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Various Artists – Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 21

Various Artists
Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 21: They’ll Stone You When You’re Playing Your Guitar

As you’ve probably guessed from its title, this volume features some great guitar players spinning their magic on Bob’s tunes.

01 Rainy Day Women (instrumental) – Phil Lesh and Friends with Warren Haynes and Jimmy Herring (Apr 20, 2001, Independence Hall Cricket Arena, Charlotte, NC)
02 Highway 61 Revisited – Johnny Winter (Jul 27, 1980, Blues ‘N’ Tattoo, New York, NY)
03 Quinn the Eskimo – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (1970, Paris Theatre, London, England)
04 Going Going Gone – Richard Hell with Robert Quine (Jul 14, 1982, Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA)
05 Don’t Ya Tell Henry – The Band (Aug 17, 1969, Woodstock, Bethel, NY)
06 Queen Jane Approximately – Grateful Dead(Oct 8, 1989, Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA)
07 Watching the River Flow – Joe Cocker and Eric Clapton (NOV 28, 1983, ARMS Benefit, Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX)
08 Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – Bill Kirchen (Aug 7, 2005, Rancho Nicasio Nicasio, CA)
09 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? – Jimi Hendrix (May 5, 1968, Fillmore East, New York, NY)
10 Isis – Derek Trucks Band (Dec 31, 2003, Visulite Theater, Charlotte, NC)
11 This Wheel’s On Fire – The Black crowes (May 13th, 2006, Labatt Centre, London, ON)
12 One More Cup of Coffee – Chris Duarte (Feb 3,2007, Mexicali Blues, Teaneck, NJ)
13 Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Guns N’ Roses (Dec 19, 1987, Madison, WI)
14 All Along the Watchtower – Night of the Guitars with Randy California, Robby Krieger, and Phil Manzanera (Apr 30, 1989, Stadthalle, Heidelberg, Germany)

RatDog & Phil Lesh & Friends – Oklahoma City, OK (07/09/01)

Ratdog
Phil Lesh & Friends
July 9, 2001
Zoo Amphitheatre
Oklahoma City, OK

Ragdog Set

1 Blackbird @
2 FOTD @*
3 Masterpiece @* (band joins)
4 UJB ->
5 Playin ->
6 Oct. Queen ->
7 Deep End ->
8 Even So ->
9 Estimated ->
10 Other One Jam #->
11 Bass/Drums

DISC TWO
1 Ashes & Glass ->
2 Terrapin ->
3 Playin’ reprise ->
4 UJB

@ – acoustic Bob & Rob
@* – Bob, Rob and Mark
“Wheel”, “Playin” and “Supplication” teases during “Other One Jam” (Bad as F**K!!)

Phil Lesh Set

Set 1
Disc 1

  1. Crowd/tuning
  2. The Music Never Stopped >
  3. Cassidy
  4. Bomb Bay Doors Fixed
  5. Celebration >
  6. Crazy Fingers
  7. Just A Little Light

Disc 2

Set 2

  1. Crowd/tuning
  2. Jam >
  3. Wharf Rat >
  4. She Said, She Said >
  5. Cryptical Envelopment
  6. Stella Blue >
  7. Other One >

Disk 3

  1. The Wheel
  2. Rap/Intros
  3. Like A Rolling Stone

Phil Lesh in Oklahoma City, 2001

I graduated from college with a Bachelor of Science in English. The plan was to get a Masters Degree and then a Ph.D. and become a professor of literature at some college. After a single semester of graduate school, I realized I was exhausted, tired of living in libraries, tired of taking tests, writing papers, and the entire educational system. I decided to take a year off and then I could start fresh again.

A quarter of a century later, I still haven’t returned to school.

For a few years after that disastrous semester, I worked a lot of odd jobs and moved to various cities across the country. Whenever I was between jobs I often went home to Oklahoma and worked with my Dad. The summer of 2001 was one such period.

When I heard Phil Lesh was coming to Oklahoma City I immediately bought tickets. The day came and I printed out my driving instructions from MapQuest, making sure to highlight the major turns because it’s a bugger trying to make sense of those things while speeding down the highway.

