Bob Dylan and the Band both needed the celebrated reunion tour of 1974, since Dylan's fortunes had been floundering since Self Portrait and the Band stumbled with 1971's Cahoots. The tour, with its attendant publicity, definitely returned both artists to center stage, and it definitely succeeded, breaking box office records and earning great reviews. Before the Flood, a double-album souvenir of the tour, suggests that these were generally dynamic shows, but not because they were reveling in the past, but because Dylan was fighting the nostalgia of his audience -- nostalgia, it must be noted, that was promoted as the very reason behind these shows. Yet that's what gives this music such kick -- Dylan reworks, rearranges, reinterprets these songs in ways that are still disarming, years after its initial release. He could only have performed interpretations this radical with a group as sympathetic, knowing of his traits as the band, whose own recordings here are respites from the storm. And this is a storm -- the sound of a great rocker, surprising his band and audience by tearing through his greatest songs in a manner that might not be comforting, but it guarantees it to be one of the best live albums of its time. Ever, maybe.
Most Likely You'll Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine is my favorite song these days. And I mean the version from Before the Flood where Dylan does it like this:you say you love me and you're thinkin of me but ya know ya could be WROOOONGGG!!!!That's really the way it was meant to be played.Too bad the Band songs on that album don't really hold up. They might be good songs but not next to Dylan.
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I love love LOVE mash-ups. They're my fave new thing happening in music these days. BUT, I couldn't actually make one to save my life. Now, I have what I think is a great idea for a mash-up - or at least worth a shot. The tunes, to my ears, sound very similar in terms of chords; I've heard brilliant mash-ups combining two songs that sound far less alike (for example, the one that blends the track
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Much wringing of hands and righteous indignation in Dylanworld today, as Mark Ronson's remix of "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)" is unveiled. Outrage and accusations of sacrilege, I imagine, will be the first responses of many of you.But come on, no-one's died here. To put things into perspective, it's not as if the original version of "Most Likely" has been permanently suppress.
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Most Likely You'll Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine is my favorite song these days. And I mean the version from Before the Flood where Dylan does it like this:you say you love me and you're thinkin of me but ya know ya could be WROOOONGGG!!!!That's really the way it was meant to be played.Too bad the Band songs on that album don't really hold up. They might be good songs but not next to Dylan.
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Here's something I found combing through my del.ici.ous links. It's a great site with just about anything you need to know about Bob Dylan bootlegs.Enjoy!
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