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This ungainly sprawl suits the Rolling Thunder Revue, which was meant not as a mere evening of entertainment but rather an immersive theatrical experience. Containing Dylan’s sets from the five professionally recorded Rolling Thunder concerts, along with three discs of rehearsals and a disc of oddities taken from the tour, the box assumes a high level of interest from the listener: A set that runs for ten and a half hours is not for dabblers. 5 is easier to digest than The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings, a 14-CD box released to accompany the Scorsese film. A second leg followed in 1976, but by all accounts Dylan was ornery and withdrawn-a contention supported by Hard Rain, a ’76 live set that was the only official document of Rolling Thunder until selections from the 1975 shows were compiled, in 2002, as the fifth volume of Dylan’s ongoing Bootleg Series.Ĭertainly, The Bootleg Series, Vol. Much of its mystique lies in the way the superior first incarnation of the tour only lasted about as long as a torrid summer squall.
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Since the waning months of 1975-when Dylan roamed New England with a ragged band of musicians, playing small venues at the drop of a hat-the revue has been the thing of legend among Dylan conoscenti. Other people remember a lot about Rolling Thunder, though. In one of the new interviews for the film, the singer-songwriter claims, “I’m trying to get to the core of what this Rolling Thunder thing is all about, and I don’t have a clue because it’s about nothing! It’s just something that happened 40 years -and that’s the truth of it.” Maybe that’s why Dylan professes ignorance about the inspiration for his roving carnival in Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, a lengthily titled documentary that recently premiered on Netflix. From its conception to its dissolution, it spanned just under a year, not long for a career that’s about to enter its seventh decade. Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue didn’t last long.