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2017
26 January 2017
- Red Bull meeting
We chose 'Fourth Time Around' from Dylan's Melbourne 1966
concert as our theme tune for the night - as we celebrated our fourth
anniversary at The Red Bull pub ● Intro and outline of the
night's agenda from John Nye ● John Stokes and 'Play A
Song From Me': 'Planet Waves' under the spotlight and we played track
6, 'Forever Young' ● John Nye on MediaMass and fake news -
Dylan stories in the press that just don't ring true ● Jeff Stevens took an in-depth look at the Robbie Robertson's
autobiography 'Testimony', aided by David Palmer and Chris Cooper
● Small town America comes to Lancashire, UK! Allen Purvis reported
on the latest twist in The Beaten Path, which is still making
headlines even after the exhibition has closed ● Sid Astbury [visiting Cambridge for the weekend] spoke on his local
Newcastle-based Bridge group, who meet up the last Thursday of every
month to talk about Dylan ● MyWay66: John Nye chose his
highlight from the new 1966 boxset - Mr Tambourine Man, from DeMontfort Hall, Leicester, 15 May 1966 ● Upgraded video
from Dylan's Birmingham 1987 concert ● The hilarious
Episode 1 of Sky Arts' new 'Urban Myths' series, about Bob Dylan's
attempt to visit his good friend Dave Stewart ● New video
footage of Bob Dylan from the 1969 Isle Of Wight press conference
● Armando Fusco reported on the BBC Radio 4 Extra story 'Don't
Think Twice', written and read by Annie McCartney [when you share a
birthday with your all-time hero, Bob Dylan, and have got to let him
know], which is currently up on BBC iPlayer Radio [here] ● Audio of Dylan playing grand piano on Barry Goldberg's 1971
session for 'High Heeled Sneakers'. JN
30 March 2017
- Red Bull meeting
Intro and outline of the night's agenda from
John Nye ● John Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'Bootleg
Series Vol. 06: Live 1964 - Concert At Philharmonic Hall' under the
spotlight and we played 'It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)' ●
John Nye introduced the discussion on Triplicate, Bob Dylan's new
triple album of American standards being released the day after
Bobchat ● Chris Cooper took an in-depth look at 'Q&A With Bill
Flanagan', the revealing new interview on bobdylan.com [here]
talking about, among other things, the new album release and the era
it harks back to ● Jeff Stevens reported on two interviews with Bob
Dylan session men, with their observations of working with Dylan in
the late 60s, and played audio extracts of both ● John Nye on the
up-coming UK Bob Dylan shows at The London Palladium, the theatre
mentioned by Dylan in his Nobel prize acceptance speech months before
the theatre booking was announced ● Chris Cooper talked extensively on
the just-published list of artefacts being stored at the Bob Dylan
Archive at the University of Tulsa, and included a short film
featuring the archive's curator, Michael Chaiken ● David Palmer
reported on 'Bob Dylan: A Celebration', a gala evening of Bob Dylan
music and discussion at The Bath Festival on 20 May 2017 [more
information
here] ● John Stokes on Bob Dylan's new silkscreen artwork
collection being launched at Castle Galleries in Cambridge on April 20
[more information
here]. JN
25 May 2017
- Red Bull meeting
Intro and outline of the night's agenda from
John Nye ● John Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'Down In
The Groove' under the spotlight and we played 'Silvio' ●
Allen Purvis reported on the launch of Bob Dylan's new silkscreen artwork collection
at Castle Galleries in Cambridge ● It used to go like
that, now it goes like this: Chris Cooper introduced
a new Dylan coversongs feature with video of P.J. Harvey singing
'Highway 61 Revisited' ● John Nye on the albums that never were,
a website [here]
dedicated to 'reconstructing famous unreleased albums',
including a Bob Dylan soundtrack album for 'Eat The Document', the
documentary of Bob Dylan's 1966 UK tour with the
Hawks ● MyWay66: Allen Purvis chose his highlights
from the new 1966 boxset - 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue', which we
played, and 'One Too Many Mornings', both from Sheffield, 16 May 1966
● John Nye played short video clips of Izzy Young and John
Hammond talking about the young Bob Dylan in New York in the early 60s
● Further video clips followed, including a new transfer of
'Hazel' from 'Last Waltz', and 'City Of Gold' from Birmingham NEC 1981
● Chris Cooper led the discussion on Bob Dylan's
just-completed UK tour - highlights/heartbreaks, tour stories;
