Bob Dylan – Chicago, IL (10/18/78)

Bob Dylan
Chicago Stadium
Chicago, Illinois
18 October 1978

01 – My Back Pages
02 – Iím Ready (Willie Dixon)
03 – Mr. Tambourine Man
04 – Shelter From The Storm
05 – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
06 – Tangled Up In Blue
07 – Ballad Of A Thin Man
08 – Maggie’s Farm
09 – I Donít Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
10 – Like A Rolling Stone
11 – I Shall Be Released
12 – Going, Going, Gone

13 – The Times They Are A-Changin’
14 – It Ain’t Me, Babe
15 – One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
16 – Blowin’ In The Wind
17 – Girl From The North Country
18 – Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)
19 – Masters Of War
20 – Just Like A Woman
21 – To Ramona
22 – All Along The Watchtower
23 – All I Really Want To Do
24 – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
25 – Forever Young

    (encore)

26 – Changing Of The Guards

Concert # 24 of the 1978 US Fall Tour. 1978 concert # 73.
Concert # 50 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),
Helena Springs,
Jo Ann Harris,
Carolyn Dennis (background vocals).

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

BobTalk

All right this is a love ballad I wrote a few years back about three people
who is in love. (before Tangled Up In Blue)
Thank you. This is an old song I wrote and it hasn’t changed much.
No matter what you heard. The words are still the same and so are the chords.
(before Ballad Of A Thin Man)
Thank you. This is called I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s Farm No More.
Some of you are probably hearing it for the third or fourth time, some of you
for the first time. (before Maggie’s Farm)
Thank you. We’re gonna take a short break right here. Weíll play a song I did
with The Band the last time we were here I think. Itís off an album we made that
time called Planet Waves. (before Going, Going, Gone)
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, tonight on the drums, Mr. Ian Wallace.
On the bass guitar, Jerry Scheff. On the keyboards, the one and only Alan Pasqua.
On the lead guitar, the oldest member of this group, Mr. Billy Cross.
On the rhythm guitar, from Bogota, Colombia, doesn’t speak a word of English,
plays his heart out, I’m sure you all agree, Mr. Steven Soles. Right?
We have a hard time communicating with this boy. All right, on the violin, and
the mandolin, sometimes electric lead guitar, the baby of the group, he’s only
fifteen years old. He’s been with me though for five years. Ladies and gentlemen,
David Mansfield. On the tenor saxophone, the phenomenal Steve Douglas. Right.
On the backup vocals tonight, as every night. On the right, my ex-girlfriend
Jo Ann Harris. Feeling alright Jo Ann? In the middle my, my current girl friend,
Helena Springs. And on the other side, my fiancÈe Carolyn Dennis.
Now, on the conga drums, from Detroit City, the most amazing Miss Bobbye Hall.
All right, thank you very much! I hope we played something right tonight.
So, this is called It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding.
All right, we gotta go now. We gotta get out of here. It’s been a pleasure
being here. It’s been a great thrill. So, here’s a song I wrote a while back
on that album with The Band, Planet Waves. Anyway, I wrote it for one of my
babies when he was a baby. I’ll leave you with this one, I’ll see you later.
Good luck to ya. And don’t let nothing get in the way. (before Forever Young)