gosh an e-mail from the brit pos that I find interesting (and can be
understood)
when I was long ago an architect I found many of them wrote obscurely to
keep out the proles
could this ever be levelled at Brit Pos?????????
I would like to have Dylan on a 78 on better a cylinder-------wow
thanks for info on Dylan ----------prob gives my age away
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Halsey <[log in to unmask]>
To: Douglas Clark <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: British-poets <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: limen
> In message <[log in to unmask]>, Douglas Clark
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >
> >Ruth Padel was also on the reviewing panel on Radio 3 last week
> >for Dylan's Wembley concert. She seemed quite shocked at the damage
> >he is inflicting on his songs nowadays to escape the trap of recreating
> >his vinyl. I sympathise with her cos the two live tracks from 2000
> >accompanying 'Best of Bob Dylan Volume 2' seem atrocious to me.
> >But Sarah Brains Dunant was quite ecstatitic about the performance
> >in LOndon so I dont know.
> >
> Well he put on a good show in Sheffield. It seems strange to me that
> people get upset that his live performances don't attempt to reproduce
> the 'original' recorded sound - on the face of it there's no reason to
> privilege one version over another. Of course the _recordings_ of live
> performances are often worse than studio ones but that's a different
> matter. Dylan has obviously become increasingly preoccupied with the
> _liveness_ of performance itself & the possibilities of variation in his
> own work & the song tradition he draws on. As far as the performance
> aspect is concerned the same applies as to all performance, it belongs
> to the moment.
>
> I've often thought that the recordings of the older blues singers are
> misleading in that we usually have only one or two versions & those
> versions are clearly channelled into the 78 format & yet we talk of say
> Johnson's Hellhound as if it were the one & only. He must have sung it
> hundreds of times & I bet with many a variation. Johnson live must have
> been pretty wild. There were some transcribed accounts by Sun House &
> others in (I think) Alcheringa years ago.
>
> All this with some relevance to textual variants in poetry, live &
> studio readings, etc.
>
> Best, A
>
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