including 18 minutes [5 songs] of video with Dylan and the band on stage at
the Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham on May 5 ● Bob Dylan rarities screened at
the third annual Asbury Park
Music and Film Festival held in April. JN
27
July 2017
- Red Bull meeting
Intro and outline of the night's agenda from
John Nye ● John Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'Pat
Garrett & Billy The Kid' went under the spotlight and we played 'Billy
4' ●
Allen Purvis reported on Bob Dylan's Nobel acceptance speech - and
his possible borrowings from SparkNotes ● John Nye on the
recently found unpublished Bob Dylan song about 'the dairy State'
Wisconsin and its failed attempted auction ● John Nye
looked at 'Plumdusty's Page' [here]
● John Stokes reported on the play 'Girl From The North Country'
[written and directed by Conor McPherson, with music and lyrics by Bob
Dylan] currently on at The Old Vic in London [here]
● Armando Fusco shared a poster for The Bob Dylan Story, a Dylan
tribute act playing at The Apex in Bury St Edmunds [here]
● MyWay66: David Palmer chose his highlight from the live
1966 boxset - 'Just Like A Woman' from the last night of the tour,
Royal Albert Hall 27 May 1966, which we played ● Rewind -
back to 1974: Bob Dylan and The Band go on tour and all concerts sell
out in record time. Chris Cooper led the discussion on the tour, which
included Press cuttings [brought by Chris, together with a book or two] and memorabilia, including
books and vinyl bootlegs [brought by others] ● We looked at BBC's Celebrity Mastermind from last December, which
included Piers Taylor answering questions on Bob Dylan ●
Videos: 'Precious Angel', New York, 1989; 'Something', New York, 2002;
'Summer Days', Milwaukee, 2017; 'Trying To Get To Heaven',
Troy, 2011. JN
28 September 2017
- Red Bull meeting
Intro and outline of the night's agenda from
John Nye ● John Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'Oh
Mercy' went under the spotlight and we played 'Most Of The
Time' ●
All the latest news
from the soon to be released [November 3] next edition of The Bootleg Series:
'Vol. 13 - Trouble No More 1979-1981',
including Chris Cooper looking at recent books dealing with Dylan's
Gospel years ● John Stokes reviewed 'Girl From The North Country', the play written and directed by Conor McPherson, with music and lyrics by
Bob Dylan ● Chris Cooper reviewed
'Woody Guthrie - The Tribute Concerts', a new 3CD boxset celebrating
the 1968 and 1970 US concerts, with contributions from Bob
Dylan, Joan Baez, Jack Elliott and others [see
here]; an Amazon release is on Oct 6 [here]
● Jeff Stevens on Arthur
Baker and the 'Empire Burlesque' sessions ● The recently
surfaced Allen Ginsberg '65 tapes - San Francisco and San Jose -
were discussed, and we played 'Visions of Johanna' from the San
Francisco concert
● Rewind - back to 1975: Bob Dylan goes on the
road with The Rolling Thunder Revue. Chris
Cooper led the discussion on the tour, and included Press cuttings
[brought by Chris] and vinyl bootlegs [brought by Chris Rolph].
We also heard an enthralling first-hand account from Carol Casper, who
attended several of the Rolling Thunder Revue concerts ●
Video: 'Romance In Durango', Hammersmith Apollo, London, 24 November
2003. JN
30 November 2017
- Red Bull meeting
Intro and outline of the night's agenda from
John Nye ● John Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'Real
Live' went under the spotlight and we played 'Tombstone Blues' ●
John Nye introduced an extract from a documentary video about Club 47
and the early Cambridge (USA) folk scene, which included audio clips
of Bob
Dylan playing at the club ● Allen Purvis on Dylan's 2017 art collection from
'The Beaten Path' series, launched recently at Castle Galleries,
Cambridge ● John Nye looked at 'The Midnight Cafe' blog [here]
and 'A Thousand Highways' blog [here]
● Frank Hopkins on
DylanRadio.com ●
Tom Petty 1950-2017 - we played an edited interview of Tom Petty talking about working with, among
others, Bob Dylan, George Harrison and The Traveling Wilburys ●
Jeff Stevens played audio extracts from the DVD 'Gotta Serve Somebody:
The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan' featuring various members of Dylan's
Gospel period backing band talking about their time on the road with
Dylan ● Chris Cooper led the discussion on The Bootleg
Series: 'Vol. 13 - Trouble No More 1979-1981' ● Videos:
'City Of Gold', NEC, Birmingham, 5 July 1981; 'Learning To Fly',
Denver, Colorado, 21 October 2017.