As far as I could tell the Zoo Amphitheater didn’t have any real parking. Outside the venue was a large grassy area with lots of trees and a few little roadways passing through it. Everyone seemed to be parking there. Rather haphazardly I thought. I found me a space and walked through the lot scene. I didn’t stop for a Kind Veggie Burrito or any tie-dyed shirts. This was a general admission show and I wanted to secure a good spot.

The Amphitheater is a smallish venue. It sits on a small hill with the stage at the bottom. There were no seats but periodically some cut, rectangular stones had been dug into the ground creating a sort of spaced-out step system. I hadn’t brought any chair or a blanket to sit on so I found one of those stones close to the stage and sat myself down.

This was July in Oklahoma and it was hot. Damn hot. I was already covered in sweat. The grass that originally had covered the ground had long since been beaten into submission and murdered by the heat. What was left was a lot of dirt. I was already getting covered in it.

Up front, just to the side of the stage was a sort of camp shower. It was full of Deadheads trying to find some relief from the heat. I gathered with the dirty hippies and got myself good and wet. That cooled me down for a short while and turned the dust that covered my body into mud. Later some kind soul would take a hose and spray the entire crowd down.

I bought myself a way too expensive bottle of water and waited for the show to begin.

I don’t remember much of the show, except that it was a good one. I remember Warren Haynes belting out The Beatles’ “She Said, She Said” and a great rendition of “The Wheel.” I’d only just learned that song but it had quickly become a favorite. Its lyrics remain profound.

I was desperately hoping for a version of “Ripple” or “Box of Rain” for the encore but instead, we got a cover of Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” which wasn’t bad.

What I really remember is just how ferocious the band sounded. I had seen RatDog* a couple of times at this point and they always sounded more intricate, more steadily put together. Phil and Friends were full of sound and fury. They were loud. They jammed on every song. It was great.

The sun eventually went down and cooled things off. The show ended late. Oklahoma City is a couple of hours from where my parents were living and I got home very late. I got home sunburned, exhausted, and utterly filthy, but with the biggest smile on my face.

That’s was Phil Lesh brought to the world. He let people dance and shake their bones. He gave joy to thousands of people all over the world.

What a long, long time to be gone. And a short time to be there.

—

*Listening to a recording of the Phil and Friends show earlier today I thought I heard Bob Weir sing on the first couple of songs but I just *knew* that couldn’t be true. Someone commented on the show on Archive.org about Bob making a guest appearance and I was ready to argue with him.

“I was there”, I was going to write, and “Bob wasn’t there.” “I don’t care if it sounds like him, I was there, damn it and I’m telling you Bob Weir didn’t make an appearance.” I was working on retorts like “Why would Bob Weir comes to freaking Oklahoma and only play on a couple of songs.” Then I looked it up. Bob was there. RatDog opened the show. I have no memory of that whatsoever.

Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia’s 70th Birthday

move me brightly

Here’s a review more of you can get behind. A bunch of cool folks got together in 2012 to celebrate what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 70th birthday and threw a big musical party.

My memory of this is that it is good, but it must have not been mind-blowing because I haven’t listened to it since.

I’m also pretty sure Phil Lesh came for a couple of songs and then took off because he had his own gig at his own place that same day.

You can read my review here.

Phil Lesh & Wilco – Bridgeview, IL (08/26/22)

Philco (Phil Lesh and Friends with Jeff Tweedy and Nels Cline)
2022-08-26
Sacred Rose Festival, Canopy Stage
Bridgeview, Il

Set I

  1. Intro
  2. Dire wolf
  3. Doing that rag
  4. Mr Charlie
  5. Jack straw
  6. Airline to heaven
  7. US Blues
  8. Not Fade Away

Set II

  1. Intro
  2. Shakedown
  3. Viola Lee Blues
  4. Pride of Cucamonga
  5. New Speedway Boogie
  6. Franklin’s tower
  7. Via Chicago
  8. Ripple

Various Artists – Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Volume 12

Various Artists
Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 12: Sad Eyed Ladies and Wanted Men (Version 2)

Note for version 2: Well, that was quick. Apparently, the version of “Baby Blue” I included was officially released, so here’s a different, later one, followed by the same track list as before. Hopefully, this one will fly.

Original notes: OK folks, here’s the latest and greatest from the NSD Laboratories. I count seven new songs that have not appeared in previous volumes, and eight new artists. The rest, of course, are new combinations of ingredients we’ve used before. For those of you who’ve asked: I don’t know how many more volumes there will be–I’ll keep ’em coming til I run out of covers or time.

