I've got blonde on blonde on my portable stereo

what's the best portable stereo that I can walk around with, maybe on my shoulder (and it's not too expensive)?

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dude get some furniture!

i think they call it an "i-pod"

It's a good idea tho.

no no no, I want people to hear the music I'm blasting so it can't use an ipod... an ipod boombox maybe, but hell no do I want to look like this:
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I didn't know people did this anymore. I thought it was like, an 80's thing breakdancers did.

shit man, I didn't know I should only do it when it's popular

Heheh, man, do what ya like! I'm just saying...

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This is a newer version of what I use. Built in speakers are powered by a 10 watt amplifier with 12 AA batteries. It sounds pretty decent, and can definitely be loud enough even with traffic noise. I clip my MP3 player on the shoulder strap for easy access. Great for biking. I suppose you could even put on some sparkly spandex and rollerblades, and load it up with some disco...

Dammit.

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This is a newer version of what I use. Built in speakers are powered by a 10 watt amplifier with 12 AA batteries. It sounds pretty decent, and can definitely be loud enough even with traffic noise. I clip my MP3 player on the shoulder strap for easy access. Great for biking. I suppose you could even put on some sparkly spandex and rollerblades, and load it up with some disco...

trivia: LP jacket photo taken by Jerry Schatzberg, subsequent '70s film auteur

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-dylan-photographer-explain-blurry-blonde-on-blonde-cover-20151027

yeah! he's also the dude pictured on the inner gatefold.
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With some help from Charles Pierce and endless FB posts, I just clued into the fact that Blonde on Blonde and Pet Sounds came out on the same day. I wonder--and seriously doubt--if there were ever two films of similar stature that opened on the same day.

it's still my least favorite and least listened to of his 1964-1970 work. Lots of filler.

i think it's a total masterpiece -- the sound of this record is pretty much my ideal. and dylan's vocals are amazing.
listening to the cutting edge stuff from these sessions is a treat too.
apparently there's some dissent as to whether BoB actually came out today in 66.

We're also coming up or around the anniversary of the Manchester "Royal Albert Hall" concert.

yeah! i've been revisiting some of the 66 european tour tapes. unreal.

Do you think Judas is coming back?

I'd like to know what other albums were released that day...Junior Walker? Buck Owens? Count Five? Bert Kaempfert?

really enjoying Daryl Sanders' new book about BOB recording sessions (That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound). kinda slight at only 200 pages, I'm more than halfway through, and there's a lot of known info in here, but I really like specific and narrowly focused books like this where every hour of an album's recording sessions are documented.

some things I didn't know:
-the cover photo was taken on the coldest day in NYC in 1966. the blurriness wasn't a drug reference or even an aesthetic decision, they were both shivering uncontrollably.
-Dylan lived off of milkshakes, malts, and candy bars alongside the amphetamines. certainly a more pleasing junkie diet than Bowie's a decade later...
-the whole Nashville sessions only lasted 8 days.
-I mistakenly thought two songs - One of Us Must Know and Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat - were preserved from the aborted NYC sessions with the Hawks. just One of Us Must Know.
-Visions of Johanna was allegedly written during a blackout in a blizzard in NYC in late 1965 (hence the working title "Freeze Out," and perhaps even the most famous line, "the ghost of electricity")

besides that, just a deeper appreciation for every player and every instrument on this record, by far my favorite Dylan. reading about the recording of Visions of Johanna and every player and how each and every take went is fascinating to me. I'm hearing things I've never heard before, and there aren't many records I've listened to more than this one. check it out if this sounds like your bag...

Sounds good!

Yeah, thanks for the rec — may get this for my dad for Xmas.