http://i.imgur.com/4nsHPt7.jpg Bob Dylan - Uncut Unplugged [FLAC] C-NINE Records 7-8 . 1994. This is a bootleg from the sessions "MTV Unplugged" which became a 1-cd. During the 2-day sessions there was material recorded for 2 CD's and here it is. CD 1. 01 - Tombstone Blues.flac 02 - I Want You.flac 03 - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right.flac 04 - Desolation Row.flac 05 - Hazel.flac 06 - Everything Is Broken.flac 07 - The Times They Are A-Changin'.flac 08 - Love Minus Zero,No Limit.flac 09 - Dignity.flac 10 - With God On Our Side.flac 11 - Absolutely Sweet Marie.flac 12 - Shooting Star.flac CD 2. 01 - All Along The Watchtower.flac 02 - My Back Pages.flac 03 - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35.flac 04 - John Brown.flac 05 - The Times They Are A-Changin'.flac 06 - Dignity.flac 07 - Knocking On Heavens Door.flac 08 - Like A Rolling Stone#1.flac 09 - Like A Rolling Stone#2.flac 10 - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You.flac 11 - Desolation Row.flac 12 - I Want You.flac Dylan and his band, with producer Bredan O'Brien on keyboards, tape two shows on successive nights (November 17-18, 1994) in front of an invited audience at a Sony soundstage in New York City for a MTV "Unplugged" appearance. Making no concession to MTV Dylan wears shades throughout both shows. The hour long MTV show, edited from the two evenings performances, is broadcast December 14, 1994 in the U.S. and December 24, 1994 in Europe. The MTV Unplugged CD is released in Europe on April 11, 1995 and a few weeks later in the U.S. (May 5). European release has an annoying three-second audience noise sample (applause and a whistle) that runs over and over through Knockin' On Heaven's Door. This canned audience noise is deleted from the U.S. release. Finally, early in the summer of 1995 unedited and uncut versions of the Unplugged performances begin to appear. The best of these is Moontune's Completely Unplugged, a superb rough mix soundboard recording of the complete performances from both nights. Below are the setlists, Jon Pareles' rave New York Times review of Dylan's Sony Unplugged CD, posts regarding the canned audience noise and comments on the various Dylan Unplugged releases, among other things. Originally compiled: February 16, 1997 Last revised: February 16, 1997 First Unplugged taping session (November 17, 1994, New York City) 1. Tombstone Blues 2. I Want You 3. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 4. Desolation Row 5. Hazel 6. The Times They Are A-Changin' 7. Everything Is Broken 8. Love Minus Zero/No Limit 9. Dignity 10. With God On Our Side Second Unplugged taping session (November 18, 1994, New York City) 1. Absolutely Sweet Marie 2. Shooting Star 3. All Along The Watchtower 4. My Back Pages 5. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 6. John Brown 7. The Times They Are A-Changin' 8. Dignity 9. Knockin' On Heaven's Door 10. Like A Rolling Stone 11. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You 12. Desolation Row 13. I Want You Review about MTV unplugged from http://www.edlis.org/twice/threads/unplugged.html Subject: NYT "Unplugged" Review, 4-30-95 From: stern@panix.com (Michael J. Stern) Date: 1995/04/29 New York Times, April 30, 1995 Arts & Leisure p.33 Recordings View/Jon Pareles A Rocker Who Hasn't Gentled With Age Bob Dylan has joined the parade of well-known rockers who have released albums from "MTV Unplugged." That's as far as his conformity goes. Dylan's "MTV Unplugged" (Columbia CT67000, cassette and CD), recorded late last year, isn't a tepid, defanged runthrough of hits, like Eric Clapton's and Rod Stewart's sessions, or a spontaneity-free recital like Mariah Carey's. Acoustic guitars in hand, Dylan's new band still rocks, and the sly old master makes his songs crackle and rage and ache. Dylan, now 53, is as death-haunted as any grunge rocker, as corrosive as most punks, as free-associative as some rappers. Yet on MTV, as elsewhere in current pop, he's an oddity. His musical tastes are old-fashioned; he doesn't play folk-rock as currently revived by everyone from R.E.M. to Tom Petty, but folk with a rocker's edge. And his songs are highly individual yet almost selfless, barely concerned with private gratification. His best work, like "MTV Unplugged," brings human passion and musical wit to metaphysical struggles. In the 1990's, Dylan's songwriting has apparently stalled while he has released solo albums of traditional songs, sung in a voice as caustic and untutored as his rural sources. On tour, however, he has reawakened his great 1960's songs and winnowed more recent material, spurred by a band that's in touch with all of Dylan's roots, from slide-guitar picking to church organ. Dylan emerged from the 1960's folk revival, unfurling visionary images as he melted down country and blues, Celtic ballads and gospel tunes, rhythm-and-blues and a touch of pop. Despite the post-modern juxtapositions of his lyrics, Dylan has almost always treated his music as if it came from the days before recording. He's dedicated to live performance, with all its sparks and faults. He has always toyed with his songs, sometimes wrecking them in the process (as on previous live albums like "Hard Rain" and "Bob Dylan at Budokan"). But on "MTV Unplugged," he doesn't just rattle off familiar words; he inhabits them again, with the bravado he had three decades ago now transmuted into an elder's crustiness and compassion. He rasps and slurs, croaks and bays, as unpretty as ever but less guarded. Three decades ago, he sang "Desolation Row" with a sneer; on "MTV Unplugged~" his quiet, conspiratorial voice makes the song more paranoid. "MTV Unplugged" includes only three songs that aren't from the 1960's: "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" from 1973, "Shooting Star" from 1989 and an exhilarating version of " Dignity," besting the studio rendition on 1994's "Greatest Hits Vol. III." Yet in performing on MTV, Dylan may have been thinking about reaching the children of his baby-boomer fans. His touring band is augmented by Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam's producer, who plays electric (not unplugged) organ with judicious assurance. Guns 'n' Roses fans can recognize "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," while "Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35" has the chorus that's a sure-fire crowd pleaser: "Everybody must get stoned." "Rainy Day Women" turns into a jaunty free-for-all, with O'Brien's organ, Bucky Baxter's slide guitar, John Jackson's guitar and Dylan's plunking lead guitar gleefully jostling one another over Winston Watson's rollicking drums. Dylan also chooses 1960'S portents that still seem trenchant. "Like a Rolling Stone" might well apply to a scruffy, displaced younger generation, and "All Along the Watchtower" maintains its foreboding mystery, while "The Times They Are A-Changin'" has become as much a warning as a battle cry. On "MTV Unplugged," Dylan reemerges as an antiwar protester. He sings "With God on Our Side" with sullen disbelief while the band turns it into a stately country hymn. And in "John Brown," an Appalachian-style ballad from 1962 that has never appeared on an official Dylan album, he tells the story of a disfigured soldier; the song's graphic descriptions make a bitter contrast with the band's string-band lilt. "MTV Unplugged" could have easily included more material from the sessions, but the songs on the album hit home. Dylan knows, as Nirvana did, that "Unplugged" doesn't have to mean mellow.