Im Not There

Wanna watch a film instead of the footie?.If so crack open a can, Roll a spliff, and tune in.
Heres the film Im Not There.... Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, this is from a Japanese website, not a bad copy, I`d give it a 7/10...couple of tips... If you have a slow download speed click play then let it run for about 15mins before you start watching otherwise your gonna get it in a static stop-start mode..... click on the largest box at the bottom right of your screen for a fuller picture...enjoy.... http://static.youku.com/v1.0.0270/v/swf/qplayer.swf?VideoIDS=XMTcyMDc2NDA&embedid=-&showAd=0

Win a signed Bob Dylan print.

The Independent newspaper is giving away a limited-edition graphic of Bob Dylan’s Sunday Afternoon, signed by Dylan himself and worth £1,000. all you have to do is e-mail them the answer to this question....At which venue did an audience member famously call Bob Dylan "Judas"? send your answers, and it had better be Manchester's Free Trade Hall or I will knee you in the nuts.. to competitions@independent.co.uk dont forget to leave your full address and telephone number...The winner will be picked at random and notified by telephone or email on 16 June. .....Good luck....

An e-mail I Received from one of Maxies Dearest friends.

This captures Maxies spirit wonderfully

Dear Peter and Joan,
I've just recovered enough to send this message after watching (twice) the wonderful tribute you made to our iconic friend....the inimmitable....the sometimes exasperating....the always true....the funny.....the kind...the genorous...the marvellous reprobate Max.
I'm still gulping down tears unashamedly at the thought and care and love you put into this poingnant reminder of him.
Some people thought of Max as a fool,a foil for their superior knowledge.
I knew from the moment we met that Maxie was far from that as I' m sure you both did.
Max was a born philosopher....he didn't need books....he didn't need to be told about life and how to live it....he just did it.
Maxie had oodles of magic and charm.When he walked into the room the room smiled, sparked and lit up and you knew everything would be alright.
I could go on rambling about the old sod forever but the corner sign says it's closing time so I'll bid farewell but not before thanking you so much, so very very much

The King Sings Dylan...

Tomorrow Is A Long Time.......

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pDa2YbWXIJE

Elvis recorded this for the How Great Thou Art album - May 25-28, 1966

Dylan said this[Tomorrow Is A Long Time] was his favourite cover of one of his songs. [Rolling Stone interview way back in 1970]..

Heres Elvis`s Dont Think Twice.... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sbeYQHWmnwA

On the same note... Heres Bobs... I Went To See The Gypsy, This songs about when Bob went to Vegas to see Elvis when he was the resident singer at The International hotel [later to become the Hilton] The guitarist on the 'New Morning' sessions was Ron Cornelius - he asked Bob what this song was about and Bob told him it was about when he went to visit Elvis in a hotel in Las Vegas. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VczDvkan_ew

Happy Birthday Lester William Polsfuss

Bobs boy Jakob playing a 1954 Gibson Les paul junior..

Or Les Paul to you and me, Les Paul is 93 today, Happy Birthday Les.....Heres a little Biography from youtube....... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OAbH1b5HEO8

Bob interview on youtube

Just after Live Aid in 85.. only just added on youtube..6-6-08....8min 21sec....Dylan seems very relaxed..
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GwhnkIxjSmk

Last night Bob played in Warsaw...

Heres what he played...

Warsaw, PolandStodoła
June 7, 2008
1.
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Bob on keyboard)
2.
Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Bob on keyboard)
3.
Rollin' And Tumblin' (Bob on keyboard)
4.
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Bob on keyboard)
5.
Lonesome Day Blues (Bob on keyboard)
6.
Workingman's Blues #2 (Bob on keyboard)
7.
Ballad Of Hollis Brown (Bob on keyboard)
8.
Honest With Me (Bob on keyboard)
9.
Make You Feel My Love (Bob on keyboard)
10.
The Levee's Gonna Break (Bob on keyboard)
11.
Beyond The Horizon (Bob on keyboard)
12.
Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on keyboard)
13.
Ain't Talkin' (Bob on keyboard)
14.
Summer Days (Bob on keyboard)
15.
I Shall Be Released (Bob on keyboard)



(encore)
16.
Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on keyboard)
17.
Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on keyboard)

New Theme Times.....

