What Are You Trying To Say?source:
Hollywood Bowl, 1965
Tracks:
Disc one
(Acoustic)
She Belongs To Me
To Ramona
Gates of Eden
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
Desolation Row
Love Minus Zero
Mr. Tambourine Man
(Electric)
Tombstone Blues (first verse
missing)
I Don't Believe You
From A Buick 6
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Maggie's Farm
It Ain't Me, Babe
Disc two
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Like A Rolling Stone
Bonus:
Berkeley
:
Tombstone Blues
I Don't Believe You
Baby Let Me Follow You Down
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Long Distance Operator
It Ain't Me Babe
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Positively Fourth Street
Like A Rolling Stone
Lost Highway
(1)
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
(1)
Don't Think Twice
(2)
Don't Think Twice
(2)
It's All Over Now Baby Blue
(2)
Miami Sales Message
(3)
If You Gotta Go Go Now
(3)
Review:
This is a really beautiful package, containing two amazing early
electric concerts. It would maybe have been better to fill up the spare
space with the brief electric set from Newport, rather than some
offstage acoustic stuff from the UK tour,
however. The discs themselves are gold. They are silk screened
with a black face that allows the gold to show through for the writing,
creating a stunning look. The sleeve is a glossy cardboard gatefold
exactly like a mini album sleeve. You can see the spine on the scan of
the back. The text on the back is printed onto a black sticker placed
on the black strip next to the photo of Dylan playing chess. The inside
gatefold contains a reproduction of the concert review article from The Beat, October 2
1965, which gave another release of Hollywood Bowl its title: We Had Known A
Lion. It's a shame that the Hollywood Bowl concert is,
for no apparent reason, split across the two discs. It could have fit
neatly onto one disc. The 1965 UK tour material seems
partly to be pirated from the soundtrack of Don't Look Back, apart from
the Miami message with its unusual version of If You Gotta Go.
I've already reviewed the Hollywood Bowl on the AEP Cdr.
version. read it (cond.).
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Information:
source:
Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA Sept. 3,
1965
Bonus:
Berkeley Community Theater, CA Dec.
4, 1965
(1)
Don't Look Back
soundtrack
(2)
British tour 1965
(3)
Levi's Recording Studio, London, UK May 12,
1965
Manufacturer / Catalog No.
No
manufacturer listed
Released:
1998
Quality: 8
stars
(Hollywood Bowl)
Quality: 6
stars (Berkeley
)
Quality: 10
stars (Others)
Bob's Boots ref # BB-w15
Thanks
to Colmx
for scans and review
Other
commercial releases of Hollywood Bowl:
Back
In Hollywood Bowl 1965
Electric
Black Nite Crash
From
Newport to the Streets in LA
Ghost
Of Electricity
Hollywood
Bowl 1965
Hollywood
Bowl Desk Tape1965
Squaring
The Circle
We
Had Known A Lion
Long Distance Operator
Ghost Of Electricity
Give The Anarchist A Cigarette
Review (cont.):
The title is from Dylan's reply to the Hollywood Bowl's
trumpet playing heckler before Gates Of Eden.
As to the content, it's the same 15 song tape of the
Hollywood Bowl as other sources. The end of Tambourine Man
and beginning of Tombstone Blues
are missing. On the Berkeley concert, a few seconds are lost around
where the vocals first enter in I Don't Believe
You. There is no known tape of the acoustic set, where Freeze Out
was premiered. Berkeley is the concert discussed in some detail
by Greil Marcus in the Basement Tapes book Invisible
Republic.
The sound is not nearly as good as the Hollywood Bowl. It's bassy and
sometimes distorted. The vocals could be much higher in the mix, and
the lead guitar is a little too dominate... but as that's Robbie
Robertson in truly blistering form, it's no bad thing. The sound and
arrangements actually resemble the 1974 Dylan/The Band
tour more than they do the 1966 world tour. Apart from
the fierce lead guitar, the backing is gentler an more laid back than '66.
The arrangement of It Ain't Me Babe
is unlike any other I've heard. I really love this concert. It feels
more magical than Hollywood Bowl, and the band seems more excited about
what they are doing. You would probably guess that it came from a few
months before the Bowl, not a few months later.
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