Continue reading April 25: Bob Dylan Durham, NC, 2015 (videos)
I’ve always loved to travel and play my songs, meet new people and see different places. I love to roll into town in the early morning and walk the deserted streets before anybody gets up. Love to see the sun come up over the highway. Then, of course, there’s playing on the stage in front of live people, feeling hearts and minds moving. Everybody don’t get to do that. Touring to me has never been any kind of hardship. It’s a privilege.
~Bob Dylan (to Edna Gundersen, July 1988)
Creating a post called “10 best concert bootlegs” didn’t work out, so I had to adjust. I chose 12 Essential Concert Bootlegs 🙂
My rules:
So this is actually more like “12 essential Bob Dylan concerts from 12 different tours”.
I know I know… where are 78/88/91/94/98/…. tough choices these, but only 12 allowed.
Next up – picking only one from each year… argh.. the agony of choice again.
Check out:
-Egil
The Budokan album was only supposed to be for Japan. They twisted my arm to do a live album for Japan. It was the same band I used on Street Legal, and we had just started findin’ our way into things on that tour when they recorded it. I never meant for it to be any type of representation of my stuff or my band or my live show.
~Bob Dylan (to Kurt Loder – March 1984)I believe this double LP was made available so our hero could boast of being outclassed by Cheap Trick, who had the self-control to release but a single disc from this location.
~Robert Christgau (robertchristgau.com)
Released 37 years ago today (April 23).
The album was slaughtered by many critics.. especially in the US.
“The writers complain the show’s disco or Las Vegas. I don’t know how they came up with those theories. We never heard them when we played Australia or Japan or Europe. It’s like someone made it up in one town and the writer in the next town read it. I don’t know what the reviewers mean half the time. I don’t even care.”
~Bob Dylan (to Robert Hilburn – Nov 1978)
Continue reading April 23: Bob Dylan at Budokan was released in 1979