Category: Bob Dylan

Show Review: Paul Simon & Bob Dylan – Wantagh, NY (07/30/99)

Paul Simon/Bob Dylan
Jones Beach Ampitheatre
Wantagh NY
7-30-99

Tracks:

Paul Simon:

Bridge Over Troubled Water
Can’t Run But
The Boy In The Bubble
The Coast
Trailway Bus
Mrs. Robinson
Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Further To Fly
Graceland
The Cool, Cool River
Slip Sliding Away
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
You Can Call Me Al
Late In The Evening
Still Crazy After All These Years

Dylan/Simon duets:

The Sound Of Silence
I Walk The Line/The Wanderer
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Bob Dylan:

Babe, It Ain’t No Lie
Mr. Tambourine Man
Desolation Row
Girl Of The North Country
Tangled Up In Blue
All Along The Watchtower
Shelter From The Storm
Maggie’s Farm
Not Dark Yet
Highway 61 Revisited

Encore

Like A Rolling Stone
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Not Fade Away

My review:

In the summer of 1999, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon embarked on a four-month-long, 38-date tour together as co-headliners (they would switch back and forth in terms of who was the opening act).

This night in Wantagh is the penultimate night of the first leg of the tour. After the next night’s show in Wantagh, they took a few weeks off and came back together in Florida on September 2.

Some kind soul recorded the SBD feed beamed out to the stadium on an FM channel to help those with hearing difficulties. Rattlesnake Records bootlegged that recording on a disc they called Something Is Happening On Mr. Jones’ Beach. Lossless Bob indicates at least one other bootleg of the show, but as far as I can tell, it comes from this same recording (probably just a copy of the Rattlesnake bootleg). A taper named Doinker also recorded the show. And then someone calling themselves OctopusRider did a matrix mix of the SBD and the Doinker recording, but only for the Dylan set.

I listened to the SBD. It is missing “Babe, It Ain’t No Lie.”

The SBD is marred by some volume fluctuations, and it sounds very flat. At least to my (admittedly not great ears.) I listened to the first several songs in my car on the way to work. I immediately didn’t like the sound. It sounded not only flat, but cold and distant. I tried it on my cheap earphones, and it sounded worse.

That afternoon I took my daughter somewhere and put on some Big Thief for her listening pleasure. She immediately complained about the sound quality. We played around with the car’s settings and realized that something was off. The back speakers weren’t working at all, and there was no equalizer adjustments for the front speakers.

No wonder this recording sounded so terrible. The radio worked fine, but when I connected my phone up, something screwed up. It took me a couple of days to fix it. But what an improvement once I did. Now, as I mentioned, the sound still isn’t pristine. It still sounds a bit cold, and there are those annoying fluctuations. But it is highly listenable. I just did a quick test listen to the matrix, and it sounds terrific. You just don’t get the Simon performance.

I have a few Paul Simon concert recordings. The ones from the 1980s onward are all performed with a big band, creating what I call the Graceland sound. The shows are filled with lots of percussion and horns, and a large vocal section.

The opening track this night, “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” has none of that. It sounds more like something Daniel Lanois would produce. It is haunting and atmospheric. Simon can no longer hit those high notes, but he still does a nice job with it.

“Can’t Run, But” gets a little more robust, but not much. But by the time he hits the third song, “The Boy in the Bubble,” things get really good. There are big horns, big guitars, and big backup vocals. Graceland is one of my favorite albums, and this song is one of my favorites from that album, and this version is wonderful.

When I was a teenager, first discovering Paul Simon (or Simon & Garfunkel, rather), I absolutely hated “Mrs. Robinson.” The reasons were mostly stupid (but would probably make for a good My Life In Music post; look for that soon). I always skipped it when playing the record, or when it came on the radio. I’ve since gotten over those stupid reasons, but I still don’t really care for the song. It has some clever lyrics, but it’s never really done anything for me. This is a perfectly fine version.

