tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post6967468159357073008..comments2024-03-21T00:34:35.359-07:00Comments on Every Bob Dylan Song: Bob Dylan Song #102: Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12613923038816299394noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-70408158610936648162017-08-23T19:20:43.457-07:002017-08-23T19:20:43.457-07:00Hello Tony, thank you for posting this interesting...Hello Tony, thank you for posting this interesting analysis of a song from Bob Dylan's Music Box http://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/508/Quinn-the-Eskimo-(The-Mighty-Quinn) Come and join us inside to listen to every version of every song composed, recorded or performed by Bob Dylan.Music of Bob Dylanhttp://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/508/Quinn-the-Eskimo-(The-Mighty-Quinn)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-29835074416508241712012-03-27T12:24:54.577-07:002012-03-27T12:24:54.577-07:00and don't forget manfred mann changed the lyri...and don't forget manfred mann changed the lyrics from "everybody's gonna wanna dose"<br /><br />to the safer, less drug-referencing "everybody's gonna wanna doze"<br /><br />ha ha <br /><br />like when he gets there, with all his excitement people are gonna wanna take a nap?<br /><br />lol, right<br /><br />makes NO sense that way<br /><br />oh well, i guess saying "dose" was TOO cutting edge for ManfredAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-5577068944925852152009-06-01T03:29:07.263-07:002009-06-01T03:29:07.263-07:00You can rate this song here: http://www.tweedlr.co...You can rate this song here: http://www.tweedlr.com/songs/303/the-mighty-quinn-quinn-the-eskimoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-72076794439654189852009-05-29T05:10:51.677-07:002009-05-29T05:10:51.677-07:00Incredible coincidence, Bob started playing this s...Incredible coincidence, Bob started playing this song live for the first time since Isle of Wight in the summer of '02 when my nephew Quinn was born. I absolutely love the version from Shepherd's Bush in 2003.andrew!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05821924786524802006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-34459401107713209302009-05-27T17:35:09.836-07:002009-05-27T17:35:09.836-07:00I think what anonymous was referring to was when y...I think what anonymous was referring to was when you said,<br /><br />"consigning "Quinn the Eskimo" to cult status for nearly 2 decades ... should have been the song to show up on the final album, or even on a Dylan release before the Basement Tapes was ever compiled. So why didn't it?"<br /><br />but Quinn was technically the first of all the Basement Tapes songs to officially surface, in 1970. Then joined by its three Basement brethren on Greatest Hits Vol 2 three years before the Basement Tapes compilation. We'll nitpick you, Tony, right down to the bone. Congrats on making it through TBT -- I know you're excited to move on to something new.<br /><br /><br />Going with the idea that the 1975 Basement Tapes album was a hopelessly poor representation of the sessions, my dream version of a comprehensive, canonical Basement Tapes reconfiguration would go as follows:<br /><br />Disc 1 <br /><br />The first 14 songs would be a duplicate of the original acetate distributed and copyrighted, followed by the other songs released in '75, and rounded out by the other most well-known, fully-formed songs from the sessions. So it would look something like<br /><br />1. Million Dollar Bash<br />2. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread<br />3. Please Mrs. Henry<br />4. Down in the Flood<br />5. Lo and Behold<br />6. Tiny Montgomery<br />7. This Wheel's On Fire<br />8. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere<br />9. I Shall Be Released<br />10. Tears of Rage<br />11. Too Much of Nothing<br />12. Quinn the Eskimo<br />13. Open the Door, Homer<br />14. Nothing Was Delivered<br />15. Odds and Ends<br />16. Goin' to Acapulco<br />17. Clothes Line Saga<br />18. Apple Suckling Tree<br />19. Santa Fe<br />20. Sign on the Cross<br />21. Silent Weekend<br />22. Get Your Rocks Off<br />23. I'm Not There<br /><br />As a singular collection of songs, this would be a far more definitive representation of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes than the one that exists now.<br /><br /><br />DISC 2<br /><br />A disc of covers, thoughtfully compiled by theme and/or chronology. Collected together, the covers from Genuine Basement Tapes run close to 80 minutes. Performances like Young But Daily Growin' and Banks of the Royal Canal would be major additions to the officially released catalogue. And Ian & Sylvia could probably use the royalties. Taken as a cover album, I think this would be even more of a self-portrait than Self-Portrait.<br /><br /><br />DISC 3<br /><br />The exorbitantly-priced bonus disc: substantial alternate takes of songs from disc 1, e.g. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere with alternate lyrics. IIRC, the earliest first-bootlegged versions of Too Much of Nothing and Tears of Rage were not the same ones released in 1975. Fill it out with the (even) more wackier original songs from the sessions like I'm Your Teenage Prayer and All-American Boy, plus All You Have To Do Is Dream and whichever half-finished songs (like Under Control or Baby Won't You Be My Baby) you deem worthy of inclusion. Probably need See You Later Allen Ginsberg in there for posterity. And there's always the intriguing possibility of songs that somehow still haven't been released, too ("Wild Wolf"?).<br /><br />As for the Band songs, they can be excised to their own separate disc in their own context.<br /><br />I think this would be a happy medium between the official release, incomplete and misrepresentative, and the sprawling Genuine Basement Tapes, full of fragments and distortions, which can be kind of daunting and inaccessible. The Basement Tapes are a significant part of the Dylan mythos; they deserve better.Justinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-51335006484254079782009-05-27T12:01:59.756-07:002009-05-27T12:01:59.756-07:00Thanks, Nicole! Your blog is quite interesting as ...Thanks, Nicole! Your blog is quite interesting as well, and I hope you keep it up.<br /><br />Anonymous, when I was starting the Basement Tapes posts, I was planning on a special essay at the end talking about both the unreleased songs and the well-known songs that didn't make the official album cut, but in the end settled on posts for the two most famous non-official album songs. As for the Self Portrait version of "Quinn the Eskimo", I'll get to that in due course...but not in the way you might think.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12613923038816299394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-82694915584207962482009-05-27T11:44:38.908-07:002009-05-27T11:44:38.908-07:00Hadn't a version of "Quinn the Eskimo" already bee...Hadn't a version of "Quinn the Eskimo" already been released on "Self-Portrait" when "The Basement Tapes" LP was being compiled? Of course, you're dealing with these songs in the chronology of when they were recorded -- after "Blonde on Blonde" -- rather than when they were released -- after "Blood on the Tracks" -- so perhaps that's how you missed this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-65710024929032673232009-05-27T08:09:28.074-07:002009-05-27T08:09:28.074-07:00i actually first heard this song on the Wonderland...i actually first heard this song on the Wonderland soundtrack and have enjoyed it since. Quinn was also the persona that Kate Blanchett played in Im Not There I think. nice post, interesting!Nicole Bardawillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07195970375781966193noreply@blogger.com