Continue reading Bob Dylan & Etta James @ Marriot Hotel, Providence – 1986
Once upon a time
A girl with moonlight in her eyes
Put her hand in mine
And said she loved me so
But that was once upon a time
Very long ago
Bob Dylan’s performance was filmed Oct. 28 at the WorkPlay theater in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Here is a SoundCloud compilation with some great (officially unreleased) performances by Bob Dylan on his Rolling Thunder Revue part 2 in the spring of 1976.
Continue reading Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue – 1976 spring tour playlist
| Wikipedia:
Dylan then tried to recreate the Rolling Thunder Revue’s success in the spring of 1976. Rehearsals were held in Clearwater, Florida during April, and the first show was on April 18 at the Civic Center in Lakeland, Florida. The tour continued throughout April and May in the American South and Southwest. The penultimate show of the tour took place on May 23 at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, Colorado. The final Rolling Thunder show took place on May 25. Held at a half-empty, 17,000 seat Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, it would be Dylan’s last performance for twenty-one months (except for The Last Waltz in November 1976 for the Band), and it would be another two years before Dylan recorded another album of new material. |
Continue reading Bob Dylan: 5 Brilliant live performances from the year 1976
Then, in October 1987, playing Locarno. Switzerland, “and 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 … He’s been at it ever since.
~From “Dylan Lives” Newsweek 1997 cover story (David Gates)
Temples in Flames Tour |
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| START DATE | September 5, 1987 |
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| END DATE | October 17, 1987 |
| LEGS | 1 |
| NO. OF SHOWS | 30 |