“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.)
Thanks for posting this. Gnarly indeed, but well worth hearing!
Gnarly enough for me to link to it, so that’s cool…
And gnarly enough to call it gnarly, that works for me.
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.
Im a huge fan and i have to hear this, i beg you to repost
To Quinn & everybody else: I no longer seem to have a copy of the file. Sorry.