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Drawing from hundreds of hours of unseen footage and rare recordings, in-depth interviews and revealing photographs, No Direction Home, directed by Martin Scorsese, strikes a remarkable balance - telling the story of one man's journey and at the same time placing that story within the greater canvas of human events.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/bobdylan/

Lotsa cool links & interviews ...

[eamo]

Really looking forward to seeing this. The footage of the 1966 British tour is rock history in the making.

[igotthisguitar]

[Harpeau]

A friend and I watched the DVD on Sat. eve. It was awesome! I highly recommend it!!

[uberscheisse]

aye. f'ing brilliant. all the archival footage was amazing too.

[Bo Peabody]

The young Joan Baez was smoking hot. Making those sassy political statements in her white cotton pinafore.... The naive enthusiasm was so refreshing...

I thought she stole the show.

Or was it just me?

"Judas!"

"You're a liar. I don't believe you. (To the band) Play it ****ing loud!"

Like a Rolling Stone

[Ya-ta Boy]

[igotthisguitar]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[itaewonguy]

I watched it.. and must say I didnt know to much about where dylan come from his road to now etc.. but seeing his early work MAN!!
he was a freak!! hahahahaha..
anyway he is real cool..

[eamo]

[jajdude]

Sounds good. There was a book of the same name out long ago. Of course Dylan has a book out now too... haven't read it yet though.

[Ya-ta Boy]

It would be SO cool if he won the Nobel Prize for Lit. It has never been given to a song writer and it's time song writing was recognized as a legitimate genre of writing. Who would be more deserving?

[igotthisguitar]

Review: Dylan shows legends never die
By CNN's Gordon Isfeld
Wednesday, November 23, 2005



We have seen his wildly anticipated (and well-received) autobiography "Chronicles Volume One" notch up huge sales and go to paperback. There was also "The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966" -- a collection of visual bits and bobs from his career. Add to this Martin Scorsese's superb two-part television documentary "No Direction Home," which was broadcast (again, well received) on the same dates on both sides of the Atlantic. A soundtrack has also been released.

Yes, nearly 45 years since his arrival on the New York folk scene, and four decades after he cranked up the volume and sparked outrage among acoustic-spoiled fans, the boy from Minnesota continues to fascinate, frustrate and challenge his audience.

And he has managed to keep that audience (though it's unlikely he would be bothered one way or the other) despite notoriously uneven recordings and performances (often his body was there even when he was not). Shifts in musical styles and religious motivations have also made such devotion a hard road to hoe.

Now Dylan is riding his new wave of notoriety across Europe -- the latest stop on his tour being London's Brixton Academy, which he has sold out for five straight nights.

On Tuesday, Dylan showed why he remains an enigma. For almost two hours, he rarely moved far from his keyboard. He and his band -- dressed in black (hats, boots and all), with pencil-thin mustaches to match -- appeared as some dark Vaudeville/Nashville hybrid. The songs themselves rendered in a mix of blues, rock and Western Swing.

The set began with "Maggie's Farm" followed by more than two dozen others including "Lonesome Day Blues," "Positively 4th Street," "Girl Of The North Country" and "Highway 61 Revisited." Often Dylan's voice and words slipped into a murky musical sludge, only to be plucked and separated and revitalized in a glint of his eye.

The Brixton dates are the semi-climax to Dylan's Europe tour. He began in Sweden in October and has since rolled through Denmark, Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, the Czech Republic and onto the UK -- all to thunderous reviews.

Along with stops in Glasgow, Nottingham and Birmingham, Dylan returned to his former nemesis of Manchester -- where he avoided any new "Judas" jibes, at least none recorded (a far cry from his 1966 appearance toting an electric guitar). His final two concerts are in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.

Dylan's caravan of followers appears to be growing, with older devotees planting and cultivating new interest in the artist. Still others cling to what greatness remains.

As one frequent traveler in the audience said, "You might as well keep seeing these guys while they're still alive." A point not to be taken lightly when referring to the endangered species of 60s and 70s icons.

The first time I heard "All Along the Watchtower" (off Dylan's "John Wesley Harding" album) performed live was during an unexpected tribute to Dylan by Jimi Hendrix (who had just recorded the song for his yet-to-be-released "Electric Ladyland"). The impact was, ahem, electrifying.

And so it was again in Brixton. His legion would have it no other way. All these years on, electric is what they have come to expect from the Jester. Returning for a two-song encore (the first being a raunchy, full-out "Like a Rolling Stone"), Dylan -- as he often does -- repaid the Hendrix compliment by ripping into "Watchtower," Jimi's electric version of course.

Which just goes to show that legends never die.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/23/dylan.review/index.html

[Ya-ta Boy]