“Me and Julio” is always fun, and this is an energetic performance. “Cool Cool River” is great, and it concludes with this wonderful cacophony of horns. He doesn’t have Ladysmith Black Mambazo with him (if you ever get to see them live, I highly recommend it; they are awesome), so the opening to “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” is toned down quite a bit. They do try a bit of acapella singing, but it doesn’t work very well. Once they get into the tune, though, it turns out well.

“You Can Call Me Al” and “Late in the Evening” are super fun with lots of great horn work.

Dylan comes out to duet with Paul on three songs. They sing together on “The Sound of Silence,” which is interesting. Simon has a traditionally good voice; it is very pretty, whereas Dylan has…well, he has Dylan’s voice. I love it, but he’s never been known as a technically great singer. It is full of grit and gravel. Put them together, and it’s not exactly a beautiful harmony, but it works. Next, they do a medley of “I Walk The Line/The Wanderer,” and it is clear they are both having so much fun.

But it is “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” that’s the showstopper. I believe it is Simon’s band still on the stage, and the addition of horns makes this rendition something special. They turn it into a reggae number, and it is just amazing. Bob and Paul trade off verses, with them both singing the chorus. Again, it is clear they are having a great time. Toward the end, they launch into a chorus of “I hear ya knockin’, but you can’t come in,” and I just love it.

Bob in 1999-2000 is some of my favorite Dylan ever. Larry Campbell and Charlie Sexton on guitars is where it is at. But the whole band really gels perfectly well. For my money, Paul Simon was the warm-up, and this is the show.

I’ve always loved how, during this period, Dylan always opened with an old traditional number. It really sets the stage. “Oh, Babe It Ain’t No Lie” fits that bill. Then we get into it with “Mr. Tambourine Man,” which finds everyone in fine form. There is a nice bit of duelling guitars at the close. Next comes “Desolation Row,” and it is fantastic. Great acoustic guitar playing. Bob’s vocal is so tender and pure on “Girl From the North Country.”

During this period, “Tangled Up In Blue” often had an extended acoustic jam that I usually just love. It feels a little off-balance here, but is still quite good. Larry Campbell sits at the pedal steel guitar for “Shelter From the Storm,” and it is amazing.

“Not Dark Yet” is one of my favorite late-period Bob Dylan tunes, and this version is fantastic. Long ago, I created a playlist for some of my favorite live versions of songs, and this went immediately into it.

“Highway 61” puts Larry back on pedal steel. There is some very fine electric guitar work.

The encore begins with “Like a Rolling Stone.” It is very good. Then we get treated to a ten-minute version of “It Ain’t Me, Babe” featuring some terrific acoustic guitar jamming. Then we close it out with a raucous “Not Fade Away.”

Great show overall. This is definitely not Paul Simon’s best performance. I’ve heard him do much better. It doesn’t help that the soundboard recording fluctuates so much. But it’s still good stuff. But it’s the Dylan set that makes this a must-have. That and the duets.

Bob Links has another review of the concert.

Lossless Bob has six LB#s for this show; you can find them here.

I have three sources. You can see text files and artwork here.

YouTube has a video of the show, recorded from the audience.

Show Review: Bob Dylan – Rome, Italy (06/19/84)

Bob Dylan with Mick Taylor & Carlos Santana
Rome, Italy
June 19, 1984

Highway 61 Revisited
Jokerman
All Along The Watchtower
Just Like A Woman
Maggie’s Farm
I And I
License To Kill
Hard Rain (acoustic)
Tangled Up In Blue (acoustic)
It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (acoustic)
Simple Twist Of Fate
Masters Of War
Ballad Of A Thin Man
When You Gonna Wake Up
Every Grain Of Sand
Like A Rolling Stone (band introduction)

encore:

Mr Tambourine Man (acoustic)
It Ain’t Me Babe (acoustic)
The Times
I Shall Be Released
Tombstone Blues
Blowin’ In The Wind

