Live At Bern's Salonger (Stockholm, Sweden 1966) - Miriam Makeba

Advantages: excellent music, history recorded, Dylan at war with the audience, unique expirence
Disadvantages: addictive, NONE!

.... He plants his songs in your head with remarkable precision, and still he keeps hold of his noble view that everyone should trust themselves and not worship people like himself. This feature in Dylan's live ability becomes very important to understand when listening to the 1966 bootleg performance. Perhaps you can only truly appreciate what is happening in the audience if you have sat before Dylan and experienced him. But you can get a very good idea without knowing first hand such is the power of the 1966 recording. I kept putting off buying this album because I thought it was going to be 'special' and I spent about two years potentially building myself up for a massive disappointment. Surely nothing could live up to all the hype this album had received? Well let me set this out for you. ...Actual name of album: "The Bootleg... Read review

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Advantages: a piece of history
Disadvantages: a little expensive.

...yes, this is the concert of "that" incident... it's a shame really because it detracts from this superb concert album, which is really officially titled "The Bootleg Series: Volume 4, Bob Dylan Live 1966, The 'Royal Albert Hall' Concert"... i can't think of a punchier title... the set-list for the concert of two halves is great, and the re-interpretations on the second side really get a Bob fan excited... the first side is an acoustic set which many people described at the time as amazing. as they couldn't understand how he was staying on the stool, let alone remembering the words, considering the amount of drugs he had ingested... run-outs of "desolation row" and "mr tambourine man" are versions that i prefer to the album tracks, although none of these live up to the majesty of dylan's reworking of "maggie's farm" on hard rain... Read review

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Advantages: Some fantastic songs that benefitted from a live atmosphere.
Disadvantages: Some tracks didn't work vocally, a little Beatle bias.

...moment on the disk as it was sung with just Paul and the instrument, said to be one of George's favourites and a poignant moment within the context of the band as it was the first A Side single of one of Harrison's songs. DISK TWO (lasts 68.41 minutes) 1. Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles, 1966: 2.17 minutes) 2. Here, There and Everywhere (The Beatles, 1966: 2.26 minutes) 3. Calico Skies (Paul, 1997: 2.38 minutes) 4. Michelle (The Beatles, 1965: 3.16 minutes) 5. Band On The Run (Wings, 1974: 5.00 minutes) 6. Back In The USSR (The Beatles, 1968: 2.56 minutes) 7. Maybe I'm Amazed (Paul, 1970: 4.49 minutes) 8. Let 'Em In (Wings, 1976: 5.23 minutes) 9. My Love (Wings, 1973: 4.03 minutes) 10. She's Leaving Home (The Beatles, 1967: 3.53 minutes) 11. Can't Buy Me Love (The Beatles, 1964: 2.09 minutes) 12. Live And Let Die (Wings, 1973: 3... Read review

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