Includes a final version of “Repossession Blues” and the first performance of a brand-new Dylan composition, “Is Your Love in Vain,” introduced with a unique harmonica break. The show is recorded for a possible live album. Seven songs eventually appear on At Budokan: “Shelter from the Storm,” “Love Minus Zero,” “Simple Twist of Fate,” “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” “It’s Alright, Ma,” “Forever Young,” and “The Times They Are a Changin’.”
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)
Nippon Budokan Hall
Tokyo, Japan
28 February 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)
- Rob Stoner (bass)
- Bobbye Hall (percussion)
- Ian Wallace (drums)
- Helena Springs, Jo Ann Harris, Debbie Dye (background vocals)
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Repossession Blues (Roland Janes)
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- I Threw It All Away
- Shelter From The Storm
- Love Minus Zero/No Limit
- Girl From The North Country
- Ballad Of A Thin Man
- Maggie’s Farm
- To Ramona
- Like A Rolling Stone
- I Shall Be Released
- Is Your Love In Vain?
- Going, Going, Gone
- One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
- Blowin’ In The Wind
- Just Like A Woman
- Oh, Sister (Bob Dylan–Jacques Levy/Bob Dylan)
- Simple Twist Of Fate
- You’re A Big Girl Now
- All Along The Watchtower
- I Want You
- All I Really Want To Do
- Tomorrow Is A Long Time
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
- Forever Young
— - The Times They Are A-Changin’
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