JUDAS!: From Forest Hills to the Free Trade Hall: A Historical View of Dylan's Big Boo
Makes for a great companion to the big 36-CD boxed set of...
"We never did capture that sound on stage-the Blonde On Blonde sound; we never did capture the Highway 61 sound on stage. What we did on stage was something different that we never recorded." - Bob Dylan, November 1978In JUDAS!, world-renowned Bob Dylan expert and musicologist Clinton Heylin combines fast-paced narrative with forensic detective work to lift the lid on the incredible music Dylan and his backing group, The Hawks (soon to become known as The Band), made on stage-and on record-during 1965-66.The book opens the day after Dylan's epochal performance at the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965-site of the electric guitar shot heard around the world-as he prepares for his show at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York, and ends the following May at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, at the close of his whirlwind four-month World Tour 1966.In between times, Dylan finished one masterpiece-his first fully fledged 'rock' album, Highway 61 Revisited-and then moved straight on to the next, the landmark double-album Blonde On Blonde. Crucially, however, he and his Hawks also unveiled a parallel sound on stage, ushering forth a cavalcade of ferric ferocity...
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Makes for a great companion to the big 36-CD boxed set of all extant recordings of Dylan's remarkable 1966 tour of Australia and Europe with the Band. Heylin tells the story with some choice quotes from interviews, but also does great job of mining press reviews from the time. It's a brisk book, but alas, and not the book's fault, as...
