Edna Gundersen: Was playing at Woodstock [1994] a special moment?
Bob Dylan: Nah, it was just another show, really. We just blew in and blew out of there. You do wonder if you’re coming across, because you feel so small on a stage like that.
Never Ending Tour 1994
Start date
February 5, 1994
End date
November 13, 1994
Legs
5
No. of shows
14 in Asia
73 in North America
17 in Europe
–
104 in Total
A fine N.E.T. year with 3 very special moments:
Playing “Masters of War” in Hiroshima
The Great Music Experience – Nara, Japan
Woodstock 94
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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
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106 in Total
There is so much mediocrity going on, every time someone really good comes along it’s like you can’t be too good ‘cause you’re looked at. you stand out. People that stand out in an individual kind of way, they don’t fit into the system because they don’t sell, they don’t keep system commodities going. I thought Peter Townshend’s record was real good.
Who’s Bob Dylan? I’m only Bob Dylan when I have to be Bob Dylan. Most of the time I just be myself.
Brett Whiteley’s Studio
Surry Hills
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
10 February 1986 Sydney Press Conference
Dylan records a half-hour program as part of the CBC-TV series “Quest.” The half a dozen songs he sings-“Talkin’ World War III Blues,” “Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall,” “Girl from the North Country,” “The Times They Are a-Chang in’,” “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” and “Restless Farewell”-are all performed within the most incongruous of settings, a log cabin filled with working men pretending to pay attention.
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)
CBC TV Studios Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1 February 1964 Produced by Daryl Duke.
Dylan: Experience?
Caller 7: …you know, from life. I was just wondering if you were going to say it. Dylan: What’s experienced about them?
Caller 7: Well, I mean, like It Ain’t Me, Babe and Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right. Dylan: Oh. Oh, you don’t have to go anyplace to have those kind of experiences though, really, do you?
Caller 7: Well, I don’t know. You have to go through something! I mean, did you just make them up? Come on… Dylan: Well, I guess I did. I just made ‘em up out of my head, yeah.
WBAI Studios
New York City, New York
26 January 1966 Bob Dylan on Radio Unnamable
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