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Amazon.com locked woman out of Kindle purchases for a month
Kindle (photo: Amazon.com)
E-books are fun to use away from home but you don’t own the books, as a woman recently found out.
In a story reported on The Consumerist, the woman purchased a book, was locked out and then told by Amazon.com to merely purchase it again. She did but was still locked out, despite numerous emails.
“I am having major amazon issues. A month ago I bought a kindle and was really excited to use it on vacation. I bought a few books and when I was done, I bought another. Then they froze my account, so I called in and logged a case.
Within 48 hours I got a call back, saying it was an error on their side and they’d unfreeze it for me, but I’d just need to re-order the book. I thought no problem, thanks for the help. So I bought the book a second time and it automatically freezes me out again. I call in and log another case, but get no phone call back as promised from an account specialist.”
Dylan Bootleg # 9 to include bonus disc
Rare and previously unreleased concert at Brandeis University will make 3rd disc when purchased from Amazon.com
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Rolling Stone has announced that The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9)
Songs on the disc are: Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance; Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues; Ballad of Hollis Brown; Masters of War; Talkin’ World War III Blues; Bob Dylan’s Dream; and Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues.
The concert was on a tape held by Rolling Stone co-founder and music critic Ralph Gleason. “It had been forgotten, until it was found last year in the clearing of the house after my mother died,” says Ralph’s son Toby Gleason. “It’s a seven inch reel-to-reel that sounds like it was taped from the mixing disc. A collector/dealer associate of the family said ‘This might be worth something to the Dylan office’ and we sold it to them last year.” Rolling Stone Read the rest of this entry »
Wolfgang’s Vault releases Bob Dylan and The Band Tour
Historic 1974 reunion tour is released online along with thousands of rare rock, folk and jazz concerts
Bob Dylan and The Band in historic reunion tour 1974 (photo Jim Summaria creative commons)
Wolfgang’s Vault has released four concerts from the 1974 tour of Bob Dylan and The Band that are free to listen to on the web or on an iPhone with their WVIP membership.
In 1974 Bob Dylan, the voice of the sixties generation, had been laying low in Woodstock New York since 1967. His albums after the motorcycle accident had been different, not the “wild mercury” sound of Highway 61 and Bringing It All Back Home.
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Bob Dylan plays Warfield with no pre-sales
No handling fees just lay down $60 cash for Dylan fans in San Francisco
Video copyright ABC News.com
With concert goers complaining about high ticket prices and even higher fees, Bob Dylan experimented last night in San Francisco. You had to pay cash at the door and the ticket had no up charges.
Joel Selvin wrote an appreciative review for the San Fransisco Chronicle.
Bob Dylan conducted something of an intimate house party Wednesday at the Warfield with more than a thousand of his closest friends or, at least, those willing to wait in line for tickets before the show.
Bob Dylan Tangled Up In Blue
Awesome fan video – Citizens Bank Arena – 8/19/10 – Ontario, CA
This fan was as close as it gets to Bob Dylan 8 days ago and recorded this stunning version of Tangled Up In Blue.
Dylan does very close to Blood on the Tracks. Thanks dakind.
Bob Dylan Blind Willie McTell
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The video is dated October 25th, 2006. Dylan appeared in Seattle on October 13th, 2006 at the Key Arena. Glen Boyd wrote a review Concert Review: Bob Dylan And His Band – October 13, 2006 at Key Arena, Seattle WA of that date.
Another entry says the performance was July 16th, 2005. Amazon 10th Anniversary Concert With Bob Dylan and Norah Jones. Bill Pagel’s Bob Tour Guide doesn’t confirm either date.
Blind Willie McTell
Dylan’s tribute to old blues men and Willie McTell in particular was recorded for Infidels in 1983 but left off the CD. It was recorded on May 5th which is Willie McTell’s birthday.
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Bob Dylan Bootleg Vol 9 ships October hits Amazon top seller list
Bootleg Series Volume 9 – The Witmark Demos contains 47 acoustic recordings plus another release of the first 8 albums in mono
Volume 9 of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series will be released on October 19, 2010. It contains 47 of Dylan’s earliest compositions. It is currently # 6 on Amazon.com’s best seller list for music, based on pre-orders.
In order to register his copyrights, Bob Dylan’s publisher Leeds Music then Witmark would get solo versions of Bob Dylan’s songs accompanied by acoustic guitar and harmonica and sometimes piano. Employees of the publisher would transcribe the songs into standard music notation for copyright registration.
“Among the many gems are 15 Bob Dylan songs that were recorded by the artist only for these sessions, and which have never been officially released to the public until now. These include the plaintive “Ballad For A Friend,” the civil rights era-inspired “Long Ago, Far Away” and “The Death Of Emmett Till,” and the poignant “Guess I’m Doing Fine.” The Witmark Demos also features a deluxe booklet featuring in-depth liner notes by noted music historian Colin Escott, as well as rare photographs of Bob Dylan captured during the same period as these early recordings.” Sony
Some of these recordings have been in unofficial circulation for decades but this marks the first time Sony has officially released them. The 2 CD set has historical value if somewhat limited interest for today’s audiences. The set can be pre-ordered from Amazon.com for $16.99 The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9)
Sony has a pre-order promotion that includes a Bob Dylan T-shirt for $32.99. The Sony bundle includes a digital download on October 19th along with the CD and t-shirt. Canadian and International customers get hit with a shipping charge. In the past Sony wouldn’t even ship to Canada so that’s an improvement in customer service.
