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This guy can barely write and I can barely read. Slow Train Coming was a major bummer for Dylan fans at the time. Of course by that time Dylan had made dozens of albums. LouieB

This is all sort of a freak-out...both Swayze and Jim Carroll are my age approximately. What a major bummer. LouieB

Okay, my favorite (or one of them) "obscure" Beatles songs is "I'll Follow the Sun". LouieB

Actually this was discussed here before (back when the Klezmatics CD came out.) Their album hardly is in the same category as Mermaid Ave, but what the heck. The Klezmatics are a very fun band however, if you like that sort of thing. Check out some of their other work, not trad Klez, but enjoyable. LouieB

That was exactly what I was going to say, especially if you include variations on it including Maria, Marie, etc. I would love to do a radio show on that theme, must Mary songs. LouieB

Til there was you.... and most of the other pre-Meet the Beatles material. Most of the other songs mentioned are either on fairly often played LPs or got played extensively on the radio back in the day. (Of course I heard those pre-Meet the Beatles songs on the radio.....top 40 played that stuff.) LouieB

I am confused. I think Bob Dylan has a few years on Jeff Tweedy. Jeff also might make a Christmas album in his 60s. In fact I do think I would enjoy a Jeff Tweedy Xmas album a touch more than a Bob Dylan one, now or in in the future. (He needs to hurry up though because I won't be around to hear his Xmas album made in his middle to late 60s I don't think.) LouieB

I really would like the mono box set, but honestly I doubt I would listen to most of it very often. LouieB

OMG this was a fun event. We sold tons of merch and the crowd was huge. LouieB

Sure you can go see U2 today..... LouieB

I'll have to ask the Bloodshot folks about this today. Looks cool. LouieB

A Day in a Life was played on WXRT yesterday. It sounds exactly the same on a car radio. LouieB

Agreed and your library should have this, whereas they might not have some of the more pop oriented stuff mentioned. LouieB

It will be a long day. Come early with the kids, it is a kid friendly event. It gets less kid friendly after dark. LouieB

Yes, I bought Rosie the deluxe two CD set and I noticed it was gone. LouieB

I think he did very well too, however this is the time to speak up. This is still going to take months (or who knows, even a year) so there may need to be more speeches. This promises to be a very long road and this is just one theatrical moment along the way. (And very good theater it was....I was waiting all night for the Ted Kennedy moment....) LouieB

I had not seen this. If anyone goes to the Hideout this weekend, stop by and say hello at the merch table. Rosie will be there too. The Blacks reunion should be fun. LouieB

Orphans is a cool, but uneven set. After popping for the deluxe CD set a few years ago, I don't think a 150 dollar vinyl set is in the cards for me. LouieB

Okay, I am convinced (I am easy), I might like these. But at some point I will probably lose interest in really having them. LouieB

Thanks, I always wondered about that. They were also there on the first CDs so I figured it was intentional, which in a sense it was since they didn't have to release that show and it did give it an aura it would not have had otherwise, and like I said make it more like a real bootleg which nearly always had both bad sound and quality control problems. LouieB

Live at Leeds is a cool record, but I have always maintained that they intentionally put a bunch of surface noise on it to make it sound like a bootleg since that is what it is patterned after. Remember (and it is hard to accept this I suppose) records are pressed between two plates on a big old peice of molten plastic. Despite all the disclaimers about how much better they sound (if you want to believe that, fine) that's all they are. As with any mass produced product, it depends on how good the die is, how good the material is, how it is treated when it is taken out of the die, how carefu

Honestly I can't really give you any more details on the vaguries of vinyl records, except if it is still skipping you may need a new one. If your other records don't skip with the settings the same, you have a record problem. Generally (and again I am no audiophile, I use a nearly 40 year old Dual), you need about half a gram of weight, which can be upped to more if need be. Anti-skating should not be at the limit. It may be time to seek out a hi-fi guy and let him check out your turntable, re-set the settings, check the needle, motor, etc. And yes, the more weight you put on the groove

That sounds like a good plan. Turntables do need adjusting. If there is too little weight on the arm it can skip, same with the anti-skating (which is why it is called that.) LouieB

Let us know if they take it back. Wow, I gotta say, maybe some of you guys need new turntables. Either that or Nonesuch is having really bad quality control problem, which considering how long it took to get this thing out is really dreadful. I buy old LPs from the 50s and 60s (and 70s and 80s) at resale shops that don't skip at all. They have a few snap crackle and pops in places of course..but some sound really good for having been played for 40 or 50 years. LouieB

This is pathetic but not unheard of. You are lucky they let you return it. That is not always the case with vinyl anymore (it used to be when all records were vinyl.) LouieB