DYLAN COVERS # 52 ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL - Blonde on Blonde Covered Pt 1 of 3

DYLAN COVERS # 52 ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL - Blonde on Blonde Covered Pt 1 of 3

Bob Dylan Boo Radleys Bruce Springsteen Duke Robbilard Dylan Covers Gerry Garcia Jimmy Buffet Lenny Kravitz Luther Johston Marianne Faithfull Mick Hucknall Tom Petty

A smile of approval, thanks Bob

How do you cover Blonde on Blonde Dylan's Iconic masterpiece from 1966. There are so many great covers to choose from. I was caught between covers that sound like the original or covers that are completely different or simply the bizarre and there are quite a few of them. I decided to play it safe and went for the first one that hit me as I went through all my files of each song. (I may do a bizarre covers of B on B at a later stage).   The problem with B on B is that there are classics and they have many many covers of them and there are the less popular tracks where I have only found 2 or 3 covers. Anyway, I hope you like my choices, I am sure some may not be to your liking  and I am sure you may have chosen some others. Let me know what you think

JIMMY BUFFET - Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35

Don't really know too much about Jimmy Buffet but this is a live recording, Live at Nissan Pavilion, Bristow, VA on 8/30/08. It  has the same playful feel of the original so I have gone for it.  Tom Petty and Lenny Kravitz were contenders.

LUTHER JOHNSTON - Pledging My Time

Again I am not familiar with Luther Johnston, this is one of the less covered songs but I liked this immediately, it has that edgy feel of the original, it can be found on "All Blues'd Up - Songs Of Bob Dylan" (Tangled Up In Blues)(1999). Duke Robbilard, was my only other option, both are great takes but Luther edged it.

MARIANNE FAITHFUL - Visions of Johanna

I have always loved Marianne Faithful from the early sixties and I think she deserves the  honour of 'Visions of Johanna' which is in my top few Dylan tracks. There are several other great takes but I'm going for this one. Gerry Garcia and the Boys were hard to leave out. Maybe I better do a Volume 2 or should I say 'Blonde and Blonde Covers Revisited'. The MF take can be found on her album 'Rich Kid Blues' (1971)
There are a couple of other Dylan Covers on that one as well.

MICK HUCKNALL - One of us Must Know

I have always loved this song and have quoted it to death through out the years. This may be a surprising choice but believe it or not there are not too many covers out there. I have only 5 in my file. The Boo Radleys were a close second, but I think the production did it for Mick. It is taken from the outstanding (well in parts) 'Chimes of Freedom'(2012)

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - I Want You

Yet another classic and I went for an original take by the Boss, a much different and slower version but it loses none of the magic. I was almost going with Steve Gibbons but changed my mind at the last minute.
You can find this on 'Nobody sings Dylan Like the Boss' click for the link.

Part 2 Next Week

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RECORD STORE DAY AT TUNE DOCTOR

RECORD STORE DAY AT TUNE DOCTOR

Band Aid Bob Dylan Queen Tom Petty Tunedr Special Operations

On Saturday 21st April it was Record Store Day, the day to find your nearest record shop, buy some CD/Vinyl and try not to feel intimidated when the staff member looks down at your purchase choice in a way not to dissimilar as Jack Black in High Fidelity!

Throughout the world there had been various exclusive releases taking place, all with the objective of getting music lovers into your nearest record shop to pick up some gems. However, with all this talk of records, Do you remember your first record? (Vinyl / CD/ Tape)

SFW:-
Band Aid - "Do they know it's Christmas"

I don't know whether it's old age or a combination of that and too much vino but my memory is getting bad.  When I read through interviews in music magazines, I'll often see the question "what was your first record?", and the band, artist, actor etc will usually say "Elvis", or "The Beatles", or someone perceived as "cool", but for me it's a struggle.  

But if push comes to shove, I believe mine was Band Aid's "Do They Know it's Christmas", and that seems pretty logical, because everyone seemed to have it in 1984! But then again was it an early "Now That's What I Call Music?" - bloody memory! 

With music now largely consisting of mp3s will anyone in ten years remember their first album?