JN
2018
25 January 2018 - Red Bull meeting
The meeting was cancelled.
JN
29 March 2018 - Red Bull meeting
Intro and outline
of the night's agenda from John Nye, who also talked briefly about
Dylan Archives III, a collection of rare Bob Dylan films to be
screened on April 29 at the Asbury Park Music & Film Festival ●
Meanwhile, in Britain we have Bob Dylan on BBC4 TV [30 March 2018]:
9.00pm
 Johnny
Cash: The Man, His World, His Music; 10.00pm Arena: Bob Dylan -
Trouble No More [and
here afterwards]; 11.00pm
...Sings Dylan II, a one-hour compilation of cover versions ●
John Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits'
went under the spotlight and we played 'Positively 4th Street' ●
Richard Stokes took us into the world of Australian artist Brett
Whiteley (1939-1992) and explained the artist's fascination with Bob
Dylan - art, life and other things. Brett Whiteley used to paint to a
Dylan soundtrack played so loud his studio had to be soundproofed, so
that it wouldn't disturb the neighbours. Now there's an idea...
● John Nye introduced a video of David Kemper talking about
exchanging gifts with Bob Dylan ● David Palmer led a brief
talk about the workings of the Bob Dylan Archive at the University of
Tulsa ● David Palmer posed a challenge with his T-shirt
[see picture] - which concert/year is the T-shirt promoting? We did
eventually work it out - 1966 ● David Palmer on the
archive of historic and previously unseen photographs [including Bob
Dylan] unearthed in the vaults of the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation and now on tour and in the UK in June [see
here]
● John Nye chose his highlight from the 'The Bootleg Series Vol.
13 - Trouble No More 1979-1981': 'Caribbean Wind' (Rehearsal -
23Sep1980), which we played ● Chris Cooper led the
discussion on 'The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 - Trouble No More 1979-1981'
- the highs and lows, and bits left off ● Joan Baez audio
'Troubled And I Don't Know Why', from BBC TV Live In Edinburgh 1965,
where she also explains how Dylan wrote the song ● Videos: 'Idiot
Wind', Toronto, 18 August 1992; 'He Was A Friend Of Mine', Roy Orbison
Tribute Concert, 1990. JN
31
May 2018 - Red Bull Meeting
Intro and outline of the night's agenda
from John Nye - Bobchat meets Video Night, a mixture of chat and never
before seen Dylan video. On a hot New Jersey night... ●
Al and Cathy Masciocchi
were visiting from Connecticut and stayed for the entire evening,
before jetting back to the USA ●
David
Palmer spoke about the Gene Simmons $2,000 box set, 'The Vault', that
includes songs written with Bob Dylan ● David also spoke
about the Bob Dylan concert he attended in Barcelona in March ●
John Nye discussed the question - is The Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa
for academics or fans? ● Bob Dylan vinyl releases
available at Record Store Day on April 21 were talked about by David
Palmer and we also played the official video of 'Masters Of War (The
Avener Rework)' ● John Stokes began a short discussion on
the next Bootleg Series, which is believed to be centred around 'Blood
On The Tracks' outtakes ● Throughout the evening Chris
Cooper introduced rare Bob Dylan video, including the evening opener
'Series Of Dreams' [1994-02-12 Osaka]; 'Every Grain Of Sand'
[1994-10-04 Portland]; 'Dignity' [1995-03-26 Brighton]; 'Born In Time'
[1994-10-12 Providence]; 'When I Paint My Masterpiece' [1992-10-30
Beverly]; 'I & I' [1994-02-16 Hiroshima]; 'I Shall Be Released' (with
Jewel) [1996-04-18 Providence]; and the evening closer 'Series Of
Dreams' [1994-02-16 Hiroshima].
