Notes

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Electric Gashcat (the Nite Crash Ballads) is an organized compilation of circulating Bob Dylan Columbia Studios Recording Session Outtakes for 1965-1966. As with the FSorJOTS project, alternate mixes and live performances are included for interest and comparison. In particular, the live performances were selected as a sampling of what the Nite Crash experience could be like outside the studio, mid-late 1965 and into 1966. Multiple stage band lineups were used with noticeable technical differences and contrasting playing styles. There was a world of evolution in presentation maturity, song tempo, and togetherness of vocals and support playing. Little surprise that the same could be said for the studio sessions themselves. Sometimes it makes sense to try and place things in time line order and then picture the music (and the musical processes) as the sessions came down individually and over a period of time. Hopefully, Electric Gashcat can be helpful in attaining such a goal.

The FSorJOTS comments regarding source quality and information accuracy likewise apply here. Please note that this collection is "approximately" chronological. One person's interpretation of the dating and numbering on specific takes may not always coincide with that of another, nor with what the discographers, or even Dylan's record company, sometimes tell us. Certain takes and sessions during this era have been notoriously difficult to pin down. They still are. Here we've tried to consider the best available published (or sometimes unpublished) information to make determinations where there have been major questions. Some explanations of the track placements are detailed in the supplemental notes for the discs. You may or may not agree. Remember, little about this has ever been cast on stone tablets.

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Electric Gashcat Volume 1 - Disc 1

Song -- CO-take No. -- Track Sources/Notes

(Sessions for Bringing It All Back Home)

Jan 13, 1965
1 I'll Keep It With Mine -- 85271-1 -- Tape + Biograph
2 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue -- 85272-1 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
3 Subterranean Homesick Blues -- 85275-1 -- Tape (Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3)
4 California -- 85276-1 -- Tape
5 Farewell Angelina -- 85278-1 -- Tape (Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3)
6 You Don't Have To Do That -- 85280-1 -- Tape
7 Outlaw Blues -- 85281-2 -- Tape

Jan 14, 1965
8 Love Minus Zero/No Limit -- 85270-(?) -- Tape
9 She Belongs To Me -- 85283 or 85274 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
(Remake Take 2)
Jan 15, 1965
10 If You Gotta Go, Go Now -- 85291-(comp.1) -- Single (CBS-2921)
11 If You Gotta Go, Go Now -- 85291-(comp.2) -- Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3

May 12, 1965
12 If You Gotta Go, Go Now (one verse) -- Tape

(Sessions for Highway 61 Revisited)

June 15, 1965
13 Phantom Engineer -- 86443-9 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
14 Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence -- 86444-(2 or 3) -- Acetate
15 Phantom Engineer -- 86445-1 -- Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
16 Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence -- 86444-6 -- Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
17 Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-1 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
18 Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-4 -- Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
19 Like A Rolling Stone (one verse) -- 86446-5 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM

June 16, 1965
20 Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-1 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-2 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
21 Like A Rolling Stone (complete) -- 86446-4 -- Released take w/extended ending
22 Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-6b -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-6c -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
23 Like A Rolling Stone (one verse) -- 86446-8 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-10 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
Like A Rolling Stone (one verse) -- 86446-15 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
24 Why Should You Have To Be So Frantic? -- 86449 (?) -- Tape

Live Nite Crash - pt 1
25 Maggie's Farm --Newport Folk Festival,Newport, RI -July 25, 1965 -- (Bootleg Series Vol. 7)


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Electric Gashcat Volume 1 - Disc 2

Song -- CO-take No. -- Track Sources/Notes

(Sessions for Highway 61 Revisited) (continued)

July 29, 1965
1 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, -- 86837 or 86839 -- Film soundtrack: No Direction Home
It Takes A Train To Cry (short)
2 Tombstone Blues -- 86838-9 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
3 Positively 4th Street -- 86840-12 -- Extended version of take released on Single 4-43389

July 30, 1965
4 From A Buick 6 -- 86843-4 -- Japanese H61 Revisited
5 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? -- 86844-12(?) -- Tape
6 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? -- 86844-17 -- Mistaken single release
7 Desolation Row -- 86845-1 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7

Aug 2, 1965
8 Highway 61 Revisited -- 86846-1 (short) -- NDH: Bootleg Vol. 7 (radio promo sampler)
9 Highway 61 Revisited -- 86846-6 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
10 Highway 61 Revisited -- 86846-7 (short) -- NDH: Bootleg Vol. 7 (radio promo sampler)
11 Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues -- 86847-5 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7

Aug 4, 1965
12 Tombstone Blues -- 86838-(comp.2) -- Acetate - vocal overdub #3

Live Nite Crash - pt 2
13 Phantom Engineer -– Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI -– July 25, 1965
14 From A Buick 6 –- Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA -– Sept 3, 1965
15 Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues -– Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA -– Sept 3, 1965
16 It Ain’t Me Babe –- Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA -– Sept 3, 1965
17 Long Distance Operator -- Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA -- Dec 4, 1965
18 Ballad Of A Thin Man -- Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA -- Dec 4, 1965
19 Positively 4th Street -– Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA -- Dec 4, 1965