Bob Dylan live

As previously indicated, Bob Dylan has a new album out this month -- it's called Dylan. I'm not about to show you where you can download mp3s of the new Bob Dylan (helloooooooo RIAA), but instead I wanted to share this great live bootleg with you.

Bob Dylan Color Line Arena 2007 (bootleg)

It's a really good-sounding audience-recording boot from earlier this year. Well, it's not THAT good-sounding -- I took it upon myself to clean up the audio a little on my copy -- a little stereo separation, a little loudness, a little compression never hurt anybody -- and you may find your way to doing the same.

It's got a bunch of new tracks as well as classics to which he has done that thing that he does where he completely reworks a stone-cold Dylan classic -- putting it into different keys, different time signatures, different vocal meter, acoustic originals --> rockin' out reworkings -- to the extent where it often takes the audience a wee while to work out what tune he is playing, and respond appropriately.

Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (live) (4.08 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

This is the original:

Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (3.81 MB mp3)

That's pretty much it for this post, except, I wanted to draw your attention to this.

This is the introduction. This is what the emcee says as he introduces Bob Dylan and the band. My question is: what kind of a cunt would say some of this stuff when introducing ANYONE, let alone Bob Dylan, to the stage.

some random fuckwit - How Not to Introduce Bob Dylan (1.35 MB mp3)

This, in case you can't work it out, is what he says:

ladies and gentleman
please welcome the poet laureate of rock and roll
the voice of the promise of the sixties counterculture
the guy who forced folk into bed with rock
who donned make-up in the seventies and
disappeared into a haze of substance abuse
who emerged to find jesus
who was written-off as a has-been by the end of eighties
and who suddenly shifted gears
producing some of the strongest material of his career
beginning in the late nineties
ladies and gentleman
columbia recording artist
bob dylan

Now I'm possibly going to go right out on a limb here, but I have to say that everything struck out is completely superfluous, and not only that, but it's utterly inappropriate rubbish as well. I think that this fella should be ashamed of himself. What a fuckwit.

Fella -- whoever you are -- fuck you. You're a cock.