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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross)
Newsgroups: net.music.folk,net.music
Subject: Re: One Last Note about _Puff_
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 10:58:08 EST
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Summary: 

In article <4723@hlexa.UUCP> dsg@hlexa.UUCP (David S. Green) writes:
>
>When Dylan ( who may or may not have taken his name from some poet . . . )
>left Columbia Records in the mid to late seventies, Columbia released
>an album entitled "Dylan" ( if memory serves me well ) which is without
>a doubt the absolute worst album with Bobby's name on the cover.
>Included were some classics like "The Boxer" and "Can't Help
>Falling In Love".  

	Hmmm. This is sorta strange. At first I disagreed that "Dylan" was
his absolute worst album (that honor definitely goes to "Saved", followed
closely by "Hard Rain", and then maybe by "Self Portrait"). But then I see
you cite The Boxer as an example of the album's horrificitude. Yes, The Boxer
was horrific, but it appeared on "Self Portrait", not "Dylan". Actually, the
story is this:

	In the early 70's, Dylan switched record labels, leaving Columbia
for David Geffin's Asylum Records. Columbia was not happy about the switch,
and by way of trying to "persuade" Bobby into staying, they threatened him
with the release of an album of out-takes from "Self Portrait". The tracks
that *did* make it onto SP were pretty bad to begin with, so I believe I
am justified in calling the proposed release of the outtakes a "threat".
Anyway, Dylan switched record companies anyway, and Columbia released the 
album.

	As it turns out, I think the album is better that 90% of Self
Portrait (except "It Hurts Me Too" with Happy Traum - great, but not worth
the price of a double album).


>		    Dylan singing Puff might have been preferable
>to his doing an overdub of himself on "The Boxer".

   AMEN
   
>  Note that the
>album was released against Dylan's better judgement, but Columbia
>had a contract.
>David S. Green  ..mhuxi!dsg   ..hlexa!dsg  etc.
>PS Anyone know the real words to "You Aint Goin No Where" ?

Which "real" ones? I know several versions, which one is most real?


			-MKR