JN
26 July 2018
- Red Bull meeting
Intro and outline of the night's agenda from
John Nye ● John Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'Highway
61 Revisited' went under the spotlight and we played 'Just Like Tom
Thumb's Blues' ● John Nye talked briefly about the up-coming
Bob Dylan tour starting the next day [27 July] in Seoul, South Korea.
The first six dates are all in different countries: South Korea,
Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia! ● We rememb ered
John Baldwin, who died on May 29. He used to regularly attend TCBDS
meetings during the early days of his Dignity fanzine. Many of us
subscribed to his invaluable Desolation Row information service and
also secured concert tickets through the Bob Dylan ticket allocation
arrangement he had with UK promoters ● John Nye on
The Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa - author Clinton Heylin and
historian/musicologist John Troutman gave their first impressions of
the archive at a recent symposium in Tulsa, on the theme of Bob
Dylan's travels across America [video can be found
here] ● We also discussed The Bob Dylan Center which opens
in the Tulsa arts district in 2021 and will be 'the primary public
venue' for The Bob Dylan Archive. The Center will curate and exhibit
the archive's collection of more than 100,000 items including
handwritten manuscripts, notebooks and correspondence. At last
somewhere for the fans to go ● Richard Stokes spoke of a
Dylan-related article he read in The Times Literary Supplement: 'My
friend Bob', by Daniel Karlin [link
here] ● Chris Cooper read some extracts from a new book
giving a fans-eye view of Bob Dylan during the first decade of his
career: "The Day I Was There" by Neil Cossar ● We discussed the
latest rumour surrounding 'The Bootleg Series Vol. 14' and it's
suggested title of 'More Blood, More Tracks' and also discussed Vol.
15, which is rumoured to be centred around 'Infidels' outtakes ●
The latest CD release 'Live 1962-1966 - Rare Performances From The
Copyright Collections', a double CD compilation, is expected to arrive
any day ● Chris Cooper showed a copy of 'The Ultimate Music
Guide: Bob Dylan & The Band', a supplement of the Uncut magazine,
currently in the shops ● Chris Cooper led the discussion on
'Rewind - back to 1978: forty years on...' and showed Press cuttings
from the day, and Chris Rolph brought a box of 1978 vinyl bootlegs
● Videos: 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue', Toronto, 12 October 1978;
Mixed footage, Blackbushe, 15 July 1978; 'Tombstone Blues', Newport
Folk Festival, 1965. JN
27 September 2018
- Red Bull meeting
Intro and outline of the night's agenda from
John Nye ● John Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'Blood
On The Tracks' went under the spotlight and we played 'Idiot Wind'
● John Nye introduced the discussion on the new 6CD box set 'More
Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 [DELUXE EDITION]' due
out on November 2 ● John Stokes on 'Mondo Scripto', the
new Bob Dylan artwork collection being launched in the UK next week
● Chris Cooper examined the highs and lows of the latest leg of the
Bob Dylan 2018 tour, which included intriguing rewrites for two Dylan
standards 'When I Paint My Masterpiece' and 'Gotta Serve Somebody'
● Chris Cooper and John Stokes on Bob Dylan fanzines over the years,
many titles were brought in to the meeting and handed around ●
Chris Cooper on the collection of sheet music and acetates Bob Dylan
gifted to Odetta in the 1960s [see
here] ● Videos: 'Visions Of Johanna', Belfast, 6 May 1966;
'Man Of Peace', Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead, Foxboro, 4 July 1987;
Rare 1965 audio of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in Raleigh before concert
at Reynolds Coliseum, interviewed by Steve Berkowitz, snippet only;
'Slow Train' new version, edited from two nights,
Toronto April 20 and Buffalo May 1980. JN
29 November 2018
- Red Bull meeting
Intro and outline of the night's agenda from
John Nye ● John Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'New
Morning' went under the spotlight and we played 'Sign On The Window'
● Jeff Stevens gave a
review of 'Dix Jours Avec Bob Dylan', a French book by Robert Martin
looking at Dylan's stay with David Oppenheim in France in May 1975
[see article
here, in French] ● Richard Stokes introduced a
light-hearted look at Dylan parodies and we played several ●
Chris Cooper reviewed the new Blu-ray collection 'The Last Waltz
[Masters of Cinema] Limited Edition' - The Band's farewell concert
[see
here] ● John Nye gave a round-up of the latest Bob
Dylan podcasts, including two currently on offer from Rolling Stone
magazine [see
here] and five currently available from the 'Is It Rolling, Bob?
