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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999
"GREAT WOODS" 2CD (Wild Wolf) Mansfield, Mass 12 Sept 1993 (13)
+ filler Sacramento, Calif. 8 Oct 1993* (5), Raleigh, NC 19 Sept 93*
(1)
Tracks: 19 Time: 140 Source: Soundboard/Audience* Quality: Excellent
It's not often we get an actual line recording (and I ain't
talkin' the hearing impaired variety), and when it happens we
cross our fingers hoping it collared a good performance (least I
do). I was thinking of the "actual" line recordings" we've been
blessed with in the last 10 years: 98-San Jose, 97-Irving Plaza
NY City, 95 - Laguna Beach (Monterey), 94 - Lewiston, NY &
somewhere in Germany that escapes me, 93-Marseilles, 92-Waikiki,
88-Radio City, NY & Bristol, CT (comments welcome to KarlErik on
any I missed). Some really hit (Marseilles, Irving, Waikiki,
Laguna, Radio City) and others missed to some degree, whether
quality-wise or due to a mediocre performance.
Add this "Great Woods" set to the former category, in near
perfect quality and showcasing a focused, "biting" Dylan
peformance that simply sizzles. The opening number sets the table
nicely, with a rough and tumble vocal and lengthy harp fills that
indicate Bob is in a lively mood on this night. The line
recording catches every little nuance and inflection with
startling clarity.
You wanna know what Dylan sounded like in '93, this is it (and to
my ears he sounds remarkably similar to how he sounds now). A
setlist full of nice surprises (Red Sky, I&I, River Flow) works
its way through a cutting acoustic set examining the vagaries of
love, lust, betrayal and loneliness (BlackJackDavey, Ramona,
Boots) and then into an astounding version of "God Knows," which
slowly builds and builds until it explodes into an all out sonic
assault, with Bob enunciating the words so clearly and screaming
3:10 into the song "ohhhhhhyeaaaaahh" like some manic street
preacher, then right into a visceral, "Stonesian" Maggie's Farm.
Total goosebump material... now the band is really cutting loose
and then Bob pulls out all the stops on "Thin Man," stretching
out the words and lines as only he can do, elasticizing (sic)
them w/his inimitable vocal phrasing, while serving up one of the
more frightening and direct-hit versions of this tune that I can
ever remember ("props" must go to the Setzer-horns version of
this from late '98 also, to digress).
A lovely and lengthy "It Ain't Me Babe" sews up the Great Woods
in terrific fashion and segues seamlessly into the superb
sounding Sacramento filler. So good, in fact, that it takes a
while to notice the difference - just a flat-out great sounding
audience recording that includes stunning versions of Mr.TMan &
GirlFromNC.
Wrapping it all up is a rare performance of OneMoreCup Of Coffee,
performed only twice on the Santana double bill trek from
summer/fall '93 and perhaps only two other times this decade.
Unlike most other "periods" of the NET, the performances on the
double-billed Santana tour have been underrepresented in this
"idiom," so this is a most welcome account that serves the period
quite nicely. Not to be missed!!!!!!!
TrackList: You're GonnaQuitMe/MemphisBlues/Watchtower/RedSky/I&I/RiverFlow/
BlackJackDavey/Ramona/BootsOfSpanishLeather/GodKnows/Maggie's/ThinMan/
ItAin'tMeBabe. Sacramento:
IfNot4U/MrTMan/Don'tThink2X/LongBlackCoat/GirlFrom
NorthCountry. Raleigh: OneMoreCupOfCoffee
HOLD THE FORT FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH 2CD (WILD WOLF) Complete
FT. Worth (Dylan portion), 16 May 1976 + various venues (see track list
below)
Tracks: 28 Time: 145+ Source: Soundboard/TV Quality: Excellent
The definitive Ft. Worth '76 show, presented in best ever,
pristine sound quality that lays waste to previous incarnations
of this material. The quintessential Rolling Thunder '76 tour
document, this does for RT76 what "Cowboy Angel Blues" did for
RT75. Unlike previous issues, this one is nicely appended with
"Hard Rain" from the TV special of the same name, the
blues-drenched rehearsal take of "The Sun Is Shining" and a
one-time only, transcendant performance of the classic Hank tune
"Weary Blues From Waitin'."
Some may question the wisdom of
"corrupting" Ft. Worth by injecting two non-Ft. Worth cuts into
the show (see tracklist), and for those folks there is always the
program button. Me, I'm glad to have 'em, no matter where they
"set," right maw? :-) The quality improvement is considerable
compared to previous releases, brighter, with more punch and
clarity, and less "noise."
After reading Peter Stone Brown's
celestial (or Jordanesque, or Dylanesque> pick one) review of
Bob's Tramps show of July 26, 1999, I am considering another line
of work, so you will not be seeing any "review," per se, of this
show. PSB "laid it all to waste" with his monumental account of
that gig, and all reviewers, myself included, are in
hiding contemplating their next move. If this were a basketball
game, PSB just scored 101 and broke Wilt's record ("what the fuck
is this guy talkin' about - just let us know about the show,"
they say). Shitgoddamn, I felt like I was there after reading
that Tramps review !!!!! You? (I can only imagine how "shriveled"
the "lamest of all-time" NY Post "Tramps-reviewer" would feel if
he "caught a glimpse of it" - you RMD readers know what I mean).
