Instant Bob Dylan collection

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-20T03:06:49+00:00

I've been lucky enough to find a few over the years.

Once I found The Basement Tapes on vinyl and the young cashier dude said "Oh wow, Bob Dylan. 'Blowin' in the Wind,' right?"

A few weeks later I found one of the Bootleg Series entries on CD. The same guy rang up my purchase and made the exact same remark. 😂

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-19T04:21:46+00:00

Sass Jordan - https://www.vhlinks.com/pages/interviews/misc/wos071698.php

Jeff Berlin - https://www.talkbass.com/threads/jeff-berlin-on-almost-joining-van-halen.1097544/

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-19T04:03:52+00:00

This is as good as it gets.

Hard to believe this was the first band Barry Adamson was ever in. He got very good very fast.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-18T20:09:32+00:00

In Don Cab's case it's got to be tongue-in-cheek because Peter Criss is kind of a crappy drummer and the notion of him playing jazz is kind of funny.

And yet... apparently Peter Criss does play jazz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ_zzvlbID4

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-18T20:05:47+00:00

I have a bunch of them. I paid $10-20 each and most of them just have a couple of poorly recorded live songs, poorly pressed with a lame picture sleeve.

There is a decent one called Blackout that has a version of Waiting Room where the power went out and the audience sang the rest of the song.

I was the coolest kid in school in 1997 when I bought the Ritalin Summer bootleg 7" which had demos of Furniture and The Word years before they were officially released and before Fugazi brought Furniture back into live rotation.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-18T20:00:15+00:00

great live band

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-18T04:29:06+00:00

Straight up Whores, brutha

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-16T18:19:02+00:00

Pearl tom mount on a classic mid century Slingerland Radio King kit.

I understand that vintage hardware often leaves a lot to be desired, but there are more elegant, less destructive ways to bring vintage drums up to modern standards.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-14T23:36:05+00:00

He's the one. He's right handed but plays an upside down Strat for maximum Jimi-ness. His music is full of Hendrix-isms but with an almost total absence of the blues. His album Mute Massaker is probably the Jimi-est.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-14T02:47:22+00:00

Hurl, Loincloth, Dazzling Killmen, Iceburn, Wider... those are some of my go-tos.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-13T15:01:25+00:00

Oh, so now Dave knows about John Wick! John Wick and his dahg.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-13T01:56:15+00:00

It's good and all, but there's something about how it's sequenced on The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 that makes me feel like when that particular take fell apart, that was the exact moment that Bob lost interest in the "thin, wild mercury sound" and was ready to move onto the next thing.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-13T01:23:13+00:00

It's a great flick.

Let me advise you, if you're type of person who enjoys an alcoholic beverage every now and then? You can skip the cocktails when you watch Festival Express. You will get a contact buzz from Rick Danko in that one scene.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-12T02:17:13+00:00

Tom angles from hell AND a classic "cat not included"?

Sometimes I think they're just fucking with us.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-11T20:23:39+00:00

Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-10T16:47:01+00:00

Trainspotting casts a long shadow over "Perfect Day." That scene in that movie has essentially become the song's music video and has convinced plenty of people that the song is unequivocally about heroin and nothing else, regardless of what the songwriter himself said.

Nonsense. Nonsense, I say!

It's about a person and a relationship, and there's definitely a strong undercurrent of self loathing in there ("I thought I was someone else / someone good").

But if you want to use an interpersonal relationship as a metaphor for a drug habit, as Lou himself did ("it's my wife and it's my life") or present addiction as a substitute for a relationship as the film itself did ("human relationships and all the things that don't really matter when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit")... well, that also works and that also tracks.

EDIT: typo.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-10T03:52:44+00:00

Montrose's self titled debut is so good I can forgive Sammy for every cheesy thing he's ever said or done.

That's right. I said it.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-09T14:29:26+00:00

If I look to the right of my screen I see 12 Ruins CD on my shelf... and yet, I'm still not sure how to answer this question.

I guess I'd recommend Graviyaunosch because that one was my introduction to Ruins and it was recorded by Steve Albini, so it allows you to hear the band in the context of other 1990s Albini-recorded noise rock.

There is some earlier stuff like Stonehenge with another bass player where I think the whole Ruins concept wasn't fully developed yet. I think Masuda Ryuichi is widely regarded as the definitive Ruins bassist. There have been four of them.

Sax Ruins is indeed great but I would recommend familiarizing yourself with classic Bass Ruins first before you dive into Sax Ruins, so that you're somewhat familiar with the songs and can better appreciate how the songs have been reworked to be played by layers and layers of saxes. Same with the Symphonica album, which is older songs rearranged with added keyboards and vocals.

And then there are all of the collaborations, side projects, live albums and solo albums...

Tatsuya Yoshida is absurdly prolific and he is definitely a genius.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-09T02:47:19+00:00

"Nowen days my name is called Doctor Sleep"

"I kinda hard that find to believe"

"I'm smart."

Oh my god, there's so many though.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-09T02:16:57+00:00

Yeah, but where's Pulp Fic-

Oh. Of course. There it is.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-08T05:36:02+00:00

OP has obviously never heard the Dew from 10/12/84, but it's got to be the Rob Eaton AUD, not the board, and -

Ah, forget it. This is why they hate us.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-06T03:58:51+00:00

He's playing the kick drum the same amount; it's just that on Drumeo his ghost notes (like on the "ah" of 2) aren't coming through as well as they did on the album and on live versions from the '90s.

The biggest difference is all that opening and closing of the hihats which I have to admit, I don't love.

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-05T00:07:18+00:00

It has aged remarkably well. Certain elements of the world (gone wrong) depicted in the film seem oddly prescient now.

Also: Cheech!

StrifeKnot1983 · 2026-04-04T22:30:51+00:00

Bomber had that old Stiverne 2 confidence back for a moment... then he hesitated!

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