Esau.

Me & Julio

Take me home country roads

* My broad definition of a 'pop song' is a song that is recognizable due to frequent radio play and typically of a 3 minute length

First, I guess it would depend on what type of radio you listen to, but using your definition, there isn't very many for me to be honest. I typically only play in basements or around fires with like minded people or alone, but  I'll try to post a few.

Bob Dylan - long list, but I imagine you can figure out which songs meet the 3 minute criteria. (hint: not many)

Squeeze - Up The Junction

John Lennon - Working Class Hero

John Prine - Paradise/Please Don't Bury Me

David Gilmour - There's no way out of here

Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd/ Pastures of Plenty/Plane Wreck At Los Gatos

Guy Clark - Dublin Blues

Tim Hardin - Reason to Believe

Anyway, thats a few off hand I can think of.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/01/12/worlds-oldest-hockey-stick_n_6454872.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-living

A Canadian museum has snapped up the world's oldest-known ice hockey stick -- made out of maple -- for $300,000.

 

The "Moffatt stick" was hewn in the 1830s in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, "from a single piece of sugar maple," the Canadian Museum of History said Friday.

 

"Hockey is Canada's game -- we developed it and we cherish it like no other country in the world," said Mark O'Neill, the museum president, who called the stick an example of the facility's "national treasures."

 

The stick was owned by one family -- the Moffatts -- from its creation until the early 1980s, when it was given to a barbershop owner who then sold it in 2008 to the man the museum bought it from.

 

The museum, located in Ottawa's suburbs, said that genealogical evidence and oral histories, as well as scientific analysis of the stick's "wood, wear and paint," were used to verify its authenticity.

 

Hockey-mad Canadians will not be able to see the stick, however, until 2017, when renovations at the museum -- Canada's busiest with 1.2 million visitors per year -- are completed.

 

Christmas dinner under way. Cherry wood for smoke and cuz it's festive. n26 oz of Gibson Sterling while I wait. Merry Christmas folks.

The Complete Basement Tapes - Dylan & The Band

Earls of Leicester - Earls of Leicester

Lazaretto - Jack White

Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker

 

The only thing that's been constant in my life for 20 years has been Bob Dylan.

I know the feeling.

Thanks for posting this bouche. 

I don't know how I would have handled it. I've never been a fan of large crowds, but I think I'd been stressed more being the only person there. I was feeling anxiety for the guy in the video. I'd probably end up crying. lol

http://pagesix.com/2014/12/14/jerry-garcias-love-letters-going-up-for-auction/?_ga=1.120994184.1876787663.1418471848

 

Two rare love letters from Grateful Dead lead singer Jerry Garcia to a female companion he met in the ’80s are going up for sale.

 

Garcia wrote the letters, which include a phone number and a sketch of the band performing at an amphitheater, to a former Vogue model he met at an Upper West Side party in 1980 during a run of shows at Radio City Music Hall.

 

The musician and the model had a two-year friendship, but were never intimate.

 

“He was a person who you felt you knew. Very easy to be with,” the woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told Page Six.

 

After several meetings during tour gigs over the two years, a bashful Garcia wrote her a nervous letter: “I feel like it’s sort of our first ‘official’ communication somehow. I’ve been hoping we could get together ever since we first met at Al’s that winter nite so long ago (sigh) — I hope it doesn’t seem like I’ve been avoiding you, although I admit I’ve kind of been waiting for the opportunity (that is, the ‘right’ opportunity) for us to meet in some kind of neutral context that would be comfortable and relaxed and free of any pressure.”

 

He also wrote a follow-up letter on stationery from the Le Parker Meridien hotel after waiting so long to send the first letter: “It’s sort of mail fright, like stage fright, and partly editorial misgivings.”

 

The model is selling the letter to pay medical bills.

 

She’s listed it through New Hampshire-based RR Auctions, where executive VP Bobby Livingston tells us he expects it to sell for between $10,000 and $15,000.

 

“It’s eight handwritten pages from one of the true icons of the 1960s, and from an incredible, important artist as important to today’s music as someone like Bob Dylan.”

I hate that fuÇking lifesucking battleship of a Jackson Square Mall too, even though Buffalo's famed Anchor Bar recently moved there. How are the wings Roller, Esau? Oh, and Go Tiger Cats!!

Pretty much agree with you there. Jackson Square/Eaton Centre is a disaster. To be honest, I don't know what can be done about the place aside from plowing it under and building something new. It's obviously not working, and hasn't in many years (decades even).

As for the Anchor Bar, as much as I enjoy wings, I haven't been. I've heard it's expensive, but the food was great.

Bob Dylan - The Lakes of Pontchartrain 

Berkeley CA, June 10 1988

A bunch come to mind, but I think this still ranks as one of my favourites - I wish he could of seen it with the B's but what can ya do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM4m7cunVTg

I like to make my own for the last year or so. The last one I made was tomato (not ketchup!) & red wine based, ghost/cayenne/sweet pepper mix.  Turned out smooth and thick, but was a bit over the top for heat to be honest.

