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Bob Dylan: 12 Great live versions of “Long And Wasted Years” (videos)

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Lille, France – Zenith Arena 2012 – Photo by Oetting creative commons

Is there a place we can go?
Is there anybody we can see?
Maybe, it’s the same for you as it is for me

I ain’t seen my family in twenty years
That ain’t easy to understand
They may be dead by now
I lost track of them after they lost their land

The live versions of this great song from “Tempest” have been a triumph. It has been a highlight @ many of his concerts the last 3 years.

First Ever Live performance:
Spektrum
Oslo, Norway
10 October 2013

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Bob Dylan: Great 2015 Concerts – part 5/5
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PHOTO BY ANDREA ORLANDI

This is my last post in a 5 post series with great 2015 concerts.

Earlier posts:

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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 

  • Bob Dylan (vocal, guitar, grand piano & keyboard)
  • Stu Kimball (guitar)
  • Charlie Sexton (guitar)
  • Donnie Herron (violin, mandolin, steel guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • George Recile (drums & percussion)

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3 good and 3 great versions of Bob Dylan’s Love Sick

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3 good and 3 great versions of Bob Dylan’s Love Sick

“I’m sick of love but I’m in the thick of it”
– Bob Dylan (Love Sick)

Love Sick is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 30th studio album Time Out of Mind in 1997 and released as the second single from the album on June 1, 1998.

He sounds like he will but can not give up on love. It has a hard , dark rhythm that pounds through the song, hammering the ominous lyrics into our ears. It’s a deceptively simple structure, the more you listen to it the better it gets. It is not easy making things simple and naked. The melody is perfect for the lyrics, the narrator is hesitant in his quest, but he have no choice. He must give in to love. Well, that’s my take on it.

I love the melody, I love the song. It is a masterpiece.

Let us start with the 3 good ones.

The White Stripes :

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Bob Dylan: Great 2015 Concerts – part 3/5

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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.

Earlier posts:

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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

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Bob Dylan: Great 2015 concerts – part 2

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This is my second post in a 5 post series with great 2015 concerts.

First post:

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It’s the last one chosen from the US Spring Tour (April 10 – May 17 – 28 concerts). The 3 next concerts will be chosen from the Europe Summer Tour.

 

Fox Theatre
Detroit, Michigan
15 May 2015

  • Bob Dylan (vocal, guitar, grand piano & keyboard)
  • Stu Kimball (guitar)
  • Charlie Sexton (guitar)
  • Donnie Herron (violin, mandolin, steel guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • George Recile (drums & percussion)

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