TOP ARCHIVE MINT SHRINK STICKER BOB DYLAN + THE BAND PLANET WAVES
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ORIGINAL 1973 FIRST PRESS TOP COPY IN FACTORY CELLOPHANE + DYLAN STICKER
PLANET WAVES
BOB DYLAN
\ USA - Asylum Records - 7E 1003
BEAUTIFUL ARCHIVE = MINT = FINAL COLLECTION COPY
STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY CELLOPHANE
+ "DYLAN" transparent sticker on outer cellophane...
Original 1973 first pressing with "THE BAND" backing...
This is the very first issue with GOLD back cover!
PLANET WAVES is an important album in Dylan's career. Though Dylan's last studio album at the time was NEW MORNING, Dylan had not recorded a full album's worth of original material since 1970, the longest interval at that time that Dylan had gone between albums.
Dylan wanted to tour behind some new material, which became the "Planet Waves Tour". As he would be touring with THE BAND, he also decided to record a new album with The Band as his studio band. This was a major event in its own right. For one, though his 1966 live music with The Band was legendary, and together they had recorded the famous Basement Tapes songs (several of which were huge hits for other artists and remain today among Dylan's most famous work), in 1974 the only officially released music that featured Dylan backed by the band was an obscure 1966 single that had a live version of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues". Naturally, The Band had been with Dylan for a good portion of his most famous music, and easily his most famous tour, and people were expecting a rather remarkable album from this legendary pairing. And do they deliver? The songs are loose and funky, but for such a famous pairing, especially as this is the first full album Dylan and The Band ever commercially released. Rather than returning to the electric sound of the mid 1960s, or the wild, exhilarating music of Big Pink's basement, Dylan instead laid down songs that are largely explorations of domestic life. Dylan, just like the basement sessions, runs the show here. The album does not play like a Band record from that period, who were steeped in Americana, but rather follows Dylan's artistic progression up to that point.
From 1969 to 1974, Dylan changed directions musically and lyrically from where he was at in the 1960s. Dylan entered into his domestic period with NASHVILLE SKYLINE, playing music with a laid-back country-rock vibe largely concerned with family life, with this period culminating in the majestic BLOOD ON THE TRACKS in 1975. The albums from this period are individual snapshots of his home life, or matters closely concerned with the plain, everyday living, as opposed to the high poetic output of his earlier LPs.
PLANET WAVES is a natural building block in that road. What is important about PLANET WAVES is there is an underlying tension throughout the entire album, where Dylan is torn both artistically and in his home life.
Unlike NEW MORNING, where he seemed positively happy with his home life (which was probably just an illusion, trying to convince himself he was happy), PLANET WAVES shows the edges fraying. Dylan's no longer quite so sure he has really found happiness, but is willing to fight for it. He has the almost hymn like ode to his children (two takes of "Forever Young", the first being the most famous). But his love life, however, indicates there's trouble in Paradise, though he ends the album with a love song to his wife, "The Wedding Song."
"The Wedding Song" is the most important song on the album, and squarely shows you where Dylan's head was at during the 1969-1974 period of his career. He says it was never his intention or duty to remake the world at large, but to live a simple life and to live blessed with his wife and family. But he knows his domestic situation is unstable and fragile, and can easily far apart if not handled very carefully. "The Wedding Song" is as much Dylan convincing himself that his wife is an extremely integral part of his life and they must not part as it is a love song, and you can feel that tension of Dylan trying to maintain his family life under such intense fame and scrutiny.
PLANET WAVES signals the beginning of the end of his domestic period. Even though Dylan was trying to convince himself he needed Sara, and she was his other half, the marriage was on the rocks, and it probably didn't help he was going on tour with The Band, as rock tours are notoriously wild. Dylan's domestic period would ultimately end with BLOOD, and never again would he so openly extol and seek out a normal family life as he did in the 1969-1975 period. While not necessarily Dylan's greatest music, for those wanting to learn more about BLOOD, listen to the 1969-1974 batch of records.
Just like so much of Dylan's career output, while his records are fascinating listens in themselves, they're easier to understand when you know them in the context of his life and artistic direction at the time. PW, in this particular era of Dylan, plays like the last chapter before the climax arrives in a novel. The themes, the pain, the desperate search for resolution and peace so evident in BLOOD are all foreshadowed here on this album. While not necessarily Dylan's greatest music, for those wanting to learn more about BLOOD, listen to the 1969-1974 batch of records
Ultimately, PLANET WAVES is more interesting in context of Dylan's life and career and how he was on the road that led him to his divorce masterpiece BLOOD, than for music itself. For the average Dylan fan, there will be some good music & even great songs.
Bottom line: fascinating in terms of his artistic evolution.
On A Night Like This 2:57
Going, Going, Gone 3:25
Tough Mama 4:17
Hazel 2:52
Something There Is About You 4:46
Forever Young 5:00
Forever Young (pt II) 2:51
Dirge 5:40
You Angel You 2:51
Never Say Goodbye 2:55
Wedding Song 4:50
CONDITION: The cover: rated: MINT! in factory cellophane with DYLAN sticker ...sharp TOP COPY with fresh original colors, no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... collection worthy rarity ...
The vinyl: Clean and glossy over both sides, rated M- TOP COPY expect very enjoyable CLEAN audio...NO distracting surface problems ... both Asylum labels are clean (!)
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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