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Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Concerts

October 27: Bob Dylan @ East Rutherford, NJ – 1981

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There are a few versions of this show that are circulating and this Durango title appears to have just been released in Japan. This is what the blurb says: “Dylan at the top of his game for ‘81 and for all time, in a show many would rank among his top 25. Al Kooper sits in on keyboards for the first time since ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, and the whole band rocks the Meadowlands with a set rarely matched for the number and intensity of songs.
~bigozine2.com

“Let’s Begin” makes its last live appearance. “Dead Man, Dead Man” is reintroduced into the set. The New York Times review of this show refers to Dylan as “alternately thrilling, exasperating and impenetrable,” concluding that it was “a fascinating performance by a magnetic renegade.”
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)

Meadowlands Brendan T. Byrne Sports Arena
East Rutherford, New Jersey
27 October 1981

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Fred Tackett (guitar)
  • Steve Ripley (guitar)
  • Al Kooper (keyboards)
  • Tim Drummond (bass)
  • Jim Keltner (drums)
  • Arthur Rosato (drums)
  • Clydie King, Regina McCrary, Madelyn Quebec (background vocals)

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October 26: Bob Dylan Stay With Me, Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, California 2014 (video)

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Should my heart not be humble, should my eyes fail to see,
Should my feet sometimes stumble on the way, stay with me.

Ok, it’s a pretty dark video, but when the light gets turned on we can see the band in all it’s red glory. And a Dylan that seems pretty pleased with himself.

Hollywood, California
Dolby Theatre
October 26, 2014 

  • Bob Dylan – piano, harp
  • Tony Garnier – bass
  • George Recile – drums
  • Stu Kimball – rhythm guitar
  • Charlie Sexton on lead guitar
  • Donnie Herron – banjo, viola, violin, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel

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Bob Dylan @ Forum de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada – 19 September 1978 (full concert audio)

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I remember one time, only two… one time I’ve ever wanted to replay a show, that was in Montreal, we played a show in Montreal, in 1978. I had a temperature of 104, couldn’t even stand up… and the promoter said, well you gotta play this show. And we played the show and I didn’t have nothing, nothing! And there was a response… you thought, you’d think the Pope was there (laughs).
-Bob Dylan (to Bert Kleinman, New York City, New York – July 30, 1984)

Forum de Montreal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
19 September 1978

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Billy Cross (lead guitar)
  • Alan Pasqua (keyboards)
  • Steven Soles (rhythm guitar, backup vocals)
  • David Mansfield (violin & mandolin)
  • Steve Douglas (horns)
  • Jerry Scheff (bass)
  • Bobbye Hall (percussion)
  • Ian Wallace (drums)
  • Helena Springs, Jo Ann Harris, Carolyn Dennis (background vocals).

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Bob Dylan @ Royal Albert Hall – October 24, 2015 (videos)

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London, England
Royal Albert Hall
October 24, 2015

  • Bob Dylan – vocal, piano, harp
  • Tony Garnier – bass
  • George Recile – drums
  • Stu Kimball – rhythm guitar, maracas
  • Charlie Sexton on lead guitar
  • Donnie Herron – banjo, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel

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October 24: Bob Dylan – The 5th recording session for “The Times They Are A-Changin’” in 1963

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Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.
~Bob Dylan (The Times They Are A-Changin’)

“Another thing about Times They Are A-Changin’ – I wanted to say in it that if you have something that you don’t want to lose, and people threaten you, you are not really free.”
~Bob Dylan (to Ray Coleman, May 1965)

51 years ago Dylan did his 5th recording session for “The Time They are A-Changin’” 

Some background info from Wikipedia:

The Times They Are a-Changin’ is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in January 1964 by Columbia Records.

Produced by Tom Wilson, it is the singer-songwriter’s first collection to feature only original compositions. The album consists mostly of stark, sparsely-arranged story songs concerning issues such as racism, poverty, and social change. The title track is one of Dylan’s most famous; many felt that it captured the spirit of social and political upheaval that characterized the 1960s.

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