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A Phoenix In April source: Sydney, Australia 1966 Tracks: Disc one She Belongs To Me Fourth Time Around Visions Of Johanna It's All Over Now Baby Blue Desolation Row Just Like A Woman Mr. Tambourine Man Disc two Tell Me Momma I Don't Believe You Baby Let Me Follow You Down Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues LeopardSkin PillBox Hat One Too Many Mornings Ballad Of A Thin Man Positively Fourth Street Review: The Sydney show is a raw and powerful soundboard recording. It is surprisingly quite for being an analog recording from such an early show. Dylan is talkative between a few of the first songs of each set in the slow, stoned voice that typified this tour. The first disc contains the acoustic show. The first song cuts in, and the tape speed runs off for a second. The mic windscreen (pop filter) does not work well throughout the show. On Visions Of Johanna, virtually every line has a word that pops. It's not as bad on Fourth Time Around, which contains a momentary feedback. It returns on each "Baby Blue". On the solo of Desolation Row, Dylan plays a series of triplets on the guitar in double time, and blows a slide on the harp to compliment it for a strange effect that probably worked better live than it does on tape. The second disc is the electric set. The music is well mixed, but the vocals completely overpower it. Of course, because of the nature of the harder singing on this set, the pop filter is much more problematic. Dylan introduces Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues with a bizarre faux meaning of the song. The pop filter becomes so ineffective, that on some verses of LeopardSkin PillBox Hat, every word pops The highlight of the electric set is an erie, laid back Ballad Of A Thin Man that makes use of dynamics, and a play between the vocals and organ. All in all, this is a great recording. The sound is bright and full, and as good as the best know tapes. The discs are a tad short at 48 minutes each, but the overall package wouldn't have work so well by using filler material. The cover stays with the black, white, and red theme of the official Bootleg Vol. 4 release. The CDs were copied by Orange and released as a double entitled 'Live Sydney 66'. © 2001 CD Pinkerton bobsboots.com |
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A Phoenix In April The Children's Crusade While The Establishment Burns A Nightly Ritual The Genuine Royal Albert Hall Concerts All concerts are 1966 "A Phoenix in April" - Sydney, Australia "The Children's Crusade" - Melbourne & Adelaide "While The..." - Dublin, Copenhagen, & Edinburgh "Ritual"- Liverpool, Glasgow, Sheffield, & Birmingham "The Genuine RAH Concerts" Manchester & London In addition, some sets included two bonus discs of the Bristol show entitled Away From The Past Other commercial releases of Sydney '66: Happy Dylennium Live Sydney 66 Shifts And Changes Tales Of A Mexican Painter © 2001 Craig Pinkerton Bobsboots.com Download covers for printing
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