This Sat Unopened on my Shelf for Years....

[@dylanblonde]

Thanks Jeff, great video as always. It's made me dig out my copy and I'm so glad I did! A beautiful version of blowing in the wind is on here. Listening away, enjoying it more than the version we all know and love, suddenly I realised there was no harmonica. But I was hearing the harmonica playing in my mind anyways! Great listening to very early Dylan, especially at winter time here in cold, dark England.

[@CalicoSilver]

I also often find that I enjoy these Bootleg Series as much or more than the versions I've come to know for so long. Thanks for your comment. Cheers! Jeff

[@michaelstokes919]

Love video's like this. I've not had a single urge to listen to this in years, but now I'm fully on board to go on a massive " Dylan binge ". Was shocked it was released in 2010. I was sure I got it when it came out in 2013. Evidently not lol.

[@CalicoSilver]

Haha, I know what you mean, Michael. It shocked me also that it was 12 years ago that we bought this. Time flies by so fast. Cheers! Jeff

[@stephenrostkoski837]

I was familiar with much of these demos through bootlegs, so I don't listen to this Bootleg Series all that much. I probably heard some Dylan songs on the radio, but the first time I was really aware of one of his songs was Rod Stewart's "Tomorrow is a Long Time," still one of my favorites. A little later I got the Concert for Bangla Desh and then the local college radio station had an all evening show about Dylan and I taped it on my new 8-track recorder. That was it. I soon ordered New Morning and Planet Waves, two of the newest releases I could find.

[@CalicoSilver]

Isn't it funny how for many of us, we get hooked on Dylan (in our own individual and different ways) for life.....and then many (if not most) others just shake their heads and wonder what we see in the guy?

[@electricfence61]

Thanks Jeff 😊

[@THEBLUEGLOVE]

This was the last installment I listened to of the bootleg series. I was surprised to find it may be the best one!

[@CalicoSilver]

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it also.

[@highwayblues638]

I discovered Bob Dylan from the 'Best Of 66' album released by Columbia records. The song on that album was 'I Want You' . Being 6 or 7 years old at the time. My favorite tunes on that album was Dylan's and Down in the Boondocks .... My siblings and I used to go around singing those tunes... must have drove my parents crazy. ha ha ha . Now I go around singing driving my wife nuts ... ha ha

[@CalicoSilver]

I used to love Down In The Boondocks too! Loved that "swamp", deep south kind of song that was popular at the time. Haha, I can just see you and your siblings singing I Want You.....perhaps with that Blonde On Blonde Dylan voice: "I want you soooo baaaaaad...." Hahaha, yes that would drive other crazy....almost as much as the actual Dylan track would! Hahaha. Thanks for the comment - I really enjoyed it. Jeff

[@highwayblues638]

@@CalicoSilver it was only about 7 years later in 1974 or 1975 when I was really getting into music and heard Stuck Inside of Mobile and loved the singers voice , only then did I realize that it was the same guy as I Want You. , and the rest is history ..

[@lordbyron6293]

I love the Bootleg Series. It's insane how much great stuff never made it to an album. I saw this video was coming up so I listened to this one today at work. For someone who doesn't actually play any songs you're definitely one of my favorites.

[@CalicoSilver]

Yes I agree completely. So many great tracks. Unlike most "outtakes and demos" kind of things, these Bootleg Series are as good as, and often better than, the official albums! Haha. We Dylan fans sure are rewarded well. Thanks for your comment. Cheers! Jeff

[@martinlarsson5254]

I'm a little bit younger than you (born 75). But I really like 1962 Dylan anyway. It started with the song "He was a friend of mine". I heard this song on the radio and had to buy the bootleg from the Finjan club - a nice sounding recording with a small audience. I started to read about this year in his memoirs and elsewhere and bought this bootleg series 9 on CD. I think I only have listened it through completely once, but in small doses I really enjoy the recordings. ♥️

[@CalicoSilver]

What a very nice song, "He Was A Friend of Mine". One of my early Dylan favorites also. Thanks for your comment, Martin. Cheers. Jeff

[@mariog4707]

You’ve inspired me again. Like you I bought it at the time and did play it a few times but since then it has just sat gathering dust. I’ll dig it out and give it another go. I often do this with Dylan stuff, rediscover great material years after either ignoring or writing it off as not being interesting on initial listen. Unbelievably it took me years to appreciate and love the brilliant “Time Out Of Mind” which I hated and binned after one listen. It’s the same now with “Rough And Rowdy Ways” - I just don’t get it, but I know one day I’ll be hailing it as a classic.

