Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Dadburnit, now you've stumped a Dylan scholar. Did the tune turn up on one of the Master's nondescript albums between EMPIRE BURLESQUE and the great OH MERCY? I hate to google rock stuff, but now I gotta, blast my wicked hide.
Awright, I found it: GOT MY MIND MADE UP on the KNOCKED OUT LOADED album. Which I don't recall at all... Well, it =was= a dry patch...
A SOI-DISANT "SCHOLAR" WOULD KNOW, YOU PRETENTIOUS, SELF-IMPORTANT POSEUR--DR. ROMA
Scott Miller Wrote:Tom has that song on his Playback box set. According to the booklet, Tom wrote. Bob changed the lyrics and the version I have is with Tom's original lyrics.
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Wow! Cool and unusual indeed! Did Bob change the lyrics a whole lot?
Scott Miller Wrote:I have no idea never having heard Bob's version. The notes say Bob say about going to Libya and Tom did not.
Scott Miller Wrote:I have no idea never having heard Bob's version. The notes say Bob say about going to Libya and Tom did not.
ImDeranged Wrote:I just listened to both. Both are good songs on albums I don't really listen to a lot so I've never done back to back listening comparisons.
As an aside I will say Knocked Out Loaded is a dangerous album. I was working in a video store years ago and fell asleep w/ it on. (I was at home not work) The song Brownsville girl came and and I had the strangest dream I was at work, and this doddering old man comes up to the counter,
"Well, there was this movie I seen one time,
About a man riding 'cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck.
He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself.
The townspeople wanted to crush that kid down and string him up by the neck."
Then I realize that it's Bob Dylan asking me for a movie. This customer I thought was an old fool was really Bob Dylan. At this point I don't even realize it's a dream he's just an old guy trying to find an old cowboy film,
"There was a movie I seen one time, I think I sat through it twice.
I don't remember who I was or where I was bound.
All I remember about it was it starred Gregory Peck, he wore a gun and he was shot in the back.
Seems like a long time ago, long before the stars were torn down."
At this point I realize Bob Dylan really is a doddering old man just babbling away. Think wait a minute what's Bob Dylan doing in my store, oh wow I'm dreaming. Then wake up. One of those strange dreams I've remembered not because it was strange but somewhat mundane.
Anyway there's my Knocked Out Loaded dream
jimbow8 Wrote:Sadly, I've been rather unimpressed with most of the stuff since Wildflowers. I think losing Stan Lynch had a lot to do with that, since I always thought Stan brought a lot of the fun and light-heartedness to the group (the little studio excerpts that show up on many of the albums between songs, for instance).
Scott Miller Wrote:While I agree Wildflowers was a tough act to follow, I like both Echo and Highway Companion quite a bit. In fact, I think Echo has more should'ves(the songs that don't receive airplay but should have) than Let Me Up. I love Counting On You, Accused Of Love, Won't Last Long, This One's For Me, No More, About To Give Out, Rhino Skin and One More Day, One More Night from Echo and from LMU I dig A Self-Made Man, Aint Love Strange, All Mixed Up, It Will All Work Out and Let me Up(I've Had Enough. However, I must say that The Last DJ is by far my least favorite of all their/his albums.
I also agree that losing Stan wasn't cool and handled poorly but let's face it, both parties were interested in different outcomes.