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Dylan: The Concert Series – number 38 – Portsmouth 25 November 2000

Videos selected by Tony Attwood The aim of this series is to provide one Dylan concert to listen to with reasonable acoustics for each year since Bob started performing regularly.  However, there have of course, been some years when Bob … Continue reading

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The Philosophy of Modern Song: Where or When

  An index to our most recent publications and the current series can be found on the home page of this site. by Tony Attwood In this series, I am looking at the actual songs Bob selected for his book … Continue reading

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My Own Version Of You 15:  “And Mick can write!”

  by Jochen Markhorst XV       “And Mick can write!” Can you tell me what it means to be or not to be You won’t get away with fooling me Can you help me walk that moonlight mile Can you give … Continue reading

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No Nobel Prize for Music: from Queen Jane to the Thin Man. Structure and form.

  By Tony Attwood In this series, at the moment, we are looking at the songs Bob Dylan wrote in 1965, specifically in the order that he wrote them, looking specifically at the way Bob composed the music songs.  The … Continue reading

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The Concert Series: 7 August 1997- the full show.

By Tony Attwood The aim of this series is to provide one Dylan concert to listen to with reasonable acoustics for each year since Bob started performing regularly.  However, there have of course, been some years when Bob hasn’t performed … Continue reading

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The Philosophy of Modern Song: Strangers in the Night

Previously… Detroit City Take Me from This Garden of Evil Pump it up There stands the glass Waist Deep in the Big Muddy My Generation and Desolation Row Dirty Life and Times “Old Violin” by Johnny Paycheck Cheaper to Keep … Continue reading

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My Own Version Of You (2020) part 14: Carrying a noose on a silver tray

My Own Version Of You (2020) part 14 by Jochen Markhorst   XIV      Carrying a noose on a silver tray You can bring it to St. Peter – you can bring it to Jerome You can move it on over … Continue reading

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No Nobel Prize for music: Tom Thumb’s journey. It wasn’t that bad was it?

    By Tony Attwood 1993 The last article in this series was Where the lyrics find new lands, keep the music simple and it made a point I should have spotted a long time ago.  What finally tipped me … Continue reading

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The Concert Series number 36: 1985 – Live Aid

By Tony Attwood The aim of this series is to provide one Dylan concert to listen to with reasonable acoustics for each year since Bob started performing regularly.  However, there have of course, been some years when Bob hasn’t performed … Continue reading

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The Philosophy of Modern Song: Cheaper to Keep Her

By Tony Attwood Prelude:  I tried at first to write a set of reviews of Dylan’s “Philosophy” book but I found I really couldn’t do it – so I then started to ask if anyone else would like to try, … Continue reading

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My Own Version Of You (2020) part 13: “One of the sweetest motherfuckers you could ever meet”

My Own Version Of You (2020) part 13   by Jochen Markhorst XIII       “One of the sweetest motherfuckers you could ever meet” You can bring it to St. Peter – you can bring it to Jerome You can move it … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan: Where the lyrics find new lands, keep the music simple

By Tony Attwood “Positively 4th Street” – the last song reviewed in this series – was composed within a sequence of songs of which the prime essence within the lyrics was that nothing made sense.  The series started with “Bob … Continue reading

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The concert series: a bit of a cheat for 1972, but better than nothing

The aim of this series is to provide one Dylan concert to listen to with reasonable acoustics for each year since Bob started performing regularly. And of course I have picked the easy ones first, but now we come to … Continue reading

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From Rock Band to Guitar Hero How Bob Dylan Conquered Rhythm Gaming

  There’s an adrenaline shot that will pop players once “The Tambourine Man” enters a modern gaming craze. On the singing surface, sultry ballads, and poetic lyrical work of Dylan do not by any means place him in the front … Continue reading

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Enhancing Metadata Quality in Digital Music Distribution

  Have you ever wondered why some Dylan recordings seem to sound so wonderful so that you hear them over and over again, while others fizzle out in the background noise? It’s not always to do with the undoubted writing … Continue reading

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The Philosophy of Modern Song: “Old violin” by Johnny Paycheck

By Tony Attwood Prelude:  I tried at first to write a set of reviews of Dylan’s book but I found I really couldn’t do it – so I have been asking regularly if anyone else would like to try.  But … Continue reading

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My Own Version Of You part 12: The dismalest tavern of them all

  by Jochen Markhorst XII        The dismalest tavern of them all I’ll see you baby on Judgement Day After midnight if you still want to meet I’ll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street Two doors down not … Continue reading

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No Nobel Prize for Music: Positively Fourth Street

  By Tony Attwood If ever Bob Dylan was giving us a message in consecutive songs it surely was in 1965 when he composed, one after the other, “Can you please crawl out your window” followed by “Positively Fourth Street” … Continue reading

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Dylan: The Concert Series. Los Angeles 3 September 1965

For details of some of our other series on this site please see the home page    The concerts for this series are selected by Tony Attwood, from those that are available on line in the UK.  If you have … Continue reading

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The Philosophy of Modern Song: Dirty Life and Times (and Lawyers Guns and Money)

By Tony Attwood I made an attempt to write about Dylan’s “Philosophy” book but had to stop very early because I couldn’t find a way to comment on it that said anything meaningful or entertaining.  (But if you feel you … Continue reading

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