BOB DYLAN and NEIL YOUNG ? AN ALBUM COVER and RECORD LABEL PRINTER

Christine here!  Taking my dog for a long walk one very early morning, we found the doors of a business wide open.  Inside were machines.  Strange looking machines.   Couldn't figure them out, unless maybe Dr. Suess had done some manufacturing here!

There were some people around and so my friendly dog went in nose first and I followed.  We spoke to a man named Bruce.  He explained that Impressions LA Printing Services and Dorado Music Publishing over at Burbank Boulevard in NoHo were in the business of printing album covers, the innards of the covers, and the center labels.  We're talking for VINYL records here.

Those machines - one from the late 1950's, another from the mid 1970's - others a history of album cover and record label printing! I felt like a secret shopper when Bruce told me that they'd received recent orders from Bob Dylan and Neil Young.  See people are buying Dylan and Young record albums in vinyl even when the same music is available in CD.  (As you may know from Neil's memoir which I covered here a while back, Neil is involved in getting better quality sound recording onto those CD.s)  The records that were recorded originally and pressed on vinyl are being ordered in and for that, an artist needs more album covers printed too.  Bruce said Neil reminded them that he wanted his covers to look as old as the originals do today.  A small run is about 1000.

I'm posting this because they were friendly people and because they give TOURS TO THE SCHOOL CHILDREN.  So while we don't do advertising on this Google Blogger, we thought you might want to give them a call about the little tour.  When I was there those strange machines weren't running.  I hope to go back someday when they are!

Their number is 818-761-9295

BOB DYLAN : NO DIRECTION HOME : A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE

Circa 2005, Apple presents a Martin Scorsese Picture- 2 CD set. 
Lots of Joan Baez and Maria Muldaur interviews on Bob. Especially early Bob in New York. Have you seen it?

(465) JOAN BAEZ : SHE OWNED THE LABEL PROTEST SINGER

BBC - Joan invading Britain.  When Less is More.  Simply beautiful voice, and a strong connection to  the Americanfolk and country music. 

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan worked together and were involved very early on.  She says she introduced him to audiences and he moved on and didn't look back of return the favor.  Yet they both stayed true to themselves.

JOAN BAEZ OFFICIAL!  There's an excellent biography here that explains the social causes Joan has backed through many years, a discography, and so much else.

(464) BOB DYLAN OFFICIALLY GENIUS

BOB DYLAN OFFICIAL SITE   Still touring, but you knew that!

Probably the most prolific songwriter of the 21st century, Bob Dylan is officially a genius - a creative genius.  Many of his songs stand as poetry without the music.  He's literary.

I remember sitting around with a group of songwriters talking about Bob.  The question was "How does he do it?" The answer seemed to be that Bob used newspapers - stories and headlines - as inspiration.  He was living many lives vicariously through the news.

Bob seemed to be cagey - sometimes inarticulate - on some interviews.  He would protest being a protest singer. He would put on people he thought were putting him on.  He didn't want to be stereotyped in terms of what sort of music he was writing and singing and was annoyed to be portrayed as a "jingle jangle man."  He was not so mellow.  And private; you heard very little about the true loves of his, had no idea.

Maybe he just didn't want to close any doors on what he would write about or which direction he would go.  Still today there is understood to be a Bob Dylan sound, and it has a lot to do with his distinctive voice, which is not the best voice in the music business.  No three octave range or high notes for Bob but some artists with that range have covered his songs and made them their own.

One of the most successful songwriters financially, he made millions early and could have retired and been OK, say after his motorcycle accident.  He went off somewhere and disappeared.  Ex-Beatle George Harrison pulled him out of a funk to be on stage in his Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, and they were lifelong friends who respected each other and recorded and played together in The Traveling Willburys.

FOLK SINGER BOB DYLAN INVADES BRITAIN AND GOES ELECTRIC

Bob Dylan went to England as an established "American Folk Singer" and went Electric and fans protested. Bob was protesting being called a "Protest Singer."

WHAT DID ELVIS HAVE TO DO WITH BOB DYLAN? Quote

"When I first heard Elvis' voice I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody; and nobody was going to be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail." - Bob Dylan

MR TAMBOURINE MAN WRITTEN BY SINGER-SONGWRITER BOB DYLAN : CLASSIC COVER TUNE

 : THE BYRDS REMASTERED

THE SONGWRITER BOB DYLAN : AT ALBERT HALL 

 or maybe
JUDY COLLINS:

(459) THE BYRDS GIVE THE BEATLES A RUN FOR THE CHARTS

THE BYRDS OFFICIAL SITE  link here for their story their way!
David Crosby
Chris Hillman
Roger McGuinn
Gene Clark

Michael Clarke  (The Byrds official site has links for each of these musicians individually as well!)

ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME BYRDS PAGE link here!

The Byrds were predicted to give the Beatles a real run for the charts.  I remember talking to Elmer Bernstein and Bob Dylan about the Byrds one night on the Sunset Strip. Elmer was really excited about them. "They're better than the Beatles ! he cried out, as one of their songs was broadcast on the radio.

Bob just smiled.  He had placed songs with them and was already recieving money on their recordings of his songs, which were hits for them.  Look at that line up though.  Every name on that list was a unique talent if not creative genius and they all went on to write winning songs and make music with other groups after the Byrds.

"Turn Turn Turn" was written by PETE SEEGER.

THE BYRDS EIGHT MILES HIGH

(454) PETER PAUL AND MARY : FOLK SINGERS CIRCA '66

Peter Yarrow, Noel (Paul) Stookey and Mary Travers = PETER, PAUL and MARY.

By 1966 they were considered to be "Folk singers."

Other singers, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, were also considered Folk singers.

Folk, not Country. Folk not Pop. Folk not Rock and Roll. Linking to their offical site which has a jukebox!

See archived post #239 about their debut or search within this Google Blogger for our Memorial to Mary .

PETER PAUL AND MARY OFFICIAL SITE  link here!  Check the JUKEBOX!

(215) NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME

This link takes you to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame honors list.

http://www.nndb.com/honors/545/000129158/

Among the honorees mentioned in this blog are Ernest Tubb, Marty Robbins, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, Mac Davies, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, and Gene Autry.

Use the Google search feature above to read what we have to say about these talented people and the music!

BOB DYLAN Quote on ELVIS PRESLEY

"When I first heard Elvis' voice I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody; and nobody was going to be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail." - Bob Dylan