Posted on 06/28/2005 4:00:59 PM PDT by jeepgal
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Fans of Bob Dylan will soon be able to buy never-released recordings of the musical legend along with their cup of Starbucks coffee, producers announced.
In a deal aimed at rekindling cafe culture, Dylan 63, is allowing the US coffee chain to exclusively distribute an album of recordings of his 1962 concerts at New York's famed Gaslight Cafe.
The 63-year-old folk idol is the latest of a string of musical legends to have albums produced by Starbucks and then distributed over the counter at its cafes as the firm becomes a significant force in the recording industry.
The album, which includes newly restored live recordings from Dylan's celebrated 1962 performances at the Gaslight Cafe, will go on sale in the United States and Canada on August 30, Starbucks' Hear Music and Sony BMG said.
"These archival recordings capture a young Bob Dylan at a pivotal moment in his career when he began to find his voice as an innovative artist and songwriter," the companies said in a statement.
The 10-song compact disc entitled "Bob Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962" includes the earliest surviving live recordings of Dylan classics such as "A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice It's Alright," both of which Dylan later released to great acclaim.
Additional tracks include a third Dylan original, "John Brown," as well as covers of traditional folk songs such as "The Cuckoo" and "Barbara Allen."
"Fans have been seeking access to these early recordings for more than four decades," said Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment.
"This album offers a unique perspective on Dylan when he was an emerging artist and also captures an important moment in the history of America's coffee-house culture."
In its own attempt to revive American coffee-house culture, Starbucks has played a growing role in US music sales as it moves sideways into the recording industry.
Under a similar deal last year, Starbucks sold 775,000 copies of the last studio album of the late soul legend Ray Charles, "Genius Loves Company," making up more than a quarter of all sales of the multiple Grammy Award-winning disc.
In the longest deal of its kind, Starbucks will exclusively retail "Gaslight" for 18 months for 13.95 dollars.
On the same day that "Gaslight" goes on the cafe counters, Sony BMG will release another Dylan album, "Bob Dylan No Direction Home: The Soundtrack -- Bootleg Series Volume 7," Sony BMG Music said.
Marking a big week for Dylan devotees, the album releases come a day ahead of the scheduled US television premiere of "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan," the first full-length film biography of Dylan, directed by Martin Scorsese.
Dylan's soulful lyrics became the anthem of the politically turbulent 1960s but his popularity has endured for four decades.
He played a bunch of shows both years and venues...I have LA Forum 1978 June 2 and also June 7.....give specific date you saw him and I'll make a phone call.Check BobLinks.Com to see..
LA 1978http://www.bjorner.com/78-3.htm#_Toc37511632
Santa Monica 79http://www.bjorner.com/79-1.htm#A05Gospel
Please be specific...if you want exact showww...and yes, my friend has all the shows for the run off shows....
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I saw the Dylan show in Memphis in `78 I believe. The most awesome concert I`ve ever seen.
#2 was Pink Floyd at Vandy,man you could hear concert all over West Nashville.
Do you have that Dylan Memphis show?
I saw Dylan live in Milwaukee at Summerfest in the mid-80s - walked out after a few tunes. He sucked.
I checked two of my friends lists, one has all LA 78 shows and all Santa Monica 79. Another has 2 of LA 78 and all Santa Monica 79. I just get the best quality ones for myself. I have 6/2/78 and 6/7/78 LA. They are both very good audience recordings. There are so many boots out there it is insane, the first guy I know gets every single show he can find, he's nuts. If you know what the dates were I can track it down for you.I'm waiting for 10 new soundboards from the current tour to come in.If you send me your regular email I can send you my lists. s
Dylan with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers was a great one. I am currently reading Chronicles and although it reads like one big song, I am really enjoying it. The early stuff in the village is a great read.
I have this CD it is a great one.
http://www.bobsboots.com/CDs/cd-c27.html
I have that one too. I have a couple from the Petty tours, Hard to Handle is out on DVD.Thats a 1986 HBO live show from Australia.I think its now called Live in Australia. Amazon probably has it.
Bob Dylan, Starbucks and Washingotn State - Purfect together!
All liberal, all anti-American and all Democrap.
You obviously didn't read any of the comments on this thread. He's no liberal.
Yes. I did.
It looks like he has been all over the map politically except on the right.
I will not retract my statement and based on what I have heard of his whinning, nasal voice, I hardly consider him a great musician either, but then beauty is in the eye and ear of the beholder.
Says you. At 20 years old I was a young republican who enjoyed folk music (that's my hippie days). Bob Dylan was my idol. At 20, you don't have a whole lot of restraint when it comes to stuff like meeting your idol for the first time unexpectedly in a coffee shop (course, YOU might, but some of the rest of us don't). Bob Dylan actually was smiling when it happened cuz, frankly, I was cute.
As for hitting him with my purse, these are the lyrics he played on election night.
Come you masters of war. You that build all the guns. You that build the death planes. You that build the big bombs. You that hide behind walls. You that hide behind desks. I just want you to know. I can see through your masks ... Like Judas of old. You lie and deceive. A world war can be won ...
Now, it can be argued that he meant ALL the politicians. But I would disagree having been a fan for nearly 40 years.
I ain't lookin' to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you or classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.
No an' i ain't lookin' to fight with you
Frighten you or uptighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.
I aint lookin' to block you up
Shock or knock or lock you up
Analyse you, categorize you
Finalize you or advertise you
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.
I don't want to straightface you
Race or chase you, track or trace you
Or disgrace you or displace you
Or define you or confine you
All I really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.
I don't want to meet your kin
Make you spin or do you in
Or select you or dissect you
Or inspect you or reject you
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.
I don't want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you
I aint lookin' for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me
All i really want to do
Is baby be friends with you.
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