4.      NEW RECORDINGS.. 1

4.1        New releases. 1

4.1.1     MTV Unplugged.. 1

4.1.2     Highway 61 Interactive. 1

4.1.3     Greatest Hits Volume 3 CD+.. 3

4.2        Recordings from 1995.. 4

4.3        New tapes. 4

4.3.1     The Emmett Grogan Acetates. 4

4.3.2     ”Bootleg Series Volume 4-5”.. 5

4.3.3     Other new old tapes. 5

 

WITH ONE HAND WAVING FREE

 

 

4.      NEW RECORDINGS              

4.1                                     New releases

4.1.1                               MTV Unplugged

 

MTV Unplugged is released on CD, Cassette, Video, Laserdisc and vinyl double LP. The tracks selected are:

                                                                                                         

 

On

European

US

 

 

 

 

CD

LP

CD

LP

video

recording date

 

Tombstone Blues

x

x

x

x

x

11/17/94

 

Shooting Star

x

x

x

x

x

11/18/94

 

All Along The Watchtower

x

x

x

x

x

11/18/94

 

The Times They Are A-Changin'

x

x

x

x

x

11/18/94

 

John Brown

x

x

x

x

x

11/18/94

 

Desolation Row

x

x

x

x

x

11/17/94

 

Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

x

x

x

x

x

11/18/94

 

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

x

x

 

 

x

11/17/94

 

Dignity

x

x

x

x

x

11/18/94

 

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

x

x

x

x

x

11/18/94

 

Like A Rolling Stone

x

x

x

x

x

11/18/94

 

With God On Our Side

x

x

x

x

x

11/17/94

 

 

On the European CD and LP versions Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door was originally released with an overdubbed three second loop of audience hand clapping and whistling, making the track virtually unlistenable. This overdub was removed on later releases and Sony Music replaced the CD at the customers wish.

Dignity, John Brown and Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door are also released as CD and cassette singles in various versions. On one of the Dignity singles It Ain’t Me, Babe from Renaldo & Clara (Cambridge, MA, November 20, 1975) is released for the first time.

 

4.1.2                               Highway 61 Interactive[1]

The CD-ROM "Highway 61 Interactive" contains a number of ”worlds” which the user can visit and check out various scenes with photographs and memorabilia, listen to interviews or song snippets, and watch videos. Lyrics to most released Dylan songs are included.

The CD-ROM was produced by Graphix Zone Inc. and Sony Music Entertainment, 1995. It contains one song, "House of the Rising Sun", that is playable on an ordinary CD player and 1879 files totaling 612,781,934 bytes for use on a multimedia computer. The same CD-ROM works both on a PC (with MS-Windows) and on a Macintosh computer.

There are at least two official releases of the CD-ROM plus a promo release. The latter is rumored to contain some early material (1958), which was excluded on the official releases. The main difference between the different official releases seems to be that some bugs in the earlier release(s) have been fixed, e.g. that the program hanged when you tried to save your progresses.

 

The CD-ROM contains among other things:

 

8

Dylan interviews

 

7

pictures and paintings by Dylan

 

103

Dylan songs (most only snippets: 15-60 seconds)

 

 

23

videos

 

12

unreleased but circulating

 

12

previously uncirculated

 

2

unreleased videos from The Supper Club 1993

14

songs by other artists.

 

 

The videos are:

Blood In My Eyes, Promotion Video       

Blowin' In The Wind, From "Hard Rain" TV

Blowin' In The Wind, Live w. intro, photos

Dignity, MTV Unplugged video            

Girl From The North Country, Live in MSG

Hattie Carroll, Live Leicester, 650502  

If You See Her, Say Hello, Renaldo & Clara

Isis, from Renaldo & Clara, Montreal      

Jokerman, Promotion video               

Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Album parade 

Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Live MSG     

Maggie's Farm, Live, Newport 1965       

Masters Of War, Video illustrated - full length      

My Back Pages, Live in MSG 1992     

Only A Pawn ... From Silas Magee's farm 

Series Of Dreams, Promotion video       

Simple Twist Of Fate, Video Renaldo & Clara

Song To Woody, Pictures of Woody & BD   

Subterranean Homesick Blues, Don't Look Back - full length

Talking New York, Scenes from the Village

When He Returns, Live video, Toronto 1980

You Ain't Going Nowhere, Spinning CD    

 


The unreleased recordings are:

Blue-Eyed Jane                        from the May 1994 sessions in New Orleans

I Shall Be Free No. 10

Like A Rolling Stone             9 different takes

Mr. Tambourine Man            with Rambling Jack Elliott from Another Side Sessions

4.1.3                               Greatest Hits Volume 3 CD+[2]

The CD Plus Version consists of two disks, with 7 songs on each. The order of the songs is changed compare to the regular, non-multimedia one disk release in order to get the disks in chronological order.

Disk one:

 

1.      

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid

2.      

Forever Young

Planet Waves

3.      

Tangled Up In Blue

Blood On The Tracks

4.      

Hurricane

Desire

5.      

Changing Of The Guards

Street-Legal

6.      

Gotta Serve Somebody

Slow Train Coming

7.      