Flycasual:-
Queen - Flash (1980)

Flash! Ah-ah! Gordon's Alive! Camp film, camp song.....I don't know what that says about me or my musical foundation but who cares....this is brilliant! I must have been six or seven at the time and I remember loving the film and I just had muster all my pocket money to get the song. It had snippets from the film that I could bounce around my room in my underpants to, re-enacting scenes of Flash Gordon's endeavours. Sadly my superhero days were short lived but I guess this must have been my first single. I never really got to appreciate vinyl for what it was as I guess I was more the CD generation but I do remember being mesmerised by Old Pa's LPs. Notably ELO's album 'A New World Record' with the intricate art work of the inside of a UFO and being freaked out by the skull on the Eagles's Greatest Hits album. Though there are many advantages to MP3's, storage and accessibility being the main reasons, you just can't beat holding, admiring the art work, reading the sleeve notes or even smelling an LP or CD.... there's just something about music being more tangible, more physical and you owned it!!!

Shell Hunter:-

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 'Into The Great Wide Open' (1991)

Growing up with Old Pa and Flycasual as my music guru's it was difficult to find my own musical identity. Asides from The Simpson's Sing The Blues, a sixties megamix tape and Sesame Street's Greatest Hits, there was very little that I listened to, that was my own. After watching The Chartshow which had been recorded for me and sent back from the UK to Saudi, I was mesmerised by this video from Tom Petty dressed up as the Mad Hatter from the album of the same name. It was a great little story starring none other than...Johnny Depp! The lyrics of the song were nice and clear and easy to sing along to. I was so impressed that I asked Old Pa to go out an buy it for me being only 9 years old at the time. I listened to the album constantly and since then have always had a soft spot for Tom Petty's stuff.

Old Pa's Corner:-
Bob Dylan - 'Positively 4th Street' (1965)

"You've gotta lot of nerve!"

I had to have it, it was the best thing I have ever heard, I did not even have a record player but I just had to have it, hold it, look at it, place it under my pillow at night (if the Dylan tooth fairy came I would have a brand new copy of Highway 61 there in the morning). I rushed to my local record store and bought Positively 4th Street. It was 1965, it cost 6/5 pence.

The sad thing is, sorry I will say that again, the great thing is, I ordered a couple of weeks ago the Dylan Box set of his first 4 electric singles especially commissioned for Record Store Day. 'Positively 4th Street' is of course included there with original cover artwork. (The one I bought in 1965 did not have a picture cover)  I have also ordered special frame covers for them, they will have pride of place in my bed room wall (Mrs Mackenzie does not know it yet). My birthday treat. Why not! it will keep an old guy happy!

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GUEST SPOT # 23 - Tom Petty - Free Fallin'

GUEST SPOT # 23 - Tom Petty - Free Fallin'

Guest Spot Tom Petty Tune Doctor Whattalkabout

Got a song you want to tell us about? We'd love to hear about it, why you like it, what it reminds you of! Email us to feature on our weekly Guest Spot!

Tom Petty - Free Fallin' (1989)

This week's guest spot comes from a good pal and fellow plane lover who goes by the alias "whattalkabout"(don't ask). She likes her exotic fruit and knows how to ignore moody french pilots! I'm sure there is a good few of us that can relate to her post!

My time spent at sixth form gave me the highest and lowest of times. Of the two years I spent there, one of the happiest of my life thus far, and the other was the toughest.

We all yearned freedom and to be university students, to experience the "real" world. What originally attracted me to this high flying grammar school had lost it's shine. I was 18, and along with the other 125 boys-but-not-quite-men and 25 girls in my year (It was an all boys school but became mixed at sixth form) were still wearing school uniform, answering "yes miss" to the register every morning and afternoon, and carrying hymn books in our blazer pockets.

As exam season drew closer, it signalled the beginning of the end. A bitterness hard to describe because I had the best and worst of times at that school. There would be no more assemblies every morning, no sound of 800 boys greet our headmaster "Good Morning Dr Walker" echo through the school hall, no more saying of the Lord's Prayer, no more fighting for corridor space with the younger years.


As I drove to school (I drove to school! How grown up was I?! Parking in my own playground!!) to pick up my exam results and say goodbye to the "well legendary" institution that was King Edward VI Grammar; I felt blank. I went in quietly, picked up my envelope and walked out. I didn't hang around to chat. I turned the ignition on, took one last look at the "Church Doors" where we used to congregate to catch coaches for school trips, and those awful PE lessons in the fields. I drove off, not looking back because I knew I'd miss it terribly.

I started the 23 mile drive home. I got stuck in a traffic jam. This song started playing on the radio. It was ironic. It felt as if this small town didn't want me to leave just yet, but I was free. Maybe I should have turned back, but what for? I still look back on it with the fondest of memories and will never forget my time there.

Go ahead, make my day

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