Alcatraz to the 9th Power Revisited aka Visions of Johanna Live '65
April 5, 2020 11:29 AM   Subscribe

Introduced as both Freezeout and Alcatraz to the 9th Power Revisited, Bob Dylan -- Visions of Johanna, in San Francisco on December 11th, 1965. Well before it was recorded for the album Blonde on Blonde.
posted by y2karl (11 comments total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
Thank you.
posted by bonobothegreat at 11:45 AM on April 5, 2020


Probably my favorite Dylan song
posted by wheelieman at 11:55 AM on April 5, 2020 [1 favorite]


This song on Blonde on Blonde gives me the feeling of nostalgia from memories I don't own.
posted by alex_skazat at 12:10 PM on April 5, 2020 [11 favorites]


"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face" will always be one of my favorite Dylan lines.
posted by downtohisturtles at 12:19 PM on April 5, 2020 [5 favorites]


Almost my title.
posted by y2karl at 12:31 PM on April 5, 2020 [1 favorite]


My wife Louise doesn’t like this song.

I think it’s one of the greatest pieces of surrealistic poetry ever written.
posted by Devils Rancher at 7:24 PM on April 5, 2020 [1 favorite]


First I've heard that "Swingin' Pig", the publisher or many a bootleg in the 70s and 80s, has a mostly-Dylan youtube account.
posted by morspin at 7:46 PM on April 5, 2020 [1 favorite]


Whoa!
posted by The Toad at 9:32 PM on April 5, 2020


Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna (Rare Studio Outtakes 1965-1966) Also from Blind Pig, excerpts from various studio versions fast and slow. All versions, save the last, Bob Dylan and the Band -- then known as the Hawks.

Bob Dylan -- Visions of Johanna (1965)
The entire fast version with the Hawks in an official Columbia/Legacy Recordings video.
posted by y2karl at 10:39 AM on April 6, 2020 [1 favorite]


Rare Studio Outakes 1965-66 that y2karl links to has huge historical importance - the producer cuts in at 0:59 and asks for “more cowbell”.
posted by bonobothegreat at 9:00 AM on April 7, 2020


But wait, there's more -- from sometime in the 1990s, a playful and rather virtuosic Bob Dylan -- Visions of Johanna.
posted by y2karl at 5:20 AM on April 8, 2020 [1 favorite]


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