Beedster

Sad for them, I’ve got a lot of time for them, less for their ego mess of a singist

Do you have a link to the correct version of the album? I can get the original by searching for the tracks by name individually (not within the album) and then selecting the version I want, but when I select the album I get some live and some studio and some not there at all

...and I think this is especially true when the version Apple provides is performed by different musicians to the original album

A rope is a very good idea, as soon as someone crosses gig stops. I've twice had mics shoved into my face when an audience member has found their way into the what is pretty clearly the band's area and knocked into my mic stand - I'm playing DB do can't simply move out of the way as I would with an electric - the last time it was so painful it messed up the rest of the gig for me. Made me realises that this..... ...is actually very sound advice. If you don't have that option, at least make sure the people behind the bar are aware that the safety and security of the band is their issue while the band are performing, and specifically it's not up to the band to try and police the audience.

I guess it varies with band/genre. I found it bloody annoying when I started having to listen very hard to Danko's basslines in both Dylan and The Band tracks to find that the versions Apple Music was giving me where not the same as the other guys were getting from Spotify and certainly not the versions that I remembered from the albums themselves. I've solved the issue in that I'm going to work from the CDs, but to my mind it doesn't change the fact that if Apple are charging people to download an 'album', they should allow you to download the actual album, and not what appears to amount to a pretty random collection of live versions/remixes albeit of the same songs. Perhaps part of this for me is that I'm of an era both in age and musical preference in which the idea of the album still remains the overarching driver of the music, a statement of the band's thoughts and emotions at the moment in time. The first track on the original album Blonde on Blonde really sets an odd tone, and I've always loved it for that. The version on Apple Music however is live and to my ear has a very different feel, almost as if by the time it was recorded, Dylan had come to hate the song, and I think it sets the album off in a very different direction. I wonder if people who find Dylan through digital might be taken on a very different journey to that he intended when he recorded the album?

Wow, see what you mean, bass appears a lot more prominent?

Ooh that’s promising 🙏

Thanks Michael I’ll check out that link seems a lot if Dylan/Band albums are affected 👍

Gains Conviction 👍

Not theft per se, more ‘Been caught hiding’.

I know one of their road crew well, and he indicated - in confidence- that Navarro had hidden Farrell’s Werthers. Not the first time hence the handbags

All seemed very rock n roll until they apologised. w**kers 😆

Vice versa 👍

They’re all in their 60s 😆

And then the bassist joined in 👍

Just checked them against Amazon Music which I appear to have access to and all is as per original albums there 👍

For example on my Apple Music app The Band’s second album starts with a live version of Great Divide and doesn’t include Cripple Creek…

Yep but at the cost of removing the originals?

Don’t need to, I know there are no live tracks on the albums in question, sountrack of my youth and all that 👍

Learning some new tracks from Dylan and The Band and have just noticed that the ‘albums’ on Apple Music appear to be compilations of some original and some live tracks. There are also a couple of tracks missing on some albums. Can’t see any setting options referring to this, am I being a prat?

Bloke posts silly idea, gets predictable response, throws one and sulks off. We’ve all been there 🙂

Bass forum mate, post a mew thread, you gonna get replies, if you then decide to delete all your posts because people didn’t respond how you expected, c’est la vie. Perhaps you should try Singerchat 😆