A shaky bootleg of the ABC commissioned, Dylan edited version, not the long rumoured Pennebaker cut (from which extensive footage was used in Scorsese’s No Direction Home). Entertaining, informative, occasionally hilarious, Dylan attempts to show through editing the sheer random insanity of life on tour. The crowds boo and cheer in equal measure, celebrities pop up for one line then vanish, songs stop abruptly half way through then just as abruptly pick up again. It’s the green room footage that appeals most- Dylan and Robbie Robertson running through new songs and covers, prefiguring the simplicity and homeliness of the forthcoming Basement Tapes material, incongruous amid the speed- fuelled, wild mercury chaos of the ongoing tour.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: Bootleg DVD
26 Apr 2006 10:40 AM | Submit Comment