Continue reading September 24: Bob Dylan – Guildhall Portsmouth, England 2000 (videos)
You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinningYou got a lotta nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that’s winning
And the gobsmacking footage of his performance in Newcastle a couple of days later, included entire on the No Direction Home DVD, proves no less maelstromic. Here we can see he is visibly speeding out of his brains and probably more than a little miffed that the Mr. Jones puffing on his pipe in the front row thinks he’s attending a poetry recital.
~Clinton Heylin (Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973)
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Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People’d call, say, “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”
You thought they were all kiddin’ you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin’ out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next mealHow does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?–
Continue reading May 21: Bob Dylan Like A Rolling Stone, Newcastle, England 1966 (video)
My love she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence
She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful
Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire
People carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love she laughs like the flowers
Valentines can’t buy her
Continue reading May 8: Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero/No Limit, Savoy Hotel, London 1965 (Video)
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
Continue reading April 17: Bob Dylan – Workingman’s Blues #2, Birmingham 2007