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Bob Dylan: Hard To Find Volume 2 - Extraordinary Live Performances 1975-95
1. It Ain't Me, Babe
20 November 1975, Harward Square Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
From the promotional E.P. "4 Songs From Renaldo And Clara"
2. People Get Ready
November 1975, unknown location
From the promotional E.P. "4 Songs From Renaldo And Clara"
3. One of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
4. Masters Of War
1 July 1978, Zeppelindfeld, Nurnberg, West Germany
Audience recording
5. Precious Angel
22 January 1980, Rainbow Music Hall, Denver, Colorado
Soundboard recording
6. Don't Start Me To Talkin'
7. License To Kill
22 March 1984, NBC Studios, Rockefeller Centre, New York, New York, U.S.A.
From "Late Night With David Letterman" TV broadcast
8. Why Do I Have To Choose?
9. Every Grain Of Sand
3 June 1984, Olympia Stadion, Munich, West Germany
Audience recording
10. Girl From The North Country
24 February 1986, Entertainment Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
From the "Hard To Handle" video
11. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
30 September 1987, Olympiahalle, Munich, West Germany
Audience recording
12. Mr. Tambourine Man
13. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
2 July 1988, Performing Arts Center, Great Woods, Mansfield, Massachussetts, U.S.A.
Soundboard recording
14. Pancho And Lefty
21 June 1989, Stadio Lamberti, Cava de'Tirreni, Italy
Audience recording
15. Man Gave Names To All The Animals
16. When I Paint My Masterpiece
23 June 1991, Freilicht Buhne, Stadtpark, Hamburg, Germany
Audience recording
17. Restless Farewell
19 November 1995, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
From the "Frank Sinatra 80th Birthday Tribute" TV broadcast
18. Silvio
Hidden and unlisted track from unknown date and venue
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>Subject: Hard To Find Volume 2 volume two?
>From: rcj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Craig Jamieson)
>Date: 1996/08/27
>Message-ID: <4vuo54$qbf@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
>Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
>In what sense is Hard To Find Volume 2 volume two of Hard To
>Find?
>
>Hard To Find was a pirate, with no boot tracks.
>
>Hard To Find Volume 2 includes bootlegged as well as pirated
>tracks.
>
>Hard To Find Volume 2 is put out by the label Columbus
>according to the disc (Columbus 463368/2) and by the label
>
>Home Records according the insert (Home Records 186165-2).
>
>Hard To Find does not call itself volume one anywhere.
>Dealers and shops have simply come to call it that because
>it differentiates the two clearly.
>
>Hard To Find Volume 2 is known by five different titles!
>Front insert title: Hard To Find Volume 2 : Extraordinary
>Performances 1975-95 -- Spine title: More Hard To Find --
>Opposite spine title: Performing Artist 1975-95 -- Rear
>insert title: Extraordinary Live-Performances 1975-95 --
>Disc title: More Hard To Find Vol. 2.
>
>Hard To Find Volume 2 is extremely keen on copyright
>protection! As well as the acronym AAD [Analog recording,
>Analog mix, Digitally mastered] it includes three copyright
>agencies: GEMA [Gesellschaft fur musikalische Auffurungs-
>und mechanische Vervielfaltigungsrechte (Society for Musical
>Performances and Mechanical Reproduction Rights)] -- BIEM
>[Bureau international des societes gerant les droits
>d'enregistrement et de reproduction mecanique (International
>Bureau of the Societies Administering the Rights of
>Mechanical Recording and Reproduction)] -- STEMRA [Stiching
>Exploitatie Mechanische Rechten Auteurs]
>
>Its very poor joke of a matrix number (JUD) links it with
>another CD: Revisiting Autobahn '95 with its matrix number
>JEW. (For those unfamiliar with matrix numbers they are
>usually boring convoluted number and letter codes, not one
>three letter word.)
>
>The bar-code of Hard To Find Volume 2 is 0 010942 113416
>The bar-code of Revisiting Autobahn '95 is 0 010942 113416
>
>The bar-code of two different CDs should not be identical.
>
>Revisiting Autobahn '95 is put out by Zimmerman Records with
>no order number.
