Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you...

 A couple of new Bobby boots this cold and misty morning here. Both Outtakes collections that are seriously worth a check if you haven't already got them. Firstly the outtakes from the film 'Don't Look Back' and fine revisits of classic Bob they are too....disappointing lack of detail as to where and when they are recorded but none the less fascinating for all that. Some wonderful live recordings of classic early Bob at his poetic best. An outtakes from the Empire Burlesque sessions. I find this one fascinating if only for an early version of Brownsville Girl with completely different lyrics and structure. Nearly finished and final version of a song in progress, the differences are endlessly fascinating. You know where to find them by now...over on the Dylan page. Enjoy!

Did anyone catch Martin Scorcese's 'Living in the Material World' on teevee last week?

Wonderful sad and profound portrait of our much missed kid brother, George Harrison. I found myself overcome with emotion and melancholy at several points throughout but it stood as a lovely profile of the man in all his mercurial glory and what a lovely, lovely person his widow, Olivia, is along with his son Dhani too. Lovely to see Ringo, who is responsible for telling one of the two of my favourite quotes of Georges. When going to see George for the last time in Swiss hospital, Ringo recounts that he had to make is leave by explaining that his daughter was seriously ill in Boston and awaiting an operation. To which George from his death bed asks "Do you want me to come with you?"
My other favourite quote comes from after the stabbing in Friar Park. All the harrowing terror of the attack put into context by George when leaving the house on a stretcher, he is aware of two new staff standing in the door way as their new employer is carried out. To whom he asks, raising his head from the stretcher, "What do you think of the job so far?"  
Priceless Scouse humour bar none! We miss him!