looking north on La Brea from De Longpre, 1921 | Looking north on La Brea, De Longpre crossing in the foreground and Sunset Boulevard in the middle distance. Chaplin Studios on the right. 1921
Sunday, 31 December 2017
Waiting for Jefferson
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looking north on La Brea from De Longpre, 1921 | Looking north on La Brea, De Longpre crossing in the foreground and Sunset Boulevard in the middle distance. Chaplin Studios on the right. 1921
looking north on La Brea from De Longpre, 1921 | Looking north on La Brea, De Longpre crossing in the foreground and Sunset Boulevard in the middle distance. Chaplin Studios on the right. 1921
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Dylan: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (live Birmingham UK 24 June 1998) w Van Morrison Larry Campbell guitar Tony Garnier bass
Dylan: Highway 61 (live c. 1997) w Susan Tedeschi guitar Larry Campbell guitar Tony Garnier bass.
....among the many curious dylan mystery vids on web.
Shows below are w his Forever Tour band, same lineup as above except for Susan T & Van M.
Dylan: Love Minus Zero (live c. 1998-1999)
Dylan: Simple Twist of Fate (live 1999)
Dylan: Just Like a Woman (live c. 1998)
Dylan: My Back Pages (live c. 1998, celtic fiddle version)
Dylan: Desolation Row (live c 1998)
Really fine entry to close the year. Now I have learned the name Gutzon Borglum. Now I have been converted to Bromo-Seltzer astonishing power. How I have wandered Robert Johnson's hometown. Hey, thanks for the amazing Dylan links. "Knockin'" and "Love Minus Zero" the highlights for me. Wishing you an excellent New Year, Tom.
Stupid Ideas, indeed. A great assemblage. Happy New Year!
TC CROSSES '18 BORDER AT SPEED OF LIGHT!!!
For a guy with a claim
To be blind, deaf & lame
You like Ms Helen Keller
Fueled mit nitro-methane.
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Stuart, Hilton and Kent,
Three such fine friends, more than this humble blog deserves.
No, actually, three's probably about right.
Borglum was a fellow just like the rest of us, only even maybe a little worse.
Never giving up, always chipping away, blasting, blowing up, climbing down, hauling himself back up again, getting discouraged, repairing to the family station in beeville, tomsawyering the insane job onto his hapless son.
He may have been at the top of his profession, but there's the old truism, lonely at the top, and for long and long, I have pondered upon him in his unhappy perch, there on the scaffold, never completing the work, and coming along too early to be included in the safe space of the postmodern resistance to closure.
After all not finishing a symphony gave eg. Schubert plenty of vibe (things that end too soon are invariably popular with short attention span audiences, such as we have currently), but even at that, nobody's got time.
That great period of Dylan's work only becomes generally accessible now, the links have mostly gone up in the past few months, not yet generally known about, are hid behind deceptive titles for safety in concealment, my hunch is they won't last, just a hunch, but BD's lawyers are notorious for extreme hounding.
Some Dylan loyalists I have spoken with are afraid even to discuss this. Now that is some heavy aura.
A certain aura of mystery surrounds the postings, as to source, there are suggestions Tony Garnier was/is involved, sounds plausible though merely gossip ergo perhaps total bs.
That pretty little white tall steeple church in Robert Johnson's hometown, I don't know but my wonderment is centered in a certain historical curiosity... about the possible denominational time-shift, there.
I mean, it's a Catholic Church, yet.
(Andrew Murr is a blues nut by the by, it shows in the work as native religion...)
BTW Dylan's guitar chops, at peak in those shows, have since gone the way of most human things (keeping in mind he was just turning 60 then, a virtual baby), in recent years he bangs at piano maybe but no more guitar playing, as a veteran of crippling degenerative arthritis, who once used hands for several things of private interest and harming no one, eg painting, playing guitar, I do take an interest in how these activities are sustained over time, or not sustained and lost, a repeated reminder never to take anything you are able to do for granted, as in one minute you may become unable ever to do it again.
It's in that respect that these videos would be precious.
Too bad we don't have parallel Robert Johnson stash. It's ok to dream, right?
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