Electric Gashcat (the Nite Crash Ballads) is an organized compilation of circulating Bob Dylan Columbia Studios Recording Session Outtakes for 1965-1966. As with the For Sale Or Just On The Shelf project, alternate mixes and live performances are included for interest and comparison.
Electric Gashcat Volume 1 - Disc 1
(Sessions for Bringing It All Back Home)
13-Jan-65
1 I'll Keep It With Mine -- 85271-1 -- Tape + Biograph
2 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue -- 85272-1 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
3 Subterranean Homesick Blues -- 85275-1 -- Tape (Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3)
4 California -- 85276-1 -- Tape
5 Farewell Angelina -- 85278-1 -- Tape (Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3)
6 You Don't Have To Do That -- 85280-1 -- Tape
7 Outlaw Blues -- 85281-2 -- Tape
14-Jan-65
8 Love Minus Zero/No Limit -- 85270-(?) -- Tape
9 She Belongs To Me -- 85283 or 85274 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
(Remake Take 2)
15-Jan-65
10 If You Gotta Go, Go Now -- 85291-(comp.1) -- Single (CBS-2921)
11 If You Gotta Go, Go Now -- 85291-(comp.2) -- Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
12-May-65
12 If You Gotta Go, Go Now (one verse) -- Tape
(Sessions for Highway 61 Revisited)
15-Jun-65
13 Phantom Engineer -- 86443-9 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
14 Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence -- 86444-(2 or 3) --Acetate
15 Phantom Engineer -- 86445-1 -- Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
16 Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence -- 86444-6 -- Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
17 Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-1 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
18 Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-4 -- Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
19 Like A Rolling Stone (one verse) -- 86446-5 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
16-Jun-65
20 Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-1 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-2 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
21 Like A Rolling Stone (complete) -- 86446-4 -- Released take w/extended ending
22 Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-6b -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-6c -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
23 Like A Rolling Stone (one verse) -- 86446-8 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
Like A Rolling Stone (fragment) -- 86446-10 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
Like A Rolling Stone (one verse) -- 86446-15 -- H61 Interactive CD-ROM
24 Why Should You Have To Be So Frantic? -- 86449 (?) -- Tape
Live Nite Crash - pt 1
25 Maggie's Farm --Newport Folk Festival,Newport, RI -July 25, 1965 -- (Bootleg Series Vol. 7)
Electric Gashcat Volume 1 - Disc 2
(Sessions for Highway 61 Revisited) (continued)
29-Jul-65
1 It Takes A Lot To Laugh,-- 86837 or 86839 -- Film soundtrack: No Direction Home
It Takes A Train To Cry (short)
2 Tombstone Blues -- 86838-9 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
3 Positively 4th Street -- 86840-12 -- Extended version of take released on Single 4-43389
30-Jul-65
4 From A Buick 6 -- 86843-4 -- Japanese H61 Revisited
5 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? -- 86844-12(?) -- Tape
6 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? -- 86844-17 --Mistaken single release
7 Desolation Row -- 86845-1 --Bootleg Series Vol. 7
2-Aug-65
8 Highway 61 Revisited -- 86846-1 (short) -- NDH: Bootleg Vol. 7 (radio promo sampler)
9 Highway 61 Revisited -- 86846-6 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
10 Highway 61 Revisited -- 86846-7 (short) -- NDH: Bootleg Vol. 7 (radio promo sampler)
11 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues -- 86847-5 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
4-Aug-65
12 Tombstone Blues -- 86838-(comp.2) -- Acetate - vocal overdub #3
Live Nite Crash - pt 2
13 Phantom Engineer -Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI -July 25, 1965
14 From A Buick 6 Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA -Sept 3, 1965
15 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues -Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA -Sept 3, 1965
16 It Ain't Me Babe Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA -Sept 3, 1965
17 Long Distance Operator -- Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA -- Dec 4, 1965
18 Ballad Of A Thin Man -- Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA -- Dec 4, 1965
19 Positively 4th Street -Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA -- Dec 4, 1965
Electric Gashcat Volume 2 - Disc 1
(NYC Sessions pre-Blonde On Blonde)
5-Oct-65
1 Medicine Sunday -- 87183-1 -- Tape
2 Jet Pilot -- 87186-(?) -- Tape (Biograph)
3 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? -- 87184-(1 or 2) -- Tape - fragment
4 I Don't Want To Be Your Partner -- 87185-(1)Tape - incomplete
5 I Wanna Be Your Lover -- 87185-(?) -- Tape
6 I Wanna Be Your Lover -- 87185-(?) -- Biograph
7 Number One (instrumental) -- 87187 (or 87192) -- Tape
30-Nov-65
8 Seems Like A Freeze Out -- 88581-(4,5,or7) -- Acetate: fast, rough version
9 Seems Like A Freeze Out -- 88581-8 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
10 Seems Like A Freeze Out -- 88581-(13 or 14) -- Tape: slower, more developed version
11 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? -- 88582-(6,8,or10) -- Acetate (stereo mix)
Jan 21-22, 1966
12 She's Your Lover Now -- 89210-(?) -- Acetate - piano & vocal
13 She's Your Lover Now -- 89210-19 -- Tape + Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
Jan 25-26, 1966
14 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat -- 89215-1 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
27-Jan-66
15 I'll Keep It With Mine -- 89218-1 -- Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3
(Nashville Sessions for Blonde On Blonde)
Feb 15-16, 1966
16 I'll Keep It With Mine (instrumental) -- 83185-(8,9,or10) -- Acetate
Feb 16-17, 1966
17 Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again -- 83187-5 -- Bootleg Series Vol. 7
Miscellaneous Mischief - pt 1
18 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? -- 88582-(6,8,or10) -- Mono mix (as on Single 4-43477)
Electric Gashcat Volume 2 - Disc 2 (Wolfman's Disguise)
Instrumentally BOB (no Dylan vocals)
1 I Want You -- 83279 -- 5.1 Multi-channel mix (L+R channels only)
2 Most Likely You Go Your Way -- 83274 -- 5.1 Multi-channel mix (L+R channels only) And I'll Go Mine
3 Temporary Like Achilles -- 83275 -- 5.1 Multi-channel mix (L+R channels only)
4 Absolutely Sweet Marie -- 83259 -- 5.1 Multi-channel mix (L+R channels only)
The Lost Songs
*Sketches from outside the studio*
5 Positively Van Gogh - pt 1 Denver Hotel Tape March 13, 1966
6 Positively Van Gogh - pt 2 Denver Hotel Tape
7 Positively Van Gogh - (the Camilla verses) Denver Hotel Tape
8 Don't Tell Him Denver Hotel Tape
9 If You Want My Love Denver Hotel Tape
10 I Can't Leave Her Behind Glasgow Hotel Tape May 19, 1966
11 What Kind Of Friend Is This? Glasgow Hotel Tape
12 On A Rainy Afternoon/Does She Need Me? - pts.1&2 Glasgow Hotel Tape
Live Nite Crash - pt 3
13 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England May 17, 1966
(Acetate: soundcheck)
14 Tell Me Mama Odeon Theatre, Liverpool, England May 14, 1966
15 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Adelphi Theatre, Dublin, Ireland May 5, 1966 (The Band: A Musical History)
(Film: No Direction Home + streaming Internet)
16 Like A Rolling Stone Odeon Theatre Newcastle, England May 21, 1966 (DVD: No Direction Home)
Miscellaneous Mischief - pt 2
17 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) -- 89216-24 -- Sundazed mono version
18 Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine -- 83274 -- Canadian mono vinyl
19 Fourth Time Around -- 83182-19 -- French mono vinyl