Here’s a repeat request from last time: can anyone get me a lossless version of Bruce Springsteen’s beautiful rendition of “Forever Young” from the John Hammond memorial show? I’d love to include it in a later volume of this series. And somebody out there (Persic, perhaps?) must have the John Wesley Harding-hosted KCRW special “Oh Merci!” from 1993–share it please!

That’s it for now. Please keep the suggestions and files coming! As always, thanks to the tapers, the original uploaders, the folks who’ve sent me recordings, the fine artists who’ve created cover artwork, and especially the performers and composer. Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). Enjoy!

01 It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Grateful Dead (Apr 14, 1984, Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA)
02 Go ‘Way Little Boy
Lone Justice (Jan 25, 1985, The Stone, San Francisco, CA)
03 Wanted Man
Jon Langford (Mar 19, 2004, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL)
04 Mississippi
Donna the Buffalo (Sep 18, 2004, Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte NC)
05 Blind Willie McTell
Tom Russell and Barrence Whitfield (Jan 25, 1995, Johnny D’s, Somerville, MA)
06 Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Calexico (Dec 8, 2006, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA)
07 Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Robyn Hitchcock and the Minus 5 (Jul 10, 2006, Dingwalls, London)
08 Most Likely You Go Your Way and I Go Mine
Black Crowes (Oct 25, 2005, The Fillmore, Denver CO)
09 License to Kill – The Waterboys (Feb 19 1984, Batschkapp Club, Frankfurt, Germany)
10 Chimes of Freedom
McGuinn, Hillman and Clark (Sep 9, 1979, Calderone Theater, Long Island, NY)
11 Buckets of Rain
Phil Lesh and Friends with Joan Osborne (Feb 12, 2006, Beacon Theater, New York, NY)
12 Spanish Harlem Incident
Yonder Mountain String Band (Oct 6, 2005, Showbox, Seattle, WA)
13 Wallflower
Buddy and Julie Miller (May 28, 2000, Camp Mather, Yosemite, CA)
14 Paths of Victory
Cat Power (May 14, 1999, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA)
15 Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
The Walkabouts (Jan 19, 2001, Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA)
16 Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Bruce Springsteen and Wolfgang Niedecken (Jul 9, 1995 Cafe Eckstein, Berlin, Germany)
17 If You Gotta Go, Go Now
Cowboy Junkies (Apr 30, 1989, Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA)

Various Artists – Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vols. 1-2

Various Artists
Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan – Varied Artists Vol. 01-02

Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan
The Dylan Covers, Vol. 1
Various Artists

As Columbia Records once advertised, “Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan.” Still, I always love to hear Dylan covers. Whenever one pops up, at a show or online, I listen attentively for something new the singer might bring to the song. For the last few years, I’ve been collecting them via bit torrent with an eye toward making a compilation. Here is the first volume of what may be many, if there is interest, and if I can find the time and energy. For now, I’ve avoided the Dead, the Byrds and some other usual suspects, but they may appear later. I have sequenced this for flow; total running time is 78:00. I’ve put the two longest tracks at the end, so those of you who don’t like jams or have short attention spans can avoid them. I haven’t done any artwork, but if there are any frustrated album cover designers out there, I would love to have some.

Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages; soundboards and FMs have an asterisk, the rest are very good to excellent audience recordings. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). Thanks, of course, to the tapers, and to the original uploaders. Enjoy! JS

