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November 6: Bob Dylan: Rome, Italy Atlantico, 2013 (Videos)

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The day the setlist changed….

“Yesterday I got out home with a quiet feeling that i would be
experiencing the standard selection of songs in this european fall tour that, although unchanged since the beginning of this leg of the tour, it’s a stellar selection composed of songs of one my favourite album: tempest! So i entered the ballroom with a relaxed mood, just like visiting the Gioconda in the Louvre, that you’ve never seen in your life, but, you know, it stands in your mind as a fixed image…the stage is ready and i appreciated the six big hollywood vintage lowpowered spotlights as crown from above. The lights went out on time and soon magic fills the air because unexpectedly LEOPARD skin pill box opens the show…”
Read more from Claudio Manara over at Boblinks…

Rome, Italy
Atlantico
November 6, 2013

  • Bob Dylan – piano, harp
  • Tony Garnier – bass
  • George Recile – drums
  • Stu Kimball – rhythm guitar
  • Charlie Sexton on lead guitar
  • Donnie Herron – banjo, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel

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October 30: Bob Dylan @ Amsterdam, The Netherlands – 2013 (videos)

 

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Heineken Music Hall
October 30, 2013

  • Bob Dylan – piano, harp
  • Tony Garnier – bass
  • George Recile – drums
  • Stu Kimball – rhythm guitar
  • Charlie Sexton on lead guitar
  • Donnie Herron – banjo, violin, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel

  1. Things Have Changed(Bob center stage)
  2. She Belongs To Me (Bob center stage with harp)
  3. Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ (Bob on grand piano)
  4. What Good Am I? (Bob on grand piano)
  5. Pay In Blood (Bob center stage)
  6. Waiting For You (Bob on grand piano)
  7. Duquesne Whistle (Bob on grand piano)
  8. Tangled Up In Blue (Bob on grand piano)
  9. Love Sick (Bob center stage with harp)
    (Intermission)
  10. High Water (For Charley Patton) (Bob center stage with harp)
  11. Simple Twist Of Fate (Bob on grand piano)
  12. Early Roman Kings (Bob on grand piano)
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May 29: Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower, Verona, Italy 1984 (video)

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Bob Dylan in Verona, May 1984. Photo by Heinrich Klaffs

“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief
“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth”

Arena di Verona
Verona, Italy
29 May 1984

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April 23: Bob Dylan at Budokan was released in 1979

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April 23: Bob Dylan at Budokan was released in 1979

The Budokan album was only supposed to be for Japan. They twisted my arm to do a live album for Japan. It was the same band I used on Street Legal, and we had just started findin’ our way into things on that tour when they recorded it. I never meant for it to be any type of representation of my stuff or my band or my live show.
~Bob Dylan (to Kurt Loder – March 1984)

I believe this double LP was made available so our hero could boast of being outclassed by Cheap Trick, who had the self-control to release but a single disc from this location.
~Robert Christgau (robertchristgau.com)

Released 37 years ago today (April 23).

The album was slaughtered by many critics.. especially in the US.

“The writers complain the show’s disco or Las Vegas. I don’t know how they came up with those theories. We never heard them when we played Australia or Japan or Europe. It’s like someone made it up in one town and the writer in the next town read it. I don’t know what the reviewers mean half the time. I don’t even care.
~Bob Dylan (to Robert Hilburn – Nov 1978)

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Jimi Hendrix plays Bob Dylan and Beatles

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“Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.”
– Jimi Hendrix, Beat International 1969

Though they were not close friends, Jimi Hendrix was a huge fan of Bob Dylan and covered five of his songs (to my knowledge), both live and in the studio. These tracks are “Like a Rolling Stone,” “All Along the Watchtower,” “Drifter’s Escape” , “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?” and “Tears of Rage” (by Dylan and Richard Manuel)

“I like his Blonde On Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited. His country stuff is nice too, at certain times. It’s quieter, you know.”
– Jimi Hendrix (1970, Hendrix on Hendrix)

“One day that fall [Howe] was walking down Eighth Street in New York City with Jimi when they spied a figure on the other side of the road. “Hey, that’s Dylan,” Jimi said excitedly. “I’ve never met him before; let’s go talk to him.” Jimi darted into traffic, yelling “Hey, Bob” as he approached. Deering followed, though he felt uneasy about Jimi’s zeal. “I think Dylan was a little concerned at first, hearing someone shouting his name and racing across the street toward him,” Deering recalled. Once Dylan recognized Jimi, he relaxed. Hendrix’s introduction was modest enough to be comic. “Bob, uh, I’m a singer, you know, called, uh, Jimi Hendrix and…” Dylan said he knew who Jimi was and loved his covers of “All Along the Watchtower” and “Like a Rolling Stone.” “I don’t know if anyone has done my songs better,” Dylan said. Dylan hurried off, but left Jimi beaming. “Jimi was on cloud nine,” Deering said, “if only because Bob Dylan knew who he was. It seemed very clear to me that the two had never met before.””
– Charles Cross (Room Full of Mirrors)

The Beatles stuff is at the end of the post.

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