"london calling" - bob dylan
"London Calling" (wma) - Bob Dylan (re-upped through January 6th.)
21 November 2005, Brixton Academy, London, UK
Fly-by-night, lo-fi, punk-frickin'-rock recording of Dylan performing a solid minute of The Clash's "London Calling" yesterday in London. The super-digitized distortion on the Windows media file is the 21st century equivalent of an oversaturated cassette bootleg made with a built-in condenser mic (and, hell, for all I know, this recording was made on an oversaturated cassette with a condenser mic). Dylan's post-"Love and Theft" gruntfest howl is perfectly suited to the medium, cutting through the shit like a rude, distorted guitar and beamed around the world in a matter of hours by an anonymous head. (Thanks, anonymous head!) (...and to Aaron & Russ for pointing it out.)
Comments
Thanks for posting this. Gnarly indeed, but well worth hearing!
Posted by: David Gans | November 22, 2005 1:38 PM
Gnarly enough for me to link to it, so that's cool...
And gnarly enough to call it gnarly, that works for me.
Posted by: Justin | November 23, 2005 11:20 AM
I hate to be a nag, but I've been searching for days and I'm at the point now where I just needed to post and flat-out BEG you to repost this. Thanks in advance.
Posted by: Mike | December 29, 2005 6:59 PM
Im a huge fan and i have to hear this, i beg you to repost
Posted by: Quinn | February 9, 2006 7:19 PM
To Quinn & everybody else: I no longer seem to have a copy of the file. Sorry.
Posted by: Jesse | February 10, 2006 10:19 AM