  1. Everything is Broken – Neil Young (10-28-89, Shoreline Amp., Mtn View, CA)
  2. Dark Eyes – Alejandro Escovedo (10-1-04, Texas Union Hall, Austin, TX)*
  3. When the Ship Comes In – Billy Bragg (9-26-05, Talking Bob Dylan Blues The Barbican Theatre, London)*
  4. Hard Rain – Big Country w/Eddi Reader (5-31-99, Glasgow SECC, Glasgow, Scotland)*
  5. Ring them Bells – Warren Zevon (10-13-96, The Bluebird, Denver, CO)
  6. The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Alter – Steve Wynn (7-27-05, Molly Malone’s Irish Pub, Los Angeles)*
  7. When I Paint My Masterpiece – Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, and Gillian Welch (10-6-06, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Golden Gate Gate Park, San Francisco, CA)
  8. Girl From the North Country – The Eels (5-9-05, Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW – Santa Monica, CA)*
  9. Love Minus Zero – Ron Sexsmith (10-24-97, The Milky Way, Amsterdam)*
  10. Highway 61 Revisted – World Party (7-12-93, Summer Stage, Central Park, New York)
  11. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again – Soft Boys (October 27, 2002 ,The Mercury Lounge, NYC)
  12. Fourth Time Around – Calexico (7-9-03 Zeltival am Tollhaus, Karlsruhe, Germany)*
  13. Positively Fourth Street – X (8-2-86, The Ritz, New York City)*
  14. Queen Jane Approximately – Mojave 3 (4-17-96, Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW – Santa Monica, CA)*
  15. Hurricane – Phish (8-16-97, Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, ME)*
  16. Blind Willie McTell – Mick Taylor (9-16-00, Jack Legg’s, Nashville, TN)*

Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan
The Dylan Covers, Vol. 2
Various Artists (Audience Recordings)

As Columbia Records once advertised, “Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan.” Still, I always love to hear Dylan covers. Whenever one pops up, at a show or online, I listen attentively for something new the singer might bring to the song. For the last few years, I’ve been collecting them via bit torrent with an eye toward making a compilation. Here is the second volume of what may be many, if there is continued interest, and if I can find the time and energy.

This time out, I have taken the advice of CHerrmann57, who suggested I segregate audience from soundboard recordings on separate volumes. Quality is generally VG to Exc, though not as good as the audience recordings on the previous volume. (Next up will be a ’70s volume, which will probably be all soundboard or FM recordings.) I have again sequenced this for flow rather than any sort of chronology; total running time is about 78 minutes. I’ve again put the long tracks at the end, so those of you who don’t like jams or have short attention spans can avoid them. I haven’t done any artwork, but again humbly request that if there are any frustrated album cover designers out there, have at it; pdiamond did a nice job last time!

Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). Thanks, of course, to the tapers, and to the original uploaders. Enjoy! JS

  1. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You – Gillian Welch and David Rawlings (7-29-04, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, England)
  2. One Too Many Mornings – David Gray (3-13-06, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO)
  3. Girl From the North Country – Robert Plant (10-24-02, Octagon Centre, Sheffield, England)
  4. Tomorrow is a Long Time – Ben Harper (2-9-01, Jorgenson Auditorium, Storrs, CT)
  5. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right – Matt Nathanson (2-22-05, Chris Knutzen Hall, University Center, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma WA)
  6. I Thew it All Away – Lloyd Cole (12-27-01, Joe’s Pub, New York City)
  7. Buckets of Rain – Beth Orton and M Ward (9-30-03, Cafe Largo, Los Angeles)
  8. I’ll Keep it With Mine – Yo La Tengo w/ David Mansfield (12-30-05, Maxwell’s, Hoboken NJ
  9. Gates of Eden – Robyn Hitchcock (3-26-05, Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ)
  10. License to Kill – Cowboy Junkies (8-16-05, Mountain Winery, Saratoga, CA)
  11. It’s All Right Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) – Roger McGuinn (10-05-06, S¯nderborghus, S¯nderborg, Denmark)
  12. Isis – The White Stripes (6-27-03, Coca-Cola Bricktown Event Center, Oklahoma City, OK)
  13. It Takes a Lot to Laugh – Joe Ely (12-31-05, La Zona Rosa, Austin, TX)
  14. Knockin on Heaven’s Door – Tom Petty (8-27-05, Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA)
  15. Like a Rolling Stone – Phil and Trey (10-29-06, Vegoose, Las Vegas, NV)
  16. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – Echo and the Bunnymen (12-5-85, SFX Hall, Dublin, Ireland)
  17. Farewell Angelina – Jeff Buckley (4-5-92, Roulette Club, New York City)

Hot Tuna & The Other Ones – Mountain View, CA (07/25/98)

Hot Tuna
The Other Ones
7/25/98
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
Furthur Festival

Hot Tuna

Set I

  1. Tuning / Intro
  2. I See The Light
  3. Third Week In The Chelsea
  4. San Francisco Bay Blues
  5. Uncle Sam Blues
  6. Gypsy Fire
  7. Funky #7

