[2015-11-06] Bob Dylan "The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12" (Columbia/Legacy)

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1538

Description
Between 1965 and 1966 Bob Dylan recorded three albums that many believe changed the course of modern music: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.

The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Volume 12 takes you inside the studio during the recording of those three albums. With a staggering wealth of unreleased songs, outtakes, rehearsals and alternate versions - The Cutting Edge provides a unique insight into a legendary icon's creative process.

[tracklisting][CD1]
1. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Take 1 (1/13/1965) acoustic, incomplete
2. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Take 2 (1/13/1965) acoustic
3. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Take 3 remake (1/13/1965) acoustic
4. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Take 1 remake (1/14/1965) electric
5. I'll Keep It with Mine - Take 1 (1/13/1965) piano demo, previously released on Biograph, 1985
6. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic, previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7, 2005
7. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Take 1 (1/13/1965) acoustic, incomplete
8. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Take 2 (1/13/1965) acoustic
9. She Belongs to Me - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic
10. She Belongs to Me - Take 2 Remake (1/13/1965) acoustic
11. She Belongs to Me - Take 1 Remake (1/14/1965) electric
12. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic, previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1
13. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Take 1 remake (1/14/1965) electric
14. Outlaw Blues - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic
15. Outlaw Blues - Take 2 Remake (1/13/1965) electric
16. On the Road Again - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic
17. On the Road Again - Take 4 (1/14/1965) electric
18. On the Road Again - Take 1 remake (1/15/1965) electric
19. On the Road Again - Take 7 remake (1/15/1965) electric
20. Farewell, Angelina - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic, previously released The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1
21. If You Gotta Go, Go Now - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic
22. If You Gotta Go, Go Now - Take 2 (1/15/1965) electric
23. You Don't Have to Do That - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic, incomplete

[CD2]
1. California - Take 1 (1/13/1965) solo acoustic
2. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Take 1 (1/15/1965) acoustic, demo
3. Mr. Tambourine Man - Takes 1
4. Mr. Tambourine Man - Take 3 (1/15/1965) incomplete, with band
5. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Take 1 (6/15/1965)
6. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Take 8 (6/15/1965)
7. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Take 3 (7/29/1965)
8. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Take 3 remake (7/29/65)
9. Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence - Take 2 (6/15/1965)
10. Tombstone Blues - Take 1 (7/29/1965)
11. Tombstone Blues - Take 9 (7/29/1965) previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7, 2005
12. Positively 4th Street - Takes 1
13. Positively 4th Street - Take 4 (7/29/1965)
14. Positively 4th Street - Take 5 (7/29/1965)
15. Desolation Row - Take 1 (8/4/1965)
16. Desolation Row - Take 2 (8/4/1965) piano demo
17. Desolation Row - Take 5 remake (8/2/1965)
18. From a Buick 6 - Take 1 (7/30/1965)
19. From a Buick 6 - Take 4 (7/30/1965) released in error on first pressing of Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

[CD3]
1. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 1
2. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 4 (6/15/1965)
3. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 5 (6/15/1965)
4. Like a Rolling Stone - Rehearsal (6/16/1965)
5. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 1 (6/16/1965)
6. Like a Rolling Stone - Takes 2
7. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 4 (6/16/1965) released on Highway 61 Revisited, 1965
8. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 5 (6/16/1965)
9. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 6 (6/16/1965)
10. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 8 (6/16/1965)
11. Like a Rolling Stone - Takes 9
12. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 11 (6/16/1965)
13. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 12 (6/16/1965)
14. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 13 (6/16/1965)
15. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 14 (6/16/1965)
16. Like a Rolling Stone - Take 15 (6/16/1965)
17. Like a Rolling Stone - Master take
18. Like a Rolling Stone - Master take
19. Like a Rolling Stone - Master take
20. Like a Rolling Stone - Master take

