Doom & Gloom From the Tomb

A selection of rad bootlegs + other music-y stuff. Come fly with me. tywilc at gmail.com @tywilc
Some Righteous King Who Wrote Psalms Beside Moonlit Streams Some more Dylan for you, this one from deep in the heart of Zimmy’s so-called Neverending Tour: October 2, 1993 at the Hollywood Bowl. A show, it just so happens, that I attended as a 14-year-old. To be honest, I remember more about the various teenage psychodramas taking place that night than I do the actual set — but listening to this fine recording almost 18 years later (holy shit), I can appreciate just how good a show it was. Bob was co-billed with Santana, who played a slick, boring (if crowd-pleasing) set. Dylan was decidedly not slick — his band is particularly garage-y here, jamming out songs, stumbling over changes. But it’s actually exciting stuff — Dylan sounds inspired for the most part, hollering out lyrics, playing a lot of harmonica and cherrypicking some interesting tunes beyond the standard fare. “Born In Time,” “I & I,” “Gates of Eden,” “God Knows,” and the Nic Jones-derived “Jim Jones” are all given strong readings. It was a weird period for Bob, the wilderness before his late career Time Out Of Mind/Love & Theft renaissance. You sort of got the feeling that no one really cared about him here, that he was just a washed up legend who people felt obligated to go check out. But God knows this show proves all of us wrong!  Download

Some Righteous King Who Wrote Psalms Beside Moonlit Streams

Some more Dylan for you, this one from deep in the heart of Zimmy’s so-called Neverending Tour: October 2, 1993 at the Hollywood Bowl. A show, it just so happens, that I attended as a 14-year-old. To be honest, I remember more about the various teenage psychodramas taking place that night than I do the actual set — but listening to this fine recording almost 18 years later (holy shit), I can appreciate just how good a show it was. Bob was co-billed with Santana, who played a slick, boring (if crowd-pleasing) set. Dylan was decidedly not slick — his band is particularly garage-y here, jamming out songs, stumbling over changes. But it’s actually exciting stuff — Dylan sounds inspired for the most part, hollering out lyrics, playing a lot of harmonica and cherrypicking some interesting tunes beyond the standard fare. “Born In Time,” “I & I,” “Gates of Eden,” “God Knows,” and the Nic Jones-derived “Jim Jones” are all given strong readings. It was a weird period for Bob, the wilderness before his late career Time Out Of Mind/Love & Theft renaissance. You sort of got the feeling that no one really cared about him here, that he was just a washed up legend who people felt obligated to go check out. But God knows this show proves all of us wrong! 

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