Dylan returns to Paris 12 years after his legendary Olympia concert, and this time no guitars are out of tune! At the soundcheck, Dylan and the band run through “Something There Is about You,” “True Love Tends to Forget,” “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” an old blues tune (probably called “Fix It Ma”), and “To Ramona.” For the show, Dylan replaces the two opening songs of the second half (“One of Us Must Know” and “You’re a Big Girl Now”) with “True Love Tends to Forget” and the rewrite of “The Man in Me” performed on the Far East leg. Between these comes an acoustic song, “It Ain’t Me, Babe.” As with the English press, the reception by the French media is
enthusiastic.
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)

Pavillon de Paris
Paris, France
3 July 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).

1. She’s Love Crazy
   
2. Baby Stop Crying
   Merci! This is a new song off our new album. Baby … Baby, Please Stop Crying.
   
3. Mr. Tambourine Man
   
4. Shelter From The Storm
   
5. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
   
6. Tangled Up In Blue
   
7. Ballad Of A Thin Man
   
8. Maggie’s Farm
   
9. I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
   
10. Like A Rolling Stone
    
11. I Shall Be Released
    
12. Going, Going, Gone
    
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13. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
    
14. True Love Tends To Forget
    
15. It Ain’t Me, Babe
    
16. The Man In Me
    
17. One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
    
18. Blowin’ In The Wind
    
19. I Want You
    
20. Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
    
21. Masters Of War
    
22. Oh, Sister (Bob Dylan–Jacques Levy/Bob Dylan)
    
23. Just Like A Woman
    
24. All Along The Watchtower
    
    David Mansfield! On the violin.
25. All I Really Want To Do
    
26. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
    Thank you! It’s now time to introduce the band. I know you know a lot …. wanna know who they are, what you’ve been listening to. On the drums tonight, Ian Wallace. Give him a warm hand. On the bass guitar, a very fine bass guitar player, Jerry Scheff. Thank you. On the keyboards, from Philadelphia, Alan Pasqua. From Mobile, Alabama, on lead guitar, Billy Cross. On the conga drums, from Detroit, Bobbye Hall. All right, on the rhythm guitar, a young man with a great future, for sure, Steve Soles. And on the mandolin and the guitar a young man you met earlier, David Mansfield. On the tenor saxophone, a young man who gave up a career as a airline scientist to play in this band, Steve Douglas. On the background vocals tonight, on the left, my fiancée Carolyn Dennis. All right! Carolyn Dennis! On the right, I also forget my fiancée’s name! On the right, Jo Ann Harris. And in the middle, another woman, a young lady actually, has a great future and a wonderful behind, Helena Springs. All right this is called, it’s a song I wrote and recorded in New York City not too long ago. It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding.
    
27. Forever Young
    Thank you. Thank you very much. We’ll play this one right at the very end. [audience chants Une autre! Une autre! Une autre!] It must be somebody’s birthday. All right, we’ll play this last song, it’s a song I recorded with The Band on an album called Planet Waves.
    
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28. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
    
29. The Times They Are A-Changin’
    

Check out:

• Bob Dylan: Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan – 23 February 1978
• Bob Dylan: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1 April 1978 (audio)
• Bob Dylan: Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California – 7 June 1978
• Bob Dylan: Universal Amphitheater, LA, California – 3 June 1978
• Bob Dylan: Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California – 1 June 1978 (audio & video)
• Bob Dylan: Blackbushe Aerodrome, Camberley, England 15 July 1978 (audio)
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• Olof’s – Still On The Road

-Egil