[CD4]
1. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - Take 1 (7/30/1965)
2. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - Take 17 (7/30/1965) released in error on the first pressing of Positively 4th Street single
3. Highway 61 Revisited - Take 3 (8/2/1965)
4. Highway 61 Revisited - Take 5 (8/2/1965)
5. Highway 61 Revisited - Take 7 (8/2/1965)
6. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Take 1 (8/2/1965)
7. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Take 3 (8/2/1965)
8. Just Like Tom Thumb's blues - Take 13 (8/2/1965)
9. Queen Jane Approximately - Take 2 (8/2/1965)
10. Queen Jane Approximately - Take 5 (8/2/1965)
11. Ballad of a Thin Man - Take 2 (8/2/1965) incomplete
12. Medicine Sunday - Take 1 (10/5/1965)
13. Jet Pilot - Take 1 (10/5/1965) Previously released on Biograph, 1985
14. I Wanna Be Your Lover - Take 1 (10/5/1965)
15. I Wanna Be Your Lover - Take 6 (10/5/1965)
16. Unknown Instrumental - Take 2 (10/5/1965)
17. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - Takes 5
18. Visions of Johanna - Take 1 (11/30/1965)
19. Visions of Johanna - Take 5 (11/30/1965)

[CD5]
1. Visions of Johanna - Take 7 (11/30/1965)
2. Visions of Johanna - Take 8 (11/30/1965) previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7, 2005
3. Visions of Johanna - Take 14 (11/30/1965)
4. She's Your Lover Now - Take 1 (1/21/1966)
5. She's Your Lover Now - Take 6 (1/21/1966)
6. She's Your Lover Now - Take 15 (1/21/1966) previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1
7. She's Your Lover Now - Take 16 (1/21/1966) solo piano
8. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) - Take 2 (1/25/1966)
9. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) - Take 4 (1/25/1966)
10. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) - Take 19 (1/25/1966)
11. Lunatic Princess - Take 1 (1/27/1966)
12. Fourth Time Around - Take 11 (2/14/1966)
13. Leopard - Skin Pill
14. Leopard - Skin Pill

[CD6]
1. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Take 1 (2/17/1966)
2. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Rehearsal (2/17/1966)
3. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Take 5 (2/17/1966) previously released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7, 2005
4. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Take 13 (2/17/1966)
5. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Take 14 (2/17/1966)
6. Absolutely Sweet Marie - Take 1 (3/7/1966)
7. Just Like a Woman - Take 1 (3/8/1966)
8. Just Like a Woman - Take 4 (3/8/1966)
9. Just Like a Woman - Take 8 (3/8/1966)
10. Pledging My Time - Take 1 (3/8/1966)
11. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) - Take 1 (3/9/1966)
12. Temporary Like Achilles - Take 3 (3/9/1966)
13. Obviously 5 Believers - Take 3 (3/10/1966)
14. I Want You - Take 4 (3/10/1966)
15. Sad - Eyed Lady of the Lowlands[/tracklisting]

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1538

For what it's worth, the usual Dylan online outlets have zeroed in on a single message board post which "suggests" that the next Bootleg Series volume will cover the years 1965-66. This would make sense, in that material from 1965 seems poised for quasi-release in another copyright-extension EU box set at the end of the year anyway.

The post in question:

Quote:

I have just had some photos accepted by Sony for the forthcoming "BOB DYLAN BOOTLEG SERIES 12". As they are from 1966, and as the next "50th Anniversary Copyright" collection is due for 1965, I would like to suggest it will cover 1965/66 from BIABH to BOB with the 66tour as well. In the course of conversations with "the powers that be", apparently it will be issued as a double CD, a 5CD De Luxe version with 140 page book and an EXTREMELY limited 18CD version.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5099

A while ago there were rumors, and they still persist on some Dylan boards, that there would be an 18 CD box of "Blonde On Blonde" material. SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH One can only hope.

Charles · 19 Dec 2007

I thought the next Bootleg Series was supposed to be the Blood On The Tracks sessions with New York version of the album etc.

joemusic1958 · **Joined:** 31 Mar 2008 **Posts:** 134

That was what Sony had reported with. Record Store Day 45 release

joelee · **Joined:** 19 Dec 2007 **Posts:** 76 **Location:** Texas

This is better news than the Blood on the Tracks release.

RobertaZ · 09 Jun 2007

...and wouldn't a full concert video from 1966 with The Band be the cat's meow!!!

