Bob Dylan – Tokyo, Japan (02/21/78)

Bob Dylan
21 Feb 78
Tokyo, Japan
Budokan Hall

Hard Rain (instrumental)
Lonesome in my Bedroom
Mr Tambourine Man
I Threw It All Away
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Shelter From the Storm
If You see her say Hello
Ballad of a Thin Man
Maggie’s Farm
I Want You
Don’t Think Twice. its alright
To Ramona
Like A Rolling Stone
I Shall Be Released
Going, Going, Gone
Sooner Or Later
Blowin’ In The Wind
Just Like A Woman
Oh Sister
You’re A Big Girl Now
All Along The Watchtower
Simple Twist of Fate
All I really wanna do
The Man in Me
Tomorrow Is A Long Time
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
(band intro)
It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding
Forever Young
The Times They Are A-Changin’

BobTalk (new)

Thank you. Playing the drums tonight is Ian Wallace. On the Conga Drums, Bobby Hall. On the Organ from Roosevelt, New Jersy is Alan Pasqua. Cape Canaveral Florida on Rythm Guitar, Steven Soles. Playing Horns tonight, we have Steve Douglas. Violin and Mandolin is David Mansfield; he’s only 19. […..] Lead guitar is Billy Cross. On bass guitar is Rob Stoner. Background vocals Jo Ann Harris, Helena Springs shes on the left,and on the right is Miss Debbie Gibson. (before Itís Alrigh, Ma (Iím Only Bleeding).

Source 1:

LB-7291

From the original uploader:
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-1237

Source 2:

LB-11035
BOOTLEG: Live In Japan Vol. 2
Tarantura TCDBD-2A 2B 4 CD BOX)
Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan – February 21st, 1978

Flac files extracted by cevau from audio disks provided by industry source.

bittorrent download 08/13; harsh and compressed;
this has 2 different recordings based on different crowd at end of d1t4;
they are different recordings than LB-1237 and LB-7291 based on different crowd at beginning of d1t2;
both versions A & B have additional crowd at beginning of show than on other versions;
version A has the most with additional opening music;
version A and B sounded similar except A was harsher and B had a little more hiss;
LB-1237 has the warmest sound with least hiss;
(did not listen to all of this)

drop/cut between cdrs;
discontinuities between tracks;
discontinuity pop d1t3 0:41, d4t13 1:34

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