Talking Dylan' series [see
here] ● John Nye on The Bob Dylan Fan Club [see
here] ●
Lossless Bob's website has been down since early October, a temporary
archive facility is available
here ● Allen Purvis on the latest from 'Mondo
Scripto', Bob Dylan's new artwork collection. Chris Cooper also looked
at the lyric changes presented in the collection ● Chris
Cooper introduced the discussion on the new 'More Blood, More Tracks:
The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 [DELUXE EDITION]' and we played his
highlight: 'You're A Big Girl Now' [Take 3] ● Bob Dylan
and Neil Young headlining at British Summer Time concert in Hyde Park,
London, on July 12 [see
here] ● Videos: a 15-minute edited film including an early
interview with John Hammond talking about 'Blood On The Tracks' and a
contemporary interview with musicians from the Minneapolis sessions
now acknowledged on the new 'More Blood, More Tracks' boxset; Dylan
guesting on 'The Jimmy Fallon Show' [see video
here]; Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, Denver, 7June1999. JN
2019
31 January 2019 - Red Bull Meeting
Intro
and outline of the night's agenda from John Nye, and we remembered
Clydie King and Steve Ripley, who both sadly passed away in January
● John Stokes and
'Play A Song From Me': 'Dylan & The Dead' went under the spotlight and
 we played 'Queen Jane Approximately'
● John Nye spoke
briefly about Bob Dylan and Neil Young's 'stand-alone' concert this
year at 'British Summer Time' in Hyde Park, London, on July 12
● John Nye on
Simply Dylan playing at The Apex in Bury St Edmunds on February 15
[see
here] ●
Every picture tells a story - John Stokes on the photos in the
new 'More Blood, More Tracks' boxset and what they reveal
● Chris Cooper on
rumours and assorted facts surrounding future Bob Dylan Bootleg Series
projects ●
'Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese',
a film about the 1975 leg of the tour, will be released on Netflix
later this year: 'Part documentary, part concert film and part fever
dream' ●
In search of Renaldo - Chris Cooper introduced the discussion
on the Allen Ginsberg interview with Bob Dylan on 28 October 1977
[link
here]
●
Chris Cooper on fake Dylan memorabilia
[see
here] ●
Armando Fusco spoke about Bob Dylan vinyl bootlegs
● Chris Cooper and
the more than expected number of Bob Dylan notebooks currently being held
at the Bob Dylan Archive at the University of Tulsa
● Audio: 'On
Wisconsin' - Trapper Schoepp [Dylan lyrics] [audio
here]; 'Gone But Not Forgotten' - Bear And A Banjo [Dylan lyrics]
[audio
here] ●
Video: Bob Dylan & Clydie King (duet), 'Abraham, Martin &
John', from 'Trouble No More' boxset; Bob Dylan (with Steve Ripley on
guitar), 'Like A Rolling Stone' and clips of other songs, Bad Segeberg,
West Germany, 14 July 1981; Bob Dylan visits Woody Guthrie in hospital
[parody]; 'One from the archive' featured Bob Dylan & The Grateful
Dead, 'Chimes Of Freedom' and 'Joey', East Rutherford, New Jersey, 12
July 1987. JN
28 March 2019
- Red Bull meeting
Intro
and outline of the night's agenda from John Nye ● John Stokes and
'Play A Song From Me': Infidels outtakes on 'Bootleg Series Vols 1-3:
Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991' went under the spotlight and we played
'Blind Willie McTell' ● We remembered Izzy Young, who sadly passed
away in February and played two short video extracts of him talking
about Bob Dylan ● Richard Stokes on a scathing profile of Israeli art
dealer Ehud Sheleg and comments about Bob Dylan's art ● Record Store
Day, Saturday April 13 - Bob Dylan, 'Blood On The Tracks' - original
New York test pressing, see website
here ● Jeff Stevens played an audio of the late Steve Ripley talking about
the 1981 Bob Dylan tour and meeting up with George Harrison and Ringo
Starr. He also played an interview with Larry Charles talking about
Bob Dylan and his film 'Masked & Anonymous' ● John Nye
introduced the discussion on 'The World Of Bob Dylan', the first
international Bob Dylan symposium, being held in Tulsa, USA, from May