Band:

Mick Taylor – guitar
Ian MacLagan – keyboards
Greg Sutton – bass
Colin Allen – drums
Guest: Carlos Santana – guitar, last 4 tracks

Soundboard
Liberated Boot: Live At Palaeur
Silver CD > CDR > FLAC

Artwork: Front Cover, Back Cover, Poster

online Review:

“Live At Paleur is a soundboard recording taken from Dylan’s 1984 tour of Europe. It captures a highly enjoyable performance from Dylan and his Mick Taylor-fronted band. This recording sets Dylan’s vocals way out in front but I personally enjoy that mix. The band are a little buried on some of the songs and there are occasional echoes on the vocals but if you don’t mind these things then this is a great recording. It’d give an 8 or an 8.5 out of 10. Dylan sings most of the songs in the confident, swaggering style that characterised many of live performances in the 1980s. While this style is certainly not my favourite of Bob’s “vocal characters”, it works to good effect on many of the songs here. One thing that cannot be disputed is that ‘Live At Palaeur’ is a much better document of this tour than the patchy official release ‘Real Live’. Ballad Of A Thin Man on ‘Real Live’ is a horrible, rushed parody of the song that appeared on ‘Highway 61 Revisited’. Here Ballad… is one of the highlights of the set. The versions of Maggies Farm, Masters Of War and Tombstone Blues on this release also put their Real Live incarnations to shame. Other highpoints include the brilliant, rewritten Tangled Up In Blue, an interesting post-Gospel rewrite of When You Gonna Wake Up? (”When you gonna wake up? maybe you never will”), a passionate I & I and a beautiful performance of Every Grain Of Sand, which was still a relatively new song at that time. It’s clear that Bob’s having fun when he lets the audience sing on the chorus of Times They Are A-Changin’ and Blowin’ In The Wind. All in all, this is a highly entertaining show and I don’t hesitate in giving it my stamp of approval (for whatever that’s worth…) “

enjoy 🙂

The Midnight Cafe’s Review

When I listen to these shows, I try to make notes when something stands out. If a guitar solo is particularly interesting, or if there is some flub, I’ll write it down. If a song does something different – not necessarily good or bad, just different than I’ve heard it played before I make a note. But when a song is just played well – even really well – but it doesn’t do anything different, I tend not to make a note of it.

This show is really good, but very little actually stood out to me. A big reason why is that the mix is weird. It sounds muddled. Mick Taylor’s guitar is turned down really low to my ears. One of the other sources purports to be from Dylan’s monitor mix, and it also complains about the quality; I’m guessing this may be from the same source.

Dylan comes in loud and clear, but the guitar and keyboards often sound very distant. This gives the recording a feeling of not quite being there. Like you are listening from another room or something. It is too bad, too, because Mick is often killing it, taking some great solos. When I really concentrate, I can absolutely dig what he’s doing. Ian MacLagan does some good stuff on keys as well, but you can barely hear him half the time.

I listened to this on my way to work via my Honda CRV’s crappy speakers and then while I was at work via my crappy earphones. I suspect that if you listened to this with a really good sound system and maybe played around with the levels a bit, this might come out really good. Not perfect, but good.

But through my speakers it sounds just pretty-okay. It is still highly listenable, and it is a good show, but it won’t be going into my regular listening pile.

I did really like “I and I “ which has some nice echo on Dylan’s vocals. “Tangled Up In Blue” has some wonderful alternate lyrics. “Just My Imagination” is cut on this recording for some reason, but it seems to exist on other sources. I had no idea Carlos Santana played on the encore, and apparently I wasn’t impressed by him.

Lossless Bob has eleven sources listed for this show. I only have this one.