I know its not Crimbo yet but you really should download these shows ahead of the next festive period, these shows tend to disappear from rapidshare so get in there fast. These two shows are crackers[excuse the pun]... Throw this on around Crimbo time much better than the usual tripe churned out year after year, [Phil Spectors Christmas album and Fairy Tale Of New York excepted]..



http://rapidshare.com/files/11222547/34-1_Theme_Time_Radio_X-mas_part_1_20-12-2006.mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/11228322/34-2_Theme_time_Radio_X-mas_part2_20-12-2006.mp3

Heres the playlists....


Swinging For Christmas (Boppin’ For Santa) – Tom Archia (1948)
Christmas Is A-Coming (Chicken Crowns At Midnight) – Leadbelly (194 ?)
A Party For Santa – Lord Nelson (1963)
Sock It To Me Santa – Bob Seger & The Last Heard (1966)
Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas – The Staple Singers (1970)
Please Come Home For Christmas – Charles Brown (1960)
Jingle Bells – Johnny Paycheck (1967)
It Must Be Christmas – Gerry Mulligan & Judy Holliday (1980)
Christmas Morning – Titus Turner (1952)
Poor Old Rudolph – The BellRays (2001)
Blue Xmas – Bob Dorough & Miles Davis (1962)
Far Away Christmas Blues – Little Esther with Johnny Otis Orchestra (1950)
Beatnik’s Wish – Patsy Raye & The Beatniks (1959)
Don’t Believe In Christmas – The Sonics (1965)
Christmas Tree – King Stitt (1969)
Silent Night – Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & the Clowns (1962)
Must Be Santa – Brave Combo (1991)
Mambo Santa Mambo – The Enchanters (1957)
Fiesta De Navidad – Celia Cruz Y La Sonora Matancera (1961)
Merry Christmas Darling – Hop Wilson & His Buddies (1960)
Merry Merry Christmas – Alton Ellis & The Lipsticks (1972)
The Merriest – June Christy (1961)
Truckin’ Trees For Christmas – Red Simpson (1973)
Christmas In Jail – The Youngsters (1956)
I Want A Casting Couch For Christmas – Kay Martin & Her Body Guards (1962)
Santa Claus – Sonny Boy Williamson II (1960)
Hello Mr New Year – Cool Breezers ( ?)
Happy Christmas, Happy New Year – Mabel Mafuya (1958)
Christmas To New Years – The Larks (1951)
What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve – Nancy Wilson (1965)
Auld Lang Syne - traditional

The dumbest thing Dylan ever did..

Dylan visited Andy Warhol at the Factory and did screen tests for Warhol’s crazy little movies.
The pair didn’t get along too well, but Dylan did wind up with a Warhol screen print called "Double Elvis." Warhol — who charged everyone for everything — wanted to impress Dylan so he gave it to him for free.....And here’s the rub: when Dylan got the picture home he hated it. So what did his Bobness go and do.... he swoped it for a couch [ouch] with his manager Albert Grossman. In 1988, the year Warhol died, Sally Grossman, Albert’s widow, sold the painting for $720,000.

Theme time radio hour

Heres a link to download to your p.c. Dylans Theme Time Radio Hour, This is the last show of this season....just click the link and save to your music documents, then upload it onto a disc and play it in the car or in the home at your leisure. The theme this week is Cold, this has not been broadcast on British radio yet and wont be for sometime. I will add more theme times as time goes on, here at this link ....so keep on looking...enjoy..Oh nearly forgot heres the play list...

Intro
T-Bone Walker - Cold Cold Feeling
Porter Waggoner - The Cold Hard Facts Of life
Ray Charles & Betty Carter - Baby, It's Cold Outside
John Lennon - Cold Turkey
Lightnin' Slim - Wintertime Blues
Loretta Lynn - When The Tingle Becomes A Chill
Big Joe Turner - The Chill Is On
Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson - Chilly Winds
Willie Walker - Warm To Cool To Cold
Charlie Feathers - Defrost Your Heart
The Charmer (Louis Farrakhan) - Stone Cold Man
Roy Hogshead - So Cold So Dead
The Parliaments - I Can Feel The Ice Melting
Tom Waits - Cold Cold Ground
http://rs20.rapidshare.com/files/104472105/2.25_TTR_Cold_joint_2-4-2008.mp3

Snakeskin-Bob brings the house down..

My Back Pages...

Click on the images to enlarge.

