Bob Dylan
Stick's Picks vol 3
2000 Fall tour compilation from Crystal Cat bootlegs
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lineage: trade cds > roxio disk image > audio cd > copied cd (2)) >eac > flac > upload
info: (below) i copied at dylanpool a while back after receiving the disks in a trade
comments: congratulations! you just got access to your Bob Dylan desert island disks. enjoy!
thank you gopherstick, whoever you are!
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from dylanpool:
Author: gopherstick
Date: 05-15-02 22:13

This one is VERY special to me.
It took an exceedingly long time to get it “just exactly perfect”.

IF YOU HAVE MOST OF THESE SHOWS ALREADY PLEASE DON’T GRAB THE FREEBIE JUST BECAUSE IT’S FREE. I’D LIKE THIS TO GO FOLKS WHO STILL HAVE YET TO HEAR MANY SONGS FROM THE FALL 2000 TOUR

********BE KIND*******

Stick’s Picks, vol. 3
Dropping Songs Down into Our Ears
(Culled from the outstanding Fall 2000 Tour of the United Kingdom)

Disc 1 (acoustic)

Intro
Duncan and Brady (October 6th London, 2nd evening)
Song To Woody (October 6th London, 2nd evening)
Girl of the North Country (October 6th London, 2nd evening)
Tomorrow Is a Long Time (September 13th Dublin)
Ring Them Bells (September 13th Dublin)
This World Can’t Stand Long (September 17th Glasgow)
Delia (September 19th Newcastle)
Love Minus Zero (September 22nd Sheffield)
Mama, You Been On My Mind (September 24th Portsmouth, 1st evening)
The Ballad Of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest (Sept. 25th Portsmouth, 2nd evening)
John Brown (October 1st Munster)
Visions of Johanna (October 1st Munster)
One Too Many Mornings (October 1st Munster)
If Dogs Run Free (October 1st Munster)


Disc 2 (electric)

Make You Feel My Love (September 13th Paris)
Most Likely You Go Your Way (September 17th Glasgow)
Highlands (September 17th Glasgow)
To Be Alone With You (September 17th Glasgow)
Cat’s In the Well (September 16th Aberdeen)
Tell Me That It Isn’t True (September 19th Newcastle)
Man Of Peace (September 19th Newcastle)
Can’t Wait (September 24th Portsmouth, 1st evening)
If Not For You (September 24th Portsmouth, 1st evening)
She Belongs To Me (September 25th Portsmouth, 2nd evening)
Watching the River Flow (September 25th, 2nd evening)
Cold Irons Bound (October 6th London, 2nd evening)
Blind Willie McTell (October 6th London, 2nd evening)
Tombstone Blues (October 5th London, 1st evening)

FIRST FIVE PEOPLE WHO RESPOND GET IT FOR FREE

thank you and enjoy.

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author: gopherstick
Date: 05-15-02 22:15

Hi.

I didn’t want to muck up my latest freebie offer with a lot of typing that most people glance over long enough to find the freebie info and so on.

So if you were lucky enough to snag the freebie (and I fell I can say “lucky enough” with no ego because the music is so good I would doubt anyone could deny it then here is some more information about what went into it.

Then after that I’ve written some very rambling thoughts about what that tour meant to me. (Liner notes, if you’ll allow)


ABOUT STICK’S PICKS, Vol. 3:


Concerning the quality of the recordings, the entire set was sourced directly from the glass mastered Crystal Cat 30 disc tour set. I did not use SHN or Mp3 files**

My first impulse was to simply throw all the rare songs on a couple discs, but as I listened to the shows, I knew that such a project would ultimately suffer for two reasons.

First of all, a couple of the rare songs simply do not reach the musical heights that most of the others do. And secondly, the recording qualities of a couple shows are noticeably weaker than the majority of the others, and for this project I could make sound quality a factor, because 90% of the tour was captured in perfect, A+ quality.

No, as I listened to night after night after night of these amazing shows, I realized that it needed more consideration than simply a memento piece, some relic of just another tour, destined to gather dust in a Case Logic somewhere. Because Fall 2000 was not just another tour, and these songs are not just the same old performances.

So, sorry to Simple Twist of Fate (low mix and time restraints), Ballad of a Thin Man (uneven performance), Trying’ to Get To Heaven (Sugar Town verse was sung but the song just sounds awkward no matter where I try to put it on the disc) and Fourth Time Around (beautiful, but much too slow for this project and like Tryin’ To Get To Heaven, it just doesn’t sound right among the other electric numbers) and a few of the acoustic gems, but I didn’t, couldn’t play favorites in making this compilation. (although it killed me to cut the September 16th Aberdeen airing of Boots, but Girl From the North Country and Bob’s harp solo needed to be heard!)

All in all, every song on these two discs knocks me out. It says something of a tour when I found myself with enough material for a 4 disc set. Most times I’m caught struggling to find one or two songs to help fill out a disc, but this time it was easy.

