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BOB DYLAN AT THE BUDOKAN;Review created: 26/06/08
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BOB WAS IN THE DIVORCE COURTS WHEN REHERSALS WER BEING PUT TOGETHETHER FOR THESE FAR EAST WARM UP GIGS, THE ARANGEMENTS WER LEFT TO IF MEMORY SERVES
STEVEN STOLES AND A GREAT JOB HE MADE OF IT IN BOBS ABSENCE.
WEEKS OF REHERSAL WONDERING WILL WE GET PAID,
BOB SHOWS UP AMAZED AT THE AUDIENCES POLITE RESPONSE,LISTENING TO EVERY SONG
IN SILENCE ONLY APLUADING AT THE END OF EACH NUMBER;
NEW THINGS WER TRIED SOME UP TEMPO REGAE VERSIONS OF OLD NUMBERS ALA BOB MARLEY,
THEN FROM NOWHERE BOB PULLS OUT AN UNTRIED VERSION OF I WANT YOU;
NO WHERE ELSE WOULD THIS SONG HAVE SUCH FEELING.
NEVER AGAIN WOULD A LIVE ALBUM HAVE THIS ATMOSPHERE
INTENDED FOR THE FAR EAST ONLY THIS ALBUM SOON BECAME AVAILIBLE ON IMPORT
IN THE UK WITH A PRICE TAG THAT WOULD STILL SEEM EXPENSIVE TO-DAY.
SOME CRITICS CALLED THIS THE VEGAS ALBUM,
BOB SAID PEOPLE DONT GET HIS ALBUMS UNTIL THERE OVER TEN YEARS OLD
THIS IS 30 YEARS OLD NOW
THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN BIG BAND ARANGEMENT ,
WE GET IT BOB ,
THIS ALBUM COULD NOT HAVE BEEN RECORDED IN 1978 PUNK/DISCO ENGLAND,OR AOR
VHF ,USA . THIS WAS BIG IN JAPAN ,THE TIMES THEY WER A CHANGING.
STEVEN STOLES AND A GREAT JOB HE MADE OF IT IN BOBS ABSENCE.
WEEKS OF REHERSAL WONDERING WILL WE GET PAID,
BOB SHOWS UP AMAZED AT THE AUDIENCES POLITE RESPONSE,LISTENING TO EVERY SONG
IN SILENCE ONLY APLUADING AT THE END OF EACH NUMBER;
NEW THINGS WER TRIED SOME UP TEMPO REGAE VERSIONS OF OLD NUMBERS ALA BOB MARLEY,
THEN FROM NOWHERE BOB PULLS OUT AN UNTRIED VERSION OF I WANT YOU;
NO WHERE ELSE WOULD THIS SONG HAVE SUCH FEELING.
NEVER AGAIN WOULD A LIVE ALBUM HAVE THIS ATMOSPHERE
INTENDED FOR THE FAR EAST ONLY THIS ALBUM SOON BECAME AVAILIBLE ON IMPORT
IN THE UK WITH A PRICE TAG THAT WOULD STILL SEEM EXPENSIVE TO-DAY.
SOME CRITICS CALLED THIS THE VEGAS ALBUM,
BOB SAID PEOPLE DONT GET HIS ALBUMS UNTIL THERE OVER TEN YEARS OLD
THIS IS 30 YEARS OLD NOW
THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN BIG BAND ARANGEMENT ,
WE GET IT BOB ,
THIS ALBUM COULD NOT HAVE BEEN RECORDED IN 1978 PUNK/DISCO ENGLAND,OR AOR
VHF ,USA . THIS WAS BIG IN JAPAN ,THE TIMES THEY WER A CHANGING.
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bob dylan at budokanYou will enjoy this album if you like good live albums.Interesting take on some songs for Dylan fans.
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Budokan Bob BrillianceReview created: 27/03/08
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Top CD, Top live Dylan, Top price! A fine mix of popular tracks performed in his mid 70s styley, reggae type gospely way. Brilliant version of All I really Want to do.
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Bob blasts away the Japanese!0 of 1 people found this review helpful.
The album was recorded over two consecutive nights, February 28th and March 1st on the return to Tokyo from Osaka, and it is probably fair to say that it captures Dylan and his band as a work in progress. Paul Williams says it best, "I don't think it would be possible to put together a first-rate album from any of the early shows..." and the pity is that only a couple of months later Dylan was giving some of the best performances of his life. The first indication that all is not right comes with the opening track - "Mr. Tambourine Man" is speeded up and given orchestration that it neither wants nor needs. The background "oooh oooh's" don't help either. This is not necessarily a bad version of the song, but like most of the album's arrangements it seems to be change simply for the sake of it or to accommodate the extra personnel. It would be unfair for me to comment on this version of "Shelter From The Storm" because I like the original album version so much that nothing could really compare favourably. "Love Minus Zero" could have been really enjoyable were it not for Steve Douglas's irritating flute playing (this is a concern throughout), but "Ballad Of A Thin Man" works surprisingly well with the big-band arrangement. Even though the song loses most of the anger and spite that make it a classic, it changes into something entirely different - sometimes that is not necessarily a bad thing, especially considering that this is one of the best vocals on the album. Rearranging "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" into a pseudo reggae number was a brave move but perhaps not a wise one. This certainly needed more work, Dylan's vocal is hesitant and unsure and the harmonies are way off. "Maggie's Farm" is quite simply a disappointment. To me this is a fine song, but it has a tendency to suffer from overkill - there are many versions of it in Dylan's catalogue, but this one is probably the least essentia
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