[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Bob Dylan: As I look back on it now, I am surprised that I came up with so many of them. At the time it seemed like a natural thing to do. Now I can look back and see that I must have
written those songs “in the spirit,” you know? Like “Desolation Row” – I was just thinkin’ about that the other night. There’s no logical way that you can arrive at lyrics like that. I don’t know how it was done.
KL: It just came to you?
BD: It just came out through me.
~Bob Dylan – Kurt Loder interview, Oct 1987
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“Desolation Row” also focuses on scene, but in a more purposeful way: the images build up powerfully, propelled by the vocal and instrumental performances. The song makes a statement: this scene is important, it needs·to be paid attention to, there is a reality in this life which may not be cheerful but which, once discovered, shows everything else to be a
pose. Desolation Row” is an anthem; it proclaims and forever defines a certain place, certain state of being… ..And finally I can say about “Desolation Row” only that I am in awe of it.
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan Performing Artist I: The Early Years 1960-1973)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Performances:
262 times acoustic w/ band – top year 2000 (42 times)
19 times acoustic – top year – top year 1966 (13 times)
166 times w/band – top year 2011 (32 times)
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First performance: Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, New York – Aug 28, 1965
Last performance: Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena, Vancouver – July 25, 2017
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]There must be some way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
There’s too much confusion
I can’t get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line
Know what any of it is worth[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Cleveland Stadium Cleveland, Ohio 2 September 1995 Opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum
Musicians:
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
John Jackson (guitar)
Tony Garnier (bass)
Winston Watson (drums & percussion)
Bruce Springsteen (guitar & shared vocal on Forever Young)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]The man in me will do nearly any task,
And as for compensation, there’s little he would ask.
Take a woman like you
To get through to the man in me.
Storm clouds are raging all around my door,
I think to myself I might not take it any more.
Take a woman like your kind
To find the man in me.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]I can’t wait, wait for you to change your mind
It’s late, I’m trying to walk the line
Well, it’s way past midnight and there are people all around
Some on their way up, some on their way down
The air burns and I’m trying to think straight
And I don’t know how much longer I can wait[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Performances:
187 times w/band – top year 1998 (64 times)
First live performance: Humphrey Coliseum, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi – 24 October 1997
Last live performance: The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York – 4 September 2012
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]I once held her in my arms
She said she would always stay
But I was cruel
I treated her like a fool
I threw it all away[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Woodside Bay Near Ryde, Isle Of Wight, England 31 August 1969
