Bob Dylan
1999 I TOLD MY PA I’M GOING STEPPING OUT
the 1999 United States Winter Tour
Pink Panther Records

Download: FLAC/MP3

74 tracks
74 different songs
23 different concerts
1 bob

29 concerts (23 represented here)
4 songs played 20 times or more (Not Fade Away, Love Sick, Gotta Serve Somebody, Silvio)
7 songs played 15 times of more
14 songs played 10 times of more
23 songs played 5 times of more
9 songs played only 3 times
10 songs played only twice
26 songs played only once

Everblades Arena
Fort Myers, Florida
26 January 1999

1.Forever Young

LB-9645

National Car Rental Center
Sunrise
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
28 January 1999

2.SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power)

LB-9136

Ocean Center
Daytona Beach, Florida
29 January 1999

3.If Not For You
4.You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
5.Roving Gambler (trad.)
6.Love Minus Zero / No Limit
7.My Back Pages
8.You’re Too Late (Lefty Frizzell & Herman P. Willis)

LB-3409

Ice Palace
Tampa, Florida
30 January 1999

9.Man In The Long Black Coat
10.Never Gonna Be The Same Again
11.A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

LB-9625

Pensacola Civic Center
Pensacola, Florida
2 February 1999

12.Queen Jane Approximately
13.Rock Of Ages (trad.)

LB-4884;
Taper: soomlos;
Equipment: core-sound cardioids > sony d8 (16/48) >
microtrack > sound forge 7.0 > cd wave > flac

Nat Kiefer UNO Lakefront Arena
University Of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
3 February 1999

14.Million Miles
15.Highway 61 Revisited

LB-7012

New Daisy Theater
Memphis, Tennessee
5 February 1999

16.My Blue-Eyed Jane (Jimmie Rodgers/L. B. White)
17.It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

LB-7013

Municipal Auditorium
Nashville, Tennessee
6 February 1999

18.Stone Walls And Steel Bars (Ray Pennington / Ray Marcum)
19.Honky Tonk Blues (Al Dexter/James B. Paris)

LB-5177;
Taper: Bobby Bourbon (BB);
Equipment: Schoeps MK4V’s > Sonosax SX-M2 > Sony SBM-1 >
Sony TCD-D100(@44.1khz), DAT MASTER > Sony TCD-D100 >
Edirol R-4 > Wavelab 5 > CDWAV > FLAC

Ervin J. Nutter Center
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio
9 February 1999

20.Make You Feel My Love

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Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Columbus, Ohio
10 February 1999

21.Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
22.Simple Twist Of Fate
23.Friend Of The Devil (Jerry Garcia – Robert Hunter – John Dawson)

LB-2437;
Equipment: SchoepsCMC64 > Sonosax SX-M2 > Panasonic SV 255 >
Master DAT > CDR > CDWAVE > FLAC

S.I.U. Arena
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois
12 February 1999

24.Shelter From The Storm
25.Cold Irons Bound
26.Rank Strangers To Me (A. Brumley)
27.Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
28.Blowin’ In The Wind

LB-4695;
Taper: PDub;
Equipment: Sonic Studios 6p mics > Sony D3, D7 or D8 >
Sony R300 (?) > Optical leads > Sony CD Burner > CDR(1) >
EAC (Secure/Offset) > FLAC (Level 8) > Data DVD

Redbird Arena
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois
13 February 1999

29.Watching The River Flow
30.She Belongs To Me
31.Silvio (Bob Dylan & Robert Hunter)
32.Cocaine Blues (trad.)
33.Masters Of War
34.Ballad Of A Thin Man
35.Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

Brian Setzer (electric guitar):
Ballad Of A Thin Man,
Highway 61 Revisited,
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35.

LB-8015;
Taper: sullylove;
Location: GA Floor – with the shoes!, 25 feet back dead Center;
Equipment: BK4021 Compact Cardioid Microphones > (mine were bought before DPA merge),
Sonosax SX-M2-LS/2 Microphone Amplifier > Sony SBM-1 High Density Linear A/D Converter >
Sony TCD-D8 DAT Walkman,
Transfer: M-Audio MicrotrackII Via spdif Coaxial Cable > flac FrontEnd

Joyce Center
Notre Dame University
South Bend, Indiana
14 February 1999

36.You’re A Big Girl Now
37.Desolation Row

LB-7529

Stabler Arena
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
18 February 1999

38.I Want You
39.Mama, You Been On My Mind

LB-5178;
Taper: Bobby Bourbon (BB);
Equipment: Schoeps MK4V’s > Sonosax SX-M2 >
Sony SBM-1 > Sony TCD-D100(@44.1khz), DAT MASTER >
Sony TCD-D100 > Edirol R-4 > Wavelab 5 > CDWAV > FLAC

Broome County Forum
Binghamton, New York
19 February 1999

40.One Too Many Mornings
41.’Til I Fell In Love With You
42.Every Grain Of Sand
43.Not Fade Away (Norman Petty/Charles Hardin)

