{"id":32,"date":"2006-08-24T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-12-20T07:44:26","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T14:44:26","slug":"open-letter-to-columbia-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Columbia Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Columbia Records:<\/p>\n<p>Please release <i>Renaldo and Clara<\/i> on DVD now!  Both versions, the long one and the short one.  I don&#8217;t want a copy of <i>Masked and Anonymous<\/i>, I don&#8217;t want a DVD of <i>Unplugged<\/i>, and I don&#8217;t want a copy of that video of Bob with Tom Petty&#8217;s band playing in Australia or wherever.  I want to see the charismatic Bob of 1975&#8211;76.  I was just watching the video for &#8220;Series of Dreams&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p><embed style=\"width:400px; height:326px;\" id=\"VideoPlayback\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docId=-5169071801903996044&#038;hl=en\"> <\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Half of the film footage seems to come from <i>Renaldo and Clara<\/i> (while the other half seems to come from <i>Don&#8217;t Look Back<\/i>).  And it looks great.  From looking at those clips, Bob Dylan, when he was in his prime (the mid 60s and the mid 70s), would have made a great silent film star, another Valentino.  You can&#8217;t keep your eyes off of him.<\/p>\n<p>(And, while you&#8217;re at it, please also release <i>Eat the Document<\/i> and <i>Something Is Happening<\/i> on DVD.)<\/p>\n<p>Paul Reiners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Columbia Records: Please release Renaldo and Clara on DVD now! Both versions, the long one and the short one. I don&#8217;t want a copy of Masked and Anonymous, I don&#8217;t want a DVD of Unplugged, and I don&#8217;t want a copy of that video of Bob with Tom Petty&#8217;s band playing in Australia or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}