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His spring 1976 performances, and the live album and one-hour television show (both called Hard Rain) that made those performances available to a broader audience, were unpopular with the public and (at best) ignored by critics and commentators, but they contain some of the very finest performed art Bob Dylan has ever produced.
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986)

Bob Dylan’s spring 1976 tour (Rolling Thunder Revue II) gave us many incredible performances.

Parts of 3 concerts were filmed:

• Starlight Ballroom – Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Clearwater, Florida – 22 April 1976 – Afternoon
• Starlight Ballroom – Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Clearwater, Florida – 22 April 1976 – Evening
• Hughes Stadium – Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado – 23 May 1976

This post is a collection of videos from these shows that I’ve found on different websites. . Please use the comments section or drop me an email if you know were to find more videos from these shows. As always we do not upload videos, we only embed stuff that is already uploaded.

PS! if the videos appear black (no play button), just click on them… and they will probably start.

Starlight Ballroom
Belleview Biltmore Hotel
Clearwater, Florida
22 April 1976 – Afternoon / Evening

• Bob Dylan (guitar & vocal)
• Scarlet Rivera (violin)
• T-bone J. Henry Burnette (guitar & piano)
• Steven Soles (guitar)
• Mick Ronson (guitar)
• Bobby Neuwirth (guitar & vocal)
• Roger McGuinn (guitar & vocal)
• David Mansfield (steel guitar, mandolin, violin & dobro)
• Rob Stoner (bass)
• Howie Wyeth (drums)
• Gary Burke (percussion)

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• Mr. Tambourine Man
• The Times They Are A-Changin’
• Blowin’ In The Wind
• I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
  
  
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• Diamonds And Rust
• When I Paint My Masterpiece
• Like A Rolling Stone
  
  
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• Isis
• Just Like A Woman
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• Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
• Lay Lady Lay
  

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Full video:

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In fact, despite a quality performance from Dylan and the band, the finished TV special is very poorly filmed, failing to convey anything of the Rolling Thunder Revue in full flight. Dylan is clearly disappointed and wisely aborts the whole project. He decides to hire his own film crew and shoot a concert at Fort Collins later in the tour.
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)

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Hughes Stadium
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
23 May 1976

• Bob Dylan (guitar & vocal)
• Scarlet Rivera (violin)
• T-bone J. Henry Burnette (guitar & piano)
• Steven Soles (guitar)
• Mick Ronson (guitar)
• Bobby Neuwirth (guitar & vocal)
• Roger McGuinn (guitar & vocal)
• David Mansfield (steel guitar, mandolin, violin & dobro)
• Rob Stoner (bass)
• Howie Wyeth (drums)
• Gary Burke (percussion).

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• A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
  
• Blowin’ in the Wind
  
• Railroad Boy
• Deportee
  
• I Pity the Poor Immigrant
• Shelter From the Storm
  
• Maggie’s Farm
• One Too Many Mornings
• Mozambique
• Idiot Wind
  
• Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (snippet during end credits)

6 songs missing, I’m sure they are shared somewhere…

-Egil