The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar

Shot Of Love

Disk two:

 

1.      

Jokerman

Infidels

2.      

Series Of Dreams

Bootleg Series Vol. 3

3.      

Brownsville Girl

Knocked-Out Loaded

4.      

Silvio

Down In The Groove

5.      

Ring Them Bells

Oh Mercy

6.      

Dignity

Greatest Hits Vol. 3

7.      

Under The Red Sky

Under The Red Sky

 

The 14 audio tracks are playable on an ordinary CD player, but can also be played on a computer from the Audio and Lyrics sections of the CD Plus.

 

Multimedia Content

The Main Menu of the CD Plus contains the following sections:

Audio

Plays the audio tracks, shows photos/credits

Lyrics

Plays the audio tracks, showing the lyrics with the current   line highlighted. Clicking on a line in the lyrics makes the audio jump to that line.

Catalog

Shows the album covers of all Dylan albums. Clicking on a  cover plays a short sample (15 seconds) from one of the songs and shows the song titles or the liner notes/song credits.

Video

Each disk contains a full length video, see below.

Discography

Contains the albums represented on the CD Plus disguised as  tape boxes. Clicking on a box brings up that album, where you can hear short (15 seconds) samples from all songs on the album.

Photos

Contains photos of Dylan with accompanying music samples.  Parts of the Jokerman video is also showed.

Biography

Contains a time axis covering the period 1972-1989. Clicking  on a year shows information about Dylan's activities that year and plays a music sample.

 

Video

Disk one: Tangled Up In Blue (Live, Boston, MA, November 21,1975)
Disk two: Series Of Dreams   (Promotional video)

In addition, there are several samples from the Jokerman video in the Photos Section on both discs.

4.2                                     Recordings from 1995

(Please note that this section does not include the shows of the Never-Ending tour. They are covered in section 5 below).

 

July 27             Guesting The Rolling Stones, Espace Grammont, Montpellier, France

Sep 2               Opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, Cleveland Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio

Nov 19            Frank Sinatra 80th Birthday Tribute, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California

 

4.3                                     New tapes

4.3.1                               The Emmett Grogan Acetates

All tracks previously released except where noted. Most tracks are longer than the released versions and several contain comments by the producer, Tom Wilson.

 

June 9, 1964, Columbia Studios, New York City                                                                                                      

 

CO 82218

I Don’t Believe You

 

CO 82219

Chimes Of Freedom

 

CO 82220

Motorpsycho Nitemare

 

CO 82221

Mr. Tambourine Man

(1)

CO 82222

All I really Want To Do

 

CO 82223

Black Crow Blues

 

CO 82224

I Shall Be Released # 10

(2)

 

July 26, 1964, Newport Folk Festival, Rhode Island

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All I Really Want To Do

(3)

 

 

 

 

 

July 29, 1965, Columbia Studios, New York City

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CO 86838

Tombstone Blues

 

 

 

Tombstone Blues

 

 

CO 86839

It Takes A Lot To Laugh

 

 

CO 86840

Positively 4th Street

 

 

 

Positively 4th Street

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 30, 1965, Columbia Studios, New York City

 

 

 

 

 

 

CO 86843

From A Buick 6 (so-called rare version)

 

 

 

From A Buick 6 (regular version)

 

 

CO 86844

Please Crawl Out Your Window

(4)

 

 

 

 

 

August 2, 1965, Columbia Studios, New York City

 

 

 

 

 

 

CO 86846

Highway 61 Revisited

 

 

CO 86847

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues

 

 

CO 86848

Queen Jane Approximately

 

 

 

Queen Jane Approximately

 

 

CO 86849

Ballad Of A Thin Man

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 4, 1965, Columbia Studios, New York City

 

 

 

 

 

 

CO 86937

Desolation Row

 

 

 

(1) unreleased, with Rambling Jack Elliott on the choruses

(2) unreleased, except most of last three verses

(3) unreleased, except for the last verse, which is in the film FESTIVAL.

(4) mistakenly issued as Positively 4th Street

 

4.3.2                               ”Bootleg Series Volume 4-5”

A tape from what is supposedly the finalized mastered version of The  Bootleg Series Volume 4-5. It has the complete show from Manchester,  England May 17, 1966, thus adding a few new tracks, previously not in circulation.

 

4.3.3                               Other new old tapes

J            a complete audience tape from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 4, 1976 is now in circulation.

J            a 45 minute telephone interview from Portland, Oregon on November 30, 1980.

J            a full Avigon 1981 PA-tape 

J            a PA-tape from Jones Beach, New York, June 30, 1988

 

 



[1] Note. This information is abstracted from the article A GUIDE TO THE  HIGHWAY 61 INTERACTIVE CD-ROM or I wouldn't know how to use it if I had to by Sven Erick Alm (sea@math.uu.se) with the author’s kind permission. Please refer to this excellent work for further details.

 

[2] Note. This information is abstracted from the Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits - Volume 3 CD Plus. A summary of the audio content  by Sven Erick Alm (sea@math.uu.se) with the author’s kind permission. Please refer to this excellent work for further details.