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1538

If the previous "50th Anniversary Collection" copyright extension sets are any indication, it's hard to say what 1965 recordings might or might not show up. According to "Still On The Road" here are a couple of "PA recordings" and an audience tape of concerts late in the year. However, a fairly generous number of studio outtakes and alternates from BIABH and H61 have seen official release on titles ranging from "The Bootleg Series" to the "Highway 61 Interactive" CD-ROM; the 1962, 1963 and 1964 sets have mostly sought to contain only those studio outtakes that are (a) complete takes, and (b) have never shown up on any official audio or video release, in whole or in part, including accidentally (early pressings of "Freewheelin'").

One thing I've noticed is that apparently only a single track from the 1965 UK tour filmed for the "Don't Look Back" documentary has ever shown up on a Dylan CD--a live version of "To Ramona" which first showed up as a DVD bonus track also appeared on the Japan-only "1961-2000" live anthology. Not sure if there are issues with licensing the recordings from D.A. Pennebaker; what seems more likely is that as tour was Dylan's final acoustic tour before going electric, performance-wise he wasn't at his most inspired. The bottom line is that if one has the 2-disc DVD version of "Don't Look Back" from 2007, one has all of the officially released material from this tour.

Still..it's always tantalizing to consider what might remain in the Dylan vault that hasn't yet been released or bootlegged.

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1538

Here's a somewhat informal list of Bob's officially released 1965 output. Material originally released in 1965-66 is in boldface, tracks unavailable on CD are underlined, with the exception of the alternate version of "From A Buick 6", which was officially released on a now-impossible to find Japanese CD about twenty years ago. As mentioned, much footage and audio from the 1965 UK tour can be found on the 2007 "Don't Look Back" DVD; footage of Dylan's controversial Newport Folk Festival appearance in July is on both the "No Direction Home" and "The Other Side Of The Mirror" DVDs. Finally, sources disagree on the exact recording date for "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"--either October 5 or November 30th, although Bob was backed at both sessions by The Hawks, later known as The Band.

Quote:

January 13, 1965
1. I’ll Keep It With Mine (1965 Version)
Biograph 1
2. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Alternate)
No Direction Home 1
3. Subterranean Homesick Blues (Acoustic)
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 2
4. Outlaw Blues (Alternate)
Exclusive Outtakes from No Direection Home [iTunes download]
5. Farewell Angelina
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 2
6. California
NCIS Volume Two
January 14, 1965
7. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Bringing It All Back Home
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bringing It All Back Home
9. Outlaw Blues
Bringing It All Back Home
10. She Belongs To Me (Alternate)
No Direction Home 2
11. She Belongs To Me
Bringing It All Back Home
12. Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
Bringing It All Back Home
January 15, 1965
13. Maggie’s Farm
Bringing It All Back Home
14. On The Road Again
Bringing It All Back Home
15. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Bringing It All Back Home
16. Gates Of Eden
Bringing It All Back Home
17. Mr. Tambourine Man
Bringing It All Back Home
18. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Bringing It All Back Home
19. If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got To Stay All Night) (Single Version)
“If You Gotta Go, Go Now” single (as released in EU in 1967)
20. If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got To Stay All Night) (Alternate)
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 2
April-May 1965--UK "Don't Look Back" tour
21. To Ramona (Live 1965)
Live 1961-2000
June 15, 1965
22. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (Alternate)
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 2
23. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (Alternate 2)
No Direction Home 2
24. Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 2
25. Like A Rolling Stone (Alternate)
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 2
[NOTE: Several alternate takes of LARS available on the "Highway 61 Interactive" CD-ROM]
June 16, 1965
26. Like A Rolling Stone
Highway 61 Revisited
July 25, 1965
27. Maggie’s Farm (Live) (Newport Folk Festival)
No Direction Home 2
July 29, 1965
28. Tombstone Blues (Alternate)
No Direction Home 2
29. Tombstone Blues
Highway 61 Revisited
30. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
Highway 61 Revisited
31. Positively 4th Street
"Positively 4th Street" single
July 30, 1965
32. From A Buick 6 (Alternate)
Highway 61 Revisited (Original and Japanese pressings)
33. From A Buick 6
Highway 61 Revisited
34. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (“Mistaken” Version)
Withdrawn “Positively 4th Street” single
35. Desolation Row (Alternate)
No Direction Home 2
August 2, 1965
36. Highway 61 Revisited (Alternate)
No Direction Home 2
37. Highway 61 Revisited
Highway 61 Revisited
38. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Alternate)
No Direction Home 2
39. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Highway 61 Revisited
40. Queen Jane, Approximately
Highway 61 Revisited
41. Ballad Of A Thin Man
Highway 61 Revisited
August 4, 1965
42. Desolation Row
Highway 61 Revisited
October 5, 1965
43. Medicine Sunday
Highway 61 Interactive
44. Jet Pilot
Biograph 2
45. I Wanna Be Your Lover
Biograph 3
November 30, 1965
46. Visions Of Johanna (Alternate)
No Direction Home 2
47. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" single