Some useful links for Dylan fans

Heres a great one..You can catch up with all the radio shows from around the world concerning Dylan and listen to them again.... to access type in the login box hollliee and password cardiff .
http://www.prx.org/search/results.do?q=bob%20dylan&page=1

Heres another link for Bobs music... click on the album of your choice then the track you wish to play, if you want to listen to the whole album click on ascuita albumul integral at the bottom.. http://www.radio3net.ro/dylan/?cx=albume

Wanna know when it was the last time Bob played a particular song?. you`l find it here..
http://www.adamselzer.com/boblast.html

Right all you budding guitar players heres a link to a site that not only gives you the lyrics to Bobs songs but the chords also...http://dylanlyrics.50g.com/alphbetical-list.htm#2

A bit off topic but a useful link if you want to edit, resize, crop, or enhance your photos.
http://snipshot.com/

Heres 1001 albums, listen to individual tracks or whole albums from the fifties to the present day. http://www.radio3net.ro/1001/?cx=50

If you got the time!!! you can browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. The wayback machine http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Another usful link if you wanna save some money is Martin Lewis`s Moneysavingexpert site
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Wanna be nosey and see how much your neighbour bought his house for heres the site for you.http://www.nethouseprices.com/index.php

Ever wondered about the people mentioned in Billy Joel`s "We Didn't Start the Fire" heres a link. Click on the links within the lyrics for info on some of the major events of the 20th century!http://www.teacheroz.com/fire.htm

THATS ALL FOR NOW FOLKS....Enjoy...

We said farewell to Maxie yesterday 5th june 2008

Wally Maxies best mate gave a lovely eulogy

Max
Was a one off-and a very loveable person
The attendance today proves his inspiration
He had a big heart and lots of friends
He had pride in his family,in his clothes and in his music.

Max had very few possessions but he kept all the cards and letters from his children[Patrick and Rose] and trinkets that inspired him throuout his life.

I had the honour of being best man at his wedding to joyce
and can testify to his passion for music-especially from one Minnesotan poet.

Max truly encompassed the title of "song and dance" man.
The stories are many, but it is true to say that Max lived "life to the full" and he would want us to celebrate this occasion and not to mourn it,

To sum up in the words of his favorite poet....

A false clock tries to tick out my time
To disgrace, distract, and bother me.
And the dirt of gossip blows into my face,
And the dust of rumors covers me.
But if the arrow is straight
And the point is slick,
It can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
So I'll make my stand
And remain as I am
And bid farewell and not give a damn.


A splattering of some of those that attended yesterday.

Thanks Max...

Last summer Maxie called with a c.d for me, he said he didnt want to keep it at the place he was living at the time in case it went accidentally missing.... It was by his old mucca Meic Stevens Its Called Voodoo Blues... Anyway searching on the net for it last night and imagine my shock when I read the price this c.d is fetching...heres the link .. http://www.amazon.com/Voodoo-Blues-Retro-Meic-Stevens/dp/B000IOFN5A Not that I will ever sell it... It has now became the most valuable c.d in my collection, and by that I dont mean in monetary value...Cheers Max... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3J__gkJwPhs

Throw my ticket out the window...

11th of May 1966....Bet not many kept one of these, Bet you wished you did.... Maxie did........ wished he`d kept it I mean.... Robert Shelton said in his book No Direction Home that Cardiff was the ONLY place to give Dylan a fair crack of the whip so to speak, on this tour anyway, Well its much documented..What basically went on.. He went ...horror of horrors... Electric...... According to reports Dylan arrived on stage in Cardiff half-an-hour late looking somewhat different - the Huck Finn hat and denims that Maxie favoured had been replaced by a new suit - buttoned up. That was OK though because for the first hour he performed a solo acoustic set which went down well ....Then, with the immortal line: "It used to be like that... but now it goes like this," he launched into a plugged in, rocked-up version of I Don't Believe You. For the next hour confusion reigned as the assembled throng wondered what that din was coming from the stage - some disgruntled folkies headed straight for the exits. Those who stayed witnessed the metamorphosis of an idol.Those interested in Dylan's performance at the Capitol in 1966 should get hold of the bootleg documentary Eat the Document. This film, shot by D A Pennebaker, shows Dylan backstage at the Cardiff venue performing a piano duet with none other than the late great Johnny Cash.."anyone any storys or any reminiscences of that night?..love to hear them....Oh yea I nearly forgot to say, Maxies old man Freddy was a caretaker at the Capitol Theatre about that time, and Maxie told me a little story of how his father saw some scallies messing around in there and went to throw them out before someone informed him that they were in fact the Beatles. The date was December 12, 1965 which just happened to be the Beatles last Great Britain concert.......

Heres one of Maxies favourites.....In My Life...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NzrMCpKJ_h0

My complexion she said is much too white.....