LB-4250;
Taper: Bobby Bourbon;
Location: 11th Row in Front of left PA stack;
Equipment: Schoeps MK4V’s > Sonosax SX-M2 > Sony SBM-1 > Sony TCD-D100

Olympic Center
Lake Placid, New York
20 February 1999

44.Gotta Serve Somebody
45.Mr Tambourine Man

LB-3284;
Taper: Bobby Bourbon;
Location: 14th Row Center;
Equipment: FOB Schoeps MK4V > Sonosax SX-M2 > SBM-1 > D100 @ 44.1kHz;
Transfer: D > Panasonic SV-3800 > S/PDIF > Audiophile 2496 > CDWAV >

RPI Fieldhouse
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York
22 February 1999

46.Maggie’s Farm
47.Tears Of Rage (Bob Dylan/Richard Manuel)
48.Boots Of Spanish Leather
49.The Times They Are A-Changin’
50.I Shall Be Released
51.Love Sick
52.To Be Alone With You

LB-4036;
Taper: VT Taper;
Location: KC in the Straw Hat 1st row left speaker stack;
Equipment: DAUD Master ATM-35 Hyper Cardioid Capsules > Sony D-7 DAT;
Transfer: Panasonic SV-3700 > Audiophile 2496 > @ 24 Bit to WaveLab >
16 Bit > CD Wave > Flac

Marine Midland Arena
Buffalo, New York
23 February 1999

53.All Along The Watchtower
54.I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
55.It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

LB-2839

Mullins Center
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts
24 February 1999

56.Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour (Frances J. Crosby/William H. Doane)
57.Girl Of The North Country
58.I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
59.Like A Rolling Stone
60.Everything Is Broken
61.Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

LB-5700;
Taper: Unwanted Man Music (UMM);
Equipment: AT853H > D7 > Tascam CD-RW750 > CD Wave > FLAC

Cumberland Civic Center
Portland, Maine
25 February 1999

62.I’ll Remember You
63.Can’t Wait
64.Positively 4th Street
65.Visions Of Johanna
66.Tangled Up In Blue
67.Pledging My Time
68.Blind Willie McTell

LB-5683;
Taper: Unwanted Man Music (UMM);
Equipment: AT853H > Sony D7 > Tascam CD-RW750 >
Audacity > CD Wave > FLAC

Club Rio
Rio Suite Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
1 March 1999

69.Lay, Lady, Lay
70.Just Like A Woman
71.It Ain’t Me, Babe

LB-5276

House Of Blues
Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
2 March 1999

72.To Ramona
73.Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

LB-4960

Unidentified Recording Studio
New York City, New York
Early April 1999

74.Train Of Love (Johnny Cash)

Bob Dylan
1978 BASS PLAYER’S WEARING A TIE
NORTH AMERICA NOVEMBER & DECEMBER
Pink Panther Records

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The final piece of Pink Panther’s five part 1978 world tour, which consisted of 114 concerts (not the 115 often quoted by writers).
This has only been bettered by the 120 concerts in 1999 & 116 in 1995.
The year would take Bob to 10 countries – USA, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Sweden & Canada.

This final North American leg seems like it is light years away from the Japanese “greatest hits” shows.
It was not a happy time for Bob (as had been the American concerts in September & October), but Bob did make some radical decisions on how he would move forward & out of his situation.

The journalists were unrelenting in their criticism, Street Legal did not sell well, Renaldo & Clara was a commercial disaster,
the single Baby Stop Crying flopped & was all but dropped from the setlist.

I have no idea what was going on in his head, but the rants about geeks, gypsy kings, & an old man on a train in Mexico with glowing eyes (God?, devil?) give some insight.

Whether the stories about crosses thrown on stage or hotel room visits from God are reliable is debatable, but he did play Slow Train at soundchecks & Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) on the final tour night in Hollywood, Florida.

However, when you listen objectively to the best examples of the circulating tapes, you get some wonderful music.
The setlist is fairly static but the night by night variation is amazing.
Despite everything, the standard of performance is very high – he does not give up.
Improvisation is the order of the day & the band & backup singers give their all.
It is far looser than September & October – to the point of being feral & unpredictable.

The music soars all the way to heaven – literally.

Sound quality is mostly excellent, but there are some lo-fi tracks of the rarely played songs
(Baby Stop Crying was only played twice before being abandoned in mid-November).

A note on sound quality – Jokerman usually does a great job with sound ratings, but not here.
imo, Vancouver & LA are under-rated, Charlotte is over-rated, & Madison is incredible (although I concede that there are cuts & dropouts on some songs – most of which do not appear here).
I have never liked (& still don’t like) Charlotte – I know everyone raves about it but all the versions I have heard are harsh, processed & clipped.
There are 11 Charlotte tracks here – the performances are great, but imo there are better examples of most of the songs.

Generally, there are two examples of each song (one each from November & December) but not always.

The title comes from bootlegger comments at 11-15 LA just before Shelter From The Storm (but I had to clean it up a bit).

