(aka Visions of Johanna) Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be quiet? We sit here stranded, we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds her handful of rain temptin' you to defy it. Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes they just cough The country music station plays soft But there's nothing really nothing to turn off. Just Louise and her lover so entwined An' these visions of Johanna they conquer my mind. In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain An' the all-night girls whisper of escapades out on the D-train We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight Askin' himself if he's really insane. Louise she's alright, she's just too near Like silk she seems like the mirror She just makes it all too concise and too clear that Johanna's not here. Oh, this ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place. Little boy lost he takes himself so seriously He likes to boast of his misery while living so dangerously An' while bringin' her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me. He's got a lot of gall to be so useless and so small He mutters this small talk at the wall while i'm in the hall. How can i explain, oh it's so hard to get on An' those visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn. Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial Voices echo this is what salvation's like after a while Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell that by the way she smiles. See the primitive wallflower freeze When the jelly-faced women all sneeze Hear the one with the mustache say "Jeeze! I can't find my knees.'' Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule And these visions of Johanna make it all seem so cruel. Ah, oh, oh, oh. The fiddler now speaks to the countess who's pretendin' to care for him He says "Name me someone that's not a parasite an' i'll say a prayer for him.'' But like Louise always says "You can't look at much? Can you, man'' as she herself prepares for him. Madonna she still has not showed An' we see the empty cage now corrode Where her cape of the stage once had flowed The peddler he now steps to the road Everything's gone which was owed He examines the nightingale's code Still written on the fish truck that loads My conscience explodes. The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain And these visions of Johanna are all that remain.

This exhaustive Italian set of 14 discs in 9 separate jewel cases comes packed in a 12" x 12" box. Also included is a 12" x 12" ooklet packed full of rare photos, historical and venue information. The best quality, essential listening material has been available before. The new to disc recordings do not warrant the cost of the package to those who already have the bulk of the material elsewhere. For those who can afford the hefty price tag, are wanting an incredible visual package, or looking to step into 1965 material for the first time... this mouth watering treat will be the jewel in your crown. Some of the material is less than desirable quality by today's standards, but the recordings here represent as good a quality as is known to exist on each recording. DISC ONE BIABH sessions, NY, January 13-15, 1965 except: Les Crane Show, NY February 17, 1965 DISC TWO Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA March 27, 1965 DISC THREE Oval City Hall, Sheffield, England April 30, 1965 Interview snippets (Don't Look Back soundtrack) Levy's Recording Studio, London, May 12, 1965 DISC FOUR Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK May 7, 1965 DISC FIVE Royal Albert Hall, London, England; May 9, 1965 DISC SIX BBC TV Theatre, London, England; June 1, 1965 DISC SEVEN Highway 61 Revisited sessions CBS Studio A, NY June 15 - July 31, 1965 DISC EIGHT Highway 61 Revisited sessions, NY August 2, 1965 Newport Folk Festival, RI July 24-25, 1965 DISC NINE Forest Hills Tennis stadium, Queens, NY; Aug. 28, 1965 Pt 1 DISC TEN Forest Hills Tennis stadium, Queens, NY; Aug. 28, 1965 Pt 2 Blonde On Blonde outtakes, NY Oct. 20 Blonde On Blonde outtakes, CA Nov 30-Dec.1 DISC ELEVEN Allen Stone interview, Detroit, MI; Oct. 24, 1965 Nat Hentoff's unpublished Playboy interview from CBS offices New York, NY Oct. or Nov. 1965 (part 1) DISC TWELVE Nat Hentoff's unpublished Playboy interview from CBS offices New York, NY Oct. or Nov. 1965 (part 2) DISC THIRTEEN KQED TV Studios Press Conference, San Francisco, CA; December 3, 1965 Berkeley Community Theater, CA Dec. 4, 1965 (pt. 1) DISC FOURTEEN Berkeley Community Theater, CA Dec. 4, 1965 (pt. 2) Columbia press conference, LA, CA Dec. 17, 1965