The Never Ending Pool

Hey,

i would like to start a new series of threads. I got this idea with this new dylan compilation coming up. there was a discussion here about why columbia didn't release some kind of "best of live" album.
So, i figured, why don't we make it ourselves.

The intention of the series of threads is that we, based on the 3 disc compilation tracklist, try to make a compilation of the best dylan songs but performed live.
I suggest that we sorta stick to tracklist of the official disc because is't supposed to be fanbased.

These threads will go something like this:
I make the first post and add a couple of versions of the songs which i like. Offcourse i don't own every live version of every song so everybody can respond to this with another performance.
After a week or so we wrap it up and we try to decide what performance is the best!
Then we move on to the next song!

The only thing i would like to ask you as that you don't go posting 10 nearly identical versions...

So, the first song: Song To Woody: Song to woody is supposed to be the first song dylan ever wrote. he has only performed this song 51 times during his career, peaking in 1990 (10) and 2000 (18). The last performance to date was in 2002.

The first performance i'm promoting is from march, 16, 2000 in Santa Cruz: http://www.sendspace.com/file/raeata

The second version has dylan solo on acoustic guitar and harp on feb,2,1990 in london:http://www.sendspace.com/file/g8qqqt

We currently lack early recordings from 1961 (performed twice), from 1974 and from the eighties.
So if anybody has these and if they can compete with the above, please upload them here.



Song Index:
1. Song To Woody
2. Blowin' In The Wind
3. Masters Of War
4. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
5. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
6. The Times They Are A-Changin'
7. All I Really Want To Do
8. My Back Pages
9. It Ain't Me Babe
10. Subterranean Homesick Blues
11. Mr. Tambourine Man
12. Maggie's Farm
13. Like A Rolling Stone
14. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
15. Positively 4th Street
16. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
17. Just Like A Woman
18. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
19. All Along The Watchtower

1. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
2. Lay, Lady, Lay
3. If Not For You
4. I Shall Be Released
5. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
6. On A Night Like This
7. Forever Young
8. Tangled Up In Blue
9. Simple Twist Of Fate
10. Hurricane
11. Changing Of The Guards
12. Gotta Serve Somebody
13. Precious Angel
14. The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar
15. Jokerman
16. Dark Eyes

1. Blind Willie Mctell
2. Brownsville Girl
3. Silvio
4. Ring Them Bells
5. Dignity
6. Everything Is Broken
7. Under The Red Sky
8. You're Gonna Quit
9. Blood In My Eyes
10. Not Dark Yet
11. Things Have Changed
12. Make You Feel My Love
13. High Water (For Charley Patton)
14. Po' Boy
15. Someday Baby
16. When The Deal Goes Down

The three performances from 1999 are better than any that came after them.

skinny moo wrote:

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The three performances from 1999 are better than any that came after them.

Could this be one of those?
it's from 1999-11-13 in East Rutherford:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9tu5kh

Yep. Actually, the other two from 1999 are even better. I can't post them, but maybe someone else will.

What a great idea, Thomas!

here's the only circulating live-version from the 60ies, as far as I know: http://www.tigergames.ch/mp3s/dylan/Bob%20Dylan%20-%20Song%20To%20Woody%20(live%201961%20New%20York%201st%20Gaslight%20Tape).mp3

Personally I like the version from the Carnegie Chapter Hall concert from Nov. 4, '61 better, but although Columbia has it and you could listen to it at the Bob Dylan exhibition in Seattle, it is not in general circulation. Otherwise I'd clearly vote for that one.

I have the solo-version from the Bobfest as pretty good in memory, don't have it ready at the moment, though.


The '99 version is indeed very nice !
But I also just like the spirit of the early-NET accoustic songs. And this London version here has nice harmonica.

Bob T. Guevara wrote:

QUOTE:
What a great idea, Thomas!

here's the only circulating live-version from the 60ies, as far as I know:
http://www.tigergames.ch/mp3s/dylan/Bob%20Dylan%20-%20Song%20To%20Woody%20(live%201961%20New%20York%201st%20Gaslight%20Tape).mp3

Personally I like the version from the Carnegie Chapter Hall concert from Nov. 4, '61 better, but although Columbia has it and you could listen to it at the Bob Dylan exhibition in Seattle, it is not in general circulation. Otherwise I'd clearly vote for that one.

I have the solo-version from the Bobfest as pretty good in memory, don't have it ready at the moment, though.


The '99 version is indeed very nice :woohoo:!
But I also just like the spirit of the early-NET accoustic songs. And this London version here has nice harmonica.

this is great, it's almost as if he's really talking to woody! very intimate.
is there anybody who can post an mp3 of this version?

oh, and is there anybody who wants to go visit this exhibation with a tape recorder

Well, if I remember right the exhibition has moved now (wasn't it supposed to come to Europe somewhere?). But a taperecorder wouldn't be enoug, I'm afraid, as there was just a headphone coming out of the wall. And when I was there in 05 I actually asked them if there wasn any possibility to get (buy?) a copy of that recording, but of course there wasn't.

Yeah, if someone could post the Bobfest version, that would be nice.

What recording do you want?

Song to Woody was the first song Bobby wrote? Don't let Brigette Bardot hear.

clairdelalune wrote:

QUOTE:
What recording do you want?

Song to Woody was the first song Bobby wrote? Don't let Brigette Bardot hear.

ADMIN says: Edited because of the posting of an utterly irrelevant link to the thread<br><br>Post edited by: admin, at: 2007/09/06 19:07

Well I'd like to nominate the version from 2001 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. That was a special show with the first ever &quot;Highwater&quot; and the panties overboard up on the stage. At any rate, that &quot;Song to Woody&quot; was a highlight for me that night and a very rare treat.

Spirit On The Water wrote:

QUOTE:
Well I'd like to nominate the version from 2001 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. That was a special show with the first ever &quot;Highwater&quot; and the panties overboard up on the stage. At any rate, that &quot;Song to Woody&quot; was a highlight for me that night and a very rare treat.

Can you (or anybody else) post an mp3 of this?

so, we're currently still looking for:
* Recordings of 1961 in mp3
* other recordings from 1999
* the 2001 version from staples center in LA

Here's the download link from Bob T. Guevara's site for the 1961 version
(right click, 'save as'

Sorry if my link didn't work for everyone. Maybe I should pick a shorter filename without the spaces in it next time.<br><br>Post edited by: Bob T. Guevara, at: 2007/09/06 23:42

i'm gonna bump this thread up a bit.

Can we start voting for the best Song To Woody?

I'm voting for the 61 version Bob T Guevara posted.
it's very intimate and if fits perfectly with the intention of the song.
In this version you can truly hear a young boy dreaming of traveling the world and spreading the music.

I vote for the 1961 Song To Woody...faboulus version!

(my favourite version from the NET is from Saramento, 10-Oct-2001. Unfortunately I donīt have an mp3 of this. But I think this performance is also very intimate).

Thanks for this thread admin. Good idea. Letīs make the best out of this boring Greatest Hit Compilation.