Orignal cover for 'Live 1964'

Here's the proposed cover for 'Live 1964' from 2004. This photo was included in a advance promotional cd for the SACD releases in late 2003.

Tape from 'Under The Red Sky' sessions

This photocopy turned up via Michael Krogsgaard in 'The Bridge' several years ago. Seems to be a cassette of an 'Under The Red Sky' session listing a song called 'Night Of The Living Dread', of which there is no known record - audio or written.

Some tape boxes etc...

Here's some photos of tape boxes. The Town Hall tape box photo came out a few years ago, before the actual recordings emerged.



I originally wrote at the time:

"Here's some details of a source recording which is known to exist. It is a 71/2 ips Mono recording, from a 'line' source, and is complete. The tape has been described to me as being brittle due to their age and in need of work before it could be transferred."

The other photos here are from the 'Rick Kangas' tape that was offered for auction some time ago.

Ric Kangas has attempted to sell his 1959 recording of Bob Dylan via eBay, for an ambitious US $1,500,000.00 starting price! Ric names two unknown early Dylan compositions, the third of course turned up on the 'No Direction Home' soundtrack. I believe originally Kangas stated that there were twelve tracks on the recording?

Here is the information which he included:

In May 1959 Dylan (then Bob Zimmerman) called me and asked if I would record some songs for him on my reel-to-reel tape recorder. The following are the recordings I made that day:

A. "When I Got Troubles" By Bob Dylan 1:25 min. Briefly used in the current Martin Scorsese NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN documentary. This song is also the first song on disk one of the 2 cd soundtrack of NO DIRECTION HOME.

B. "I WISH I KNEW" by Ric Kangas, backup by Bob Dylan 2:05 min.

C. "TEEN LOVE SERANADE" aka "I GOT A NEW GIRL" by Bob Dylan. 2:05 min. Also briefly used in the NO DIRECTION HOME documentary.

D. "THE FROG SONG" by Bob Dylan 1:10 min. Never released in any format. Bob is singing like Clarence "Frogman" Henry.





Speed 1 7/8 ips Recorded in May 1959

This was recorded on my tape where I'd put my original songs. When Bob came over, I recorded these 4 songs and then continued to record my songs on the rest of side one. Side 2 has various popular songs recorded from radio stations in Hibbing and Duluth MN. plus more of my original songs.

Total length of tape: apx 45 min. each side (aprox. 90 min total both sides). Some of the other songs are recorded at different speeds.

"Holy Grail" list

What's the stuff that you'd like to see 'out there'...? Here's my list:

1. Royal Festival Hall 1964 - known soundboard recording mastered under supervision from Jeff Rosen in 2006

2. Isle Of Wight 1969 - Complete soundboard and / or DVD/ Blu-Ray release

3. Montreal 1975 - bits and pieces of audio/video circulate- A DVD WOULD BE GOOD....

4. Blackbushe or Earls Court 1978 - Soundboard recording

5. Something live from 1979-1980-1981

6. Wembley 1987 - multi-tracks were recorded for a live album

7. Something from 1988 - although multi-track tapes were apprently recorded from the mixing desk onto c90 cassettes

8. Supper Club 1993 Blue-Ray / DVD/ Multi cd set - PLEASE RELEASE ALL 4 SHOWS, NOT A MISH-MASH

9. The scrapped Bromberg Album 1992

10. Oxnard 1996 "Time Out Of Mind" - first version of the album which was scrapped.

There's a few other odd bits and pieces that would be nice to see...that 1965 Newport workshop film of Bob Dylan doing an acoustic 'Tombstone Blues'...

Discovering the Bob Dylan at Brandeis Tape

Interesting story about the Brandis recording that was recently discovered, at to the eternal credit of Bob's record company, put out as a bonus cd with the Mono box set -

http://recordmecca.blogspot.com/2010/09/discovering-bob-dylan-at-brandeis-tape.html

There's been some debate about the date of this show, but here's the poster for the event -



The article also mentions that a recording of an Austin 1966 press conference was also discovered. This is not presently circulating.

A small pro-shot clip was shown on ABC local TV San Francisco on Wednesday, August 25th 2010 (or possibly the night before) showing a rehearsal from the Supper Club November 1993 shows. It was part of a news report for the upcoming Warfield Theatre show.


The clip is still currently online - http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/entertainment&id=7629276



Actually this is an old clip, in that it's been seen before. It is indeed from the Supper Club rehearsals, which means they were also recorded -

From 'Tangled Up In Tapes' 1994 ed., page 136:

15/11/93

A fragment of tape from The Supper Club rehearsals is televised on November 16th on a local New York newscast.

Oxnard 'Time Out Of Mind' sessions

As discussed in Clinton Heylin's 'Still On the Road'....seems like there was an earlier version of the album recorded before the January 1997 sessions at Criteria.



September 1996 Oxnard, CA seems to have produced initial recordings of the following, none of which are on the released album:



Dirt Road Blues

Can't Wait

Mississippi

Highlands

All I Ever Loved Is You

Dreamin' Of You

Million Miles

Not Dark Yet

Red River Shore

Standing In The Doorway



Only 2 of these: the Bootleg Series 8, disc 3 version of 'Mississippi' with the different lyrics, and 'Can't Wait' from disc 1 are from the Oxnard TOOM.



All the others remain unheard.







Tape please!!!!