Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963) and “The Times They Are a-Changin'” (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture. 8wikipedia)
Bob Dylan’s influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-consciousness narratives. As a vocalist, he broke down the notion that a singer must have a conventionally good voice in order to perform, thereby redefining the vocalist’s role in popular music. As a musician, he sparked several genres of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock. And that’s just the tip of his achievements. Dylan’s force was evident enough during his height of popularity in the 1960s — the Beatles’ shift toward introspective songwriting in the mid-’60s never would have happened without him — but his influence echoed throughout several subsequent generations, as many of his songs became popular standards and his best albums became undisputed classics of the rock & roll canon.
Dylan’s influence on folk music was equally powerful, and he marks a pivotal turning point in its 20th century evolution, signifying when the genre moved away from traditional songs and toward personal songwriting. Even when his sales declined in the ’80s and ’90s, Dylan’s presence rarely lagged, and his commercial revival in the 2000s proved his staying power. (by Stephen Thomas Erlewine)
And here´s a very interesting bootleg LP from Dylan and the Band’s concert on Isle of Wight, UK, 31 Aug 69. This 1972 LP contains the complete concert. All photos on the cover are from the actual show.
There are several other bootlegs with the same or other titles, and about the same content, e.g. Isle of Wight, UK 1970 (Blank Labels, CT A(B), GWA 44A), Isle of Wight, US 1970 (Isle 509A/B – white cover with insert), Isle of Wight, USA 1972 (TMQ GWA45,), Belle Isle, Europe 1983, Island Man, Germany 1986, Isle of Wight, CD 1994 (Wanted Man Music WMM 39), Bob Dylan in Concert, and Minstrel Boy.
Sound quality basically sucked big time on all of the boots from the Isle of Wight. Following the Great White Wonder, boots of this concert understandably turned a lot of people off to bootlegs.(theband.hiof.no)
Personnel:
Bob Dylan (guitar, piano, harmonica, vocals)
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The Band:
Rick Danko (bass, background vocals)
Levon Helm (drums)
Garth Hudson (organ)
Richard Manuel (piano, drums)
Robbie Robertson (guitar)
So many alternate frontcovers:
Tracklist:
01. She Belongs To Me 2.48
02. I Threw It All Away 3.07
03. Maggie’s Farm 4.34
04. The Wild Mountain Thyme 3.07
05. It Ain’t Me Babe 3.18
06. To Ramona 2.19
07. Lay Lady Lay 3.40
08. Highway 61 Revisited 3.39
09. One Too Many Mornings 2.27
10. I Pity The Poor Immigrant 3.45
11. Like A Rolling Stone 4.56
12. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight 3.16
13. The Mighty Quinn 2.53
14. Minstrel Boy 3.20
15. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 1.01
16. Mr. Tambourine Man 3.37
17. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine 3.19
All songs written by Bob Dylan
George Harrison was perhaps the biggest Bob Dylan fan of all the Beatles and he remained friends with the American throughout his life. It was George, his wife Pattie Boyd and Beatles roadie Mal Evans who travelled to Portsmouth in late August 1969 to greet Dylan upon his arrival to the UK. The initial meeting was only short as that evening Dylan and his family took the ferry over to the Isle of Wight, to Forelands Farm in Bembridge where they were staying and rehearsing. George, Pattie and Mal in the meantime returned to London to take care of some business before joining up with Bob and his family on the island two days later.
On 30th August 1969, the day before Dylan’s scheduled headline performance, John Lennon and Ringo Starr arrived on the island along with their wives Yoko and Maureen and a number of other celebrity attendees including Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, all eager to see Dylan perform. (beatlesstory.com)
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Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016:
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Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and musician. One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and “electric” stage presence.
Some releases state Sam Andrew on guitar, but I’m pretty sure he’d left the Kosmic Blues Band by this time. (DamnFooFoo)
Wolfgang Dauner (30 December 1935 – 10 January 2020) was a German jazz pianist who co-founded the United Jazz + Rock Ensemble. He worked with Hans Koller, Albert Mangelsdorff, Volker Kriegel and Ack van Rooyen and composed for radio, television, and film.
Burt Freeman Bacharach ( May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach’s songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. As of 2014, he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He was one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music.
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Mostly this bootleg is offered under the name “Allman Brothers Band”. That’s wrong !
I have to reduce my singles collection:
Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967. Fleetwood Mac were founded by guitarist Peter Green, drummer Mick Fleetwood and guitarist Jeremy Spencer, before bassist John McVie joined the line-up for their self-titled debut album. Danny Kirwan joined as a third guitarist in 1968. Keyboardist and vocalist Christine Perfect, who contributed as a session musician from the second album, married McVie and joined in 1970.
Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American retired folk singer-songwriter. He is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while performing songs, following the tradition of his father Woody Guthrie. Guthrie’s best-known work is his debut piece, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”, a satirical talking blues song about 18 minutes in length that has since become a Thanksgiving anthem. His only top-40 hit was a cover of Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans”. His song “Massachusetts” was named the official folk song of the state, in which he has lived most of his adult life. Guthrie has also made several acting appearances. He is the father of four children, who have also had careers as musicians.
underground, especially via its performance at Woodstock, most of his third record is actually far more laid-back country-rock. Very much a production of its time, in a slightly negative sense, Running Down the Road features Guthrie employing the cream of L.A.’s top country-rock players as session men: Ry Cooder, James Burton, Clarence White, Jim Gordon, Gene Parsons, Jerry Scheff, and Chris Etheridge. The tone is good-natured and easygoing — too good-natured and easygoing sometimes, in fact, as on the unexciting cover of “Stealin’.” Guthrie acknowledges his folk roots with covers of tunes by his father Woody Guthrie (“Oklahoma Hills”), Pete Seeger (“Living in the Country”), and Mississippi John Hurt. These are surrounded by originals that follow the Dylan “back to basics” mold of the late ’60s, both in musical and lyrical concerns (“My Front Pages” might even be taken as a gentle Dylan satire). As such, much of the record is inoffensive but inconsequential, although the drug smuggling ode “Coming into Los Angeles” adds a touch of much-needed urgency. The title track is entirely uncharacteristic of the album, with its harsh blasts of distorted psychedelic guitar and tough, walking-blues stance — for these reasons, it’s a standout. (by Richie Unterberger)
In his teens, singer/guitarist/keyboard player Dave Lewis joined the Belfast-based soul band The Methods. Managed by George Mechan, the group attracted some attention performing on the Belfast and Dublin club scenes, going though a stream of members, including briefly future Thin Lizzy members Phil Lynnot and Gary Moore. In 1967 Lewis, drummer Wilgar Cambell, and bassist Nigel Smith decided to strike out on their own. The trio relocated to London, where they caught the attention of Andrew Cameron Miller’s CBS affiliated Reflection Records. Dubbing themselves Andwellas Dream, still in their teens, the trio ended up signing with CBS. During the resulting recording sessions drummer Campbell became homesick and returned to Ireland. He was quickly replaced by Gordon Barton and within a couple of months the revamped line-up debuted with a 45 produced by former The Konrads bassist Shahan Chowdhury (aka Rocky Shahan):
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