Bob Dylan – Boston, MA (09/20/78)

Bob Dylan
Boston Gardens
Boston, Massachusetts
20 September 1978

01 – My Back Pages
02 – I’m Ready (Willie Dixon)
03 – Is Your Love In Vain?
04 – Shelter From The Storm
05 – Love Minus Zero/No Limit
06 – Girl From The North Country
07 – Ballad Of A Thin Man
08 – Maggie’s Farm
09 – I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
10 – Like A Rolling Stone
11 – I Shall Be Released

12 – Going, Going, Gone
13 – One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
14 – It Ain’t Me, Babe
15 – Am I Your Stepchild?
16 – One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
17 – Blowin’ In The Wind
18 – I Want You
19 – SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
20 – Masters Of War
21 – Just Like A Woman
22 – Baby Stop Crying
23 – All Along The Watchtower
24 – All I Really Want To Do
25 – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
26 – Forever Young

    (encore)

27 – Changing Of The Guards

Concert # 5 of the 1978 US Fall Tour. 1978 concert # 54.
Concert # 31 with the 1978 World Tour Band:
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar),
Billy Cross (lead guitar),
Alan Pasqua (keyboards),
Steven Soles (rhythm guitar, backup vocals),
David Mansfield (violin & mandolin),
Steve Douglas (horns),
Jerry Scheff (bass),
Bobbye Hall (percussion),
Ian Wallace (drums),
background vocals:
Helena Springs,
Jo Ann Harris,
Carolyn Dennis.

1 instrumental without Bob Dylan.
5, 15, 21 Bob Dylan (harmonica).
14 Bob Dylan solo (vocal, harmonica & guitar).

BobTalk:

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. I wrote this back in 1964 it’s
called I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s Farm no more. I still believe it!
Thank you! We’re gonna take a short break here. Weíll be right back in a
few moments. This is a tune I first recorded with The Band on an album
called Planet Waves. I think we played it last time we came here. …
I think so. (before Going, Going, Gone)
Thank you, this is a new song I wrote called Am I Your Stepchild ?
Thank you, This is a song I wrote on a train track from Mexico,
Chihuahua to San Diego, California. (before SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power))
All right. (….) I wanna introduce the band to you. On the drums,
Mr. Ian Wallace. Right. On the bass guitar, please give him a warm applause,
Mr. Jerry Scheff. On the keyboards, Alan Pasqua. On the lead guitar,
dangerous Billy Cross. On the rhythm guitar, quite a song writer and
great singer, Steve Soles. On the mandolin and the violin, (….),
David Mansfield. On the tenor saxophone, Mr. Steven Douglas.
On the background vocals. On the right, my first cousin and childhood
sweetheart, Miss Jo Ann Harris. On the other side, a great singer (….),
next year she’s gonna come back and do all her own songs (….),
Carolyn Dennis. In the middle my current girlfriend, Helena Springs.
On the conga drums from Detroit, Bobbye Hall. If the pictures looks good,
the light have been (….) by (…)and if the soundís good, the man who
(….) all this, Tim Charles, give them all a warm round of applause.
This is called It’s Alright Ma, Iím Only Bleeding
Thank you very much. Before I forget, I wanna say hello to Kate.
I know she’s here tonight. From Boston University.
All right, so we’re gonna play this song and leave you now.
But we couldnít find a hotel. We have to go to the next town.
All right, I hope you are feeliní well and had a good time.
I love to play here, youíre a beautiful crowd.
Next time we’ll play more new songs. (before Forever Young)