=================== =================== =================== === BDIC Acetate.txt =================== =================== =================== I've been very fortunate to receive a copy of a mystery acetate of "live" Dylan performances from Fantasy Records of Berkeley, CA. The purchaser of this acetate has been in contact with Fantasy Records and they have confirmed that the acetate is genuine, and it was created from a tape between 1972 and 1980 by Ralph Gleason, who was then co-owner of Fantasy. The acetate was mastered by Fantasy's chief mastering engineer, David Turner. Fantasy also said they have the original tape in their vaults, along with a recording of Bob's show at Berkeley Community Theater, 22 Feb 1964. Ralph Gleason attended that concert and reviewed it for the "San Francisco Chronicle". We now know he recorded it too! Of special interest on the acetate are two "new" recordings of Mr. Tambourine Man and Eternal Circle! Mr Tambourine Man - unknown live recording. Has the line "hidden leaves" instead of "frozen leaves". Bob said in an interview that this song was written on leaving New Orleans, which was 12 Feb 1964. The first known version up to now is the Eric von Schmidt home recording which is probably from late April 1964, but which this must predate. The Jun 1964 Witmark demo has "frozen leaves". Eternal Circle - unknown live recording, dedicated by Bob to "...anybody who plays an instrument. Its not so easy". The opening line is "I strummed" instead of "I sang" No live recording of this song has surfaced till now. Songs known to have been performed at Berkeley, 22 Feb 1964, include: One Too Many Mornings, Restless Farewell, North Country Blues, Only A Pawn In Their Game, Who Killed Davey Moore, The Walls Of Red Wing, Eternal Circle and Chimes Of Freedom, plus With God On Our Side and Blowin' In The Wind with Joan. Not Mr. Tambourine Man, though... You'd think Ralph would have mentioned Mr Tambourine Man if it had been played! However, Eternal Circle could indeed be from Berkeley. When Mr. Tambourine Man is from can only be speculated. Two songs on this acetate are known studio recordings with fake applause added, and it may not therefore be a live recording. This is the acetate's content, some now released, some still unreleased tracks were on the unreleased 1964 "In Concert" album: 1) Who Killed Davey Moore: 10/26/63 Carnegie Hall, on Bootleg Series 2) Gates of Eden: 10/31/64 Philharmonic Hall, on Bootleg Series 6 3) Bob Dylans New Orleans Rag: 4/12/63 Town Hall, on "In Concert" 4) Seven Curses: 10/26/63 Has a slightly longer intro than version on "In Concert," 5) Walls of Red Wing: 4/24/63 Studio outtake w/applause added on the end. On Bootleg Series 6) If You Gotta Go, Go Now: 10/31/64, on Bootleg Series 6 7) Mr Tambourine Man: ? Has the line "hidden leaves" instead of "frozen leaves" NEW 8) Hero Blues: Times outtake w/piano, w/applause added on the end. Laugh in the harmonica solo is reduced on acetate. 9) Percys Song: 10/26/63 No intro as on "In Concert," but has lots of audience coughing that is not on "In Concert" version. 10) Eternal Circle: ? Dedicated to, "anybody who plays an instrument. Its not so easy". Opening line is "I strummed" instead of "I sang" NEW Tracks 5 and 8 are studio out-takes with fake applause. These two new recordings might actually be sourced from the London Royal Festival Hall, May 17, 1964, which was recorded and is in Columbia's vaults. Michael Krogsgaard mentioned in On The Tracks #8 that he had heard some of those master reels and a work tape consisting of "Eternal Circle" and "Mr Tambourine Man" taken from the Royal Festival Hall 1964 tape. =================== =================== =================== === Bob Dylan May 17 1964 London UK.md5 =================== =================== =================== ; wholefile md5 checksum file generated by Trader's Little Helper ; generated on February 28, 2011, at 21:59:37 abe28efccb682ba380190d38bccef0d2 *01 Mr. Tambourine Man.flac b891c8e849b5f5697d13471fcf1fce5b *02 Eternal circle.flac 8a3685cd1f4bb4a8a727fd08705cf67c *BDIC Acetate.txt a25f1d5d350b2f282c45e67007a4a268 *Bob Dylan May 17 1964 London UK.txt =================== =================== =================== === Bob Dylan May 17 1964 London UK.txt =================== =================== =================== Bob Dylan May 17, 1964 Royal Festival Hall London, UK Professional/line recording Original regording by PYE records for Columbia as mastered/mixed for possible release on "Bob Dylan In Concert" 1. Mr. Tambourine Man (live debut) 2. Eternal Circle I don't believe these tracks have ever been torrented on DIME before (except, perhaps, briefly on compilation torrents quickly banned for including official performances.) "Mr. Tambourine Man" is probably the live/public debut of the song. No earlier live performances are known, It is possible that Dylan gave the song a test run at a lower profile performance, as he frequently did in the mid-1960s, but Festival Hall was the only concert scheduled on his British visit, and there's no evidence it was played at a spring US show.. The recordings first surfaced a few years back on a reel-to-reel tape of an acetate prepared for Ralph J. Gleason, probably in late 1965. The acetate was clearly part of the series of "drafts" Columbia prepared for the "Bob Dylan In Concert" project. Columbia regularly prepared live albums from its folk roster, for release whenever the artists could not complete a studio album on schedule, or to rush to market to capitalize on unexpected demand. "Bob Dylan In Concert" was originally compiled in 1964, when Dylan had been absent from Columbia's studios for more than six months. But Dylan recorded "Another Side" in a single June session, and the project, already announced, was shelved. Presumably Columbia revisited the project when the New York Hawks sessions faltered and the expected followup to "Highway 61" seemed chancey. More details on the acetate in the "BDIC Acetate" textfile included in this torrent, and even more information at Alan Fraser's superlative "Searching For A Gem" website. http://www.searchingforagem.com/1960s/1964InConcert.htm At one point, Columbia reportedly considered releasing a full album from this concert. After Columbia's initial contract with Dylan expired and Albert Grossman was negotiating with other labels, Columbia made rumblings about a vast trove of Dylan recordings it could use to compete with any new releases, Grossman is said to have claimed (not so accurately) that all Columbia held was a single, older concert recording from England. That would almost certainly have been the Festival Hall recording. The tape of the acetate which surfaced was made for Gleason during the 1970s. Gleason had written the original album notes, and had presumably been asked to revise them for a decade-later release, This would likely date the plans to mid-1974, when Columbia was floundering in the wake of the Clive Davis-firing debacle, and tended to shove into release whatever was on hand and ready. I remember being on a phone conversation with a Columbia exec, along with other folks from the radio station I worked at, begging him to release that "Royal Albert Hall Concert" as a counter to "Before The Flood," and learning, obliquely, that Dylan was returning to Columbia, which was far from public knowledge. After recordings of the acetate began to circulate, its two "new" tracks were issued on a few shoddy compilation commercial boots, including the not-so-Genuine Bootleg Series 4. All of those boots, so far as I recall, were laced with official material, and so couldn't run on DIME. (Quick note: While "Searching For A Gem" describes these tracks as "official rarities," its definition of "official" means officially prepared, not officially released, and includes a range of recordings, especially from the 1960s, which never saw an actual official release -- like acetates, test pressings, and copyright tapes. While most of the officially prepared recordings saw official release in some form, these tracks are among the set that haven't.) =================== =================== ===================