The Plugz Rehearsals (Alternate copy)
Rehearsals for "Late Night With David Letterman"
Dylan's Garage Studio
Malibu, California
March 1984
Lineage: Unknown transfers > Trade cdrs > EAC > Wav Repair 4.9.2., manual fixing of index/clicks, No ASM > Flac frontend lvl 8, verify, sector align > Dime Jan 2008.
DISC 1 [57:03]
01 Jokerman (Instr.)
02 Jokerman (Instr.)
03 Jokerman (Instr.)
04 Don't Start Me To Talkin' (Sonny Boy Williamson II) (Instr. takes)
05 Just One Look ? (Instr.)*
06 Back In My Arms Again ? (Bob on vocals)*
07 Instrumental 1 (Bob very distant often listed as Johnny Too Bad(Bexford/Baily/Winston/Crooks)*
08 ? + Tomorrow Is A Long Time ? + ? (Bob on vocals)//*
09 Instrumental 2
10 Song Talk** > My Guy (Smokey Robinson) Instr. > Clydie King vocals at 4:20 > Inst. cont > Who Loves You More ?* (3 sec dropout at 9:07) > Johnny Too Bad* or as often listed, Lonely Dreamer*
DISC 2 [1:11:18]
01 Saved
02 Riff Song (Bob singing La-la-la) > Bob talks about the "Shot Of Love" album
03 Saved
04 We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me)(Dick Robertson/Nick Cogane/Sammy Myalls)>cops in drive-in
05 Wearin’ Out Your Walkin’ Shoes (Hank Williams)
06 Lost On The River (Hank Williams) + Jokerman-like riff at 13:14 > Talk
07 We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me)
08 We Three > Wearin’ Out Your Walkin’ Shoes (A Capella at 0:48 sec)*** > Conversation about next rehearsal (dropout after Bob says "...possibly" then resumes)
09 Jokerman (fast and slow takes incl. vocals)
Total running time: [2:08:21]
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 at 00:26 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 48 sec misnaming the song as "A Woman Will Give You The Blues". During the conversation that follows, a band member says 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 the TV apprearance in NY.
Notes to Bob Dylan - The Plugz Rehearsals "Alternate copy":
This is a different "copy" of the Plugz rehearsals from LB-5309. 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 runs 2:08:21, while LB-5309 runs longer at 2:17:19. This version possibly contains less tunings between songs. It's also possible this difference in running time is due to LB-5309 source runnning slow (thus longer), while this copy runs at normal or fast speed in comparison. A difference in running speed is noticable when comparing, for example, the Jokerman takes on Disc 2 Track 9.
This version has higher hiss and plays at significantly higher volume.
This copy has an additional two minutes to "Wearin out your walkin shoes" at the start. The song is cropped at the start on LB-5309 source/s.