Subject:      re: Picnic at Blackbushe
From:         cb313@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Matthew White)
Date:         1995/08/25
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Newsgroups:   rec.music.dylan
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"Picnic at Blackbushe...Does anyone recommend this?"

Yes!  I do.  This is an excellent concert and an excellent 
recording.  It is a very "upfront" audience recording.  don't 
let the fact that it is an audience recording deter you...the 
sound is amazing.  One minor drawback (especially for those 
without tone controls on their amps) is that the second disc 
of the set seems to be a wee bit fuller in the bass then the 
first--more natural sounding--disc.

BTW, Wanted Man's "Tales of Yankee Power" is an equally good
disc of a great 1978 show--with very different acoustics.
It sounds as if you are in the middle of the concert hall.
It also contains my absolute fav version of "Tangled Up in
Blue" and a version of "I Want You" that you will not believe.

Hope that helps,

Matthew.

--
Matthew White
(519) 735-3907
Windsor, Ontario, Canada



Subject:      Re: July 1978 Blackbushe aerodome
From:         lspenceley@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Lorna Spenceley")
Date:         1996/02/05
Newsgroups:   rec.music.dylan

I was there (along with 200,000 others).  It happened on 15th July 1978, 
and was an extra concert slotted in to cater for the enormous interest 
generated by Dylan's Earls Court residency and the Street legal album.  
It was also his first major exposure in the UK since the 1966 tour and 
the brief appearance at the Isle of Wight.  The Picnic at Blackbushe 
lasted all day and featured Joan Armatrading, Eric Clapton, Graham Parker 
and The Rumour, plus an epic 3.5 hour set from Dylan.  It was a great 
concert, captured well (so I'm told) on The Picnic at Blackbushe boot.  I 
didn't get as much out of it, however, as his 1981 and 1984 appearances, 
as I was miles from the stage, and could only see a dot on the horizon.  
Nick