Reviews: Masked Mystery X 3; the Bootleg Series Volume Six: Concert at Philharmonic Hall. by Bob Dylan (Columbia) HHHHH Bob Dylan - MTV Unplugged by Bob Dylan (DVD - Sony Music Video) HH Masked and Anonymous (DVD - BBC Worldwide Publishing) Released May 10 HHH

Byline: Reviewed by Campbell Docherty

October 31, 1964. A truly prodigious talent with a harmonica holder

and an acoustic guitar smirks archly at the attentive New York Philharmonic Hall audience.

'Don't worry, it's only Halloween. I'm wearing my Bob Dylan mask.'

A throwaway line from anyone else's lips, but Dylan doesn't ever throw away words.

Forty years later, a different Dylan mask is uttering enigmatic lines and shuffling along in a strangely reimagined, post Third World War America.

When this mask (called Jack Fate) sings with his band (Dylan's real touring band but 'acting' the part of the best Jack Fate covers band in town), the music is as thrilling an electric blues as you could hear and the voice is a ravaged, howling, growling thing of weird expression.

Then rewind ten years and you have Bob Dylan: befuddled genius with writer's block beginning to find his way back to his muse. Not a very snappy title for this particular mask, but in those days neither was he.

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Publication information: Article title: Reviews: Masked Mystery X 3; the Bootleg Series Volume Six: Concert at Philharmonic Hall. by Bob Dylan (Columbia) HHHHH Bob Dylan - MTV Unplugged by Bob Dylan (DVD - Sony Music Video) HH Masked and Anonymous (DVD - BBC Worldwide Publishing) Released May 10 HHH. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Birmingham Post (England). Publication date: April 17, 2004. Page number: 52. © 2009 Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd. COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group.

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