Bob Dylan
Songs That Made Him Famous

source: 
Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA March 27, 1965 
Billy Faier show WBAI radio, NYC Oct. 1962

Skip Weshner show WBAI radio, NYC Feb.1963

Tuff Bites   /  TB 95.1012
Released: 1995

Flac files extracted by cevau from audio disks.

Tracks: 
To Ramona 
Gates Of Eden 
If You Gotta Go Go Now 
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 
Love Minus Zero/No Limit 
Mr Tambourine Man 
Don't Think Twice 
With God On Our Side 
She Belongs To Me 
It Ain't Me Babe 
Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll 
All I Really Want To Do 
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 


Billy Faier: 
Baby Let Me Follow You Down * 
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues 
Death Of Emmett Till 
Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor (Trad) 

Skip Weshner: 
Tomorrow Is A Long Time 
Masters Of War 
Bob Dylan's Blues 


* Written by Eric von Schmidt


Reviews:

From an Edlis "top ten bootleg list":


9.  Songs That Made Him Famous / Bob Dylan [October 1962 - 27 March 1965]
Tuff Bites, T.B. 95.1012, 1995
Fabrique en Luxembourg
Bar code: 5 450222 950129
Matrix: DURECO [01] TB 95.1012

The Santa Monica (1-12) concert omits the fragment of The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll [11] but is otherwise a complete copy of the incomplete circulating tape of the concert. (Disc 2 of the 1965 Revisited [GDR9419] CD of the concert includes it.) The authenticity of the recording is stunning, but it is clearly an amateur recording with tapers' interjections, splices, varying levels and more...

A record of the concert is wonderful to have, but as well this must be the best tape for capturing the excitement of the tapers too! It is difficult to make out all that they say but we hear them during To Ramona (1) ([indecipherable conspiratorial whispering] ...this is the actual recording, ...can you?); at the end of Gates Of Eden (2) (I can't tell you, it's jumping [referring to the input level meter during applause?], Hey man, this is fascinating.); It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (4) (I want a flashlight darn it, one look at a flashlight is all I need, I don't even know if that's turned on yet, no, it is, you see what I... Jack, got a match? Give me it. [and you can hear the matchbox]); Mr. Tambourine Man (6) (These are all new songs.), the beginning of Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (7) (Oh wow! Yay!!!), before With God On Our Side (8) (What's he playin'?), It Ain't Me Babe (10) ([indecipherable whispering]), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (12) (You wanna come backstage afterwards? Jack's going backstage, so I guess you'll have to. I'd be scared. You'd be scared? Are you kidding? ...backstage. Yeah... Gee I wonder if the songs are on the record?). The audience is also alert and laughs in the right places, they seem to catch every word and the songs are fresh enough to surprise (If You Gotta Go, Go Now (3): "It's just that I ain't got no watch, and you keep asking me what time it is [audience laughter]" and many other points, they clearly connect with the ribald thinly disguised excuses in the song; It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (4): That somebody thinks, They really found you [taper laughs]; Love Minus Zero/No Limit (5): "draw conclusions [pause] on the wall [audience laughter]"); Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (7): "Look out your window and I'll be gone [taper laughs]"; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (12) "The empty- handed painter from your streets, Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets [audience laughter]. At the end of If You Gotta Go, Go Now (3) Bob Dylan says, "That was called Gates of Eden. [laughter at intentional wrong name] Taper: "Wish I had a flashlight". Dylan: "This is called It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding). Taper: "Oh! Yayyyyy!!!! We heard this one on a show, you know." Dylan: It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), ho, ho ho. [audience laughter]." At the end of that song he introduces the next with, "...this song is Love Minus Zero, uh, slash, over No Limit, end of quote, it's kind of like a painting, the title, painted in purple." And the wildly overdone hamming of All I Really Want To Do (11) gets a great audience reaction.

Bobsboots review:
Review: 
This mono audience recording is fair quality. Fans of the 1965 tour will enjoy this show, but there are several '65 soundboard tapes that will be more than enough to please most. The two radio shows are in considerably better quality. They were recorded from vinyl LP, or, most likely, directly from the CD Paranoid Blues. The cover is a fairly nice caricature drawn from the Barry Feinstein photo on the 'TIMES' LP cover. 
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