Bob Dylan
60S ANTHEMS 78 STYLE (Pink Panther Records)
Co-produced by Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau and President Vladimir Putin.
Mastered at Lubyanka Sound Studios, KGB Headquarters, Moscow.
Big Band 78s Of The Classics.
All songs are chronological.
A true Top-40.
Pink Panther in party mode
Lubyanka Sound Studios, Moscow
Bob waiting for a taxi outside Rundown Studios (unsuccessfully)
Bob’s Point Dume, Malibu mansion with original dome
Nasty Russian copy of Bob’s house
Nazi’s parading at Zeppelindfeld, Nurnberg 1938 (Jimmy Page row 23, 1,237 from left)
1. Most Likely You Go Your way (And I’ll Go Mine)
2. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, California, 30 December 1977 (rehearsal)
Dylan (guitar), David Mansfield (mandolin, guitar), Steven Soles (guitar),
Alan Pasqua (organ), Rob Stoner (bass), Danny Siewell (drums).Dylan (piano & vocal),
Frannie Eisenberg, Katie Segal and an unidentified woman (backgrouns vocals).
This particular rehearsal comes at a time when the touring band was still in a state of flux,
with Denny Siewell on drums, Jesse Ed Davis on guitar and Katie Segal and Debbie Dye Gibson on backing vocals.
It also features Dylan figuring out a piano arrangement of It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,
as well as versions of three songs that failed to appear on the tour; Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine),
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat and If Not For You. Though this is a first generation digital transfer of the cassette master,
this is one recording not from the mixing console, but recorded by one of the musicians with a boom box. (hence the slightly recessed vocals).
However, it remains a fascinating insight into the embryonic stage of rehearsals at this point.
3. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Rundown Studios, Music Touring Co, Santa Monica, California, 30 January 1978 (rehearsal)
Dylan (vocal and guitar), Billy Cross (guitar), David Mansfield (steel guitar and violin),
Steven Soles (guitar), Rob Stoner (bass), Alan Pasqua (piano and organ), Ian Wallace (drums),
Andy Stein (saxophone), Frannie Eisenberg, Katie Sagal, unidentified female singer (background vocals).
Glen Dundas has Steve Douglas on saxophone, Bobbye Hall on percussion and Jo Ann Harris, Helena Springs and Debbie Dye on backing vocals.
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4. I Threw It All Away
Matsushita Denki Taiikukan, Hirakata City, Osaka Fu, Japan, 24 February 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Soles / Stoner / Wallace / Dye / Harris / Springs
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5. To Ramona
6. I Shall Be Released
Matsushita Denki Taiikukan, Hirakata City, Osaka Fu, Japan, 26 February 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Soles / Stoner / Wallace / Dye / Harris / Springs
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7. Tomorrow Is A Long Time
Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 4 March 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Soles / Stoner / Wallace / Dye / Harris / Springs
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8. All I Really Want To Do
Festival Hall, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 15 March 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Soles / Stoner / Wallace / Dye / Harris / Springs
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9. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California, 3 June 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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10. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (instrumental)
11. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California, 7 June 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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12. I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 23 June 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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13. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man
15. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
16. Masters Of War
Zeppelindfeld, Nürnberg, Germany, 1 July 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
Only vocal performance of A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall during the 1978 World tour.
BobTalk
Thank you. That was a new song. This is an old one. Not really new. It gives me great pleasure to sing it in this place. (before Masters Of War)
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17. Just Like A Woman
18. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
Pavillon de Paris, Paris, France, 3 July 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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19. Gates Of Eden
20. Blowin’ In The Wind
21. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Pavillon de Paris, Paris, France, 5 July 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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22. My Back Pages (instrumental)
Pavillon de Paris, Paris, France, 6 July 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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23. Mr Tambourine Man
24. Love Minus Zero / No Limit
25. The Times They Are A-Changin’
Pavillon de Paris, Paris, France, 8 July 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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26. Girl Of The North Country
Scandinavium, Göteborg, Sweden, 11 July 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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27. I Want You
Scandinavium, Göteborg, Sweden, 12 July 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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28. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Blackbushe Aerodrome, Camberley, England, 15 July 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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29. Fourth Time Around
Onondaga County War Memorial Auditorium, Syracuse, New York, 22 September 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
Only performance of Fourth Time Around during the 1978 World tour.
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30. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 October 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
Only performance of It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry during the 1978 World Tour.
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31. All Along The Watchtower
Richfield Coliseum, Richfield, Ohio, 20 October 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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32. Maggie’s Farm
Hec Edmondson Pavilion, University Of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 10 November 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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33. Like A Rolling Stone
34. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (Queens Of Rhythm vovals)
35. Masters Of War
Pacific National Exhibition Hall, Vancouver, British Columbia, 11 November 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas/ Hall / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Harris / Springs
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36. Mr Tambourine Man
37. It Ain’t Me, Babe
38. All Along The Watchtower
The Forum, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, 15 November 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Harris / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Springs
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39. Ballad Of A Thin Man
40. Maggie’s Farm
Hollywood Sportatorium, Hollywood, Florida, 16 December 1978
Band: Dylan / Cross / Douglas / Hall / Harris / Mansfield / Pasqua / Scheff / Soles / Wallace / Dennis / Springs
BobTalk / GeekRant
You know in the 50’s they used to have carnivals that came trough town.
I know that you’re familiar with carnivals here.
Anyway, back then every carnival had what they called a geek.
Everyone know what a geek is? A geek is a man who eats a live chicken.
He bites the head off, and then he bites the rest of it off.
Anyway, he drinks up the blood, eats the heart, everything.
Sweeps up the feathers with a broom.
In those days it cost a quarter to see him.
Nowadays I suppose it’d be 15-20 dollars, back then it was still a quarter.
Anyway, no one much get too tight with a geek, you know?
I was having breakfast one day with a bearded lady and she tells me that a geek is so low down that he can’t be believable.
He thinks that everyone else in the whole crew is freakier than he was.
I remembered that years later when I was walking down a street in Nashville you know,
about 1960 something, when Al Kooper was playing organ for me at the time.
And we were walking down the street, we had long hair, and nobody in Nashville, at that time, did have long hair.
Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, none of those people had long hair at this particular time.
Anyway, we were walking down the street and the buses used to stop, people would come running out of their stores just to look at us.
I thought this was kind of peculiar really because we hadn’t done anything.
Somewhere along the line I put, tried to put, all of it into this particular song. (before Ballad Of A Thin Man)
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