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I'm 20 mins away from some Sierra Nevada's and then a couple Schlafy Hefe's...

I love the way he sings the last word of a line...like more in Someday Baby and break in When The Levee Breaks...

Whenever I'm excited about a new release, I end up a little embarrased about it, to the point that when I pick up something the day it comes out, I play it "cool" and scan the other new releases, too. As if I'm not a superfan who's been dying to get my mitts on the new album for weeks and weeks. Nerdtastic.

LOL! I wish you had posted this yesterday! I must have looked like a fool last night at midnight at Vintage Vinyl in my 30th anniversary celebration t-shirt...Shit!

So like, yeah, when was the last time we saw Bob on guitar.

New Orleans Jazz Fest 4/25-26/2003, I think...

I love Brokedown Palace...what a beautiful song! It always made me sad though in concert since it was usually the last song. But I love to hear it now!

Whenever I had lawn seats, I would always go to Jerry's side. I was never lucky enough to get reserved seats on his side--usually far left or back in the center. If only the circus was coming back to town!

At the funeral, Dylan was at his open caskit...sharing a final moment with his brother. Bob bowed and tried to sneak off. Deborah said Bob, Bob! and grabbed his arm. With bright red eyes, Bob tells Deborah that Jerry was the only one who was always there for me.

I want to collect as many audio interviews with Jerry that are out there. He was a man of love and peace, with unmatched intellect and insight.

I miss you Jerry!!! I will always listen to the river! Thanks for everything!

It's one of his masterpieces! With Sgt. Pepper and Their Satanic being released earlier that year, JWH was Bob's reply. All the songs are beautifully performed. I love the album cover...brown and gray, and very simple. Without JWH, would we have gotten The White Album or Beggar's Banquet as soon as we did?

anyone a huge fan of empire burlesque besides me? the production kinda sucks but the songs are great

Yeah, I think that album is full of great songs. The production does suck, which is too bad. Did you ever hear the Dark Eyes that Bob and Patti Smith shared voals on during the Paradise Lost Tour of Dec 95? Whoa!

actually, now that i think about it, born in time should've been on oh mercy. it's on an outtakes cd i have.

Yeah, I like that version better. It's just like Mississippi, Bob wanted a diff sound than Lanios'. Or maybe he just didn't want to release all the best tracks to piss people off...

born in time is a fantastic track, i'll give you that.

Amen. It's as bad or worse as Down in the Groove. The only weaker Dylan studio LPs are Empire Burlesque and UCK. Er, UCK. Sorry, I can't say it without gagging on my tongue: the one that came out in 1986 and has Brownsville Girl on it. Oh, shudder...

Come on, give Grandpa Bob a break...at that time he had grandkids running around everywhere he looked.

Down in the Groove--

When did you leave heaven--a tribute to the great Henry "Red" Allen

Silvio (w/ Robert Hunter)

Ugliest girl in the world (ditto)

Shenandoah

Rank Strangers to me

Knocked out loaded--

You wanna ramble

Driftin' too far

Brownsville girl

Under your spell

I'll agree that Knocked out was his weakest release of his own doing...but there are still some good songs on it.

ah, why did you include under the red sky?

LOL!!!

For one, Born in Time!!!

Under the Red Sky

God Knows

Cats in the Well

even Wiggle Wiggle

I wish Daniel Lanios had produced it though.

Did you ever see Bob look out into the front rows and notice some young children and play Under the Red Sky to them?

what kills me is how long he's taking between albums these days. and how frequently he was putting out lack luster albums in the 80's. I mean the man himself said he was in huge dry spell and he couldn't get out of it...than why was he mass producing albums?

