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Bob Dylan: 5 Great Live Versions of “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”





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

One of his sweetest love songs – apart from the brothel, death and Apocalypse references.
“My love she speaks like silence.” Tricky, but then she is quite a woman: true, morally elevated, yet winking and laughing like the flowers. The very scent of her swirls through this honeyed river of song, borne along on gentle tumbles and ripples of guitar. Frankly, we’re all enamoured … Until that bastard bridge at midnight trembles, the wind howls like a hammer, and she’s suddenly a raven at the window. So- what?- she’s death?With a broken wing too? Now we’re confused, now we’re in a bit of a pickle. Romance over? What happened? What does it mean? Sigh.
MOJO Magzine – 100 Greatest Dylan Songs

Performances:

  • 163 times acoustic w/ band – top year 1994 (24 times)
  • 119 times acoustic – top year – top year 1992 (48 times)
  • 1 time as an instrumental – 1978
  • 90 times w/band – top year 1978 (60 times)
  • First performance: Troy, New York – February  12 , 1965
  • Last played: Broomfield, Colorado – October 30,  2012

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July 24: Bob Dylan: “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”, Newport Folk Festival 1965 (video)





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Freebody Park
Newport, Rhode Island
24 July 1965
Newport Folk Festival. Contemporary Songs Workshop.

Setlist:

  1. Mr. Tambourine Man
  2. Tombstone Blues
    fragment:
  3. Love Minus Zero/No Limit




  4. All I Really Want To Do
  5. If You Gotta Go, Go Now

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-Egil

May 8: Bob Dylan Love Minus Zero/No Limit, London 1965 (Video)

bob dylan savoy hotel 1965

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

A Hotel Room
Savoy Hotel
London England
8 May 1965

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May 9: Bob Dylan – San José, California 1992


bob dylan san jose revisited

This is a great sounding audience recording of a loose, fun show. The setlist is amazing.
~bobsboots.com

Perhaps the best of the West-coast shows..[1992]
~Clinton Heylin (A Life In Stolen Moments)

San José Event State Center
San José, California
9 May 1992

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
  • John Jackson (guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • Ian Wallace (drums)
  • Charlie Quintana (drums & percussion)

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May 8: Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero/No Limit, Savoy Hotel, London 1965 (Video)

bob dylan savoy hotel 1965

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

A Hotel Room
Savoy Hotel
London England
8 May 1965

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