From: nates@ll.mit.edu ( Nate Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
Subject: Re: Blonde on Blonde CD remastering
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:02:55 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <hunt.724915368@shy.umd.edu> hunt@shy.umd.edu (Brian Hunt) writes:
>akp1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Adam K. Powers) writes:
>
                              AdamKPowers      BrianHunt      NateSmith
>                               CD time         LP time      my LP times
>Rainy Day Women                  4:33            4:30         4:33 fade
>Pledging My Time                 3:42            3:20         3:42 fade
>Visions of Johanna               7:27            7:25         7:35 fade
>One of Us Must Know              4:53            4:50         4:55 completed
>I Want You                       3:06            3:00         3:04 fade
>Memphis Blues Again              7:04            7:00         7:06 completed
>Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat        3:50            3:55         3:57 completed*
>Just like a Woman                4:39            4:50         4:52 completed
>You Go Your Way & I'll Go Mine   3:22            3:20         3:26 fade
>Temporary Like Achilles          5:03            4:55         5:00 fade
>Absolutely Sweet Marie           4:46            4:50         4:56 fade
>4th Time Around                  4:26            4:30         4:34 fade
>Obviously 5 Believers            3:30            3:30         3:32 fade
>Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands   11:19           11:10        11:24 fade
>
>Brian Hunt, hunt@ipst.umd.edu:
>"My timings were probably done from a tape of my LP, so there's a
>reasonable chance they're biased in some direction, though it looks
>like I'm in the ballpark at least..."

i sat down this weekend with my stopwatch and old stereo LP ( i used to
have a mono LP in '67 ) from maybe 68-69 ish.  what i did was listen
without earphones and stopped the watch when i couldnt hear anymore of
the last chord or fadeout.  i also did not include the blank space between
each song, so if you add the sides together, you will be a little short
in how long they actually last.  there were only 4 songs completed, although
i'm not sure about the Pill-Box Hat, the other 10 were definitely faded
before the musicians finished, meaning that Columbia/Sony has a chance
to even lengthen the CD again....

* Leopardskin Pillbox Hat starts to fade out, but i heard that last
guitar line that codes out each verse after a full verse run, the
sort-of nah-nah line that goes "pickity pickity pickity pong", just
as the fade completes.  they may have kept on playing after, i dunno,
but they also could have stopped.

now i'll have to go back and retime Desolation Row.  i was sure it was
just a few seconds longer than SadEyed Lady.  SadEyed Lady on the LP
looks different upon close examination - the grooves are definitely
spaced wider apart.  the other 3 sides all run some 20 or so minutes,
so i think they were scared to not pave the whole 4th side for fear of
some kind of consumer complaint about paying "double album" price.

i used to have a Highway 61 with the times printed on the bottom of the
notes.  my memory seems to remember 11:18 for Desolation Row.  my friend
back in those days had a mono of that, and the curious thing about it
was that the mono ran a little longer at the end.  on it you could hear
a short laugh, a sort of "heh-heh".  my old stereo copy with the times
had no such laugh.  but later on i had to buy it again and this time the
times were missing from under the notes, and, in one channel, you can just
barely catch the laugh beginning (earphones help!). curiouser and curiouser.

- nate