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April 17: Bob Dylan: Don’t Think Twice, Málaga, Spain 1999 (video)

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It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don’t matter, anyhow
An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don’t know by now
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I’ll be gone
You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on
Don’t think twice, it’s all right

La Malagueta Bull Ring
Málaga, Spain
17 April 1999

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
  • Larry Campbell (guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • David Kemper (drums & percussion)

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April 17: Bob Dylan Tangled Up In Blue, North Charleston, SC, 2015 (Video)

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She was married when we first met
Soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a jam, I guess
But I used a little too much force
We drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out West
Split up on a dark sad night
Both agreeing it was best
She turned around to look at me
As I was walkin’ away
I heard her say over my shoulder
“We’ll meet again someday on the avenue”
Tangled up in blue

GREAT video & GREAT version.

I’ve included the original lyrics of the three verses from the video. If you listen and compare you will find there are many changes.

North Charleston, South Carolina
North Charleston Performing Arts Center
April 17, 2015

  • Bob Dylan – vocals center stage at first, harp & then vocals + piano
  • Tony Garnier – bass
  • George Recile – drums
  • Stu Kimball – rhythm guitar, maracas
  • Charlie Sexton on lead guitar
  • Donnie Herron – Pedal steel

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April 17: Bob Dylan – Workingman’s Blues #2, Birmingham 2007

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My cruel weapons have been put on the shelf
Come sit down on my knee
You are dearer to me than myself
As you yourself can see
I’m listenin’ to the steel rails hum
Got both eyes tight shut
Just sitting here trying to keep the hunger from
Creeping it’s way into my gut

National Indoor Arena
Birmingham, England
17 April 2007

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Beatles, Cover versions, Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips plays The Beatles

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The Flaming Lips are very respectful of their psychedelic roots. They have covered Pink Floyd’s classic album ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ in its entirety (also releasing it in a limited edition). They have also covered whole albums of King Crimson and The Stone Roses (!).

Our favorite modern-day psychedelic surrealists,  has also covered another of the late Sixties’ most popular psychedelic band, The Beatles on several occasions. It fits them, they’re good at it and we have “dug up” several examples. There has long been a rumor (or maybe more than a rumor) that the Flaming Lips will cover the entire Sgt. Pepper album.

They have a very strong leaning towards John Lennon, he is after all seen as the more “psychedelic” songwriter in The Beatles.

I could not find Tomorrow Never Knows, even though I know they have played it…

Enjoy!

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The Flaming Lips and Sean Lennon – Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Letterman):

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April 16: Bob Dylan – Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart

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This is not the jokerman. This is someone whose heart can be got ahold of. And in a real sense this person is more vulnerable, and even more in need of a place to hide, than the genius who could write and perform “Blind Willie McTell.”
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986)

It’s getting harder and harder to recognize the trap
Too much information about nothing, too much educated rap
Never could learn to drink that blood, and call it wine
What looks large from a distance, close up is never that big
~Bob Dylan (Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart)

Great song recorded during the “infidels” sessions in 1983, but sadly not included on the released album.

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It later developed into “Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)”, recorded during the “Empire Burlesque” sessions in 1985 (and released on that album).

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