avecigrec
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This might be my most favoritest video ever:
Also, heck yes new Andy Shauf just before my birthday!!
This might be my most favoritest video ever:
I found a rabbit hole of laserdisc archives that includes some music videos, such as:
have you heard the de la mix?Classic.
In the late 70's Bob Dylan began his struggles with evangelical Christianity and he released a string of poorly received albums after his conversion. 1983's Infidels is regarded as his return to secular music, though a close listen to the lyrics still reveals some fairly misguided politics here and there. Best to gloss over those, taken as a whole, Infidels is reasonably decent mid-career Dylan, though it really loses steam on the second side.
In workshopping this album, Dylan called on a wide range of musicians to play with him in his Malibu home. While he eventually entrusted much of this project to Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler, he also jammed out with several members of 1st wave Chicano punk band the Plugz. Promoting this album in 1984, he appeared on David Letterman bringing on drummer Charlie Quintana and bassist Tony Marsico (without frontman Tito Larriva) as his backing band. They played 3 songs including alternate versions of Jokerman and License to Kill from the Infidels album. It's a rousing performance that I much prefer to the somewhat staid approach he laid down on wax. Legend has it he came very close to using the Plugz as his backing band for Infidels, though I was not able to find much specific information online about this.
Daniel Romano is a musician and performance artist from Canada. During peak pandemic in 2020, he took the sound from that 1984 Letterman performance and expanded it to the entire Infidels album. Successfully channeling both Dylan and the Plugz, he does an incredibly admirable job envisioning what Infidels COULD HAVE been if Dylan had decided to go with the Plugz as his backing band in the studio. The result really cooks, this would have been a pretty radical move for Dylan at that point in his career and in my biased view, the absolutely correct one.
The Daniel Romano album, which reuses the cover of the Plugz debut Electrify Me with the faces blanked out, seems to originally have been available on Bandcamp and on streaming platforms. He must have gotten cease and desisted super hard or something as I don't see it anywhere now, though I did manage to dig up the files. YouTube says it's copyrighted but the owner allows it to be used, which is a fairly common copyright result in my uploads. To the best of my knowledge this was never released in physical form and is not available to listen to anywhere else. ENJOY!
RIP Gary Floyd