Bob Dylan
Sports Arena
San Diego, California
17 November 1978
01 – My Back Pages (Instrumental)
02 – She’s Love Crazy (Tampa Red)
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 Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
10 – Like A Rolling Stone
11 – I Shall Be Released
12 – SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
13 – The Times They Are A-Changin’
14 – Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
15 – It Ain’t Me, Babe
16 – Am I Your Stepchild?
17 – One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
18 – Blowin’ In The Wind
19 – Girl From The North Country
20 – We Better Talk This Over
21 – Masters Of War
22 – All Along The Watchtower
23 – Changing Of The Guards
Concert # 44 of the 1978 US Fall Tour. 1978 concert # 93.
Concert # 70 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 Bob Dylan (harmonica).
14 Helena Springs, Jo Ann Harris, Carolyn Dennis (vocals) without Bob Dylan.
15 Bob Dylan solo (vocal, harmonica & guitar).
BobTalk
- You know, in the Midwest in the 50’s, used to have carnivals that came to town.
Most of the time…they used to be called…they always had somebody called …
the geek…. I don’t know if there’s any of you have heard of a geek before.
A geek is a man who eats a live chicken, bites the head off, eats the head first,
then he eats the rest of it. Well, it used to cost a quarter to see the geek
Anyway, this dude was funky, he was low-down, all the way down. (…..) but he
used to get insulted all the time, you know. Anyhow, he pretty much kept to
himself, but I did find out on thing from him. He used to (…..) other people
being freaky. I used to remember that. Anyway….. (before Ballad Of A Thin Man) - Thank you. Right. I was invited to play at the Newport Folk Festival.
They invited me there three times. I played this song the last time I was there.
They never did invite me back. I don’t hold any grudges. Anyway, sometimes…..
I told this man up here who asked me about the song that sometimes the whole world
looks to me like Maggie’s Farm, and sometimes I (…..)
I Ain’t Gonna Work On Maggie’s Farm No More. (…..). - Thank you. I took a train once from Monterey, Chihuahua, up to San Diego.
Anyway, this guys was sitting next to me on this train, a man wearing a blanket.
He (…..) to know everything. One of them (…..) guys. His eyes were burning up,
smoke was coming out of his nostrils. I though I’d talk to him. When I turned around
to look at him, he was gone. He’d either got off when the train stopped. (…..)
I was hallucinating which I could have been doing too. (before SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power))
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