bob_dylan silentbob i was telling the girls at work how my dad was in town for the bob dylan concert and this asian man spoke to me in broken english "Escuse me, Bob Dyyan is in this ceety!?" "Yeah, hes playing at the carver-haweye arena, tonight at 8" "For free?" "No, tickets are like thirty dollars" "Where would i get them?" "The memorial union" "Ok, thanks" "You better hurry." 041030 ... guitar_freak "But if you got to go, It's all right. But if you got to go, go now, Or else you gotta stay all night." -If You Gotta Go, Go Now- Bob_Dylan Every night he plays this song as I decide whether to leave or climb into bed. It's something comforting and ritualistic that I can rely on in the awkwardness of our new relationship 050424 ... raze always meant to grab that box set of bobby's first eight studio albums in mono, but it was a little too pricey for me. yesterday i found it used for fifty bucks, and i couldn't say no. hearing this music in mono, the way it was meant to be heard, is almost like hearing it for the first time, or at least with new ears. back then, recording engineers would spend days carefully crafting a mono mix, and a few hours after that throwing together a stereo mix, almost as an afterthought. instruments in the left channel, vocals in the right, nothing in the middle. stereo was a novelty with a dead core. not yet an art. the art lived in that single-channel sound. all those 60s albums have so much more punch and body and sonic depth to them now. you wouldn't know it from the stereo mix of "blonde on blonde', but the thin, wild mercury sound had some real teeth. and you wouldn't expect to hear more definition between sounds when everything lives in the same spatial range, but you really do. fifty bucks well spent. 140308 ... one student of life. The Master. 140308 what's it to you? who go blather from