[@CalicoSilver]

I know exactly what you mean, Mario. If we didn't trust Dylan, we'd probably just move on after hearing an album and not liking it, like we do with so many other artists. But our trust in him prompts us to give it time. I suppose we should be more willing to do likewise with other recordings.....maybe.....

[@amherst88]

I'm not a demo person either (and haven't immersed myself in all the bootlegs) but some of the tracks on this one are true reminders of what a *master* songwriter he was/is. I had only known Tomorrow is a Long Time from Rod Stewart's version on Every Picture Tells a Story and I'll Keep it with Mine from the wonderful version by Fairport Convention, in neither case did I realize who had written them but they sounded like they had been around for a hundred years. There has been a lot of worthwhile music made in our lifetime/s but I can't think of anyone else who has been capable of writing songs like that.

[@CalicoSilver]

I love that Rod Stewart album, Teri! Marvelous music and performances. You are right - there are none like Dylan, but almost every songwriter (especially singer-songwriters) absorbed some of Dylan's influence in the '60s. You can hear it swelling up by the end of the decade. Even singers not known for writing their own songs, like Glen Campbell, were penning songs that were Dylan-inspired at that time. Infusing poetry into music. What could be better? Thanks. Jeff

[@travelingwheelbarrow7383]

Should make the best of the Calico Silver demos

[@CalicoSilver]

Haha, now that might be an interesting idea.....I wonder if I kept those cassette tapes when I was purging stuff before our move.....haha!

[@gibby6904]

Totally agree Jeff.....I bought series 9 to complete my Bootleg collection.....still have not heard all of it.......I like Don't think Twice from this one and I DID read the booklet🤣.....I still haven't picked up Fragments 17......I was disappointed it was basically one disc with unreleased material but I will pick it up eventually......I am an outtakes guy.....Another Self Portrait is according to my music player my most played Bootleg series.......I played it for 8 months straight when I got it......I love folkie Bob.....I also loved the original.....we must be weird🤣

[@CalicoSilver]

Haha I still haven’t purchase 17 yet either. Yes we are weirdos, but I am OK with that. 👍👍😉

[@CalicoSilver]

And yes that Another Self Portrait is magnificent!

[@gibby6904]

I just remembered one I forgot about....the 1970 album that came out a few years ago.....I LOVE that package....folkie New Morning outtakes plus.....great great stuff.......have you reviewed that one?

[@CalicoSilver]

@@gibby6904 I have that one too but I have not reviewed it yet, no. I need to get back to my Dylan reviews and stop with all this pop/rock crap. Haha!

[@gibby6904]

@@CalicoSilver I made a playlist on my phone of 1970 and Bootleg 10 mixed...its great! They are all recordings from the same period so it's seamless.....

[@twofromthetrunk9932]

As always enjoyed this video. Btw. I have a similar transistor radio and I still use the same iPod. :)

[@CalicoSilver]

YES!! So glad to meet fellow old far.....I mean old schoolers....like you and me, Tony. We grew up listening to AM radio on those old transistor radios (I even had an Archer bike radio on my Schwinn Stingray handlebars). Then FM came into play.....but I still listened to the oldies (and I mean OLDIES like Doris Day and Perry Como, as well as mystery theater programming, haha) on that little transistor radio all the way into my college years. And what is funny now is that I am still considered "old school" even today because I have CDs rather than those new-fangled "vinyl" things. Hahaha!! Thanks for your comment - I really enjoyed it. Jeff

[@twofromthetrunk9932]

@@CalicoSilver there was an “oldies” station in our hometown at that time played songs from the 50’s. I use to lay on the back porch that had a cement floor. On a hot summer afternoon that cool cement was a great place to sit and listen to those oldies.

