Rolling Thunder Revue - "MY" Bob Dylan Story

[Tom Bomb]

​

 

[Barton Lee]

Just listened to a few songs from your gig, and this time with good headphones. You guys (and you w/ one rehearsal and a song list of 30 tunes) did a great job, and your tone is flipping great!! Any info about your bass and strings would be cool.

Since the OP asked (thanks) - I was playing a Guild Starfire II with Thomastik-Infeld Jazz flatwounds through a Markbass CMD121P with the amp tone controls set mostly flat, with no effects used. The pre-amp DI signal to the board is what is heard on the recording, with whatever the sound engineer may have done to it.

Back to the topic at hand, the freewheelin' Bob Dylan!

 

[JMacBass65]

Since the OP asked (thanks) - I was playing a Guild Starfire II with Thomastik-Infeld Jazz flatwounds through a Markbass CMD121P with the amp tone controls set mostly flat, with no effects used. The pre-amp DI signal to the board is what is heard on the recording, with whatever the sound engineer may have done to it.

Back to the topic at hand, the freewheelin' Bob Dylan!

Cool, thanks. TI JFs are a secret weapon, got 'em on both my Fenders.

 

[JMacBass65]

Back to Rolling Thunder & Bob in general.

I find it odd that Dylan is seemingly dismissive of Ramblin' Jack Elliott in the movie (modern day comments, not from the tour), saying "if you were on a boat, you'd rather have Jack there as a sailor than a singer".

Yet, he receives high praise from Dylan in Chronicles PT1, and I just read up on the guy, and he certainly no minor player in the folk scene.

 

[JMacBass65]

Nearly impossible to pick a high point from Blonde on Blonde, but this is one of my favorites, and doesn't seem to get mentioned often.

I even like the bum notes on the bass, they kinda snap you back to attention.

 

[TyBo]

Nearly impossible to pick a high point from Blonde on Blonde, but this is one of my favorites, and doesn't seem to get mentioned often.

I even like the bum notes on the bass, they kinda snap you back to attention.

"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face"

Now that is some Beat poetry in that song

 

[notabene]

I spent years cringing at hearing Dylan. His "intonation" (we need another word for Dylan's "intonation" ) was so apalling, I missed the point of his music. . At some point, I found a few tunes to play (instrumentally) and discovered there was "soulful" music there, and for for me) "solulfullness" is the point of music. Yea humanity!. Now, I can at least hear the music and ignore its "faults". and hear the "soul".