I was told when I started to play that simple music is the hardest music in the world to play. And blues is simple music.
~Albert Collins
Most of the time I hum what I’m playing so sometimes it bleeds through on the track. That’s why I get hoarse sometimes when I try to sing, I’ll be humming my notes, and I’m not always aware of how hard I’m doing it. That’s really how I started playing, just with my mouth.
~Albert Collins
If trouble was money, I’d swear I’d be a millionaire
If trouble was money, babe, I’d swear I’d be a millionaire
~Albert Collins (If Trouble Was Money)
And then.. in the 4 last concerts of the summer tour the setlist exploded.
Locarno was a great concert & a location with historical significance:
Then, in October 1987, playing Locarno. Switzerland, with Tom Petty’s band and the female singers he now says he used to hide behind, Dylan had his breakthrough. It was an outdoor show – he remembers the fog and the wind – and as he stepped to the mike, a line came into his head. “It’s almost like I heard it as a voice. It wasn’t like it was even me thinking it. I’m determined to stand, whether God will deliver me or not. And all of a sudden everything just exploded. It exploded every which way. And I noticed that all the people out there – I was used to them looking at the girl singers, they were good-looking girls, you know? And like I say, I had them up there so I wouldn’t feel so bad. But when that happened, nobody was looking at the girls anymore. They were looking at the main mike. After that is when I sort of knew: I’ve got to go out and play these songs. That’s just what I must do …
~from 1997 Newsweek cover story “Dylan Lives”
Piazza Grande
Locarno, Switzerland
15 July 2015 Moon & Stars Festival
Overall, my impression was that Bob’s voice, his singing and harmonica playing is really strong these days, better than Munich last year and Luxembourg the year before. My personal highlights were Pay in Blood, Forgetful Heart and Love Sick. The audience was very disciplined and sometimes enthusiastic, a good mixture of old folks like me and surprsingly lots of young ones.
~Bernhard Roth (boblinks.com)
This is my third post in a 5 post series with great 2015 concerts.
For part 3 we move on to leg 2 – 2015 Europe Summer Festival Tour (20 June –16 July). Still more or less the standard setlist & Live debut of I’m A Fool To Want You.
Brose Arena
Bamberg, Germany
June 23, 2015
Bob Dylan – 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
Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. He is known by the nickname “The Killer”.