All I have currently is Mad Dog Inferno sauce (over-the-top heat too, rated 90k S.U), sriracha, franks reg. & frank's extra hot. Typically, I'll just use my own or franks/sriracha. The mad dog was a gift, and is more of a gimmicky kinda thing for me. Although I did use it to ramp up a homemade sauce that didn't meet my expectations, two or three drops was all I needed in a large mason jar of sauce.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1654803/el-mocambo-music-hall-to-host-final-concert-thursday-night/

 

TORONTO – The owners of Toronto’s historic El Mocambo Tavern say an eleventh-hour buyer has come forward to save the music hall but won’t say who is buying the venue.

 

“You’ll find out tonight at 11 p.m.,” owner Sam Grosso said in an interview Thursday.

 

The CBC is reporting that Dragons’ Den cast member Michael Wekerle is the prospective buyer.

 

The National Post reported the new buyer, who they did not name as Wekerle, has submitted a deposit cheque and wants to keep the famed concert hall going.

 

The iconic venue had been a mainstay on the Spadina Ave. strip since 1946. Grosso said potential buyers “came out of the woodwork” last month after he put the iconic neon sign on Ebay.

 

“A lot of people came out and were looking to see what was going on,” Grosso said. “And there was another offer on the table and we just kind of had to navigate through it and see what was going on and make sure it was the right purchaser.”

 

A Parkinson’s benefit concert is scheduled to grace the stage from 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. Thursday night.

 

Grosso said on Global News’ The Morning Show Thursday morning the cost of maintaining the music hall was just too great and the place was losing money.

 

Furthur have officially parted ways. The band, which featured Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, John Kadlecik, Jeff Chimenti, Jeff Pehrson, Sunshine Becker and Joe Russo, confirmed the news today via a post on Furthur.net that reads:

 

To our loyal Furthur fans and members of the Furthur community at furthur.net, we’d like to thank you for a terrific ride. We’ll be closing up shop at furthur.net, and heading onward. Thanks for making the Furthur community a great place to hang out, and for coming out to the shows. We’ll all be keeping very busy over the foreseeable future, and it’s time to let Furthur take a bow. We enjoyed the ride more than we can possibly express. You can keep tabs on Phil’s activities atwww.terrapincrossroads.net, Bob’s activities atwww.bobweir.net and all Grateful Dead news atwww.dead.net

 

Furthur was founded in the fall of 2009, a few months after The Dead wrapped up their last tour. The group performed consistently between then and 2014, when they played their final show on January 23 at the first-and-only Paradise Waits event in Riviera Maya, Mexico (the band was scheduled to perform at this year’s Lockn’ Festival, but the show was cancelled after Weir scrapped all of his touring plans). However, Weir and Lesh teamed up to sing the “Star Spangled Banner” at Game 3 of the World Series in San Francisco last month, and rumors have been circulating for some time that the pair will reunite with the rest of The Dead in 2015 to mark the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary.

http://www.jambands.com/news/2014/11/04/furthur-officially-call-it-quits/

http://www.furthur.net/

I'll just put this here: http://100greatestbootlegs.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/flac-bob-dylan-tree-with-roots-part-one.html

A quick heads up:

I didn't visit the site hosting the files since I have the physical CDs of this, so I can't verify the claims in the comment section.  But reading the comments I see the site hosting the uploads is apparently hosting malware as well. The uploader (blog host) seems to acknowledge this, and mentions he may host elsewhere because of it.  Anyway, be careful/prepared if you download.

Great collection though.

Good read.

 

 

The Basement Tapes have never before been heard in their entirety. Now, with the official release of all 138 songs, Dylan expert Clinton Heylin examines the myth and the reality of one of rock’s seminal long-lost masterpieces.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/30/bob-dylan-basement-tapes-myth-reality-clinton-heylin

Another Dylan/OCMS tune. Awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOfjdX5s-DM

Lucy DeCoutere (Lucy from TPB) has now come forward and claimed she was assaulted by Ghomeshi as well.

 http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/10/29/lucy-decoutere-jian-ghomeshi_n_6072076.html

Tunes that build….those that start out ballady and then build to apeshit madness fit.

In the hall of the mountain king - Edvard Grieg

Available now for order (listed at $128 here) > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476797706/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1476797706&linkCode=as2&tag=bobdylancom-20&linkId=BF5KWLFLIBUOJWWP

At that price, I'm kinda thinking I may get myself a copy.

Agreed. As cool as it might be, at $200 I doubt I'll be getting a copy, but mainly for the reasons you mention I'll pass. Of course if I had 5k to spare, I'd try for the signed copy.