Bob Dylan loves Japan, Japan loves Bob Dylan
I’m trying not to buy vinyl these days cause well, we’re a little bit tight for the yen and all of that but:
Then a special-edition, Japan-only, Bob Dylan double-album with a cover made from one of my all-time favorite paintings (well there’s a remix of this woodblock print by van Gogh and the original wood block print is by Hiroshige which saw at a recent exhibit, detailed elsewhere in this archive) comes out and well, here it is in the kura next to a panel of the Hiroshige wood-block print purchased at the exhibit last year (along with Hokusai, extensive report at my beleaguered web archive if curious) with some twinkly paper lanterns and a peak of a painting of Don Mee dim sum restaurant in Victoria to round out the scene
Also have the van Gogh oil painting remix of the same wood-block print, large and framed in the studio (which was purchased by those kind of dodgy art sellers who roll into the office with a bunch of knock offs for sale, back in Olympia at Internet adventure is probably in 97/98 // then bought a frame at a secondhand store, repainted it, cleaned it up, mounted the VvG remix (there’s a long story about how old Vincent was getting his hands on Japanese woodblock prints that starts in Nagasaki but I’ll save that for another time)
Also a semi-legible variation of the tracklist for your perusal… Doesn’t really have my favorite Bob Dylan tunes on there (Silvio, when I paint my masterpiece, desolation row etc.) but hey, there’s a gate fold, an obi, and dear old Bob busted out some Grateful Dead songs for the first time ever on his Japan tour last year (I wasn’t there but anyway…)
So we go on, do you want to come listen with me? PS Bob and this Robert wrote Silvio together