Show Review: Bob Dylan and the Band – Oakland, CA (02/11/74)

Furthering my attempts to add more music discussion at The Midnight Cafe, I thought I’d add to my reviews of officially released live music by reviewing some unofficially released tunes as well. That’s maybe slightly a falsehood in this case, as Dylan has released all of these shows in a magnificent boxed set, but he left out all The Band’s solo performances. And this review is not of the officially released discs but of a ROIO.  

Some time ago on my music blog I posted a Bob Dylan and The Band show from 1974, or maybe it was a compilation. I don’t remember.  It doesn’t matter. The point is, I posted something from their tour together at that time, and I made a comment about how it was one of the greatest tours ever.  The thing is I didn’t really know that to be true. I hadn’t really listened to much of that tour. I don’t think I’d even listened to Before the Flood all the way through. But I knew it was a big tour that played big venues to big crowds. I knew people were excited about it because this was the first tour after Bob Dylan’s long hiatus and that while The Band had toured with him in the 1960s, they were now a major rock and roll act in their own right.

Sometime after I posted my unrealized praise, I came to realize that quite a few hardcore Dylanheads weren’t really down with this tour. In fact, many downright loathe it. Turns out Dylan and at least some members of The Band felt it was a sellout tour, good for the pocketbook, but not for the soul. So I thought it would be fun for this, my first bootleg review in a long time to tackle a show from this tour.

I randomly picked this performance and this particular source. Dylan and the Band played some 40 gigs over the course of about two months (often playing two shows per day). This show was towards the end of the tour. They’d play three more gigs in Los Angeles after that, and then they were done. Lossless Bob lists some fourteen sources for this show. I have five of them. I chose LB-4455 to listen to. It is a nice sounding soundboard recording. Oddly, it contains parts of the early show and parts of the late show. The set lists were identical (or nearly so) and this bootleg basically cuts it in half. The split occurs in the middle of the Dylan solo acoustic set.

The tour changed a little bit from the early shows to the end of the tour but by this point they were playing mostly the same songs every night. It broke down like this: Dylan and The Band performed together, then The Band would play some of their songs without Dylan. The Band would leave and Dylan would do a few solo acoustic numbers. Then he’d leave again, allowing The Band to play a few more of their tunes, followed by Dylan being backed by The Band.

After listening to this performance a few times, I can definitely see where the hate is coming from, but also feel that it is overblown. This performance is a big rock and roll show. It is loud and brash, rowdy and racous. It is a big stadium rock and roll show. That’s great for bands like The Rolling Stones, but one usually expects something different from Bob Dylan. His music is suited for a more intimate setting where you can get more nuance. 

But often, it actually works. It starts with a rambunctious “Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine).” The music is played loud and fast, Dylan practically spits his words out. I dig it.  It is a powerful way to start the show. This is followed by “Lay Lady Lay”, which is a little more laid back but still rowdy. The song is meant as a seduction, but any girl listening to this would likely run for her life. Garth Hudson is playing some kind of new electric piano. It sounds like an organ here. Or maybe it is an actual organ. I’m terrible at figuring out who is playing what instrument.

I’m not going to do a song by song review. I just don’t have that much to say. I’ll try to list the highlights and maybe anything that seems weird or bad.

“Rainy Day Women” has a carnival feel which really works for the song. “It Ain’t Me, Babe” hangs onto that carnival sound. There are some droning organ chords which I kind of dig, but I can see how it might drive some folks nuts.  Then the piano kicks in and it sounds great. Ditto Robbie Robertson’s guitar playing.  The guitars get loud and rocking during “King Harvest.”

Here’s where I admit I’m not actually a huge fan of The Band. They were all incredibly talented musicians and great live performers. I freaking love The Last Waltz, but a lot of their songs just don’t do it for me. I’ve never been able to “get” Music From the Big Pink. I’ve got numerous recordings of their concerts without Bob and while the performances are often good, I can rarely get into them because of the songs.

