Planet Waves
Bob Dylan
Planet Waves
One of the things that happens when you’ve previously sold off your entire record collection and started anew is you have these holes in all the wrong places. I mean, you can’t buy everything you had in one shot and keep up with that tiny % of new stuff you can actually keep up with while discovering great old records and pay the electric bill. So you have gaps where there should and used to be records. I hate that.
Dylan and The Band recorded Planet Waves in 1973, the same year and just a month before Mal Waldron recorded Up Popped The Devil. While I’d like to make some clever comparison, I can’t. I only mention this timely coincidence because it helps put into focus how vast music is. If the only thing I knew about these two records was learned from listening, you could have told me they were recorded in different countries or decades or planets and I’d have believed you. I love that.
I recently grabbed Planet Waves off the PREX shelves and stopped that gap and I did so so readily because Stephen placed it freshly in my mind. The only other thing I’ve got to say about Plant Waves is – what he said.
