Bob Dylan and Friends Newport Folk Festival Newport, Rhode Island July 25, 1965 On Saturday, July 24, 1965, Dylan performed three acoustic numbers, "All I Really Want to Do", "If You Gotta Go, Go Now", and "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" at a Newport workshop. According to Jonathan Taplin, a roadie at Newport (and later a road manager for the acts of Dylan's manager Albert Grossman) Dylan made a spontaneous decision on the Saturday that he would challenge the Festival by performing with a fully amplified band. Taplin said that Dylan had been irritated by what he considered condescending remarks which festival organizer Alan Lomax had made about the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, when Lomax introduced them for an earlier set at a festival workshop. Dylan's attitude, according to Taplin, was, "Well, fuck them if they think they can keep electricity out of here, I'll do it. On a whim he said he wanted to play electric." Dylan then assembled a band and rehearsed that night at a mansion being used by festival organizer George Wein. On the night of Sunday, July 25, Dylan's appearance was sandwiched between Cousin Emmy and the Sea Island singers, two decidedly traditional acts. The band that went on stage to back Dylan included two musicians who had played on his recently released single, "Like a Rolling Stone": Mike Bloomfield on lead guitar and Al Kooper on organ. Two of Bloomfield's bandmates from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band also appeared at Newport: bassist Jerome Arnold and drummer Sam Lay, along with Barry Goldberg on piano. (Reference Wikipedia) July 25th 01. Peter Yarrow's introduction and tune up * 02. Maggie's Farm 03. Like A Rolling Stone 04. Phantom Engineer (early version of "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, A Train To Cry") 05. encore call and tune up * encore 06. It's All Over Now Baby Blue * second encore 07. Mr. Tambourine Man * [31:18] * from mono tape source the musicians: Bob Dylan on vocals, guitar and harmonica Mike Bloomfield on lead guitar Al Kooper on organ. Sam Lay on drums Jerome Arnold on bass Barry Goldberg on piano Source: "Folk Rogue" Silver > EAC > FLAC LEVEL 5 Patch Source: Bob Dylan "1965 Revisited" used for 3 second of missing intro to "Maggies Farm" CD > DAT > Adobe Audition 3.0 (source for missing intro patch) Additional Lineage: TLH (wav) > Adobe Audition 3.0 (combine tracks, insert patch, speed correction, manual click and pop repairs) > CD Wav > TLH (flac 8) > Stamp ID3 tag editor Originally planned on sharing this show from the Italian "Bob Dylan 1965 Revisited" box set. Then "Folk Rogue" was posted and the 3 stereo tracks from this silver disc were a great improvement over that older tape copy. There was a very noticable speed variation between these two sources and that required investigation. This was put to the side until the correct speed could be determined. The silver CD included material from 2 different years at Newport and a few other concerts as filler. But this project was to be the 1965 performance. Tracks were reassembled from the "Folk Rogue" source and were running fast with plenty of clicks and pops. Using the time stretch function in Adobe Audition 3.0 this was Slowed down by 1.5% (98.5) and now lines up with a reliable video of the performance. Volumes were adjusted to blend the 2 sources better while many clicks and pops were repaired on the 3 stereo tracks. The LP source was missing the introduction, the encores and some tuning found on the tape recording. Introduction and encores were taken from the mono tape to complete the "Folk Rogue" CD. Most of the between song tuning was not patched in from the mono tape as it created abrupt changes and spoiled the flow. Three seconds of pre-song guitar strumming was inserted in front of "Maggies Farm" and that was taken from the 1965 Revisited box set. So here is something started in April of last year and finally completed. Support Bob and purchase his official releases and see him in concert. Let's hope this complete show including the between song banter makes it out one day on Bob's own "bootleg" series Until someone gets a better version... For historical reference only and not intended for resale or any commercial use. enjoy -M- (December 2014) FLYING M PRODUCTIONS Fan Recordings For Collectors - Trade Freely But Please Do Not Sell Buy the "new" basement tapes collection - so well done it was worth the wait and the cost to get the box Logfiles flac conversion Bob Dylan-1965-07-25-tr01.wav: successfully encoded to 'Bob Dylan-1965-07-25-tr01.flac' (ratio = 0.444; no need for sector alignment). Bob Dylan-1965-07-25-tr02.wav: successfully encoded to 'Bob Dylan-1965-07-25-tr02.flac' (ratio = 0.642; no need for sector alignment). 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