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Today: Bob Dylan recorded “Shooting Star” in 1989 – 24 years ago

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“Shooting star” was his first album closer since “Every Grain of Sand” to share that slightly somnambulant feel, a gorgeous melody, caressed vocal and an abiding conviction that there are two kinds of people, good (i.e. saved) and lost people.
~Clinton Heylin (Still On The Road)

MTV Unplugged version:

Grooveshark:

Spotify:

Where:

The Studio
New Orleans, Louisiana
14 or 15 March 1989
6th Oh Mercy recording session, produced by Daniel Lanois

Songs:

  1. Everything Is Broken
  2. Everything Is Broken
  3. Everything Is Broken
  4. Jam
  5. Three Of Us Be Free
  6. Three Of Us Be Free
  7. Shooting Star
  8. Shooting Star
  9. Shooting Star
  10. Shooting Star
  11. Shooting Star
  12. Shooting Star
  13. Shooting Star
  14. Shooting Star

Master version of “Everything is Broken” was also recorded @ this session.

Lyrics:

Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of you
You were trying to break into another world
A world I never knew
I always kind of wondered
If you ever made it through
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of you

Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of me
If I was still the same
If I ever became what you wanted me to be
Did I miss the mark or overstep the line
That only you could see?
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of me

Listen to the engine, listen to the bell
As the last fire truck from hell
Goes rolling by
All good people are praying
It’s the last temptation, the last account
The last time you might hear the sermon on the mount
The last radio is playing

Seen a shooting star tonight
Slip away
Tomorrow will be
Another day
Guess it’s too late to say the things to you
That you needed to hear me say
Seen a shooting star tonight
Slip away

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Bob Dylan – Parc de Sceaux – Paris, France – 1 July 1984

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And yet to have been present at the best of the 1984 shows (Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Offenbach), particularly if one was somewhere towards the front of the sea of humanity, able to see the man and hear him, must have been an unforgettable experience. Here is Dylan offering himself – through his singing; he does almost no talking between songs – openly and enthusiastically and warmly.
… Paris (July 1) is my favorite show of the tour (based on the tapes).
~Paul Williams (BD Performing artist 1974-86)

Great 1984 show.

Concert #23 of the 1984 Europe Tour.

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“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief
“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth”

#3 – All Along The Watchtower

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Bob Dylan recording sessions

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This is a collection of all published “Bob Dylan recording sessions” posts @ JV.
It will be updated along the way..

bob dylan album 1962
Bob Dylan – released March 19, 1962
bob dylan - the_freewheelin

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – released May 27, 1963
Bob Dylan_The times they are a changinTheTimesTheyArea-Changin’ – released January 13, 1964

 
another side of Bob DylanAnother side Of Bob Dylan – released August 8, 1964
  Bob Dylan - bringing it all back homeBringing It All Back Home – released March 27, 1965
  Bob_Dylan_-_Highway_61_RevisitedHighway 61 Revisited – released August 30, 1965
  bobdylan-blondeonblonde-coverBlonde On Blonde – released May 16, 1966
  john-wesley-hardingJohn Wesley Harding – released December 27, 1967
  bob dylan nashvilleNashville Skyline – released April 9, 1969
  bob dylan new morningNew Morning – released October 19, 1970
bob dylan greatest hits vol2

Greatest Hits Vol.2 – released November 17, 1971
  bob_dylan_planet_wavesPlanet Waves – released January 17, 1974
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Blood On The Tracks – released January 20, 1975
 Bob_Dylan-Desire-FrontalDesire – released January 5, 1976
 Bob-Dylan-Street-LegalStreet-Legal – released June 15, 1978
 bob dylan slow train comingSlow Train Coming – released August 20, 1979
InfidelsInfidels – released October 27, 1983
 bob dylan hearts of fireHearts of Fire (soundtrack) – released October 20, 1987
Bob_Dylan_-_Oh_MercyOh Mercy – released 19 September 1989
bob dylan under the red skyUnder The Red Sky – released September 11, 1990

 

-Egil

Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Concerts

Bob Dylan – Old Orchard Beach, Maine – 3 July 1988

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Another great 1988 concert… and (again) fantastic sound quality….

  • Concert # 18 of The Never-Ending Tour
  • Concert # 18 of the Interstate 88 Tour, part 1: Summer Tour of North America
  • First Never Ending Tour performance of To Ramona

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‘Twas in the town of [Jacksboro] in the year of ’73
When a well-known, famous drover came a-steppin’ up to me
Saying, How do you do, young cowboy, and how’d you like to go
And spend the summer pleasantly on the trail of the buffalo

#9 – Trail Of The Buffalo (trad. arr. Woody Guthrie)

Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’
I was layin’ in bed
Wond’rin’ if she’d changed at all
If her hair was still red
Her folks they said our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like Mama’s homemade dress
Papa’s bankbook wasn’t big enough
And I was standin’ on the side of the road
Rain fallin’ on my shoes
Heading out for the East Coast
Lord knows I’ve paid some dues gettin’ through
Tangled up in blue

#2 Tangled Up In Blue

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Bob Dylan’s best songs – Mr. Tambourine Man – #12

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My thoughts, my personal needs have always been expressed through my songs; you can feel them there even in ‘Mr Tambourine Man’.
~Bob Dylan (to Sandra Jones – June 1981)

Even a song like Mr. Tambourine Man really isn’t a fantasy. There’s substance to the dream. Because you’ve seen it, you know? In order to have a dream, there’s something in front of you. You have to have seen something or have heard something for you to dream it. It becomes your dream then.
~Bob Dylan (to Bill Flanagan – March 1985)

Original version from youtube:

Spotify:

@ #12 on my list of Dylan’s 200 best songs. The original version from “Bringing It All Back Home” was recorded on January 15 – 1965 @ the third recording session.

….and proceeded to record the final versions of “Mr. Tambourine Man”, “It’s Alright, Ma” & “Gates Of Eden” in a single take* with no playback between songs… it’s as though all three songs came out of him in one breath, easily the greatest breath drawn by an American artist since Ginsberg & Kerouac exhaled “Howl” & “On The Road” a decade earlier..
~Paul Williams (BD Performing Artist 1960-73)

*although this has been found not to be entirely true (after PW wrote his book).. It’s still a GREAT quote.

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The specific Tambourine Man he had in mind was Bruce Langhorne, the magnificent multi-instrumentalist who would usher in Dylan’s electric era with some spellbinding guitar playing on Bringing It All Back Home (notably on “Mr. Tambourine Man” itself).
~Clinton Heylin (Revolution in the air)

Live at the Newport Folk Festival – 1964:

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