everton · **Joined:** 16 Dec 2012 **Posts:** 46

Interesting list but is it not the case that both of the last two Bootleg Series releases (Another Self Portrait and Basement Tapes) contained tracks that no one knew about before and that that could happen here again (hopefully) ?

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1538

everton wrote:

Interesting list but is it not the case that both of the last two Bootleg Series releases (Another Self Portrait and Basement Tapes) contained tracks that no one knew about before and that that could happen here again (hopefully) ?

The existing info on the January "Bringing It All Back Home" sessions is particularly contradictory, particularly in light of Steve Boone's recollection of his work at the January 14th session (for which the cited recording sheets apparently fail to list the number of takes recorded.) While it might seem unlikely that a vast amount of leftover material exists for an album recorded in three days--only seven months after the session for his previous album, and six months before the sessions for his subsequent album--with Dylan, there's no telling. Tantalizingly, no treasure trove of Columbia acetates for BIABH has ever surfaced on bootleg or anything like that. One snippet from the January 13 acoustic session that has popped up on bootleg is "You Don't Have To Do That":

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1538

Speaking of Dylan, and speaking of fifty years ago, it was fifty years ago tonight that Bob Dylan horrified the nation by playing the Newport Folk Festival backed by a band playing electrically amplified instruments.

ranasakawa · 26 Jan 2007

I received a magnificent newport Folk festival SBD of this show today.
Brilliant show

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2015 3:31 pm

Bump: This has been pencilled in for early November. Details from Sony's initial solicitation are in the first post. Not pre-orderable yet, but soon. (And there will likely also be a distilled version with less discs.)

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5099

My favorite Dylan period by far. I can't wait for this.

People on Expectingrain.com are speculating that there's an entire disc of "Like A Rolling Stone". I can understand why some would find this boring and repetitive, but It would something that I'd love to hear.

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1538

GodsComic · 03 Aug 2006

Is the track list in that first post speculative?

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1538

This is apparently the tracklisting of the 2-disc version:

Spoiler: show

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Sep 23, 2015 5:43 pm

GodsComic wrote:

Is the track list in that first post speculative?

It's official, from Sony's solicitation.

ranasakawa · 26 Jan 2007

I'll get the 2 CD version

The mega box of Basement Tapes was mostly not at decent musical quality for my liking
Some people loved it........

banzaibid · 05 Aug 2007

Larry wrote:

My favorite Dylan period by far. I can't wait for this.
People on Expectingrain.com are speculating that there's an entire disc of "Like A Rolling Stone". I can understand why some would find this boring and repetitive, but It would something that I'd love to hear.

I totally agree. Count me in, big time!!

Stumpy Joe · **Joined:** 29 Apr 2014 **Posts:** 1538

A few alternate takes of "Like A Rolling Stone" could be heard on the old "Highway 61 Interactive" CD-ROM released...good God, twenty years ago. The thing is, the master take of LARS is a fairly early take and it is clear that the alternate takes were lacking. To listen to what looks to be the entire LARS session should be fascinating, although I don't know that it will be a disc that I'd play very often. I have another disc that is full of nothing but Elvis Presley running through take after take of "Loving You" for an hour or so. Not the sort of disc I've ever taken with me on a long drive.

To me, the best news is that I will be able to knock two major Dylan rarities from my bucket list (and delete them from my Itunes): the "mistaken" versions of "From A Buick 6" and "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window". The alternate "From A Buick 6" was actually the default version in Japan for decades, even appearing on a pricey, ultra-rare Japanese CD back in the early 90's. On the other hand, conspicuous by its absence is the single version of "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" that was released with backing vocal overdubs in Europe in 1967.

Finally, I think we're going to know a lot more about certain sessions than was known previously. Details of the March 1966 Nashville sessions have always been sort of murky.

[2015-11-06] Bob Dylan "The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12" (Columbia/Legacy)

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