Bob Dylan
Alameda County Coliseum
Oakland, California
14 November 1978
01 – My Back Pages
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 – Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)
21 – Masters Of War
22 – Just Like A Woman
23 – Baby Stop Crying
24 – All Along The Watchtower
25 – All I Really Want To Do
26 – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
27 – Forever Young
28 – Changing Of The Guards
Concert # 42 of the 1978 US Fall Tour. 1978 concert # 91.
Concert # 68 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, 22 Bob Dylan (harmonica).
14 Helena Springs, Jo Ann Harris, Carolyn Dennis (vocals) without Bob Dylan.
15 Bob Dylan solo (vocal, harmonica & guitar).
BobTalk:
- In the Midwest in the fifties they used to have these carnivals come through town.
There always used to be someone in the carnival they called a geek.
A geek is somebody, a man, who eats a live chicken. Bites the head off a live chicken
an eats it. Anyway it cost a quarter to see him. If you think you’re funky this dude
was really low-down. Anyhow, I didn’t get too tight with him but …, he did leave me
some message and that was, he used to think of other people as being freaks.
That used to really knock me out. Anyway, I remembered that years later when I
wrote this tune. (before Ballad Of A Thin Man)
- Thank you. I tried to escape out of Mexico once. Like everybody else.
I took a train ride from Monterey to San Diego. Right out of San Diego I found this
song written in my back pocket. (before SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power))
- One year on my birthday I went to France where they have a big gypsy festival.
All the gypsies from all over the world go there, and they party for a week.
It just happens to be on my birthday. Anyway, I met the king of the gypsies a little
ways away from there. He had 16 wives and 100 children and he still wasn’t faithful
and true. Anyway I did get mixed up with someone over there. I don’t remember what was
happening but in the morning they said, “Would you like anything for the road?”
And without thinking I just said “one more cup of coffee.” I wasn’t sure if I could
say anything else, but it was dangerous territory.
(before One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below))
- Thank you. You know the first girl I ever fell in love with was way back when.
She left me to be a movie star. An then she left me after that, for an older man.
She said she wanted to be with an older man, how old? 21! Anyway I never get to see
her anymore, but she’s here tonight, so I’m wanna play this.
(before Girl From The North Country)
- All right, I don’t know, maybe some of you heard this one or not.
This is a single record. I don’t really make singles too much. But ahh, I’ve released
this as a single. I think it sold 100 copies. 25 in the Bay area.
So seeing as it sold so many up here we’re gonna play it. It’s a little ballad called
Baby Please Stop Crying. (plays Baby Stop Crying) Thank you. Wanna say hello to
Van Morrison tonight. I know he’s out there somewhere. Van, I want you to record
some of my songs now!
- Thank you, that was All Along The Watchtower. That was David Mansfield on the smoking
violin.
- All right, I’m gonna introduce you to some of the players in the band.
On the drums from Kingston, Jamaica, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Ian Wallace.
On the bass guitar, Mr. Jerry Scheff. I know we’ve been written about, these shows
as showbizzy. Disco. But it really isn’t any of those things, you know that.
Anyway, on the keyboards, the one and only Alan Pasqua. On lead guitar, Billy Cross.
On rhythm guitar tonight, ladies and gentlemen, from Bogota, doesn’t speak any
English, but plays his heart out. A man who gave up a career as a being a
sports car driver down there to join this band. Ladies and gentlemen, Steven Soles.
On the violin, the youngest member of this group, fifteen years old.
Been with me now for five years. Doesn’t smoke dope, go out with women or drink
whiskey, he’s a real bore. Ladies and gentlemen, David Mansfield.
On the tenor saxophone, a man who really now almost invented the style that
everybody is bodies playing in nowadays. Played on most of Phil Spector’s records.
Used to play with Duane Eddy. Ladies and gentlemen, the phenomenal Steve Douglas.
On the backup vocals tonight, three young ladies who have been with me so long now
I don’t know what I’d do without them. On the right, my ex-girlfriend, Jo Ann Harris.
I like to eat an she can’t cook. Anyway, my current girlfriend in the middle,
Helena Springs. Helena can sing too. On the left, that’s my fiancÈe Carolyn Dennis.
All right, on the conga drums, from Detroit, the most amazing Miss Bobbye Hall.
I’ll sing you a song now called It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding.
- All right, we gotta get out of here. Anyway we wanna leave you with this song.
I wrote this for one of my babies when he was a baby. He’s not a baby no more but
I wanna play it anyway! (before Forever Young)
3 new songs (10%) compared to previous concert. No new songs for this tour.
Stereo audience recording, 135 minutes.
LB-03574 ; 73min+74min ; 2CDR ; Rating: B-
11/14/78 Oakland, California, Alameda County Coliseum
Low generation source > audio disks > dBpowerAMP > flac.
Clear fingerprint: “can’t block the aisle” distinctly heard near beginning of TUIB
not a lot above 13k except what looks like noise;
right channel is deformed on upper side and can get scratchy and harsh like it is clipped;
good to very good sound [B-];
(a bittorrent from 05/07 was a not very close eac match described as
“Trade CD > EAC > FLAC > HD > Hungercity > You; Same source as LB-3574” );
(a bittorrent from 06/09 with matching file set describes itself as part of the
lk 78 series and this LB number)
a few spots of light scratchines on d1t1 like at 1:11;
background noise d1t3 0:3x which is probably clapping or mic noise and occurs some more ;
begin of d1t10 is cut; drop d2t12 3:17
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