Stuck inside of Mobile .......

Went to bed early yesterday evening as the lurgy was getting much worse; annoyingly so. Helena had sensibly taken to another bed to avoid my sniffles, sneezes and snores. Still awake at 2am, I thought I will take my Blip now of the black Bomble lying by my side, squinting his eyes alluringly, but whose overt message was "leave me alone to sleep". So I got up to get the camera, and snapped him several times, which surprisingly didn't annoy him too much, despite the flash.

This morning I had tea in bed and picked up Word magazine and found the article on Bob Dylan which I had bookmarked. "Three nights which changed Rock" was extracted from "Bob Dylan in America" by Sean Wilentz, recounting the recording of Blonde on Blonde in March 1966. I was reminded of DailyKeith's eloquent tribute yesterday to Jimi Hendrix, who would record Hey Joe only six months later in October 1966.

A key section of the story was about Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again, which they started recording at 4am in Nashville, and the version we hear was take 14.

Well my pictures of Bomble were hopeless. Black cats, photography and low light don't easily work well together.

So I looked up at our mobile, hanging down on the other side of the bedroom and tried rather lazily to make a tenuous link. I'm not too happy with these pictures either, but I don't feel like doing any more today, just going back to bed. I expect this will not be the last time I am frustrated with a blip, although I tried rather more than 14 takes.

Dylan on the other hand, kept his musicians in the studio from 6 pm, while he finished writing another new song. He then joined them at 4am and said "It's just two verses and a chorus ? five times. Let's just make it and see what it sounds like". He gave them a couple of abbreviated run throughs, then the tapes rolled and 11 minutes and 23 seconds later they finished Sad eyed lady of the lowlands in the one take.

Come on Blippers, we can match that, can't we?