Bob Dylan – On This Day – September 4

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Bob Dylan – On This Day – September 4

“I was amazed when I heard a taped interview with a 15-year-old girl, who was waiting to get into one of my concerts. She said how she digs William Blake and a bunch of others that no one else has read. She was really hip and more free in mind than most of these 22-year-old college kids.”
– Bob Dylan (Sep 4th, 1965)

Press Conference:
Hollywood Press Conference of September 4th, 1965:
Bob Dylan announces that his new book Tarantula will be, a book of words, at  a one hour press conference held together with David Crosby (plus a woman without shoes! and a man from the record company)  at the Beverly Hills Hotel, the day after the Hollywood Bowl concert.  Bob Dylan again played word-games with the press.

September 3: I’m Not There the Bob Dylan film was released in 2007

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September 3: I’m Not There the Bob Dylan film was released in 2007

“Yeah, I thought it was all right. Do you think that the director was worried that people would understand it or not? I don’t think he cared one bit. I just think he wanted to make a good movie. I thought it looked good, and those actors were incredible.”
– Bob Dylan (about the film)

I’m Not There is a 2007 biographical musical film directed by Todd Haynes, inspired by the life and music of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan’s public personas: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw. Production notes published by distributor The Weinstein Company explain that the film “dramatizes the life and music of Bob Dylan as a series of shifting personae, each performed by a different actor—poet, prophet, outlaw, fake, star of electricity, rock and roll martyr, born-again Christian—seven identities braided together, seven organs pumping through one life story.”

I’m Not There, Trailer:

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September 3: Bob Dylan @ Riverfront Park, Manchester, New Hampshire 1988

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Dylan performs his first-ever electric “Visions of Johanna.” He also reintroduces “Rank Strangers to Me” and “I Don’t Believe You” into the acoustic set.
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)

Riverfront Park
Manchester, New Hampshire
3 September 1988

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar),
  • G. E. Smith (guitar)
  • Kenny Aaronson (bass)
  • Christopher Parker (drums)

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Bob Dylan: Early Roman Kings/I Could Have Told You/Spirit On The Wate in Los Angeles, California, June 16, 2016 (Video)




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Bob Dylan LA 2016

All the early Roman kings
In their sharkskin suits
Bow ties and buttons
High top boots
Drivin’ the spikes in
Blazin’ the rails
Nailed in their coffins
In top hats and tails

Shrine Auditorium
Los Angeles, California
16 June 2016

  • 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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Bob Dylan – On This Day – September 2

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“The performers who changed my life were individuals, They didn’t conform to any sense of reality but their own. The last performer who stood up to be counted as an original is Bruce Springsteen, I think. Individuals move me, not mobs. People with originality, whether it’s Hector, Achilles, Ted Turner or Jerry Lee Lewis or Hank Williams.”
~Bob Dylan (to Edna Gundersen, August 2006)

Historic event

September 2 – 1969

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Dylan and Sara fly from Heathrow to Kennedy airport, where Dylan tells waiting members of the press, “they make too much of singers over there.”
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)

September 2 – 1995

Cleveland Stadium
Cleveland, Ohio
Opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum

  1. All Along The Watchtower
  2.  Just Like A Woman
  3. Seeing The Real You At Last
  4. Highway 61 Revisited
  5. Forever Young

Bruce Springsteen joins Dylan & share vocals with him on “Forever Young”.

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