30 to June 2, see
here ● 'Dylan Archives IV', rare Bob Dylan film clips from
The Bob Dylan Archive at the University of Tulsa, will be screened at
The Asbury Park Music & Film Festival on April 28, see
here ● 'Bob Dylan: Face Value and Beyond', an exhibition
presented by The Bob Dylan Center and being held at Tulsa's Gilcrease
Museum starting on May 10, see
here ● John Stokes on 'Dylan the villain' winning the
ultimate prize at the Crufts dog show ● John Stokes reviewed 'A
Wanderer By Trade', a new book by Patrick Webster ● Chris Cooper
reviewed 'A Voice From On High' a new book by Phil Mason, and 'The
Story of The Band: From Big Pink to the Last Waltz', a new book by
Harvey Kubernick and Ken Kubernik ● 'Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob
Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese', the film about the 1975 leg of the
tour and soon to be premiered on Netflix, will have a 14-CD set
accompanying it, to be released in May ● Bob Dylan starts his European
tour on March 31 - from Dusseldorf to Kilkenny, 36 dates including his
only UK concert at BST Hyde Park on July 12 ● Video: Bob Dylan & Joan
Baez, Philharmonic Hall, New York, 31 October 1964; Bob Dylan & The
Band, two clips from Melbourne, 1966; Bob Dylan parody from German TV
[English with German subtitles]; Pablo Dylan [Bob Dylan's grandson] -
'The Final Somersault'; 'Gotta Serve Somebody', Beacon Theatre, New
York, 27 November 2018; 'Visions Of Johanna', Chicago, 27 October
2001. JN
13 June 2019 - Red Bull Meeting
Intro
and outline of the night's agenda from John Nye ● John Stokes and
'Play A Song From Me': Street-Legal went under the spotlight
and we played the majestic 'Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through
Dark Heat)' ● Jeff Stevens reviewed Bob Dylan's concert on
2 April at the s.Oliver Arena in Würzburg, Germany ● Jonathan Fudger
talked briefly about the Paris
show he attended ● Allen Purvis on the 2019  instalment
from Bob Dylan’s 'The Beaten Path' art collection ●
'Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese' got its
Netflix premiere the day before our meeting: 'Part documentary, part
concert film and part fever dream'. David Palmer, Jeff Stevens and
Chris Hamilton all attended the London premiere and talked about the
film and the event, particularly the 'fever dream' fantasy aspect of
the film ● John Nye introduced the brief discussion about
the new 14CD boxset 'The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live
Recordings' ● Chris Rolph showed some bootleg vinyl of
Rolling Thunder concerts from his extensive collection ●
Wes Stace, who wrote the notes included in the new Rolling Thunder boxset, was
a regular attendee of early TCBDS meetings. In fact, our first ever
meeting was held in his Jesus College rooms [Hello Wes, what a small
world!] ● John Nye on Bob Dylan's European tour resuming
in Bergen, Norway on June 21, and including BST at Hyde Park, London,
and Nowlan Park in Kilkenny, Ireland, both shows where he shares the stage with
Neil Young ● Video: 'If Not For You - A Bob Dylan Film', a
78th birthday tribute to Bob Dylan, made by Jaimin Rajani and Vineet
Arora, see here;
Dylan on stage in Vienna 16 April reprimanding some in the audience
for taking photos. JN
25 July 2019
- Red Bull meeting
Intro
and outline of the night's agenda from John Nye ● John Stokes and
'Play A Song From Me': Shot Of Love went under the spotlight
and we played 'Every Grain Of Sand' ● Jeff Stevens talked
us through the Rob Stoner interview 'Know Your Bass Player' [part one
can be found
here, part two
here] ● John Nye led the discussion on Bob Dylan's
last two concerts of his recent European tour - BST Hyde Park, London
and Nowlan Park in Kilkenny, Ireland. Jonathan Fudger attended both
and we played the video of that duet with Neil Young
from the Kilkenny show 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken' ●
Chris Cooper spoke at length about his recent
trip to the US and his many visits to The Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa.