[@rocky-o]

hey jeff...unlike yourself, i love demo albums...i got the lou reed one that recently came out for record store day and it is brilliant), but i missed this dylan one when it first came out....now the vinyl is so jacked up in price i may never get it (and i do not buy cds)...but i'm sure it's great....(even the single disc demo l.p. is tough to get as well now...)....oh well....c'est la vie....be well my friend...that's what's important...peace...rocky

[@CalicoSilver]

I remember when CDs came out and were all the rage, and most of us clamored to buy CD replacements for all the LPs (I have decided to stop using the asinine "vinyl" word, a word we never used to use, haha!) we once had.....and we hoped and prayed for some of the more peripheral releases to finally make it to CD.....and they most often did! It was good. But now we are back to the vinyl (oops, I used that word....haha!) thing where new releases are not being put onto CD. Well, I ain't going back to LPs at this point in my life. If a new release comes out on LP-only, then I download it for a dollar or so from a particular site that offers pretty much anything for pennies. And I don't mind doing so. I'm tired of playing games with record companies and format exclusivity. Hahahaha!! (yes, I am a bad bad man) Frivolously yours, Jeff

[@rocky-o]

@@CalicoSilver brilliantly worded....i thankfully never sold my albums to get cds (the only time i purged my collection was when i needed some funds to pay bills...ha...)....thank god their were still a few used record stores thru the cd phase...long live the l.p.....both physically and grammatically....frivilously in kind...rocky

[@CalicoSilver]

@@rocky-o I wish I was as prescient as you were, Rocky. A lot of my LPs were lost during my parents’ divorce while I was away at college. So I ended up doing the cassette thing for a while prior to the CD revolution.

[@rocky-o]

@@CalicoSilver whatever graced your soul with music...there was peace...rocky

[@mickey8355]

Yes. Please make a video of "Tomorrow is a Long Time"? It almost made me succeed in winning someone precious back. Almost! ...

[@CalicoSilver]

It's on my list, Ralph. Not sure what I can say about it that is not there in the song already, but I look forward to at least just publicly appreciating it if nothing else. Thanks. (By the way, playing beautiful songs for girlfriends never did me much good....at least not the girlfriends I had....haha!)

[@alexandervaneijken7741]

Sitting in the corner of your loft. Waiting and waiting till the muse/inspiration descends /sinks into the creative part of your brain. After which that beautiful poem, piece of music, the next chapter of your ongoing important novel etc etc takes form and becomes a reality. So much for the romantic notion of the ARTIST. I have always liked the idea of Tin Pan Alley. A bunch of guys and girls working 9 to 5 and composing songs for a living. Like baking bread or selling insurance or used automobiles Talent and work (sometimes hard) I refer also to one of my favourite Victorian Authors namely Anthony Trollope who wrote about sixty(!) books in his lifetime on a strict schedule. Getting up at 7 and writing till 10 in the morning. Every day of the week. ------ I do not like the habit of bringing out All the material of an artist (even Mr. Dylan) where all the snippets that found their way on the studio floor are gathered and brought out on a CD. There is a GOOD reason why these snippets were not used and found their way to the studio floor. On the other hand: I do not think that Dylan himself had a hand in this.

[@CalicoSilver]

I love a lot of those Tin Pan Alley songs too. But I am more of a singer-songwriter kinda guy, I guess. A singer singing songs that he/she wrote themselves is a more attractive option for me. But it doesn't really matter. I basically agree with you on the "out-takes and demos" kind of thing too. In the great majority of cases, there were clear reasons for why such material was "taken out", haha! As for Dylan having a hand in any of these releases....well, he certainly has NO say any longer on any use of his music, period, since he sold it all. It'll be showing up in TV commercials and attached to product ads and who knows what now.

[@kevinjoseph517]

lets hear your music..please

[@CalicoSilver]

Kevin, I have a "My Music" playlist on my channel which features my music, if you are interested. It is at kzbin.info/aero/PLkpK7p9D-ZGNTWI90Mox1mR6J3wxjnrNI