Forty years before he took to the satellite beams, Bob Dylan spent a night behind the mic on the Pacifica-run independent station WBAI in NY. For a few hours in the middle of a lonely January night, Dylan traded wits with host Bob Nass, the freeform radio legend behind the multi-decade NYC institution Radio Unnameable.
Dylan & Fass fielded late-night calls from anyone who cared to call in, ranging everywhere from a girl looking for a TV dinner date to New Jersey bookseller making a "business" inquiry into Dylan's then-promised publication, to a guy on a psychedelic trip looking for suggestions.
The bootleg label Vigotone released this as the first CD in their Jewels and Binoculars box set, probably one of the most massive box sets in American music history. It's a 26 CD deep collection that documents Dylan's entire recorded year of 1966, including his U.S. & European tour with The Band, studio outtakes and hotel room demos.
Stay tuned to Hendo in the upcoming weeks for more from the box.
Bob Dylan - January 26 - WBAI-FM Studios, NY Part One
1 comment:
That is pretty weird man. Was that a planned visit? You'd think that if they announced that Dylan was gonna be there beforehand, the questions wouldnt be as insane. This shit is funny though. I cant wait to hear more of that box. thanks man.
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