Statistics for this compilation (yes, lies, damn lies & statistics masquerading as facts)

75 ball-tearing, sensational tracks
37 different songs
14 concerts are represented here (from the total of 32 concerts)
5 hours & 44 minutes of music
1 bob

All songs played on the tour leg are represented here.

Dane County Memorial Coliseum
Madison, Wisconsin
1 November 1978

1.My Back Pages
2.It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
3.Tangled Up In Blue
4.Ballad Of A Thin Man
5.Like A Rolling Stone
6.I Shall Be Released
7.SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
8.It Ain’t Me, Babe
9.Am I Your Stepchild?
10.One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
11.Blowin’ In The Wind
12.Girl Of The North Country
13.Masters Of War
14.Just Like A Woman
15.All I Really Want To Do
16.Forever Young

My Back Pages instrumental without Bob Dylan.

LB-7674;
Compiler Les Kokay (LK);
from LK 78 series;
Equipment: Audience Master Cassette > PCM >
Betamax > PCM > HHBCDR-800 (pass thru) >
Panasonic SV3700 DAT Recorded >DAT;
Transfer: DAT > TCD-D10 proII > S/PDIF >
Audiomedia III PCI card > Powermac7200/80 >
Protools 3.4 > copied to Power Mac G3 >
Protools 4.1.1 > .WAV files > Flac

Hec Edmondson Pavilion
University Of Washington
Seattle, Washington
10 November 1978

17.Mr Tambourine Man
18.Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)

LB-9353;
Taper: JEMS;
Equipment: Tandberg Model 11 R2R deck with Sony ECM-22P mic;
Transfer: Master Reels @ full track mono > Tandberg Model 11 >
Wavelab 96/24 1ch mono > wav 44.1/16 2ch mono > flac

Pacific National Exhibition Hall
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
11 November 1978

19.She’s Love Crazy (Tampa Red)
20.Maggie’s Farm
21.I Donít Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
22.Like A Rolling Stone
23.Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
24.One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
25.All Along The Watchtower
26.It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
27.Changing Of The Guards

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Alameda County Coliseum
Oakland, California
14 November 1978

28.Baby Stop Crying

LB-3574

The Forum
Inglewood
Los Angeles, California
15 November 1978

29.My Back Pages
30.Mr Tambourine Man
31.Bootlegger Banter
32.Shelter From The Storm
33.Ballad Of A Thin Man Intro
34.Ballad Of A Thin Man
35.I Shall Be Released
36.The Times They Are A-Changin’
37.Am I Your Stepchild?
38.Girl Of The North Country
39.We Better Talk This Over
40.Masters Of War
41.Bootlegger Banter
42.To Ramona
43.All I Really Want To Do
44.It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

LB-3738;
At The Forum (dylantree);
Equipment: Uher 240 Stereo Porta Deck with 2 Sennheiser MKH 404 Mics

A.S.U. Activities Center
Tempe, Arizona
18 November 1978

45.True Love Tends To Forget

LB-7736;
Compiler: Les Kokay (LK);
from lk 78 series

LLoyd Noble Center
Norman, Oklahoma
23 November 1978

46.Watching The River Flow

LB-7741;
Compiler: Les Kokay (LK)

Mid-South Coliseum
Memphis, Tennessee
1 December 1978

47.Sheís Love Crazy (Tampa Red)
48.Tangled Up In Blue

LB-0263;
Taper: BS;

Municipal Auditorium
Nashville, Tennessee
2 December 1978

49.It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
50.I Donít Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
51.I Shall Be Released
52.One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) Intro
53.One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
54.To Ramona
55.All I Really Want To Do

LB-4407;
Taper: BS

Municipal Auditorium
Mobile, Alabama
5 December 1978

56.One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)

LB-7766;
Compiler Les Kokay (LK);
from LK 78 series

Greensboro Coliseum
Greensboro, North Carolina
7 December 1978

57.Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)

LB-8724

Civic Center Arena
Savannah, Georgia
8 December 1978

58.Is Your Love In Vain?

LB-4823

Charlotte Coliseum
Charlotte, North Carolina
10 December 1978

59.My Back Pages
60.Sheís Love Crazy (Tampa Red)
61.Shelter From The Storm
62.Ballad Of A Thin Man Intro
63.Ballad Of A Thin Man
64.SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power) Intro
65.SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
66.The Times They Are A-Changin’
67.Am I Your Stepchild?
68.We Better Talk This Over
69.Masters Of War
70.All Along The Watchtower
71.Changing Of The Guards

LB-4625;
Equipment: Taped using a 3-head portable cassette recorder and electret condenser mic
which was possibly above-average equipment for the typical audience stealth taper in those days;
Stereo master cassette tapes for Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte LB-7099

Hollywood Sportatorium
Hollywood, Florida
16 December 1978

72.Love Minus Zero/No Limit
73.It Ain’t Me, Babe
74.Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)
75.I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

LB-0212