Listen to this version..Isle of wight 69.. the Band behind him..
Critics say he wasnt trying/at his best at the Isle of wight.....
I beg to differ...........listen to this....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1SUWEExoAiY

Max.... Oh what a shirt!!!...

My 40th birthday October 1996, grey hair just starting to show.

Maxie Joyce Peter and Joan

In the Royal Oak on Broadway just after Dylan and Tom
Pettys Temple in Flames tour, Wembley arena 1987..... Roger McGuinn and Ronnie Wood were Dylans guests that night, George Harrison the night before. ......Heres Like A Rolling Stone from 1986
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NzrMCpKJ_h0

Heres a set list of what Dylan played that night.....

Wembley Arena
London, England
16 October 1987
1.
Like A Rolling Stone
2.
Maggie's Farm
3.
Forever Young
4.
Seeing The Real You At Last
5.
Shelter From The Storm
6.
I Shall Be Released
7.
When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
8.
Emotionally Yours
9.
Dead Man, Dead Man
10.
To Ramona
11.
Tomorrow Is A Long Time
12.
Gotta Serve Somebody
..................................................
13.
Chimes Of Freedom
14.
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

1-9, 12-14 Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar) with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
Tom Petty (guitar), Mike Campbell (guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Howie Epstein (bass), Stan Lynch (drums)
and with The Queens Of Rhythm: Carolyn Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec (backing vocals).
10, 11 Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Mike Campbell (guitar), Benmont Tench (piano).
3, 5 Bob Dylan (harmonica).
13 Roger McGuinn (guitar & shared vocal).
14 Roger McGuinn & Ron Wood (guitar).

A man is a success.....

Maxie `n` Bob in the Royal Oak on Broadway..

After a while we took in the clothes, Nobody said very much. Just some old wild shirts and a couple pairs of pants Which nobody really wanted to touch. Mama come in and picked up a book An' Papa asked her what it was. Someone else asked, "What do you care?"Papa said, "Well, just because."Then they started to take back their clothes,Hang 'em on the line. It was January the thirtieth And everybody was feelin' fine.

Just Maxie....

Maxie Taylor. probably one of the last photo`s

of Maxie, taken in Witherspoons City Road on

the 12th of Febuary 2008....R.I.P. Max

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m2feoIM9baI

He was a friend of mine

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_zB6t6bQTW4

I really loved this man.

He made my laugh

He made me happy

Maxie may you rest in peace

But before you go heres those

other verses we wrote to jet pilot..

Bobs verse first then ours..

You ready Max?

Hit It....

Well, she's got Jet Pilot eyes from her hips on down.All the bombardiers are trying to force her out of town.She's five feet nine and she carries a monkey wrench.She weighs more by the foot than she does by the inch.She got all the downtown boys, all at her commandBut you've got to watch her closely 'cause she ain't no womanShe's a man.

Now our verses

Well she walked in to a bar-room and it kicked up quite a stir, It was 39 outside and shes Wrapped up in fur, She`s a fan of Heinrich Himmler he`s tattood on her brow, In the bedroom she`s a devil in the office she`s a cow, All the downtown girls are under her spell, but they better watch her closely now, cause she`l lead them all to hell.

Well she ran off with a biker, Sonny Barger was is name, drinkin moonshine whisky and snorting pure cocaine, She dumped him down in Altamont when things got kind`r rough................Then we burst into Tangled up in blue......

They never did like Mama's homemade dress Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough. And I was standin' on the side of the road Rain fallin' on my shoes Heading out for the East Coast Lord knows I've paid some dues gettin' through............Tangled up in blue.

YEEEEEESSSSSSSS......

In memory of Maxie Taylor, born in roathside Cardiff in the year of who knows when[18th April] Died on the 22nd of may 2008, two days before Bob Dylans 67th birthday.

Here`s a little ditty me and maxie wrote one sunny inebriated Sunday afternoon out my back garden................................

Here comes Maxie
Arriving in a Taxi
Talking bout his hero
Dylan n Di Niro.

Here comes Maxie
Cool cool cat
Walking on his hands
Like an acrobat

Here comes Maxie
Jet [pilot] blue eyes
John Lennon glasses
`n` a Dylan disguise

Here comes Maxie
Great big smile
Gotta leather jacket
James Dean style

Here comes Maxie
Cane in hand
Guinness in the other
Singing with The Band

Here comes Maxie
With that ole soft shoe
Twilight on a frozen lake
Tangled up in Blue

Here comes Maxie
As if there were another
Treating everybody equal
Like a sister or a brother.