Continue reading March 16: Bob Dylan playing in Santa Cruz, California in 2000 – Classic concert!
Most of the time
I’m clear focused all around
Most of the time
I can keep both feet on the ground
I can follow the path, I can read the signs
Stay right with it when the road unwinds
I can handle whatever I stumble upon
I don’t even notice she’s gone
Most of the time
.. Sony wanted him to record a promo video of the song to help their ongoing attempts to promote an album that had been (correctly) received as a real return to form. And Dylan, being Dylan, duly obliged by re-recording the song with the musicians destined to feature on his next album, under the red sky, and letting his son Jesse film the results. The resultant thudding threnody was as unambient as it gets. Yet Dylan dug it enough to allow promo CDs of this new version to be released, even though after a month off the road his voice was not in great shape, and the song suffers accordingly
~Clinton Heylin (Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, . 1974-2008
Continue reading March 16: Bob Dylan making Most Of The Time promo video – 1990
Continue reading March 15: Bob Dylan Playing Santa Cruz, California – 2000 (audio)
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of you
You were trying to break into another world
A world I never knew
I always kind of wondered
If you ever made it through
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of you
“Shooting star” was his first album closer since “Every Grain of Sand” to share that slightly somnambulant feel, a gorgeous melody, caressed vocal and an abiding conviction that there are two kinds of people, good (i.e. saved) and lost people.
~Clinton Heylin (Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, . 1974-2008
This was the 6th “Oh Mercy” recording session, and Dylan also landed another master: “Everything Is Broken”.
Continue reading March 14: Bob Dylan recorded “Shooting Star” in 1989
When I got into rock ‘n’ roll, I didn’t even think I had any option or alternative. It showed me where my future was, just like some people know they are going to be doctors or lawyers or shortstop for the New York Yankees.
– Bob Dylan (Nov 10, 2003)
| Never ending tour 2003 | |
|---|---|
| Start date | February 6, 2003 |
| End date | November 25, 2003 |
| Legs | 4 |
| No. of shows | 11 in Oceania 54 in North America 33 in Europe – 98 in Total |
Uneven year with a great last leg (Europe fall: Oct 9 – Nov 25).
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When your mother sends back all your invitations
And your father to your sister he explains
That you’re tired of yourself and all of your creations
Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?
Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?
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