Bob Dylan
February 23, 1978
Nippon Budokan Hall
Tokyo, Japan
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Instrumental)
Lonesome In My Bedroom
Mr. Tambourine Man
I Threw It All Away
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
If You See Her, Say Hello
Ballad Of A Thin Man
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Met)
Maggie’s Farm
Girl Of The North Country
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
To Ramona
Like A Rolling Stone
I Shall Be Released
15. Going, Going, Gone
Disc 2:
1. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
2. Blowin’ In The Wind
3. Just Like A Woman
4. Oh Sister
5. You’re A Big Girl Now
6. All Along The Watchtower
7. Simple Twist Of Fate
8. All I Really Want To Do
9. I Want You
10. The Man In Me
11. Tomorrow Is A Long Time
12. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
13. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
14. Forever Young
15. The Times They Are A-Changin’
BobTalk
Thank you. This is a song I wrote for a friend of mine a few years back. (before To Ramona)
Thank you. Very nice to be here in this country. (before Oh Sister)
Thank you. We’re getting to learn that one. I wanna introduce you to some of the people up here. I bet you’ve been wondering who they are. Playing the horns tonight we have Steve Douglas. On the violin and the mandolin David Mansfield. These three young ladies at the back, on the left, far left is Helena Springs. In the middle is my ex-wife Jo Ann Harris. Debbie Franklin, on the left. On rhythm guitar we have Steve Soles tonight. On the bass guitar Rob Stoner. On the drums Ian Wallace from Great Britain. Lead guitar Billy Cross. On the organ Alan Pasqua, on the conga drums Bobbye Hall. (before It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding))
We’re gonna leave you with this tune. It’s been a pleasure singing here. Thank you very much. We’re gonna be leaving town in about three days, but we’ll be back, and we’ll see you then. (before Forever Young)
Source 1:
LB-1248
Project ’78 by Jason Hart (ripple01@comcast.net)
Source: Master Audience Tape -> CDR
Notes: There is some taper noise throughout Hard Rain. There is a mic bump @ 4:09 – 4:10 of I Don’t Believe You.
The beginning of Don’t Think Twice is cut. There is some feedback @ 2:51 of I Shall Be Released.
Dylan flubs the first line of One Of Us Must Know. There is some feedback at 0:10 of I Want You.
There is a non-destructive edit between Man In Me and Tomorrow Is A Long Time.
There is also a crackling noise present on some songs from this show.
I noticed it most on Thin Man, Girl From The North Country, I Shall Be Released and Going, Going, Gone.
It may be present elsewhere as well.
Editing: None
Iím not very good at describing questionable sounds so Iíve just listed the times with ?s @ . Used earphones to listen to tracks. I wasnít able to hear all of the questionable sounds on my cheap stereo.
Source 2:
LB-7292
Here’s some more Bob “Budokan” Dylan.
Files as I received them.
Thanks to all those who made this possible.
I couldn’t find any recordings of this show so I mastered this one from my cassettes.
I expect that this is the same recording as LB-1238
themidnightcafe.org 
This is interesting, must have ‘surfaced’ fairly recently. Will be interesting to see how quality compares with the more ‘established’ tapes from this leg of the tour, particularly the 28th which has traditionally been considered the best
Wow, this looks great – like DylanDave said, I’ve never seen any boots from Tokyo ’78. Thanks so much Mat!
On first listen this seems really nice, Bob and the band seem to be on good form as they were for nearly all the 78 gigs. I have a particular liking for these early 78 shows. It’s a shame that some of the best arrangements didn’t make it onto the album whilst ‘maggies farm’ and ‘heaven’s door’ both did!? commercial considerations i guess but personally i’d rather have arrangements which actually work and do justice to the songs,
Also, so much nicer without the somewhat saccharin production values of the album, although the original japanese vinyl pressings did sound rather nice, and radically better than all othr releases.
Sound qual doesn’t match 28th but nice warm tone and very enjoyable
Yeah, like DD says, 78 is a surprisingly good year
for Live Dylan… I mean surprisingly because Budokan
was such a bad representation (and despite some
great songs Street Legal is somehow always an
album that doesn’t quite manage to be as good as it
should have been).
I actually like Budokan a lot but only because it was one
of the first records I ever bought… I was about 11 years
old and it had just come out and it had a lot of the hits
on it and I had enough cash to buy one Bob Dylan
record!! Its probably encoded in my DNA
But it isn’t his best, and no mistake.
By comparison Bob’s on fire by the autumn in the states… and
what a shame none of it was captured with the same lush
“japanese” sound.
And many of the earlier shows are good as well, like the Earls Court
shows which circulate in pretty good sound. Check out Big Girl Now
on the 18th !!
Like DD says, some of the best arrangements never made it into the
official releases, as is so often the case
Too right Tony, the biggest problem with the late US shows is the nature of the venues, i,e, large and outdoor. The legendary UK Blackbush gig recirding suffers for the same reason. The Paris shows are aVailable in consistently excellent sound qual (better than EC) and the performances are also superb. It’s a close and subjective call as to which leg of the tour is best performance wise. However, without doubt the Street Legal material is superb on the US leg and is in itself a good reason to check out the better recordings. There are 4 or 5 VG or VG+ sound qual shows from US leg. I’ve been liasing with Mat, maybe we can get a few of the best on the blog sometime soon when Mat has a gap in his uploading schedule. Take care all
PS i will never understand how the 78 ‘To Ramona’ missed out on selection for the album
As always thanks for the comments gang. Always informative. I personally love the Budokon record. Dig all the different arrangement, but am glad to hear some more of that tour even if the sound isn’t as good.
Really enjoying this less familiar 78 rec, not keast due to a beautifully ubderstated and soulful vocal performance from Bob. even by the impeccable standards of 78 it is standout, particularly true from ‘blowing in the wind’ onwatds. You might need to put the ‘cans’ on to really appreciate
And this is a fascinating listen…. very enjoyable.
The sound is OK too – just very distant, as though the taper was a
ways back in the hall. Otherwise it’s excellent, warm and detailed.
Great for the atmosphere. And one thing that is always immediately
obvious from the 78 tapes is just what a powerful wall of sound this
band was capable of making…. that doesn’t really come across from
the Budokan album.
Hi 1978 is great
I have a request for his 1978 show July 11 in Gothenburg, in lossless format
I only do mp3 as a last resort so I haven’t tried this archive. Recommend you sokve your issues by getting this as flac, deserves to be heard as lossless anyway and you could always convert it to mp3 with Traders Little Helper if you wish. Regardless,as a general note MEGA is not compatible with IE and explicitly states so on its website and literature etc.
Alternatively try the repair function in WINRAR on the mp3 archive and then extract the reulting ‘fixed’ archive
Comments made on a repost of this show that has now been deleted:
DYLANDAVE
November 17, 2017 at 9:00 pm Edit
Strange that in all my years of trading and sharing Bob in different formats, it is only in the last few years that i have been able to fill or to upgrade some of these early 78 tapes with decent lossless sources.
Thanks for these Mat, good work!
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MAT BREWSTER
November 19, 2017 at 11:41 pm Edit
It is amazing to me how this sort of thing happens. I guess some people just hoard stuff or only trade among secret groups to prove how cool they are. This music deserves to be spread far and wide as far as I’m concerned.