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The Plugz Rehearsals (Fixed LB-5309)
Rehearsals for "Late Night with David Letterman"
Dylan's Garage Studio
Malibu, California
March 1984

Lineage: BT > HD=LB-5309 > Disc order corrected, Tracks 8-11 (the Jokerman takes) on Disc 2 re-located to end of same disc (see notes), Wav Repair 4.9.2. manual fixing of index clicks/micro gaps between tracks, patched D2T7 and included as alternate flac, No ASM > Flac frontend level 8, verify, sector align > Dime Jan 2008.


Disc 1 [1:10:07]

01. Jokerman
02. Jokerman
03. Jokerman
04. Don't Start Me To Talkin' (Sonny Boy Williamson II) (Instrumental take)
05. Don't Start Me To Talkin' (Inst.)
06. Don't Start Me To Talkin' (Inst.)
07. Don't Start Me To Talkin' (Inst.)
08. Don't Start Me To Talkin' (Inst.) > Just One Look (Gregory Carroll/Doris Payne) (riff)*
09. Just One Look (Inst.)
10. Back In My Arms Again (Holland-Dozier-Holland)*
11. Instrumental 1 (often listed as Johnny Too Bad (Bexford/Baily/Winston/Crooks)*
12. ? > Tomorrow Is A Long Time ?*
13. ? (Bob on vocals)//
14. Instrumental 2
15. Song Talk** > My Guy (Smokey Robinson) Inst. > Clydie King vocals at 4:33 > Instr. cont.
16. Who Loves You More* (3 sec dropout at 2:30)
17. Johnny Too Bad or as often listed as Lonely Dreamer*
18. Johnny Too Bad or as often listed as Lonely Dreamer*


Disc 2 [1:07:12]

01 Riff Song (Bob sings La-la-la) > Bob talks about the "Shot Of Love" album >
02 Saved
03 Talking > Saved (Clydie King short take)
04 We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me) (Dick Robertson/Nick Cogane/Sammy Myalls) (Hummed)
05 We Three (Bob vocals, acoustic + bass)
06 We Three (Bob vocals, acoustic + bass) > cops in drive-in
07 // Wearin’ Out Your Walkin’ Shoes (Hank Williams)
08 Lost On The River (Hank Williams)
09 Lost On The River
10 Lost On The River
11 Lost On The River (Clydie King backing vocals)
12 Jokerman-like riff fragment take at 0:32 > Talking > We Three x2 > Wearin’ Out Your Walkin’ Shoes (A Capella) at 9:30 *** > Conversation about next rehearsal//
13 Resumed conversation about next rehearsal > Jokerman (fast and slow takes)
14 Jokerman (fast and slow takes incl. vocals)
15 Jokerman (fast and slow takes incl. vocals)
16 Jokerman (fast and slow takes incl. vocals)



Total running time: [2:17:19]

Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
Justin Poskin (guitar)
Tony Marsico (bass)
Chalo Quintana (drums)
Backup vocal probably by Clydie King


On most songs Dylan’s voice is barely audible.

* Commonly attributed titles. Chris Cooper has suggested Shake, Baby I Do and Mary Lou.

** Talk about songlist including Johnny Too Bad, Back In My Arms Again and Riff song.

*** Bob sings a fragment of "Wearin’ Out Your Walkin’ Shoes" A Capella at 9:30 min misnaming the song as "A Woman Will Give You The Blues". During the conversation that follows, a band member says it's Tuesday and Bob replies they can meet again on Friday then Thursday. On Thursday 22nd March, Bob and the band were in NY for the Letterman show. The closest guess would be that this segment (Jokerman takes) is from Tuesday 13th March 1984 or possibly the earlier Tuesday 6th March. Bjorner lists this session as the 21st, one day before their TV appearance in NY.



Notes to Bob Dylan - The Plugz Rehearsal Fixed LB-5309 version:

This is the same source as LB-5309 with cleaned index clicks/micro gaps between tracks and improved text file. LB-5309 was torrented with inverted discs, corrected here in accordance with commonly traded discs and session recording information available.
Any reference to track numbers hereunder relates to corrected disc order.

This version has less hiss, and plays at significantly lower volume than a second trade copy.
Both copies contain the same song list consisting of a series of starts/stops in terms of both performances and taping machine, so it's occasionally difficult to compare material. This version is longer at a total running time of 2:17:19. The other copy runs 2:08:21. This version possibly contains some extra tunings between songs. It's also possible, that this version has identical content but runs slow (hence the longer running time), while the second copy runs at normal or fast speed in comparison. A difference in running speed is noticeable when comparing, for example, the patched "Wearin’ Out Your Walkin’ Shoes" (see next note) and the Jokerman takes on Disc 2.

The Jokerman takes on Disc two of LB-5309, should be actually located at the end of the disc. To prove this: the conversation about a next rehearsal occurs as follows on LB-5309:
At beginning the Jokerman takes (track 8) is found the SECOND half of conversation while,
At the end of last (track 16) is found the FIRST half of the conversation.
Re-locating these takes (Tracks 8-11 on the LB version) to the end of the disc, creates a seamless conversation (with a bit of analog overlap). This error might have occurred during analog tape-to-cdr transfer if Side B was transferred before side A. These takes are not continuous with the preceding "session", so track transition remains unaffected. These takes are in fact, also found at the end of Disc Two on the second copy.

LB-5309 source (and various pre LB-5309 trades) have Disc 2 Track 7 "Wearin’ Out Your Walkin’ Shoes" cropped at the start with volume/speed fluctuations. The second copy used as comparison, has an additional two minutes to the beginning of the song. An extra folder to Disc 1 and 2, has an alternate flac, with the missing first two minutes patched from the second copy by simple copy/paste .