BOB DYLAN : ALL HALLOWS' EVE & MORE

 

Disc One (63:40)

  1. Intro
  2. The Times They Are A-Changin'
  3. Spanish Harlem Incident
  4. Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues
  5. To Ramona
  6. Who Killed Davey Moore?
  7. Gates Of Eden
  8. If You Gotta Go, Go Now
  9. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
  10. I Don't Believe You (She acts like we never have met)
  11. Mr. Tambourine Man
  12. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Disc Two (53:07)

  1. Talking World War III Blues
  2. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
  3. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
  4. Mama, You've Been On My Mind (with Joan Baez)
  5. With God On Our Side (with Joan Baez)
  6. It Ain't Me, Babe (with Joan Baez)
  7. All I Really Want To Do
    Bonus :
  8. Interview
  9. Ballad Of Donald White
  10. Interview
  11. The Death Of Emmett Till
  12. Interview
  13. Blowin' In The Wind

Label : Midnight Beat

Venue : Philharmonic Hall, New York City, New York, USA

Date : October 31, 1964

Quality : Soundboard Recording (A+)

Review (Bobsboots) : The Halloween show is one of the absolute 'must haves' for every collection. The show  is near perfection. Dylan is funny, charming, and powerful. The performance drips with the self confidence of a young man with the world at his feet. Every bit as captivating as '66 Manchester, and for my money; more enjoyable. This particular CD presents the show in the best quality ever. Tape hiss has been removed from the already incredible soundboard recording. As a bonus, the famous WBAI FM radio show has been added as filler material. The package is very nice as well. Unlike some of the goofy covers this release has seen in the past, The front is the Daniel Kramer classic Dylan & Baez 'protest poster' photo in black and sepia tones. This is as good as it gets. This is most definitely a package that Sony should consider for official release.

Review (Wikipedia for The Bootleg Series Volume 6 "Bob Dylan Live 1964 Concert At Philharmonic Hall") : Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall is a complete recording of Bob Dylan's October 31, 1964 "Halloween" show at New York's Philharmonic Hall. It was released in 2004. The set list was dominated by Dylan's protest songs, including "The Times They Are a-Changin'," "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," and "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". Joan Baez, a major supporter of Dylan's in his early career, duets with Dylan on three songs, as well as singing another alone ("Silver Dagger"). However, Dylan performed these songs alongside early versions of three songs from the soon-to-be-recorded Bringing It All Back Home. New compositions like "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" showed Dylan moving in a new direction, becoming more immersed in evocative, stream-of-consciousness lyrics and moving away from social, topical songwriting. Even as he was moving in this new direction, Dylan was still portrayed as a symbol of the civil rights and anti-war movements, and the Halloween concert of 1964 caught Dylan in transition. The Halloween concert of 1964 had been previously bootlegged on vinyl and CD, but those releases were incomplete and taken from poor dubs of the soundboard tapes. The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 presented the entire concert for the first time from the original master tapes. A few critics, including biographer Clinton Heylin, were dismissive. "I've never rated the Halloween show as a performance," Heylin explained in a phone interview. "Dylan is very focused when he comes to doing the new songs...But the old material, he's completely and totally bored with. It's not a good performance. He's clearly stoned...The concert was a real landmark, not in the positive sense, but in the negative sense because it looked at the time like Dylan was going off the rails." However, the set was well-received by most critics, with NME's Rob Fitzpatrick giving it the magazine's highest rating (a 10 out of 10) and called it "utterly brilliant."