Bob Dylan – Melbourne, Australia (03/21/78)

Bob Dylan
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Myer Music Bowl
21 March 1978

01 – A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
02 – Love Her With A Feeling (Tampa Red)
03 – Mr. Tambourine Man
04 – I Threw It All Away
05 – Shelter From The Storm
06 – Love Minus Zero/No Limit
07 – Girl From The North Country
08 – Ballad Of A Thin Man
09 – Maggie’s Farm
10 – I Donít Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
11 – Like A Rolling Stone
12 – I Shall Be Released
13 – Going, Going, Gone

14 – One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
15 – You’re A Big Girl Now
16 – One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
17 – Blowin’ In The Wind
18 – I Want You
19 – Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
20 – Just Like A Woman
21 – Oh, Sister (Bob Dylan-Jacques Levy/Bob Dylan)
22 – To Ramona
23 – All Along The Watchtower
24 – The Man In Me
25 – All I Really Want To Do
26 – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
27 – Forever Young

    (encore)

28 – The Times They Are A-Changin’
29 – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Concert # 19 of the 1978 Far East Tour. 1978 concert # 19.
Concert # 19 with the Far East Band 1978:
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar),
Billy Cross (lead guitar),
Alan Pasqua (keyboards),
Steven Soles (rhythm guitar, backup vocals),
David Mansfield (violin & mandolin),
Steve Douglas (horns),
Rob Stoner (bass),
Bobbye Hall (percussion),
Ian Wallace (drums),
Helena Springs, Jo Ann Harris, Debbie Dye (background vocals).

1 instrumental without Bob Dylan.

6, 20 Bob Dylan (harmonica).

BobTalk:

  • Thank you. If you havenít guessed that song is called Ballad Of A Thin Man.
    This is called I Ainít Gonna Work On Maggieís Farm No More. (after Ballad Of A Thin Man)
  • Thank you. We wanna say hello to the Lord Mayor tonight.
    Tell him to stand up and take a bow. The Lord Mayor of…..something.
    I thought this man back here was Lord Mayor. (after Oh Sister)
  • Thank you. That was David Mansfield on the violin. (…..).
    Iím gonna play this for my good friend whoís here tonight. (after All Along The Watchtower)
  • Thank you. On the keyboards tonight, Alan Pasqua. Alan used to be an airline pilot..
    On the tenor saxophone and (symptophone). E flat. Mr. Steve Douglas.
    On the violin and the mandolin, eighteen year old genius David Mansfield.
    Never had a woman. Davidís the man. All right.
    A best selling author from South America, Mr. Steve Soles on rhythm guitar. Yes, he can fly.
    On the bass guitar (…..) the Rolling Thunder Revue. He never (says) anything.
    Rob Stoner on bass guitar. On the drums from Kingston, Jamaica, Ian Wallace.
    Conga drums Bobbye Hall. And these very beautiful young ladies here, on the right is my fiancÈ,
    she’s a real tiger. Debbie Dye. On the left the girl that makes me cry every night, Helena Springs.
    And in the middle my present girl, Jo Ann Harris. Lead guitar Billy Cross.
    This is called It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding.

Mono audience recording, 130 minutes.

LB-07328 ; 69min+77min ; 2CDR ; Rating: C-

3/21/78 Melbourne, Australia

lk series
recording made from my 1st gen tape.

bittorrent download 03/09;
in comparison to LB-5195 they are similar sound quality except that has more hiss;
good sound [C-]

drops between tracks

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