" re-discovery (I hate that adjective because now people are calling Asia, Foreigner, and Hall & Oates "classic rock"). As a staunch originalist, I was loathe to branch far beyond Dylan's nascent electric era - and even then, haven't listened for awhile, but the Bootleg Series Vol.5 release, in conjunction with Budokan ('78), have reinvigorated my intrigue in BD's work; honestly, if you're a Dylan fan and you've not heard the various contributions of Scarlet Rivera and David Mansfield on electric violin, or the fast tempo rearrangements of the staple song catalogue, then you really must, must, must hear vol.5 before you pass from this earthly sphere!
Musical selection in the 4Runner en route to the pool pre-dawn and national park for afternoon runs is always a disparate matter, and today I've followed yesterday's selection of my favourite D[B]ick's Picks[/B] - being volume 12 (Fall '73) - with my likely runner up, volume 14 (June '74); good heavens, each time I listen the 2 become fluidly interchangeable. The first '73 show (11/30) is not only a fuzzy, feedbacky, acid-drenched redux of '68, but a perfectly executed symposium of even routine set fillers that characterize great shows like 3/1/69 and 5/8/77 (no, I don't think you can 'overrate' the latter!).
Yet! Yet! Yet, sets from the '74 shows, especially those insane jams from 6/26 (i.e., Unlabeled, Mind Left Body, and Spanish, in that order) are paradigmatic studies in musical group speak and reflective of Keith's burgeoning jazzy influence on the band's sound./peace, K
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Edit: Not quite sure why embedded images aren't displayed?