Category Archives: Bob Dylan

March 9: Bob Dylan’s 10th (and final) Blonde On Blonde recording session in 1966





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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the Blonde on Blonde album. It’s that thin, that wild mercury sound. It’s metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That’s my particular sound.
~Bob Dylan (to Ron Rosenbaum – Nov 1977)

He had a piano in his room at the hotel and during the day I would go up there and he would teach me a song. I would be like a cassette machine. I would play the song over and over on the piano for him. This served a double purpose. One, he could concentrate on writing the lyrics and didn’t have to mess with playing the piano; two, I could go to the studio early that night and teach it to the band before he even got there, so they could be playing the song before he even walked through the door.
~Al Kooper (talking about BoB recording sessions)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Columbia Music Row Studios
Nashville, Tennessee
9-10 March 1966

Produced by Bob Johnston

Songs:

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March 8: Bob Dylan @ Park West, Chicago, Illinois – 2004

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Something was happening there and you can just tell
that from the unbelievably non-linear set-list. It was
almost as if Bob decided the set last night would
possess the qualities of a cubist painting and then he
just turned it all upside down and inside out! From
the outset with Larry’s prominent playing of the
opening chords of, “Tangled Up In Blue”, you
absolutely had no doubt that tonight’s performance
would be something you’d never quite get over…
-Charles Cicirella (boblinks.com)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Park West
Chicago, Illinois
8 March 2004

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & piano)
  • Freddie Koella (guitar)
  • Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • George Recile & Richie Hayward (drums & percussion)

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March 8: Bob Dylan 9th recording session for Blonde On Blonde in 1966

blonde on blonde

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the Blonde on Blonde album. It’s that thin, that wild mercury sound. It’s metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That’s my particular sound.
~Bob Dylan (to Ron Rosenbaum – Nov 1977)

Well I cut it in between. I was touring and I was doing it whenever I got a chance to get into the studio. So it was in the works for a while. I could only do maybe two or three songs at a time.
~Bob Dylan (to Jan Wenner – Nov 1969)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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March 8: Bob Dylan’s third Oh Mercy recording session in 1989

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Most of them are stream-of-consciousness songs, the kind that come to you in the middle of the night, when you just want to go back to bed. The harder you try to do something, the more it evades you. These weren’t like that.
~Bob Dylan (to Edna Gundersen, Sept 1989)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

The Studio
New Orleans, Louisiana
8 March 1989
Third Oh Mercy recording session, produced by Daniel Lanois

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March 6 & 7: Bob Dylan @ Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, Osaka, Japan – 2001





Two GREAT concert from “2001 Tour of Japan”.

Kosei Nenkin Kaikan
Osaka, Japan

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Charlie Sexton (guitar)
  • Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • David Kemper (drums & percussion)

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