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Mason Ruffner insider’s view on Bob Dylan Oh Mercy
Blues guitarist hired by Daniel Lanois finds himself in the middle of the contentious recording session that produced a Dylan classic
Gypsy Blood by Mason Ruffner
Updated Bangkok Jungle – Occasionally we got the odd star or name came through, and this Sunday about 7, the big wooden doors swung open and in came a lean, lanky 40-something with a guitar and gritty determination writ all over his face.
Ignoring the crowd and the bar, he came right up to the stage, handed me a business card and asked if it was an open floor and could he play. Sure I said, eyeing his card as he spoke. ‘Mason Ruffner – Guitarist’ it said. Name didn’t mean a thing to me at the time and I welcomed him and asked him to wait his turn, “You’ll be up soon enough” and he headed to the bar and quietly waited his moment.
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Dylan historian is restoring homeplace
Duluth home where Bob Dylan was born is being restored to original condition by Bill Pagel
Bill Pagel of Hibbing stands near the porch of Bob Dylan’s childhood home in Duluth. Pagel is working to restore the home to the condition it was in when the Zimmerman family lived in it during the 1940s. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Bill Pagel has been a keeper of the Dylan flame for decades. His BobLinks site is the most comprehensive listing of Dylan performances with more than 25 million visitors since 1995.
Pagel has purchased Dylan’s original home in Duluth, before the family move to Hibbing Minnesota, and is working slowly to restore it.
Pagel’s website contains set lists, reviews and concert information pains-taking detail.
The following story is from the Duluth News Tribune.
Love of Dylan memorabilia lands man a big fixer-upper
Bob Dylan’s childhood home in the Central Hillside is currently a pale shade of salmon. Beneath that layer of paint are hints of green. But that shade matches some flecks on the storm windows, so that can’t be right. There weren’t aluminum storm windows on the house at 519 N. Third Ave. E. in the early 1940s. Read the rest of this entry »
Bob Dylan Bootleg # 9 due in October 2010
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The next Bootleg Series release, Volume 9, will will indeed be “a set of non-live recordings, well-known to collectors”, as stated. Although based on “The Witmark Demos”, sources say it will include some Leeds demo recordings as well. There are said to be 47 tracks. There is no information as to the packaging for this release.
Bob Dylan Mono box set
Each album in “The 8-CD set of Dylan’s earliest albums in mono” will have a paper sleeve and the set will be in a slipcase, with a booklet, including liner notes by Greil Marcus. The albums will be from “Bob Dylan” to “John Wesley Harding” and it is believed that all are being freshly mastered for this release, using first issue copies of the mono LPs for reference, in order to ensure that they get the sound to match that on the albums when they were first released. Back at that time, albums were principally mixed for mono release, with less care and attention being paid to the stereo mixes, and many collectors prefer the mono versions. None have been issued officially on CD in mono before, although mono bootleg CDs are not unknown. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m wondering where Alicia Keys is
Alicia Keys falls on stage in New Orleans
If Bob Dylan is wondering about Alicia Keys these days, he might send her a get well card after her fall on a stage in New Orleans. While singing on stage at the Essence Festival, Keys fell back on her butt, probably partially due to pregnancy and partially to stiletto heels. No harm done they say. (Fall video after the story break.) Asked about the reference to her in Bob Dylan’s Thunder on the Mountain, Keys was perplexed. Dylan gave no hints about the source of his infatuation back when.
The gems that Bob Dylan discarded
Bob Dylan has been remarkably prolific in the 48 years since his first album was released, and along the way some great songs have been ‘lost’. As the singer prepares for his only UK date this year, Clinton Heylin picks 25 of his finest unheard tracks.
Guilty of discarding some of his best work: Bob Dylan Photo: REX
By Clinton Heylon, Telegraph.co.uk – When Bob Dylan makes his only UK appearance this weekend at the Hop Farm Festival, it is anyone’s guess which songs he will and won’t pull out of the bag. With any prolific writer, there is much that slips between the cracks.
In Dylan’s case, the periods when the songs flowed free and easy (notably 1961-67 and 1974-83) produced far more songs than his record label could comfortably accommodate on their annual album release. But he has also been guilty of discarding some of his best work because he felt it “wasn’t recorded right” (his own description of the immaculate Blind Willie McTell).
These songs have not been completely lost to posterity because they still exist in manuscripts, studio logs, out-takes, rehearsal track listings, session musicians’ memories or, in some cases, because they have been performed in concert.
Here, then, is just a sampling of some of the songs that got lost in the shuffle, plucked from some 610 song histories in my recently completed two-volume study of Dylan’s remarkable output. Read the rest of this entry »