Opened For ‘The Other Ones’
2nd Billed Behind Rusted Root

Jorma Kaukonen – Guitar, Vocals
Jack Casady – Bass
Michael Falzarano – Guitar, Vocals
Pete Sears – Keyboards, Accordion
Harvey Sorgen – Drums

The Other Ones

~ One Set ~

Disc 1:

  1. U.S. Blues
  2. Playin’ In The Band >
  3. The Other One * >
  4. Ramble On Rose *
  5. Down The Road Again *
  6. Jack-A-Roe

Disc 2:

  1. Friend Of The Devil
  2. Iko Iko **
  3. China Cat Sunflower ** >
  4. I Know You Rider ** >
  5. Drums ** >
  6. Preacher In The Rain >
  7. Banyan Tree >

Disc 3:

  1. Corrina >
  2. Playin’ (reprise) * >
  3. The Other One * >
  4. Wharf Rat * >
  5. St. Stephen * > The Eleven * >
  6. Turn On Your Lovelight *#
    Encore:
  7. One More Saturday Night >
  8. Touch Of Grey

Notes:
— U.S. Blues fades in, only the first few notes are clipped.

*with Bill Kreutzman
**with Bill Kreutzman; without John Molowith
#with Jorma Kaukonen

Line-up:
Phil Lesh
Bob Weir
Mickey Hart
John Molo
Bruce Hornsby
Steve Kimock
Mark Karan
Dave Ellis

Source: (OTS) Neumann KM-184’s (ORTF) >Tascam DA-P1
Lineage: DAT-M > Tascam DA-P1 > HHb CDR 800
Recorded/Transferred: OldNeumanntapr
Extraction [CD >EAC >WAV >CDWav >FLAC]: Brad Foster (8/14/10)

bfnotes:
I re-tracked slightly via CDWav:
— Split PITR>Banyan, these were originally one track.

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
I had just recently sold my Nakamichi CM 300s to my friend Taper Ron so I could upgrade to Neumann KM 184s, which were my first pair of Neumann microphones. (I sold them in early 1999 and bought the Neumann KM 140s with active cables because even with custom-made shortened XLR cables the KM 184s were just too hard to hide for stealth shows, which were the majority of the concerts that I recorded. I did not yet have my own Tascam DA-P1 DAT recorder, and I needed something to supply phantom power for the microphones, so my friend Jack in Salt Lake City shipped me his Tascam to use for the show. I recorded this up on the lawn, where I had recorded many shows at Shoreline, so I could take advantage of the repeater towers.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉

The Other Ones – Edgewood, CO (07/19/98)

The Other Ones
1998-07-19 (Sunday)
Fiddler’s Green
Edgewood, CO

Disc 1
Set I
d1t01 03:24.284 Playin’ In The Band ->
d1t02 06:25.138 Playin’ Jam ->
d1t03 09:58.571 All Along The Watchtower
d1t04 11:07.513 Scarlet Begonias ->
d1t05 13:54.854 Fire On The Mountain ->
d1t06 07:21.918 Jack-A-Roe
d1t07 08:31.300 Minglewood Blues
d1t08 08:56.374 Down The Road
Total time: 1:09:30.9752

Disc 2
Set II
d2t01 02:21.529 Jam/Medley ->
d2t02 07:29.837 White-Wheeled Limousine
d2t03 10:26.914 Bird Song ->
d2t04 09:34.425 Samson & Delilah ->
d2t05 09:51.451 Drums
Total time: 0:39:44.156

Disc 3
d3t01 16:56.897 Banyan Tree ->
d3t02 03:41.082 Playin’ Reprise ->
d3t03 08:40.091 Wharf Rat ->
d3t04 11:04.565 Throwing Stones ->
d3t05 11:29.404 Not Fade Away
d3t06 05:21.443 E: Ripple
d3t07 01:22.146 Happy Trails To You (music on PA while audience leaving venue)
Total time: 0:58:35.608

first Other Ones “Watchtower”
“Samson & Delilah” with Jorma Kaukonen (guitar, vocals)

1998 Lineup :
Phil Lesh; bass
Bob Weir; guitar
Mickey Hart; drums
with
Bruce Hornsby; keys
Steve Kimock; guitar
John Molo; drums
Mark Karan; guitar
Dave Ellis; sax

Lineage: SBD > D (unk. sample rate) > ? > CD-R > SSSB