He spent long days rummaging through the archive gathering information
for his DylanBase database. Lots of stories and dozens of assorted
facts ... to be continued at the next Bobchat meeting on September 26.
JN
26 September 2019
- Red Bull meeting
Intro
and outline of the night's agenda from John Nye ● John
Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'Slow Train Coming' went under the
spotlight and we played 'Precious Angel' ● We remembered
D.A. Pennebaker, the documentary fil m-maker, who died on August 1 aged 94, and played the 'Don't
Look Back' outtake
video 'If You Gotta Go, Go Now' [De Montfort Hall, Leicester -
2May1965] ● John Nye led the discussion on 'Travelin'
Thru, 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15', the latest multi-CD
collection in the Bootleg Series being released on November 1 ●
Jeff Stevens unveiled his quiz 'Who said what to Bob?', which had a
prize of the latest edition of 'Bridge' magazine that includes an
interview by Chris Cooper with Michael Chaiken, curator of The Bob
Dylan Archive in Tulsa ● Allen Purvis on the latest Bob
Dylan art exhibitions both here and abroad ● Chris Cooper
continued with his thoughts and conclusions following his visit to The
Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa. Tonight he turned his attention to 'Street
Legal' session sheets
... more to follow at the next Bobchat meeting on November 28
●
David Palmer reported on the 'Million Dollar Bash' festival,
which was held in August celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob
Dylan's appearance at the 1969 Isle Of Wight Festival ●
'Echo Of The North Country', that 'new' Bob Dylan poem unveiled by
Ashley Hutchings at 'Million Dollar Bash' and we played the video of
Ashley reading the poem from the stage ● We also rewound
to the 1969 IOW festival with some new footage from the event - 'She
Belongs To Me'. We also played part of a video with IOW organiser Ray Foulk talking about the background and development of the 1969 Isle Of
Wight festival ● Video: Hurricane [Worcester,
Massachusetts, 19 November 1975] and You're A Big Girl Now [Fort Collins,
Colorado, 23 May 1976]. JN
28 November 2019
- Red Bull meeting
Intro
and outline of the night's agenda from John Nye ● John
Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder
Revue [Bootleg Series Vol. 05]' went under the spotlight and we played
'Isis' ● Richard Stokes led us through the
story behind the Woody
Guthrie song 'The Sinking of the Reuben James' ● John Nye
talked about another Woody Guthrie song 'Dear Mrs Roosevelt' and the
resurrection of it by Bob Dylan & The Band at The Woody Guthrie
Tribute Concert at Carnegie Hall on 20 January 1968. The song and the
event are the subject of an online podcast currently available at PodBean [click
here, then scroll down for links to download the 13-part podcast]
● John Nye gave a diary date for the Bob Dylan tribute band
Simply Dylan playing next year at The Marina Theatre in Lowestoft on
July 11 [see
here] ● We remembered John Cohen, musician,
photographer and archivist, who died on September 16 aged 87. He was
one of the first to photograph the young Bob Dylan in New York in
1962, and we played a short video of John talking about his first
meeting with Dylan and about the pictures he took [see
here] ●
Jeff Stevens and the Bob Dylan/Rolling Stones performance of 'Like A
Rolling Stone' from the new official Rolling Stones release 'Bridges
To Buenos Aires'. We played the official video version, as well as the
audio from another Bob Dylan and Rolling Stones performance of 'Like A
Rolling Stone', from Montpellier, France, on 27 July 1995 ● John Nye
led the discussion on 'Travelin' Thru, 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series,
Vol. 15', and we played a collection of promo videos for the release,
including documentary footage concerning the Dylan/Cash and Earl
Scruggs recordings ● Chris Cooper talked about the current Bob Dylan
tour and the prospect of concerts next year. At the time of the
meeting Dylan was nearly half-way through a 10-night residency at The
Beacon Theatre in New York ● Chris Cooper delivered his final talk
on his thoughts and conclusions following his visit to The Bob Dylan
Archive in Tulsa earlier this year. Tonight he turned his attention to
'Desire' session sheets ●
Audio: BBC radio DJs David Hepworth and
Simon Mayo on why it's pointless to try and interview Bob Dylan ●
Video: Bob Dylan and his band performing 'Tangled Up In Blue' at The Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, 5
May 2017.