The dry spell didn't last very long. If you look at all of his albums from the '80s, each one had at least several true masterpieces. I think the '80s brought changes that the '60s artists had trouble adapting to...look at Neil, The Dead, etc. It also became quite an ordeal for Bob to select a band for recording and touring. He learned so much from Jerry and The Dead during that short period together. The formula had always been to release an album and tour behind it. But that became a real burden. The rehearsals for the Dylan/Dead tour went on and on, and Bob rediscovered hundreds of songs from his catalog that he hadn't played in decades. It was that spark that relit Bob's fire, and look at what he's given us since then. The Never Ending Tour, The Bootleg Series, Oh Mercy, Under the Red Sky, the two traditional albums, Time Out Of Mind, Love & Theft, Chronicles, No Direction Home, Theme Time Radio Hour, etc. I would rather Bob take his time with his new material and nail his new songs, which is what he has done beginning with Oh Mercy.

!. Murmur

2. Reckoning

3. Fables

Lew Prince has been telling the story of Carter Carburetor for more than a decade. The St. Louis auto-parts maker, he explains, thrived for nearly 40 years by serving the needs of the Big Three.

"They did everything right as a company," says Prince, co-owner of Vintage Vinyl in University City (and an RFT opera critic). "They improved their product, their delivery, their pricing." But, he adds, "What they never saw coming was fuel injection. They didn't learn how to make fuel injectors, and they went out of business."

The shaggy-bearded Prince first told the carburetor story when Vintage Vinyl was in the middle of a fifteen-year ascendancy that saw gross income jump between 10 and 20 percent per year. By all appearances, the store had few worries, as it was the destination for music fanatics throughout the Midwest. But Vintage and other mom-and-pop record stores saw dark clouds gathering on the horizon: Internet retail. The Carter Carburetor cautionary tale was Prince's way of explaining the need for Vintage Vinyl to adapt to the times.

That need is more pressing now than it was a decade ago. The arrival of Internet retailers was a mere portent. File-sharing software such as Napster and LimeWire followed, and signaled a sea change in the way society consumed music. Now, legitimate download stores like iTunes, Rhapsody and eMusic offer legal alternatives to "stealing" music, and consumers are growing more accustomed to storing their music not on shelves but on hard drives. This change has decimated the retail landscape.

It's like Carter Carburetor facing not only fuel injection but teleportation.

According to Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks sales data in the music industry, sales at independent retailers in 2006 are down 27 percent from the same period from last year. In 2000 as many as 5,500 independent music stores spanned the nation. At the end of last year, that number had shrunk to 2,600.

Vintage Vinyl, despite its sterling reputation, is not immune to the vagaries of the market. Since the boom times of the 1990s, Vintage Vinyl has eliminated nearly half of its 40-person staff. Last year the record store laid off its longtime general manager, Steve Pick, and recently Vintage cut the jobs of three other managers. Pick is now a part-time manager at Euclid Records.

While customers could once be assured of finding the best musical selection at Vintage Vinyl, the pickings are now far slimmer. A fan looking for, say, the newest release on the hot Southern Lord Records imprint will come up empty.

Even with much advance warning, effective strategies to compete with the monolithic changes in the business have left the store feeling a bit helpless.

"I feel like we see it all coming," says Prince, "but it's at a level where perhaps we won't be able to compete."

It is reasonable to ask whether record stores are still relevant. If, for example, one wants to find out about the new Gnarls Barkley CD, or doesn't care to spend hours scouring bins for the best new music, there's Pitchfork (www.pitchforkmedia.com), the eleven-year-old Web magazine that can do the sorting for you. After reading an album's Pitchfork review, one can order the CD from hip online independent stores InSound (www.insound.com) or Other Music (www.othermusic.com), and the e-retailers will send the music the same day. There's no real need to visit Vintage Vinyl.

That wasn't the case a decade ago, says a frustrated Tom Ray, who, with Prince, founded Vintage Vinyl 26 years ago at a Soulard Market booth. "For a lot of people in St. Louis, there were two gatekeepers

Dylan singing Restless farewell at sinatra's 80th bday is damn good

 

 

Happy Birthday Mr. Frank!!! Yaaa!

"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,

"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,

None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,

"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,

So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view

While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,

Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

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