Bob Dylan
Sam Peckinpah's House
Durango, Mexico
November 1972 - January 1973
Close to mono recording (only difference is that left channel has slightly superior level)
One single take (just a brief segment):
01. [0:40.208] Billy
I have compared this 40" fragment from Pekinpah's "houseparty" in Durango with the different Billy takes I have got. The verse as sung on this track is never done like that in any of the studio outtakes.
As I wrote in the PAT & BILLY / BOB & SAM torrent thread, the verse sung on this version goes like this:
"the businessmen (seems to pronounce "peacesmen" or "pacesmen") from TAOS want you to go down
they hired Pat Garrett to force you slow down
...Billy, don't [let 'em make (hardly intelligible)] ya feel so low down
and be shot down by the man who was your friend."
on the various versions of Billy I have heard, when he sang this verse he clearly said "businessmen" and not "peacesmen" as it seems to pronounce here, but for one of them, the one with harmonica before the previous verse "some whores from San Pedro" (take #5 @CBS Discos Studios, Mexico City, January 20, 1973... which is just "Billy 4" on the official album), though in that one he says "so they've hired Mr. Garrett to force you to slow down" and then clearly "Billy don't let 'em make you feel so low down" and "to be haunted by the men who was your friend". Also most versions including these lines have the same lyrics as these of take #5, different than the track in this torrent. There are 2 alternate Billy's, one
from the DV laser disc, and another alt version of that one, in which Bob sang "they've hired Pat Garrett", instead of "Mr. Garrett" and seems to pronounce something like "pacesmen" (not peacesmen), but then he clearly said "Billy, don't let 'em make you feel so low down to be haunted by the man who was your friend" where it was "haunted" instead of "shot down"...... and it's quite obvious that the arrangement and the lyrics on this track we are sharing here were still just sketches of the future song.
The date is also fairly imprecise. It's labeled as November 1972 on the file I received. Listed as December 1972 - January 1973 at Olof's site, which is most likely comming from Clinton Heylin data.
As for the recording source, it seems after Olof Bjorner's info that it was a 3 minutes take, but what we have got it's just a 40" fragment. I asked about to the owner of this copy, but the answer was "No, that's all that I ever had from that version... :-("
Below is, as accurate as possible, a faithful translation of the note I got from my good buddy Michpom, who sent the flac file to me (thanks a lot for sharing!):
Luisbp51 (Hungercity September 16, 2011)
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MICHPOM TEXT
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Find on attachment what I have had for years as 'Billy-Sam Pekinpah's House, Nov 1972'
As you will hear this is not what is on PAT & BILLY / BOB & SAM (4) Sam Peckinpah's house (Durango, Mexico); November 1972.
No problem to share 'my' Billy with everybody else who might want it, you can even upload it to HC;
It was extracted from the CD-R with Easy CD-DA Extractor.
The only one thing I did then was to pitch it down a little bit with Magic Easy Cleaning.
Lineage: I had it for years...
?>open reel>DAT>CD-R>wav>magic easy cleaning (pitch down)>.flac(flac 1.2.1)
The Pat Garrett studio session is well known and bootlegged,
this early version seems to have been a bit forgotten...
michpom