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As Good As It Gets-The Ultimate Emmet Grogan Acetates
DIYE 64/65
Copy-No: 391


For detailed information:

http://bobsboots.com/CDs/cd-a37.html

Unfortunately, this 'detailed' information has the same mistakes that were made on the cover:
For disc1, 17 tracks are listed -- on my disc I found 18, and they are different towards the end.
Track16 is not 'Hero Blues', but 'Tombstone Blues', tr.17 is an additional 'From A Buick 6', and tr18 is Positively 4th Street.
In the linernotes, you can read about "the first ten songs" being "recorded on June 9, 1964" which is obvious nonsense, because tr. 8 is the live version ("...he's yours!") from Newport Folkfestival (7-26-64) and 'California' dates back to August 12, 1963. As for the others, they were at least played at that date.
About tr11-15: "...they were recorded August or October 63 w/ Bob Dylan on piano". According to Heylin, 'Hero Blues' was (re-)recorded on August 12, 'East Laredo Blues', 'That's Allright Mama', and 'Sally Free And Easy' were played on October 23. Olof confirms the latter.'Hero Blues' was recorded on several different dates from May 63 onwards (8-12 is most probably correct).
Tr16-18 see below.



disc 1:
1 I Don't Believe You
2 Chimes Of Freedom
3 Motorpsycho Nitemare
4 Mr. Tambourine Man w/Ramblin' Jack Elliot
5 All I Really Want To Do
6 Black Crow Blues
7 I Shall be Free No.10
8 All I Really Want To Do
9 Denise
10 California (early version of 'Outlaw Blues')
11 Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag Pt I
12 East Laredo Blues (instr.)
13 That's Allright Mama > Sally Free And Easy (fragment)
14 Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag Pt II
15 Hero Blues
16 Tombstone (Tombstone Blues)
17 Lunatic Princess (From A Buick 6)
18 Positively 4th Street


disc 2:
1 Queen Jane Approximately
2 Black Dalli Rue
3 Desolation Row
4 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
5 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
6 Highway 61 Revisited
7 Tombstone Blues
8 From A Buick 6
9 Can You Please Crawl Out Of Your Window
10 Queen Jane Approximately
11 Ballad Of A Thin Man
12 Positively 4th Street


And onwards with disc 2: We find 14 tracks listed on the cover, but on the disc are 12.
The first two, 'Tombstone' (CO 86838) and 'Lunatic Princess' (CO 86843), later to be called 'From A Buick 6', are apparently added to disc1 as track 16 and 17. So d2 starts with 'Queen Jane' (CO 86848), 8-2-1965. Tr2 is listed as 'Black Dally Rue' (CO 86840), which is "the working title" for what should become 'Positively 4th Street', recorded 6-29-65. Dylanbase (http://www.dylanbase.com/specificinfo.asp?albumID=288) states, that this is a cut of same version as d1tr18. But whereas d1tr18 is a crystal clear (and somewhat boosted) stereo, d2tr2 is a rather 'authentic' mono recording. To my ears, the voice-track is the same, but it's hard to decide for the instruments...

"The following 5 tracks were recorded on a mono reel 1A called 'Job' ".
Tr3, 'Desolation Row' is dated Aug.4, 1965, CO 86937.
Tr4, 'Tom Thumb's Blues' same date, CO 86847.
Tr5 'It Takes A lot To Love, It Takes A Train To Cry', 6-29-65, CO 86839
Tr6 'Highway 61', 8-2-1965, CO 86838
Tr7 'Tombstone Blues' 6-29-1965, CO 86838

"The following 5 tracks are from the backside of 'Job' (reel1B)
Tr8 'From A Buick 6', undated, must be 7-30-1965, CO 86843
Tr9 'Can You Please Crawl Out Of Your Window', 7-30-1965, CO 86844 "..version mistakenly released on a 7 inch single as 'Positively 4th Street'. If this correct, it is take21, single was released in September 65 as Columbia 4-43389; the song was labelled as 'Look At Barry Run' on recording sheet.
Tr10 'Queen Jane', 8-2-1965, different take than tr1, CO 86848.
Tr11 'Ballad Of A Thin Man' 8-2-1965, CO 86849
Tr12 'Positively 4th Street', 7-29-1965, CO 86840 (third different version)