“I know in my own mind what I’m doing. If anyone has imagination, he’ll know what I’m doing. If they can’t understand my songs they’re missing something. If they can’t understand green clocks, wet chairs, purple lamps or hostile statues, they’re missings something, too.”
~Bob Dylan (to Robert Shelton – August 1965)

Albums

Dylan’s sixth album and his first fully fledged eagle-flight into rock. Revolutionary and stunning, not just for its energy, freshness and panache but in its vision: fusing radical electric music—electric music as the embodiment of our whole out-of-control, nervouenergy-fuelled, chaotic civilization—with lyrics that were light-years ahead of anyone else’s, Dylan here unites the force of blues-based rock’n’roll with the power of poetry.
~Michael Gray (Bob Dylan Encyclopedia)

“Highway 61 Revisited” (1965)

From Wikipedia:

Released	August 30, 1965
Recorded	Columbia Studio A, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York, June 15 – August 4, 1965
Genre	Rock, folk rock
Length	51:26
Label	Columbia
Producer	Bob Johnston, Tom Wilson on “Like a Rolling Stone”

Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was released in August 1965 by Columbia Records. On his previous album, Bringing It All Back Home, Dylan devoted Side One of the album to songs accompanied by an electric rock band, and Side Two to solo acoustic numbers. For Highway 61 Revisited, Dylan used rock backing on every track, except for the closing 11-minute acoustic song, “Desolation Row”. Critics have written that Dylan’s ability to combine driving, complex, blues-based rock music with the power of poetry made Highway 61 Revisited one of the most influential albums ever recorded.

Check out our post: August 30 – Bob Dylan released “Highway 61 Revisited” in 1965, 50 years ago

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Concerts

• 1992 – The Orpheum Theater, Minneapolis, MN, USA
• 1998 – Townsville Breakwater Entertainment Centre, Townsville, QLD, Australia
• 2002 – Outdoor Amphitheater, Deer Valley, Snow Park Lodge, Park City, UT, USA
• 2006 – Frontier Field, Rochester, NY, USA
• 2008 – Snowmass Town Park Main Festival Stage, Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Festival, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA
• 2012 – Wicomico Youth And Civic Center, Salisbury, Maryland

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“People say music is intended to elevate the spirit. But you’ve got a lot of groups and lyrics projecting emptiness and giving you nothing, less than nothing because they’re taking up your time. Music, should aim for the soul not the groin. It’s not difficult to get people throbbing in their guts. That can lead them down an evil path if that’s all they’re getting. You gotta put something on top of that.”
~Bob Dylan to Edna Gundersen, August, 1990

Historic event

August 29, 1969 – Isle Of Wight

After a friendly game of tennis, Dylan, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and The Band indulge in a jam session “in the barn where Bob had been rehearsing for the previous four days with the Band.”
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)

Albums

Modern Times – released August 29, 2006

Modern Times is the thirty-second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 29, 2006 by Columbia Records. The album was Dylan’s third straight (following Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft) to be met with nearly universal praise from fans and critics. It continued its predecessors’ tendencies toward blues, rockabilly and pre-rock balladry, and was self-produced by Dylan under the pseudonym “Jack Frost”. Despite the acclaim, the album sparked some debate over its uncredited use of choruses and arrangements from older songs, as well as many lyrical lines taken from the work of 19th-century poet Henry Timrod.

Check out:

• Bob Dylan – Modern Times (2006) – alldylan.com
• Modern Times @ rollingstone.com
• Modern Times @ pitchfork.com

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The single: Someday Baby was also released August 29, 2006

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Concerts

• 1988 – Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, ON, Canada
• 1989 – Pan American Center, Las Cruces, NM, USA
  For their first show in New Mexico, Dylan and the band open with an instrumental “El Paso.” They conclude the show with the same song.
  ~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)
• 1990 – Minnesota State Fair, Falcon Heights, MN, USA
  Dylan begins opening with a brief instrumental version of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” “Joey” returns to the set, and “Friend of the Devil” is retained from Merriville.
  ~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)
• 1992  – The Orpheum Theater, Minneapolis, MN, USA –
• 1993  – Tinley Park World Of Music, Chicago, IL, USA –
• 1994  – Michigan State Fair, State Fair Grounds, Detroit, MI, USA –
• 1997  – Midway Stadium, St. Paul, MN, USA –
• 2004  – Mayo Field, Rochester, MN, USA –
• 2006  – New Britain Stadium, New Britain, CT, USA
• 2010 – McMenamins Historic Edgefield Manor, Troutdale, Oregon
• 2012 – Cambria County War Memorial Arena, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
• 2014 – Royal Theatre, Canberra, Australian Capitol Territory, Australia

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