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The Rolling Thunder Revue was a concert tour by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan with a traveling caravan of musicians, including Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Bob Neuwirth assembled the backing musicians, including T-Bone Burnett, Mick Ronson, David Mansfield, Steven Soles, and from the ''Desire'' sessions, violinist Scarlet Rivera, bassist Rob Stoner, and drummer Howie Wyeth. The tour included 57 concerts in two legs—the first in the American northeast and Canada in the fall of 1975, and the second in the American south and southwest in the spring of 1976. The prevailing theory of why Dylan chose "Rolling Thunder" as the tour name was that it was named after the Native American shaman Rolling Thunder. Others maintained that the tour was named after Operation Rolling Thunder, the U.S. aerial bombardment campaign conducted during the Vietnam War. According to Dylan, there was a simpler explanation for the name: "I was just sitting outside my house one day thinking about a name for this tour, when all of a sudden, I looked into the sky and I heard a boom! Then, boom, boom, boom, boom, rolling from west to east. So I figured that should be the name." The release of Dylan's album ''Desire'' in January 1976 fell between the two legs of the tour. The tour was thoroughly documented through film, sound recording, and in print.〔Notable items include two books, two albums, a TV Special and a movie: * Larry "Ratso" Sloman, ''On the Road with Bob Dylan''. Helter Skelter Publishing, 2005, 466 pages. ISBN 1-900924-87-0 * Sam Shepard, ''Rolling Thunder Logbook''. New York: Penguin Books, 1978, ISBN 0-14-004750-6 (pbk) * ''Hard Rain'' 1976 * ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue'' (2002) * ''Hard Rain'', TV Special * ''Renaldo and Clara'' see also: Michael Gray, ''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia'', New York:Continuum books, 2006〕 ==Origins== In late July 1972, Dylan saw the Rolling Stones perform at Madison Square Garden.〔 According to Arthur Rosato, the soundman on ''Renaldo and Clara'', their 1972 world tour reignited his interest in playing live, and also had a large influence on Dylan's return to the concert circuit.〔''Behind the Shades Revisited'', pp. 336〕 In October 1975, soon after completing ''Desire'', Dylan held rehearsals for an upcoming tour at New York's midtown Studio Instrument Rentals space. The bassist Rob Stoner, the drummer Howie Wyeth, and the violinist Scarlet Rivera, all of whom were heavily featured on ''Desire'', were retained for the rehearsals. Joining them were T-Bone Burnett, Steven Soles, and David Mansfield. The three had been dismissed during the ''Desire'' sessions in an attempt to focus the overall production, but Dylan decided to recruit the trio for the upcoming tour. When rehearsals began, many of the musicians were apparently uninformed about plans for an upcoming tour. At the same time, Dylan was casually inviting others to join in with the band. According to Stoner, the group rehearsed "for like a day or two - it () not really so much a rehearsal as like a jam, tryin' to sort it out. Meanwhile all these people who eventually became the Rolling Thunder Revue started dropping in. Joan Baez was showing up. Roger McGuinn was there. They were all there. We had no idea what the purpose for these jams was, except we were being invited to jam." According to Lou Kemp, a friend of Dylan's who eventually organized the tour, the Rolling Thunder Revue "would go out at night and run into people, and we'd just invite them to come with us. We started out with a relatively small group of musicians and support people, and we ended up with a caravan." At one point, Patti Smith was invited to join, but amicably declined Dylan's invitation. However, Dylan did add one surprising element to the Rolling Thunder Revue when he invited Mick Ronson to join the tour. Ronson was the lead guitarist and arranger in David Bowie's former backing band, the Spiders from Mars. Ronson would accompany the Rolling Thunder Revue throughout the upcoming tour. Another musician invited on the tour was introduced to Dylan on October 22, when Dylan went to see David Blue perform at The Other End. It was there that he met Ronee Blakley, the actress/singer who had recently starred in Robert Altman's celebrated film ''Nashville''. At the end of Blue's show, Blakley joined Dylan on-stage for a few songs, joined by poet Allen Ginsberg and guitarist Kenny Davis; afterwards, Dylan extended her an invitation to join the Rolling Thunder Revue. She initially declined due to prior commitments, but eventually changed her mind and appeared at rehearsals two days later. However, the same day Blakley showed up for rehearsal, Dylan returned to the recording studio to re-record ''Desires "Hurricane" (due to legal concerns involving the song's original lyrics). Employing Blakley as a substitute for Emmylou Harris (who had prior engagements to attend to), Dylan quickly recut "Hurricane", the last recorded work done for ''Desire'' before its release in January 1976. Sometime in October, Dylan also contacted an old friend and filmmaker, Howard Alk. Dylan's ambitions apparently included a film of the tour, and Alk accepted Dylan's offer to shoot the film. When the tour rehearsals were still in progress, Alk reportedly began filming scenes in Greenwich Village for possible inclusion in the film. Dylan also contacted the actor/playwright Sam Shepard. Shepard was still relatively unknown at the time, and Dylan was probably introduced to him by Jacques Levy, who at that time had been co-writing with Dylan some of the lyrics of the ''Desire'' album (Shepard was also a former lover of Patti Smith). Shepard flew in from California and met with Dylan at rehearsals, where Dylan asked him if he had seen Marcel Carné's ''Les Enfants du Paradis'' or François Truffaut's ''Shoot the Piano Player''. Dylan said that those were the kinds of films he wanted to produce on the tour.〔Gray M, ''op.cit.'' 371〕 The poet Allen Ginsberg would accompany the tour for most of its 1975 run, but his planned recitations, as well as some performances by other Revue members, were cut before the opening date to keep the concerts at a manageable length. However, Ginsberg's recitation was restored at one concert, at the prison where Rubin Carter was serving his sentence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rolling Thunder Revue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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