Bryan Ferry: Dylanesque Live - The London Sessions
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Actor: Bryan FerryBrand: Koch International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 61 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Eagle Rock Ent
DVD Reviews of Bryan Ferry: Dylanesque Live - The London Sessions
DVD Review: disappointing but not surprising
Summary: 2 Stars
In the mid 70s Bob Dylan settled into a formula for live performances, something he recovered from only recently. The Rolling Thunder Review was typical of that time period. Everything was just a little more upbeat than it needed to be, seemed to be supported by a constant boom-CHUCKA-boom. His well known preference to never do a live performance that sounded like the orginal seemed to join with an urgency to get through the song. The result was always a little less than satisfying. Over the last 10 years, his recovery from illness and some decent studio albums transformed the man and his live performances have been much more substantive.
Bryan Ferry, whose treatment of A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall on his 1973 These Foolish Things album ranks among the best Bob Dylan covers ever, also got formulaic somewhere along the line. It used to be exciting to go to a 1970s Roxy Music concert, just to see what the performance would be like. But around about 1980 it got into a rut. The High Road video is a picture of the formula, symbolized by the row of backup singers swaying in unison.
I had high hopes for Dylanesque when I first read about it. If there would be one or two more Hard Rains in there, it would certainly be worth it. One day a package arrived from Amazon with the CD in it and the note "Don't think twice, it's alright". It had come from an old friend with whom I had attended some of those 1970s Roxy concerts.
His voice is great, his harmonica surprisingly good, but I was disappointed. This was not Bryan Ferry interpreting the songs, as Hard Rain had been. This seemed to be the Bryan Ferry of the 1980s formula emulating the formulaic Bob Dylan of the same period. There were a few memorable treatments, I particularly liked Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Make You Feel My Love and Baby Let Me Follow You Down, but nothing grabbed me and made me want to play it over and over again. I kept picturing those damn backup singers from The High Road swinging back and forth.
When the DVD arrived, I guess I should say that it met my expectations. It was no better or worse than the CD, in fact it is the studio musicians from the CD doing the album, more or less, in the studio without an audience. The backup singers, as envisioned, were there, doing their imitation of their High Road predecessors. boom CHUCKA boom. I fast forwarded some of it.
It wasn't just Bob Dylan material that made These Foolish Things a masterpiece. Smokey Robinson's Tracks of My Tears and Brian Wilson's Don't Worry Baby both outshine anything on Dylanesque. Bryan Ferry has some good covers in there waiting to come out, he just needs to think outside the formula.
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DYLANESQUE LIVE:LONDON SESSIONS - DVD MovieClassic Rock Music CDs
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