Bob Dylan: 5 Brilliant live performances from the year 2001





I don’t even consider this work as part of my life. Not even close. My life doesn’t revolve around my work. Not even a little bit. I mean, I’ve got millions of fans and I know that and I’m more than happy to go out there and play for them… But that’s not my life. My life is private and personal and completely filled up.
-Bob Dylan (Rome Press Conference, July 23, 2001)

Facts from Wikipedia:

Start date February 25, 2001
End date November 24, 2001
Legs 6
No. of shows 13 in Asia
9 in Oceania
62 in North America
22 in Europe

106 in Total

Sun Palace
Fukuoka, Japan
9 March 2001

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Charlie Sexton (guitar)
  • Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • David Kemper (drums & percussion)

Mr. Tambourine Man

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you

King’s Dock
Liverpool, England
12 July 2001

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Charlie Sexton (guitar)
  • Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • David Kemper (drums & percussion)

Fourth Time Around

When she said
“Don’t waste your words, they’re just lies”
I cried she was deaf
And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes
Then said, “What else you got left?”
It was then that I got up to leave
But she said, “Don’t forget
Everybody must give something back
For something they get”




Spokane Arena
Spokane, Washington
5 October 2001

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Charlie Sexton (guitar)
  • Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • David Kemper (drums & percussion)

Sugar Baby

I got my back to the sun ’cause the light is too intense
I can see what everybody in the world is up against
You can’t turn back—you can’t come back, sometimes we push too far
One day you’ll open up your eyes and you’ll see where we are

Knockin´On Heavens Door

Mama, take this badge off of me
I can’t use it anymore
It’s gettin’ dark, too dark for me to see
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door

Madison Square Garden Arena
New York City, New York
19 November 2001

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Charlie Sexton (guitar)
  • Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • David Kemper (drums & percussion)

Summer Days

Summer days, summer nights are gone
Summer days and the summer nights are gone
I know a place where there’s still somethin’ going on

Some recommended shows:

  • Sun Palace, Fukuoka, Japan – March 9, 2001
  • Ballina, New South Wales, Australia – March 31, 2001
  • Asheville, North Carolina – May 1, 2001
  • Trädgårdsföreningen, Gothenburg, Sweden – June 29, 2001
  • King’s Dock, Liverpool, England – July 12, 2001
  • Town Park, Telluride, CO – August 20, 2001
  • Town Park, Telluride, CO – August 21, 2001
  • The Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster, CA – August 25, 2001
  • Spokane Arena, Spokane, Washington – October 5, 2001
  • San José, California – October 12, 2001
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin – October 28, 2001
  • MCI Center, Washington, DC November 15, 2001
  • New York City, New York – November 19, 2001
  • Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME November 23,

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-Egil