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I've been dipping into the new 6-CD Dylan 1965-66 box set. It's really interesting (if you're well into Dylan) to hear stuff developing. From the few bits I've listened to, the evolution of Visions of Johanna is quite surprising: it starts out as a fast, quite rocky number when he's first rehearsing it with The Band, and he keeps bringing it down and taking it more slowly, until by take 15 (I think it was) they're playing it about as slow, and almost as sombre and brooding, as the final version, which was recorded a few weeks later with session musicians in Nashville.
It's also clear that one thing a reviewer said is correct: he had a knack for picking out the best take to be released in the end. It wasn't even necessarily the final take. He recorded Like a Rolling Stone fifteen times in one day. The one that was released? Take 4.
But there are alternate takes on here that could easily have been released and everybody would have praised them to the skies, deservedly, except that he somehow managed to find a way to make the same song even better.
As I say, very interesting stuff; as long as you really like Dylan
I do wish I could have justified to myself buying the $600 limited edition 18-CD set that includes literally every note (and quite a bit of chatting, apparently) that was recorded during Dylan's studio time in that period of just over a year
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