Bob Dylan 1965

[Micke L]

Eftersom Dylan är aktuell med både Sverigebesök och den fantastiska dokumentären "No direction home" av Martin Scorsese så skulle jag vilja tipsa om en del material som har framkommit under arbetet med denna. Det handlar om 2 DVD-R skivor med outgivet konsertmaterial från Englandsturnén 1965 som filmaren D A Pennbaker följde och gjorde dokumentären "Don´t look back" av. Här följer lite info om dvd:erna på engelska för intresserade.

"ABOUT THE 2DVD:
Professionally shot film footage of Bob Dylan is hard to track down,
especially from the 1960's. Filmmaker D.A.Pennebaker has insisted over
the years that the many hours of additional footage shot for Don't Look
Back, his seminal document of Bob Dylan's U.K. 1965 tour was safely
under lock and key in his vaults, maybe never to see the light of day,
unless of course Mr. Dylan himself gave the go ahead. Speaking to Shelly
Livson in 1984, and later published in The Telegraph, Pennebaker said -
"We've never lost a foot of film, and as far as I know none of the tapes
that we have...none of them have ever hit the streets." But later added
in the same interview- "It's amazing how you can find film.it's amazing
how much stuff was kept. You don't expect to find it, but people just
knew, somehow, this stuff is valuable.what there is, somehow or other,
sooner or later, always surfaces." Pennebaker has a point. This is one
such example of exactly what he was talking about. Here is a multitude
of professionally shot film footage from Bob Dylan's U.K. tour of April
and May 1965. 99% of the footage presented on these two DVDs has never
been seen, and has never circulated among even the most ardent
collectors. It is available here for the first time. Someone, somewhere
dusted off that old film footage that may have been sitting in a
basement for the past 40 years and decided it was time for it to be
seen. This raw footage, obviously filmed for usage in Don't Look Back,
arrived without annotation, so much of the recording locations and
details remain unknown apart from the (slightly educated) guesswork of
this writer. Maybe the Dylan scholars will put the pieces together or
those that were present will have their memories jogged when they see
this remarkable film. Perhaps it will lead to debates, arguments and
frantic discussion among dedicated Bobcats the world over, but most
likely it will lead to a deeper understanding and appreciation of this
era of Bob Dylan's artistry and most of all enjoyment of the fantastic
footage that we now have of this tour. Watching the film takes you back
to another time. The film is occasionally grainy, unpolished and flawed.
Many of the performances are frustratingly incomplete. Those seeking
perfection need to look elsewhere. Those looking for a glorious snapshot
of Dylan at the peak of his powers need look no further. We present this
footage exactly as it arrived, transferred to DVD to maximise quality
and minimise generational loss. This is another piece of Dylan history,
another piece of the puzzle, the enigma and the fascination that
surrounds this icon. "

Jag vet inte om det här inlägget kanske inte är helt rumsrent med tanke på materialets karaktär, rent juridiskt sett, men i så fall får väl admin eller (F)Headmaster radera inlägget. Jag tycker att materialet är så oerhört bra och har ett sådant historiskt värde att det bör omnämnas oavsett källa.

Finns det någon här på forumet som är intressrad av dom här DVD:erna så får ni gärna höra av er för en trade.

Micke