DYLAN, BOB - CD
1984 REHEARSALS

LABEL:
APCD 104
SOURCE:
Disc One: Beverly Theater, Los Angeles 23 May 1984; Disc Two: Arena di Verona, Verona 27 May 1984, Disc Three: Arena di Verona, Verona 28 May 1984.
FORMAT:
3 Download cdrs
RUNNING TIME:
77.09/43.58/44.16
SOUND/SOURCE:
Soundboard stereo
PACKAGING:
Single and Double Slimline Jewel case
 


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SOUND 10 / PACKAGING 10 / PERFORMANCE 9

 
TRACK LIST:

Disc One: 1. Instrumental, 2. Maggie's Farm, 3. All Along The Watchtower, 4. Just Like A Woman, 5. Just Like A Woman, 6. When You Gonna Wake Up, 7. When You Gonna Wake Up, 8. Shelter From The Storm, 9. Watered-Down Love, 10. Masters Of War, 11. Masters Of War, 12. Jokerman,

13. Simple Twist Of Fate, 14. Simple Twist Of Fate, 15. Man Of Peace, 16. Man Of Peace, 17. I And I, 18. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, 19. Ballad Of A Thin Man, 20. Heart Of Mine, 21. Highway 61 Revisited, 22. Around And Around, 23. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, 24. Unidentified Instrumental, 25. It's All Over Now Baby Blue, 26. Almost Done, 27. Always On My Mind – Instrumental, 28. Always On My Mind, 29. Always On My Mind, 30. Every Grain Of Sand, 31. Every Grain Of Sand, 32. Every Grain Of Sand, 33. Girl From The North Country.

Disc Two: 1. (Instrumental #1) 2. (Instrumental #2), 3. (Instrumental #3), 4. (Vocal Improvisation/Jam?), 5. (Instrumental #4), 6. (Instrumental #5), 7. (Instrumental #6), 8. (Instrumental #7), 9. War Time (Instrumental #1), 10. War Time (instrumental #2), 11. War Time,

12. (Instrumental #8), 13. (Instrumental #9), 14. Almost Done #1, 15. Almost Done #2, 16. Almost Done #3, 17. Almost Done #4 (Instrumental), 18. Almost Done #5 (Instrumental), 19. Enough Is Enough, 20. (Instrumental #10), 21. Dirty Lies, 22. Why Do I Have To Choose?, 23. To Each His Own, 24. (Instrumental #11).

Disc Three: 1. Jokerman, 2. All Along The Watchtower, 3. Just Like A Woman, 4. Highway 61 Revisited, 5. I And I, 6. Shelter From The Storm #1, 7. Shelter From The Storm #2, 8. (Instrumental), 9. License To Kill 10. Ballad Of A Thin Man, 11. When You Gonna Wake Up, 12. To Ramona, 13. Girl From The North Country.




REVIEW:

This is Cpt Acid’s work on Bob Dylan’s 1984 Rehearsals, as usual phase & level correction and new equalization have been done. Personnel consisted of Bob Dylan on vocals, guitar, & harmonica, Mick Taylor on guitar, Ian McLagan on keyboards, Gregg Sutton on bass and Colin Allen on drums.

Here is Clinton Heylin’s article from Rolling Telegraph Supplement #18, pp. 25-26):

“The award for Most Interesting Tape Of The Month goes to a ninety minute rehearsal tape from 1984 which an English collector has recently turned up. The tape apparently originates from two days spent rehearsing in Verona, Italy prior to the 1984 European Tour [May 27-28th], and the tape itself appears to be 45 minutes of two separate sessions – I would suspect the first is from the 27th as there is much more jamming and working on new material, and that the second part is from the afternoon of the 28th as Dylan tries to whip the band into shape. The recording quality is spot-on. It probably even has the edge on the previous '84 Tour Rehearsals.

The instrumentals are not as boring as may at first sight appear as Dylan plays some nice harmonica on them, and the songs do have some kind of structure, they are not just aimless jams. The source for the tape credits Carlos Santana as on guitar on this side, though I'm not necessarily convinced. To Each His Own is the old crooner's classic written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingstone. However, the most interesting songs are the two original Dylan compositions heard here for the first time: Dirty Lies and Almost Done. I’d like to convince myself that Almost Done is in fact Angel Of Rain, the other new Dylan song (aside from Enough Is Enough and Dirty Lies) to be mentioned at the Verona press conference. It has the right tune for a song called Angel Of Rain, though no self-evident lyrical similarities. In fact, we have heard a brief snippet of Almost Done before. It is the fragment of a song on the Beverly Theatre tape which I christened The Dawn Is Gonna Shine (song number 24 in Master Of The Tracks). Dylan is still clearly working on the song, though the melody seems pretty well worked-out. The second side of the tape is much more a final run-through of the live set. Indeed, the eleven songs performed consist of the entire first set at the opening show plus band versions of To Ramona and Girl From The North Country, two songs only performed acoustically on the tour.”

Disc One was released in 2009 as Angel of Rain (Rattle Snake 226), on Lossless Bob Beverly Theater (LB 12740) and on Essential 1984 Tour Rehearsals (Zion 111).

Discs Two and Three were released as Dirty Lies (Wanted Man 045-46) as well as on Lossless Bob 1984 (LB-04229).

The sound output here is excellent and shows the band while getting used to Dylan’s materials before embarking on the 1984 European tour; most of them however are snippets, especially on Disc One, where we also find Always On My Mind, the Elvis Presley song never played live.

DYLAN, BOB

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