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
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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.
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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.
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