>
>Hold the packaging of Revisiting Autobahn '95 and Hard To
>Find Volume 2 side by side and you'll se they are from the
>same stable stylistically and in layout. And where you see
>one for sale, you tend to see the other.
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>Subject: Re: FYI New CDs / Hard To Find Vol. II
>From: Christian Zeiser <christian.zeiser@HAMBURG.NETSURF.DE>
>Date: 1996/07/04
>Message-ID: <v02130505ae012e4d72d8@[194.64.236.130]>
>Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
>MOE wrote re FYI New CDs...
>> HARD TO FIND II - 1CD Based on the track listing, not nearly as compelling
>> as volume 1. All live tracks taken from various sources, I'm told. Includes
>> 3 trax from R&C promo, a couple from "Hard to Handle" and the rest rarely
>> played audience cuts like "St Augustine." Does include "RFarewell" '95.
>
>I thought I'd shed some light on this, as I recently found it in a local
>record store (that until recently didn't sell any boots). Moe's right, the
>whole thing is not really too impressive. Though there are a few nice
>takes on it that I hadn't heard before, I guess they are widely in
>circulation already: Restless Farewell from the Frankie bash, Girl From The
>North Country from 24 Feb 86 with Petty (this is the "Hard To Handle" take
>, I guess?), Don't start Me Talking & License To kill from Letterman 84.
>Also there are quite a few takes from different German shows (One Of Us
>Must Know & Masters Of War from Nuernberg 78, Why Do I Have To Choose &
>Every Grain Of Sand from Muenchen 84, St. Augustine from Muenchen 87 - a
>real ragged version, very nice! -, and Man Gave Names & Masterpiece from
>Hamburg 91 - been there!). Quality differs greatly from song to song, both
>concerning performances and sound. Best sounding are the soundboard takes,
>i.e. the Lettermans, RFarewell & GFTNC. Worth mentioning is imo People Get
>Ready from the (as the cover says) "New Jork City" 1975 rehearsal. But
>then, this take was on the Renaldo & Clara demo EP, so it's also probably
>widely known.
>
>I'd say that Hard To Find II is mostly for people who are still quite new
>to boots (like me). There are some very enjoyable things on it, but nothing
>that is really *Hard To Find*, I guess...
>
>Uncle Matilda aka Christian Zeiser
>Subject: Re: FYI New CDs / Hard To Find Vol. II
>From: Christian Zeiser <christian.zeiser@HAMBURG.NETSURF.DE>
>Date: 1996/07/06
>Message-ID: <v02130501ae0357a92966@[194.64.236.130]>
>Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
>Brian Kelly wrote re Re: HWY61-L Digest - 3 Jul 1996 to 4 Jul 1996 -
>Special issue...
>> I think Christian is putting things rather lamely. HTF II is IMO, worth
>> buying alone for People Get Ready ( I know it's from the Renaldo and Clara
>> promo but I still haven't found that yet.) Also the brilliant Don't Start
>> Me Talking and Willie Nelson's Why Do I Have to Choose. The cd clocks in
>> at a generous 80 minutes with a fantastic unlisted version of Silvio. It
>> was always bound to be controversial with everybody having a favourite
>> performance that wasn't inacluded . Also worth noting is the passionate
>> rendition of Masters of War at Nuremberg, spine tingling stuff. Buy it.
>And I say...
>
>Brian is right saying there are some exceptional performances on HTF II. I
>agree that People Get Ready is great, as are a few of the other takes on
>this cd. As for Silvio however, I think there are better performances in
>better quality available (my fave remains the one from Oslo 29 June 95,
>which can be heard on Salt For Salt, released by Crystal Cat).
>
>Anyway, it seems I failed to make thinks clear: I don't think HTF II is a
>bad compilation - it's just that I don't think much of it is really *hard
>to find*. Also, whether you like the album or not will probably depend on
>how important you consider the sound quality of the recordings. Much of the
>stuff on this boot is rather mediocre concerning this aspect. If you
>worship a fine performance even if it's not well recorded, go ahead and buy
>this thing. Otherwise, keep on searching, I'd suggest. There *must* be
>better sounding recordings of the included takes.
>
>Uncle Matilda aka Christian Zeiser
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