Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:
"Forever Young" is not nearly as good a song as "Hazel," "Going Going Gone," "On a Night Like This," or "Something There Is About You."

minkthinking wrote:i would suggest getting the bootleg of the alternate recording of the entire blood on the tracks album. he recorded it and then scrapped those recordings at the last second right before it hit the stores. went in and quickly and drunkenly (according to the musicians) re-recorded it. i think 2 (?) of the original versions survived and made it onto the album. you can find a very very bootleg cd of the "alternate" blood on the tracks with the first versions. pretty brutal stuff. the lyrics were changed quite a bit the 2nd time around. they are much more direct on the first version.

minkthinking wrote:also, do yourself a favor and spend the 50 dollars or whatever for a bootleg dvd of "eat the document"... it is all tour footage and it shows him playing some songs that he had written immediately after blood on the tracks in this hotel room on an acoustic guitar. to my knowledge, they were never recorded or released. they are nothing short of gut wrenching.

Dr. Ew wrote:

minkthinking wrote:i would suggest getting the bootleg of the alternate recording of the entire blood on the tracks album. he recorded it and then scrapped those recordings at the last second right before it hit the stores. went in and quickly and drunkenly (according to the musicians) re-recorded it. i think 2 (?) of the original versions survived and made it onto the album. you can find a very very bootleg cd of the "alternate" blood on the tracks with the first versions. pretty brutal stuff. the lyrics were changed quite a bit the 2nd time around. they are much more direct on the first version.

I've got a copy of that somewhere, and will try to share it on the sendspace thread .

minkthinking wrote:also, do yourself a favor and spend the 50 dollars or whatever for a bootleg dvd of "eat the document"... it is all tour footage and it shows him playing some songs that he had written immediately after blood on the tracks in this hotel room on an acoustic guitar. to my knowledge, they were never recorded or released. they are nothing short of gut wrenching.

Eat The Document follows Bob & THE BAND on their 1966 tour of Europe. It predates Blood On The Tracks by several years. Are you thinking of Renaldo And Clara?

Dr. Ew wrote:

minkthinking wrote:i would suggest getting the bootleg of the alternate recording of the entire blood on the tracks album. he recorded it and then scrapped those recordings at the last second right before it hit the stores. went in and quickly and drunkenly (according to the musicians) re-recorded it. i think 2 (?) of the original versions survived and made it onto the album. you can find a very very bootleg cd of the "alternate" blood on the tracks with the first versions. pretty brutal stuff. the lyrics were changed quite a bit the 2nd time around. they are much more direct on the first version.

I've got a copy of that somewhere, and will try to share it on the sendspace thread .

minkthinking wrote:also, do yourself a favor and spend the 50 dollars or whatever for a bootleg dvd of "eat the document"... it is all tour footage and it shows him playing some songs that he had written immediately after blood on the tracks in this hotel room on an acoustic guitar. to my knowledge, they were never recorded or released. they are nothing short of gut wrenching.

Eat The Document follows Bob & THE BAND on their 1966 tour of Europe. It predates Blood On The Tracks by several years. Are you thinking of Renaldo And Clara?