JN
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John Green Anniversay |
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Picture taken during the special evening held at The Red Bull
on 14 December 2019 to mark the 20th anniversary of the death
of John Green, who was a completist Bob Dylan collector, a
Freewheeler and a very good friend to many. From left: Chris
Cooper, Graham Dixon, Bill
Dallas, John Stokes, Tim Price, Jeff Stevens and David Palmer. There was
plenty of Dylan audio and video during the evening, as well as lots of
chat.
● We held
a series of six annual John Green Days from 2001 [see
here].
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January 2020 - Red Bull meeting
Intro
and outline of the night's agenda from John Nye ● John
Stokes and 'Play A Song From Me': 'Before The Flood',
disc 1, went under the spotlight and we played
'Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)' ● John Nye
talked about 'Definitely Dylan Live', a weekly radio show 'about Bob
Dylan, his music, and anything else'. Listen live on the Resonance
104.4 FM website every Sunday afternoon from 4pm to 5pm GMT [see
here] [there's an
archive of old shows
here] ● Chris Cooper reviewed a new Bob Dylan book
'Nothing To Turn Off: The Films And Video Of Bob Dylan, Revised and
Updated' by Vince Farinaccio [see
here] ● John Nye started the discussion on online Bob
Dylan journals: 'Dylan Review' - relatively new, a journal 'for
rigorous intellectual exploration of Bob Dylan's art' available as free
downloadable journals in pdf format [see
here]; 'Academia' has
individual articles available for download, including 'The Encyclopedia Dylanologica, Volume One' by A.J. Weberman [see
here];
The University of Tulsa's Institute for Bob Dylan Studies is planning
'a new kind of journal' produced by 'a hybrid publishing plan that
mixes peer-reviewed scholarship with other kinds of critical and
creative approaches'. Plans are expected to be unveiled in coming
weeks, evidently [see
here];
Freewheelin'-on-line, the first online Bob Dylan journal, unveiled in
2002. It was the online version of the Freewheelin' journal, which ran
for 20 years from 1985 to 2005 [see
here] ● We looked at the recently issued
'Bob Dylan 50th Anniversary Collection 1969' and played 'Running'
[recorded 26Apr1969 Columbia Studio, Nashville] ● We discussed
'Going Electric', the working title for a new Bob Dylan biopic, which
will star actor Timothée Chalamet in the lead role, and focus on Bob Dylan's transition from folksinger to rock star after plugging in the
electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 ●
We played the promo video for 'Once Were Brothers - Robbie
Robertson & The Band', a new Martin Scorsese film due for cinema
release soon, about The Band and all their complexities, including, of
course, their involvement with Bob Dylan [see video
here] ●
John Stokes looked at Rob Stoner and his working relationship
with Bob Dylan ●
Chris Cooper on an extremely rare Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg
interview tape that came up for auction on eBay [see
here] ●
Chris Cooper talked about Dylan on French TV, and played
excerpts from newsreels and concert footage ●
We looked at the new 'Japanese Singles Collection' [high
fidelity Blu-spec CD2 format], which is to be released soon to
celebrate Dylan's forthcoming tour of Japan in April [see
here] ● On a light-hearted note, we considered booking Bob Dylan
for one of our Bobchat meetings. There's actually a website to do
just that, complete with booking form [see
here] [booking form is
here]
● Chris Cooper on 'Juliet, Naked', a 2008 comedy/drama, starring
Chris O'Dowd and Rose Byrne, that draws uncomfortably accurate
parallels with the obsessive behaviour of some Bob Dylan collectors,
and we played a snippet ●
Video: One from the archive - 'Shelter From The Storm' and
'Pledging My Time' [Indiana, Pennsylvania, 22 April 1997].
JN
26 March 2020 - Red Bull meeting
The
Red Bull meeting was cancelled following pub closures due to outbreak
of the Coronavirus pandemic
- and we had so much to talk about.
JN
● For Bobchat, page 3 [2020-2021] click
here.
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