And I‘m sure you’ll hear why.

Please enjoy this set and pass it along to anybody else who likes good music.

* *NOTE: I was sorely tempted to use an alternate source on the October 1st Munster tracks, but what I’d gain in warmth and bass I’d lose in vocal clarity, so for better or worse, I opted for hearing Bob a little better and stuck with the Crystal Cat release
(and I know that SHN are lossless, but since I had the opportunity to pull the tracks directly from the real deal, I felt obliged. And man, are those pictures cool **

About some of the tracks and my own thoughts on the tour:
(READ AT YOUR OWN RISK,

The rumor spread quickly: Bob was having a good time on tour! Every night he and the band reached new highs, stunning the young crowd, stunning the old one.

Was it true?

Listen to the happy little zip he adds to end his harp solo on Girl of the North Country, or the joyous shouts during the pounding of Cold Irons Bound. He laughingly cries “hey, merci!” to the Paris crowd (October 3rd) following a heartfelt Make You Feel My Love.

He even chuckles his way through the live premier of If Dogs Run Free.

Additionally, the Fall 2000 tour found Bob in a reflective mood at times, or at least in a state of mind that allowed him to explore the various emotions present in so many of his songs.

Why?

Having never had the pleasure of meeting the man, I can’t say I know. I do know from listening to the tapes of his shows that he was interested again, interested in working his craft, interested in the crowd and the energy they generated for him and the band. That was part of it.

In my opinion, what interested him most was singing the stories again. His stories: singing those telling parts of his life and the many lives he’s seen to the upturned faces in the crowd that danced before him.

He must know that most of the ramblers are indeed gone; and not many masters who learned from the Fathers of the Art are still alive, much less in constant musical motion.

And this desire, this strange natural need to communicate on a personal and poetic level to strangers he’ll never really know, speaks volumes about his politics and philosophies about humanity.

Yes, I found profound, chilling moments as I worked into the night on this labor of love. (For example, there was no way I could bring myself to break up the John Brown, Visions and One Too Many Mornings trio from Munster. It remains the most perfect three songs performed in a row by Bob in many years. A bold statement, but proof again as to the sublimity of his shows in the Fall of 2000)

But I also found hilarious moments (listen to the “BIG FAT MAN!!” in Duncan and Brady and I dare you not to laugh) I found sad moments (it doesn’t get much sadder than backing This World Can’t Stand Long with Delia) and I found pure, unfiltered Rock & Roll. (Listen up to the “clip-clopping” Cat’s In the Well, a truly brilliant one-off Man of Peace and a madcap Tombstone Blues)

Most importantly, in working on this project, I rediscovered why I have a mountain of this man’s music and why he inspires me to continually educate myself in the broad and gloriously vague themes he uses to build his life’s work around and upon, chiefly: love, generosity, care for your fellow man, self-educating and story telling, appreciation of arts and abilities you may not possess, and the dazzling, unquenchable curiosity about how we all are choosing to live out the one life we have.

I hope this volume of Stick’s Picks sings for itself as much for you as it does for me.

**returns ACME soapbox and continues to lick stamps**
Stick’s Picks, vol. 3
Dropping Songs Down into Our Ears
Disc 1 (acoustic)
Intro
Duncan and Brady (October 6th London, 2nd evening)
Song To Woody (October 6th London, 2nd evening)
Girl of the North Country (October 6th London, 2nd evening)
Tomorrow Is a Long Time (September 13th Dublin)
Ring Them Bells (September 13th Dublin)
This World Can’t Stand Long (September 17th Glasgow)
Delia (September 19th Newcastle)
Love Minus Zero (September 22nd Sheffield)
Mama, You Been On My Mind (September 24th Portsmouth, 1st evening)
The Ballad Of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest (September 25th Portsmouth, 2nd evening)
John Brown (October 1st Munster)
Visions of Johanna (October 1st Munster)
One Too Many Mornings (October 1st Munster)
If Dogs Run Free (October 1st Munster)
Disc 2 (electric)
Make You Feel My Love (October 3rd Paris)
Most Likely You Go Your Way (September 17th Glasgow)
Highlands (September 17th Glasgow)
To Be Alone With You (September 17th Glasgow)
Cat’s In the Well (September 16th Aberdeen)
Tell Me That It Isn’t True (September 19th Newcastle)
Man Of Peace (September 19th Newcastle)
Can’t Wait (September 24th Portsmouth, 1st evening)
If Not For You (September 24th Portsmouth, 1st evening)
She Belongs To Me (September 25th Portsmouth, 2nd evening)
Watching the River Flow (September 25th, 2nd evening)
Cold Irons Bound (October 6th London, 2nd evening)
Blind Willie McTell (October 6th London, 2nd evening)
Tombstone Blues (October 5th London, 1st evening)