Bittersweet
source: 1-31-74 & 2/11/74 Evening
shows
Tracks:
Disc one
Most Likely You Go Your Way
Lay Lady Lay
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
It Ain't Me Babe
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Stage Fright [The Band]
Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [The
Band]
King Harvest [The Band]
When You Awake
Up On Cripple Creek [The Band]
All Along The Watchtower
Ballad Of Hollis Brown
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Disc two
The Times
Don't Think Twice
Gates Of Eden
Just Like A Woman
Its Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Rag Mama Rag [The Band]
This Wheel's On Fire [The Band]
The Shape I'm In [The Band]
Oakland:
The Weight [The Band]
Forever Young
Highway 61 Revisited
Like A Rolling Stone
Maggie's Farm
Blowin' In the Wind
Review:
A great soundboard recording of a 'show' that has been reputed to be
the full afternoon show of Madison Square Garden, NYC
Jan. 31, 1974. In actuality, this is primarily
the evening
show, with the end of the 2/11/74 Oakland show spliced
to it.
The music is a little to the background, and a little muffled. The
vocals,
however, are right in your face and crystal clear.
©
2001 CD Pinkerton bobsboots.com
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Information:
Source / Venue:
Madison Square Garden NYC Jan.
31, 1974 (Eve.)
Oakland 2/11/74 evening show
Manufacturer / Catalog No.
Head / 2CD-r set
Quality:
7-8 stars
Bob's Boots ref #
BB-b22
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The
Confusing Setlist by:
Ty Raterman
Dylan performed two shows on 1/31/74 ( NYC ). According
to Olof
Björner, the setlist
for the afternoon was different from the one for the evening. In
fact, the setlist
for the afternoon was not played at any other point on the tour.
Numerous
bootlegs (purportedly) from this date, including The Poet and the Players, Bittersweet, Before and After the Flood
and Forever Young have Dylan playing a
setlist that matches the one from the afternoon
show. So
these bootlegs must be recordings of the afternoon show, right?
Well, curiously,
another recording with this same setlist circulates. It's not
that this other
recording is just a different source of the same show captured on the
aforementioned bootlegs, but rather that
it's a different
show altogether. Dylan says different things between songs, for
example. How
could this be? I
posted the question in a discussion forum and was told that one of these
(the one in which Dylan
says " It's great to be back in
New
York... it's a rare privilege to be here ") is in fact
not the
afternoon show, but rather the
bulk of the NYC
1/31/74 evening
show spliced together
with the end of the Oakland 2/11/74 evening show.
This splicing creates a 'show' that
has the same set list as the 1/31/74
afternoon show,
but that nonetheless contains no
music
from that show. The aforementioned bootlegs are a splice job of 1/31/74
evening up through The
Shape I'm In and then Oakland 2/11/74 evening from The
Weight through Blowin' In the Wind
. I was unconvinced of this until I played my
recording of Oakland 2/11/74 evening against the
relevant tracks from "The Poet and the Players" and found that they
were completely in sync. This confirmed it. None of the
aforementioned
bootlegs are recordings of the 1/31/74 afternoon show.
Dylan said " It's great to
be back in New
York... it's a rare privilege to be here "
between songs 1
and 2 of the 1/31/74
afternoon show. As
of now, the real afternoon show has not been pressed onto any
commercial bootleg.
© 2001 Ty Raterman / bobsboots.com
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