A short time ago an e-mail arrived from John Jackson — who writes (and really writes) at this spot — exclaiming “Oh Lord! It looks like rankfly is out of business. All my dylan videos are ‘unavailable.’” Alas, it is all too true. The YouTube account of the user “rankflv”has been suspended. So many great clips, both live performances and interviews, are gone, poof, fini. It is indeed a sad and lonesome day. It’s too early to tell whether this is the beginning a more generalized crackdown on Dylan content. But the “rankflv” collection was the essential Dylan content on YouTube.

Well, the internet being what it is, when something is squashed in one area, it tends to just pop up somewhere else. Nevertheless, that “rankflv” individual put a lot of time into uploading all those clips, and it seems unlikely that all that great stuff will soon emerge elsewhere.

Somehow we’re going to have to struggle on.

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