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Bob Dylan: 5 Great Live Versions of “The Man In Me”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]The man in me will do nearly any task,
And as for compensation, there’s little he would ask.
Take a woman like you
To get through to the man in me.

Storm clouds are raging all around my door,
I think to myself I might not take it any more.
Take a woman like your kind
To find the man in me.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

The Man in Me has been performed:

  • 3 times acoustic w/ band – all in 2002
  • 1 time as an instrumental – 1978
  • 153 times w/band – top year 1991 (42 times)

First live performance:

  • Nippon Budokan Hall
    Tokyo, Japan
    20 February 1978

Last live performance:

  • Den Fynske Landsby
    Odense, Denmark
    27 June 2011

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Bob Dylan: 5 Great Live Versions of “Can´t Wait”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]I can’t wait, wait for you to change your mind
It’s late, I’m trying to walk the line
Well, it’s way past midnight and there are people all around
Some on their way up, some on their way down
The air burns and I’m trying to think straight
And I don’t know how much longer I can wait[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Performances:

  • 187 times w/band – top year 1998 (64 times)

First live performance: Humphrey Coliseum, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi – 24 October 1997

Last live performance: The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York – 4 September 2012

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August 31: Bob Dylan & The Band at Isle of Wight 1969 (videos)

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]I once held her in my arms
She said she would always stay
But I was cruel
I treated her like a fool
I threw it all away[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Woodside Bay
Near Ryde, Isle Of Wight, England
31 August 1969

  • Bob Dylan (guitar & vocal)
  • Robbie Robertson (guitar)
  • Richard Manuel (piano)
  • Garth Hudson (organ)
  • Rick Danko (bass)
  • Levon Helm (drums)

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Bob Dylan: 5 Great Live Versions of “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”





[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll
With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger
At a Baltimore hotel society gath’rin’
And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him
As they rode him in custody down to the station
And booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murder
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain’t the time for your tears

The story I took out of the newspaper and I only changed the words. It’s, er… ..Well, I changed, er… the reporters view into… I used it I used it for something I wanted to say, er, and I used his view, the Maryland reporters view to get at what I wanted to say and turn it that way. And I used a true story, that’s all. I could have used a made-up story.
~Bob Dylan (to Steve Allen – Feb. 1964)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Performances:

  • 128 times acoustic w/ band – top year 2003 (17 times)
  • 62 times acoustic – top year – top year 1988 (16 times)
  • 104 times w/band – top year 1975 (18 times)
  • First played: Oct 26, 1963, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
  • Last performance: Oct 20, 2012, Power Balance Pavilion, Sacramento, CA

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