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27 & 28 August 1986: Bob Dylan Hearts of Fire recording sessions

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Two years later, back in the studios in London on July 27–28, 1986 for a Dylan session intended to provide fresh material for his ill-advised film Hearts of Fire—material that Dylan had signally failed to compose—the musicians assembled behind him included Clapton on guitar, RON WOOD on bass and guitar and several others. They managed to get through some takes of John Hyatt’s song ‘The Usual’, a ‘Ride This Train’, some stabs at Dylan’s anyone-could-havewritten- this-song ‘Had a Dream About You Baby’, some of Billy Joe Shaver’s ‘Old Five & Dimers Like Me’, a ‘To Fall in Love’, a ‘Night After Night’ and a pleasant cut of Shel Silverstein and Dennis Locorriere’s ‘A Couple More Years’. Several of these made it onto the soundtrack album, several made it into the film, one made it onto Down in the Groove and one further cut even made it onto the Argentine Down in the Groove release.
~Michael Gray (The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated Edition)

Townhouse Studio
London, England
27 & 28 August 1986
Hearts Of Fire recording session, produced by Beau Hill

  1. The Usual (John Hiatt)
  2. The Usual (John Hiatt)
  3. The Usual (John Hiatt)
  4. The Usual (John Hiatt)
  5. The Usual (John Hiatt)
  6. Ride This Train
  7. Had A Dream About You, Baby
  8. Had A Dream About You, Baby
  9. Had A Dream About You, Baby
  10. Had A Dream About You, Baby
  11. Had A Dream About You, Baby
  12. Old Five And Dimer (Like Me) (Billy Joe Shaver)
    Great version!
  13. Old Five And Dimer (Like Me) (Billy Joe Shaver)
  14. Old Five And Dimer (Like Me) (Billy Joe Shaver)
  15. Had A Dream About You, Baby
  16. Had A Dream About You, Baby
  17. To Fall In Love With You
  18. Night After Night
  19. Had A Dream About You, Baby
  20. Had A Dream About You, Baby
  21. Had A Dream About You, Baby
  22. Night After Night
  23. A Couple More Years (Shel Silverstein – Dennis Locorriere)

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  • 1-22 backed by Eric Clapton (guitar), Ron Wood & Kip Winger (bass), Beau Hill (keyboards) and Henry Spinetti (drums)
  • 23 Bob Dylan solo with acoustic guitar

 

In 1987, Columbia released the soundtrack to the film. Dylan was apparently originally contracted to write and contribute four new original recordings to the album, but would only turn in two original songs and one cover tune. The tracks included a cover of John Hiatt’s “The Usual,” along with the Dylan originals “Night After Night” and “Had a Dream About You Baby.” Dylan would later release an alternate version of “Had a Dream About You Baby” on the 1988 album Down in the Groove.
~Wikipedia

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5 thoughts on “27 & 28 August 1986: Bob Dylan Hearts of Fire recording sessions”

  2. Terrible movie–perhaps the worst in Dylan’s filmography. Nothing to commend it, except for some unintentional laughs. But Bob’s performance of “The Usual” is one of the true highlights of his ’80’s output–terrific song and impassioned delivery.

  4. Brings back memories of being an extra in the Hearts of Fire concert crowd scenes filmed at the old GE plant on Dupont in Toronto. It was thrilling…at first. After hours of takes, and long stretches of nothing (while we sat on bleachers) followed by segments in which we all had to ‘go nuts’ and applaud like mad, everyone iin the audience was exhausted. I can only assume same was true of film crew.

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