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Bowl 1965 source: Hollywood Bowl 1965 Tracks: Acoustic She Belongs To Me To Ramona Gates Of Eden It's All Over Now Baby Blue Desolation Row Love Minus Zero Mr. Tambourine Man Electric Tombstone Blues I Don't Believe You From A Buick 6 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Maggie's Farm It Ain't Me Babe Ballad Of A Thin Man Like A Rolling Stone Review: This is another issue of the complete soundboard(?) tape of the Hollywood Bowl concert. It's complete apart from the portion lost from the end of Tambourine Man, and the beginning of Tombstone Blues. There is noise as usual on Desolation Row. The cover stresses that the original order has been maintained, but most sources say that Tom Thumb should come before Buick 6. There are obvious edits between tracks, so it's impossible to tell what the correct order should be. The packaging and aesthetics are original. The front cover photo is the same one that was artistically blurred, and used on We Had Known A Lion. Most reviews state that this is an interesting piece of history, rather than a truly blistering concert... and I would have to agree. The acoustic set is brilliant, but doesn't stand out from the many, many brilliant acoustic sets I've heard from 64 - 66. The electric is a big step up from Newport, but a long way short of what was to follow in 1966. This is a fairly good electric band doing unadventurous versions of Dylan songs which mostly had already been recorded with a similar backing. It's not an extraordinary rock group featuring Bob Dylan on vocals, like would gel on the 1966 world tour. But, at least with this recording, you can see how they got to there from here. The most interesting thing about this lineup is how it foreshadows both the fierce rock of 1966 and - on It Ain't Me Babe - the delicate pop of Blonde On Blonde, e.g. Just Like A Woman. And "she" walks like Rimbaud instead of Bo Diddley. © 2003 ColmX edited by CD Pinkerton bobsboots.com |
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