Here's some noise he made (with The Hawks) in the studio on November 30, 1965.
And in conclusion, Bill Callahan -- bite me.
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13 comments:
Never heard this before, but it's great. Reminds me I need to listen to the Bootleg Series again.
Thanks!
And what - may I ask - is wrong with being unpleasant & uncomfortable?
What I wouldn't give for the stereo version of this.
I love this folk-rockier version of Visions of Johanna. I bought a vinyl boot in college under the name Seems Like A Freeze Out (still own it) on the (I think it's called) Blind Pig Label with this track. But the fidelity stank. Whatever version you've posted is much better. Is Richard Manuel playing harpsichord?
How Dylan hasn't gotten a Nobel Prize is unfathomable.
AP
His wordless howl near the end is probably the greatest vocal of his lifetime. It gives me shivers just thinking about it -- the whole thing is so utterly otherwordly......
He's no Conor Oberst.
Nobody likes a fricking wiseguy, my friend.
:-)
TELL me about it. ;)
You know, I don't know who the fuck this Callahan guy is, I haven't read the profile on him, and I haven't listened to the song in the post below. But I'm gonna give him a break on his Dylan comment, and here's why. Callahan's 44 years old. Let's say, like me, he started really getting into the "modern music" thing in a serious way around age 12. For him, the year was 1979. What the hell was Dylan doing then? Praising Jeebus. His big hit from this era was "Gotta Serve Somebody". On the other hand, new wave and punk were all the rage, and that's probably the scene he grew up in. Dylan was an old geezer his Dad liked. His greatest work (like that "Freeze Out" posted here) came out a year before Callahan was born. Maybe he thinks the greatest songwriter ever to walk the earth is Bono. That's at least as legitimate a choice for a guy his age as Dylan is for people my age or yours. I don't even want to think about who kids in their teens think is the bee's knees now! But they've got as much a right to think that as we did about Dylan, Lennon, Jagger, and, of course, Allen Sherman...
I'm 4 years older than Callahan, I get it. I don't think the greatest songwriter ever is Bryan Ferry.
If Callahan knows enough about music from before he was born to know and like Fred Neil, then it suggests to me that the Dylan thing is bullshit and a pose.
Perhaps I should have said that explicitly.
Re Callahan: This seems a lot over a little. More irksome by far, I think, is Joni Mitchell calling Dylan a fake. This from a woman who shamelessly morphed into Billie Holiday all of a sudden (e.g., the Both Sides Now LP) only because of smoke-damaged tonsils. She fancies herself above it all, but with her self-aggrandizing "sensitivity" she's as corrupt as any of the asshole rock stars.
He looks eerily like Cate Blanchett.
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