| Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, 25 July 1965 | |
| 1. | Maggie's farm (1:31/5:18/0:49) |
| 2. | Like a rolling stone (0:00/6:13/0:42) |
| 3. | Phantom engineer (0:00/3:37/4:19) |
| 4. | It's all over now, Baby Blue (0:05/5:12/1:53) |
| 5-6. | Mr. Tambourine Man (0:37/5:58/0:19) |
| City Hall, Newcastle, England, 6 May 1965 | |
| 7. | Don't think twice, it's all right (0:06/3:34/0:24) |
| Philharmonic Hall, New York City, 31 October 1964 | |
| 8. | Don't think twice, it's all right (0:01/3:54/0:12) |
| The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll (0:00/6:52/0:45) | |
| 9. | Mama, you been on my mind (0:00/2:45/0:45) |
| 10. | Silver dagger (excerpt) (accompanying Joan Baez) (0:00/1:51/0:00) |
| 11. | With God on our side (with Joan Baez) (0:05/5:27/0:48) |
| 12. | It ain't me, babe (with Joan Baez) (0:08/3:32/1:36) |
| 13. | All I really want to do (0:05/3:03/0:30) |
Total time: 73:14
If you see in the track list something like (a:aa/b:bb/c:cc), then b:bb is
the duration of the actual song, and a:aa and c:cc indicate how much time of the
track is due to introductions, tunings etc.
The title "Live in Newport 1965" is on the front and back of the cover of the CD. It's not on the CD itself. There it is titled "The Live Dylan".
On the CD is printed "1988", which I understand as the year when it was manufactured.
The CD cover lists the tracks in the wrong order. It lists the New York tracks first, then the Newport tracks, then the Newcastle track.
The track listing given by the CD cover gives the wrong impression that all the tracks, except the Newcastle one, are from Newport 1965.
Little noises show that this CD is copied from a vinyl bootleg. These noises are mostly by no means disturbing, only in some cases (namely the Newcastle track) a little irritating. All the tracs are from soundboard recordings. There is a considerable amount of hiss, but apart from that I think the sound quality is quite good.
This CD contains the whole of Dylan's concert at the Newport Folk Festival on 25 July 1965, but it does not contain all that circulates from Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, for there are also two songs from 24 July and the soundcheck of 25 July.
The Newport 1965 concert was Dylan's first electric live performance. It begins with somebody announcing Bob Dylan, after which he and the band enter the stage. They open with "Maggie's farm" and make it sound a whole lot more "electric" than the version on the earlier that year released album "Bringing it all back home". Next they play "Like a rolling stone", followed by "It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry", which at that time had not yet that title, but "Phantom engineer", and another, faster arrangement. With this arrangement it was also recorded in the studio and you can find that on the official CD set "The bootleg series". After playing these three songs Dylan and band leave the stage and the announcer comes back, saying that Dylan will come back to perform solo. The CD fades out and back in and Dylan indeed comes back and plays "It's all over now, Baby Blue" and "Mr. Tambourine Man". After starting the latter he asks if anybody has an E harmonica, stops playing and then starts the song again in F.
The CD set "1965 revisited" also contains the Newport concert, but omits the first words of the announcer. On "Live in Newport 1965" these words have some disturbing sounds through them, so that might be the reason they are not on "1965 revisited". On "1965 revisited" there is nothing that suggests it is copied from a vinyl bootleg, but I don't think the sound quality is much better than on this CD. I find it hard to tell which of the two sounds better. "1965 revisited" has also a song from 24 July 1965.
Track 7 begins with a woman saying something about the film "Don't look back" during which "Don't think twice" is started. Apparently taken from a radio program. The CD cover says that this performance is from the Newcastle concert of 6 June 1965, but according to my information there was no Newcastle concert on that date, but on 6 May 1965. This performance is also on "1965 revisited" with that part of the intro over which on this CD is spoken omitted.
The CD ends with the last 7 songs from the famous Halloween concert of 1964. On 3 of these Dylan and Joan Baez share vocals and on 1 Baez sings solo, accompanied by Dylan on guitar and harmonica.
"Silver dagger", the song sung by Joan Baez, is not completely included on this CD. It is faded out while Baez is still singing.
The rest of the Halloween 1964 concert is on an earlier released CD from the same label, "Live in New York '64". I haven't heard that one.
It seems that both Document CDs, "Live in New York '64" and "Live in Newport 1965" have been rereleased on the Black Panther label as "Live in New York 1964" and "Live in Newport". I don't know either of them and can't tell whether they are exact replicas.
The Halloween 1964 concert can be found on a lot of other CDs. The only two of these I know is the double CD "All Hallow's Eve and more".
The index marks are right at the beginnings of the songs proper, i.e. they are after the tuning etc. that leads up to them. There is an index mark at the beginning of the false start of "Mr. Tambourine Man" as well as at the beginning of the complete performance, hence this song takes up two tracks. The 1964 part of this CD begins at the end of track 7 with audience noises. The index mark for track 8 comes just before Dylan says "Please what?", after which he starts "Don't think twice". There is no index mark for "Hattie Carroll", hence "Don't think twice" and "Hattie Carroll" take up one track, althought they are performed separately.