So, we'll be sending out our aqua-recruiters, who will attempt
to enlist Mr. PSB's services on behalf of future DEEPs, so we can
find out what's REALLY HAPPENING on these kinds of disks. Suffice
it to say that there's LOTS HAPPENING on "Hold the Fort For What
It's Worth" that you want to hear. Great cover, too!!!
1) Mr. Tambourine Man
2) It Ain't Me Babe
3) Vincent Van Gogh
4) Maggie's Farm
5) One Too Many Mornings
6) Mozambique
7) Isis
8) Blowin' In The Wind
9) Railroad Boy
10) Deportee
11) I Pity the Poor Immigrant
12) Shelter From the Storm
13) I Threw It All Away
14) Memphis Blues Again
15) Rita Mae
16)Oh Sister
17) You're A Big Girl Now
18) You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
19) Lay Lady Lay
20) Silver Mantis
21) I Want You
22) Going Gone Gone
23) Idiot Wind
24) Knockin' On Heaven's Door
25) Gotta Travel On
26) A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall*
27) The Sun Is Shining
28) Weary Blues From Waiting
Tracks 1-14, 16-21, 23-25: Tarrant County Conv. Center, Ft. Worth, TX
5/16/76
Track 15: The Warehouse, New Orleans, LA. 5/3/76
Track 22: State Fair, Oklahoma City, OK 5/18/76
Track 26: Hughes Stadium, Ft. Collins, CO 5/23/76
Track 27: Rehearsal, Bellevue Biltmore Hotel, Clearwater, FL 4/15/76
Track 28: Civic Center, Lakeland, FL 4/18/76
[See directly below for reactions, additions and corrections to the
review of this CD.]
> From: l.kokay@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Les Kokay)
> Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
> Subject: Re: Deep Beneath The Waves vol 80
> Date: 12 Aug 1999 00:32:50 GMT
> >HOLD THE FORT FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH 2CD (WILD WOLF) Complete
> > FT. Worth (Dylan portion), 16 May 1976 + various venues (see track >list
> below)
> > Tracks: 28 Time: 145+ Source: Soundboard/TV Quality: >Excellent
>
> However, some of this can't be right!!!
>
> 20) Silver Mantis
>
> There is NO PA tape of Silver Mantis. The previous version of
> HOLD THE FORT FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH included an audience version
> from Ft Worth.
It is absolutely a PA tape, with no break whatsoever in the flow
from Lay Lady Lay and in the same quality. Perhaps the previous
version contained an audience tape but not this one.
>
> > 21) I Want You
>
> Not done at Ft Worth! Is this from 18 may 76?
>
> > 22) Going Gone Gone
>
> This is on the Ft Worth PA tape, so why include one from 18 may 76?
Good call.....the attribution on the tray card is wrong. It
should have stated that the "GoingGoingGone" was from Ft./ Worth
5/16 and the "I Want You" from Okla City 5/18.
>
> > 24) Knockin' On Heaven's Door
> > 25) Gotta Travel On
>
> There is NO Ft Worth PA tape of these tracks.
> So are they Ft Worth audience tracks as on the previous version
> of HOLD THE FORT FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH? Or are they from 3 may 76
> as included on HOLD THE FORT, Lockup the Warehouse?
Another good call...never got that far in listening, to be
honest, as I skipped right to Hard Rain & Weary Blues From
Waiting :-) It's obvious these two are audies.
> From: Bob Stacy
> Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
> Subject: Re: Deep Beneath The Waves vol 80
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 23:44:28 GMT
> > > 21) I Want You
> >
> > Not done at Ft Worth! Is this from 18 may 76?
>
>
> Yes, it is the Oklahoma City track from 18 May.
>
>
> > > 22) Going Gone Gone
> >
> > This is on the Ft Worth PA tape, so why include one from 18 may 76?
>
>
> Going, Going is the same Ft Worth PA track. Wild Wolf messed up the
> labeling. They should have identified I Want You as 18 May, but called
> out the wrong track number on the disc.
>
>
> > > 24) Knockin' On Heaven's Door
> > > 25) Gotta Travel On
> >
> > There is NO Ft Worth PA tape of these tracks.
> > So are they Ft Worth audience tracks as on the previous version
> > of HOLD THE FORT FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH?
>
>
> These last two are the Ft Worth audience tracks.
>
>
> >Or are they from 3 may 76
> > as included on HOLD THE FORT, Lockup the Warehouse?
>
>
> At least Wild Wolf didn't make the same error as on Lockup the
> Warehouse. Although, in that previous case it's reasonable to believe
> it wasn't a "mistake".
> From: Bob Stacy
> Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
> Subject: Re: Deep Beneath The Waves vol 80
> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:34:03 GMT
> Bob Stacy wrote:
> > > 20) Silver Mantis
> > This one is the audience version.
> I've given this track a relisten. Now I think Moe is probably right
> about it being PA. Dylan's intro from Lay Lady Lay is definitely on mic
> and seamless to the Mantis track. T-Bone's singing is more off-mic than
> Dylan's singing on some of the other tracks. Lot's of hall echo in the
> sound for Silver Mantis. I think that was throwing me off.
>
> Have also compared to the "good quality" audience tape of 5/16/76.
> Mantis and that whole tape are very much an "audience" recording when
> compared to these CDs.
>
> Generally, I think the sound on this CD is slightly improved over the
> previous issue of For What It's Worth. But still, some of the best Ft
> Worth 5/16/76 is found on Hold The Fort, Lock Up The Warehouse.
>
> Don't believe what you hear until you see it {I said that}.
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