Bob Dylan: Strip Tease

                       Format: 1CD
                        Label: Toasted Record CD Works
             Catalogue number: CONDOR 1965
Year of production or release: 1989
              Townsend number: T-116
                       Matrix: CONDOR 1965 T303 5316 <01>

Track list:

 1. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

      Studio, 15 June 1965 ("Highway 61 Revisited" sessions)

 2. She Belongs To Me

    Studio, 13 January 1965 ("Bringing It All Back Home" sessions)

 3. Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence

    Studio, 15 June 1965 ("Highway 61 Revisited" sessions)

 4. Love Minus Zero/No Limit

      Studio, 13 January 1965 ("Bringing It All Back Home" sessions)

 5. If You Gotta Go, Go Now

      Studio, 15 January 1965 ("Bringing It All Back Home" sessions)

 6. On the Road Again

      Studio, January 1965 ("Bringing It All Back Home" sessions)

 7. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

      Studio, 13 January 1965 ("Bringing It All Back Home" sessions)

 8. Suze (The Cough Song)

      Studio, 24 October 1963 ("The Times They Are A-Changin'" sessions)

 9. I'll Keep It With Mine

      Studio, 13 January 1965 ("Bringing It All Back Home" sessions)

10. California

      Studio, 13 January 1965 ("Bringing It All Back Home" sessions)

11. Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag

      Studio, 12 August 1963 ("The Times They Are A-Changin'" sessions)

12. East Laredo Blues

      Studio, 23 October 1963 ("The Times They Are A-Changin'" sessions)

13. That's All Right, Mama

      Studio, 23 October 1963 ("The Times They Are A-Changin'" sessions)

14. Lay Down Your Weary Tune

      Studio, 24 October 1963 ("The Times They Are A-Changin'" sessions)

15. Eternal Circle

      Studio, 24 October 1963 ("The Times They Are A-Changin'" sessions)

16. Percy's Song

      Studio, 24 October 1963 ("The Times They Are A-Changin'" sessions).
      Officially released on "Biograph".

17. I Was Young When I Left Home

      Minnesota Hotel Tape, 22 December 1961

18. In The Evening

      Minnesota Hotel Tape, 22 December 1961

19. Long John

      Minnesota Hotel Tape, 22 December 1961

 
This CD consists mostly of tracks previously available on the
old bootleg LPs "Stealin'" (9 tracks out of 14, namely tracks
1 - 5, 7 - 8, 11, 13), "G.W.W. - John Birch Society Blues"
(7 tracks out of 12, namely tracks 9, 12, 15 - 19), and "G.W.W.
- Seems Like A Freeze Out" (2 tracks out of 12, namely tracks
10, 14), all released by the T.M.Q. label. The cover says
"taken from the recorder tape", but in fact the sound is
identical to those old boots (i.e. very muddy). Still, it has
some excellent material which was not available in any other
form on CD in 1989. Like other Condor CD boots, the speed is
off - a tad slow.

The inside front insert photograph is taken from the bootleg
vinyl album "Tough Songs", complete with title and attribution.
"Tough Songs" was a double LP reissue of "Royal Albert Hall"
and "Now Your Mouth Cries Wolf". "Royal Albert Hall" was a
reissue of "In 1966 There Was". "Now Your Mouth Cries Wolf"
was a reissue of side one of "Stealin'" and side two of "Seems
Like A Freeze Out". So the relevance is minimal... 

The source of this CD in earlier vinyl boots gives a clue about
the title. On page 16 of the bigger one of the two booklets of
the original "Biograph" release, the following quote of Dylan
can be found: "The bootleg records, those are outrageous. I mean,
they have stuff you do in a phone booth. Like, nobody's around.
If you're just sitting and strumming in a motel, you don't think
anybody's there, you know...it's like the phone is tapped...and
then it appears on a bootleg record. With a cover that's got a
picture of you that was taken from underneath your bed and it's
got a strip-tease type title and it cost $30. Amazing. Then you
wonder why most artists feel so paranoid." What is a
"strip-tease type title"? A title which teases you into thinking
there is more to be found within than is actually there, a
misleading come-on?

8 of the 19 tracks are available as legitimate releases in much
much better sound quality, 42% of the CD. All the tracks are now
available on other CDs.



> From: "J&L" 
> Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
> Subject: Re: Strip Tease
> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:26:46 GMT

> I got it a long time ago and mine sounded like shit! It had a lot of good
> content like
> 
> "I was Young When I Left Home"
> "BD's New Orleans Rag"
> Some Outtakes for BIABH
> "In The Evening"
> "Long John" a long solo harp jaunt.
> 
> BUT, like I said the sound quality was TERRIBLE!!
> 
> -J