Musings on the byways of popular culture
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13/07/2016
A work colleague has two tickets he can’t use for the above gig – and we can’t either as we’ll be on holiday. PM me if you could use them – and I’ll work out a way of passing them on. Donations gratefully accepted, the main point is that they get used rather than wasted.
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As you’ll probably know, Boxzilla (The Bob version) contains 379 tracks spread over 18 CDs – everything from the studio recordings in 1965/66. I’ve had it for a few weeks now and it has occupied my waking hours fairly completely. Last night, about an hour after I finally got to the far end, I got an e-mail:
Dear Collector,
We hope you are enjoying The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Volume 12: Collector’s Edition. Thanks again for your purchase!
The holidays are coming early for you via a special gift from Columbia Records: 208 tracks encompassing more than ten hours of previously unreleased live Bob Dylan performances from his landmark 1965 tours, including 14 complete concerts – both acoustic and electric – and an array of recordings from television shows, hotel rooms, and other live appearances.
These live performances are being offered as a free download (in 320 Kbps MP3 format) exclusively to purchasers of the Collector’s Edition.
To redeem your download …
So, that’s 208 more tracks of Bob downloaded… of variable quality, and obviously in the main a copyright protection trick: but if you were dithering over whether to go for the big box this might » Continue Reading.
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Heard about this in an e-mail from Spin (Newcastle online record store recommended in the last place), anyone have any idea if it’s any good? An internet search didn’t turn up any reviews.
It’s described as “Limited 2 CD”, release date 27th April. “This two disc set features Rory along with longtime bassist Gerry McAvoy and drummer Ted McKenna and is culled from dates in September 1979”.
Track Listing: Disc 1 1 Shin Kicker 2 Last of the Independents 3 Keychain 4 Moonchild 5 The Mississippi Sheiks 6 I Wonder Who 7 Tattoo’d Lady Disc 2 1 Shadow Play 2 Bought and Sold 3 Walk On Hot Coals 4 Messin’ With the Kid 5 Bullfrog Blues 6 Sea Cruise
http://www.spincds.com/coming-soon/irishman-in-new-york-limited-2cd
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Over two days of trying (first day: VIP and Travel packages, second day: Ticketmaster), I failed to score any tickets for the Grateful Dead’s farewell shows in Chicago. There were well over 300,000 mail order application, over 500,000 trying via Ticketmaster, apparently, so I’m not really surprised, and it was obviously going to get even more expensive with flights and hotels. I’m still disappointed.
Of course, a lot of the tickets are now on the secondary market, via StubHub, for example. My favourite offer is the one for seats behind the stage, with no view whatsoever. The cost to you, for three consecutive nights of looking at a giant screen from Row 9 of Section “Middle 249, No View”: $1,160,004.99. Makes the GA Pit tickets (right in front of the stage) at $1,160,004.09 look reasonable by comparison. Of course, there are better value offers out there: GA Pit tickets start at $15,000… the lowest price out of the 750 3 day passes on offer is $1,339.25, the lowest with a view(!) are $1,899.99 each.
Somehow I’m glad I’m not going to be part of this disgusting circus. A sad way for a band to end their career.
