Dylan fans: I just bought "Eat the Document" bootleg DVD...ask me anything

[RandomKoolzip]

By the way, yes, it's fucking awesome. The extras include an extra long, exrtra-EXTRA stoned/drunk conversation with Bob and John Lennon in the back of a car....incredible.

[jpgray]

1. Bob Dylan helped introduce the Beatles to pot

He thought that the "I get high" on "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was pot-related, so he rolled a joint, handed it to Ringo, who smoked the whole thing like a cigarette. :D

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Right.

And then "Having a laugh" became their slang for getting stoned, because they laughed so hard.

"Eat the Document" was a legendary, elusive, rumored lost film from the 66 tour, directed by Pennebacker...for YEARS I've been trying to find anyone ANYBODY who had a copy, no matter how bad the quality. This DVD seems to be retouched and fixed in many ways; it looks and sounds great, esp. for a bootleg.

[jpgray]

3. Cool

Was that the same tour that had all the braindead folkies yelling 'Judas' at him? I think I have a '66 Dylan CD where he yells 'play fucking loud' in response.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. Ah, the fabled Royal Albert Hall concert!

I've been trying to locate every tape/rec of every show from this tour (It's inarguably Dylan's best work, and possibly the Band's, too) and the Royal Albert HAll show is Dylan's peak as a performer....

"JUDAS!"

quiet applause

"I don't believe you."

loud applause

"You're a LIAR."

to band: "play fucking loud....."

CRASH!

[bloodyjack]

5. I found a copy on the internet!

on a p2p network, that is.

ain't filesharing grand/

[Swamp Rat]

6. Double cool! Dylan AND Lennon!

Where can I find this DVD?

[RandomKoolzip]

10. Look real hard...

I found it a at an indie record store here in Chicago. They also had a DVD bootleg of the notorious Newport 65 performance where Dylan went 'Electric" for the first time and got booed off the stage (That's next on the list of "things to buy....")

In fact, there are many audience interviews in "Eat the Document," most of them negative. It's amazing that people just weren't ready for this music in 1966.

[Radical Activist]

7. Is there music on it too?

Is it good? What year? Sounds interesting but I'm wondering.

[RandomKoolzip]

8. It's a documentary/art film of the 1966 European Tour....

of Dylan and the Hawks. Yeas, it's got some music; three never-released songs played on acoustic in a hotel room with Robbie Robertson (all incomplete fragments) and a few incomplete fragments of full band tunes ("Like a Rolling Stone," "Baby Let Me Follow You Down," "I Don't Believe You," etc.) In the extras section, there's a full performance of "Ballad of a Thin Man" that's VICIOUS.

It's a bootleg, so do some scouring at indie record stores and you might find it.

[commander bunnypants]

9. saw him to evenings ago with Willie

guy can put on a rockin show

DDQM

[RandomKoolzip]

11. I've heard a few recent bootlegs....

and am SLIGHTLY more impressed than I was with his shows during the eighties and nineties (really bad era for Bob)...he seems to have gotten over his infatuation with mumbling.