I do love “Up on Cripple Creek” but, unfortunately, it cuts out on this recording.  “All Along The Watchtower” which brings Dylan back in with The Band cuts in. Dylan’s solo acoustic songs are fine. I love these songs and he performs them well. But this isn’t Dylan in the 1960s. The nuance and fire is gone.  

“Ballad of Hollis Brown” with The Band is terrific. It is not a favorite song of mine, but this version is fantastic. Great keyboard work, terrific guitar lines. “The Weight” is another song I do love from The Band is it is played with great enthusiasm here. Enthusiasm is a good word for the rest of the songs on this set. The last few songs are played with high energy.

So, yeah, this is good stuff.  It is a big rock and roll concert played with verve. But it does feel like maybe something is missing. It has to be weird playing in front of 20,000 people all cheering and shouting. That personal connection is going to get lost. Nuance and subtlety are hard to find in a massive arena. I look forward to listening to other shows on this tour, but I probably won’t do that for a while.  It is easy to see why Dylan completely deconstructed his concerts the next year with The Rolling Thunder group. But I’m also glad he did something like this.

You can view the entire setlist with notes about this recording here.

I’m not sure how I want to post this sort of thing. I had initally thought I’d upload all the images and text files (but not the music – if you want that send me a message and I can point you in the right direction.) But that seems like a hassle and maybe not that interesting to anyone. So, I’ll ask. Would anyone be interested in seeing that sort of thing? Would you like to have all the source information, just not the music? Is that worth it? Leave me a comment if you have thoughts on this, or anything else.

Various Artists – Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 31-32

Various Artists
Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan – Vol. 31-32

I included some art in these last ones. It may/may not have any relationship to our subject. As always if you don’t want them, just set your client to opt out.

Lineage:
downloaded from tracker 2019-06-26. r5. Many thanks to JS for all the original collection and compilation
LL blog > Transmission 2.94 > iMac 3.6 GHz (os10.14.6 Mojave) > xACT 2.47 (st5, md5) > Transmission 2.94 >
checksums included in torrent with original checksum files. (ffp, md5)

Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 31: I Left My Mind Behind

It’s been a little over a year since I did one of these, so there was lots to choose from. Three songs here are new to the series: “Dignity,” “Goin’ To Acapulco,” and “Standing in the Doorway.” Plenty of new artists too. This one goes out to the blogger at Music Ruined My Life, who has been making the series available in MP3.

As always, a big thanks to the tapers, the original uploaders, the nice folks who’ve sent me recordings, the fine artists who’ve created cover artwork, and especially the performers and composer. Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). If you’ve got something good that deserves consideration for future volumes, PM me.

NOTE: Lots of people ask me for past volumes in the series. If you are able to re-upload past volumes, please do! And if you’re willing to trade past volumes, please put a note in the comments section so the needy can get in touch. Thanks, Jeff

01 Blowin’ in the Wind – Suzanne Vega & Vanessa Paradis (Studio 128 La Plaine Saint-Denis, France)
02 Dignity – Elliott Murphy (RADISSON SAS HOTEL, BEITOSTÿLEN, SEPT. 8 ñ 2007)
03 Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – Richmond Fontaine (Sep 11, 2009, The Band Room, Low Mill, Farndale, North Yorkshire, England)
04 Sweetheart Like You – Don Henley (Shoreline Amphitheater – Mountain View, CA Sunday – October 11th, 1992)
05 Girl of the North Country – The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (Sean Lennon) (2010-08-16 Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton, MA)
06 Simple Twist of Fate – Diana Krall and Elvis Costello (Praza da Quintana, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain July 27th. 2010)
07 Subterranean Homesick Blues – Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks (THE ARK ANN ARBOR Michigan JAN 14 2009)
08 Oxford Town – Crooked Still (Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Walsh Farm, Oak Hill, New York, July 15, 2010)
09 Pledging My Time – Peter Case (Third & Lindsley – Nashville, TN – July 18, 2010)
10 Just Like a Woman – Charlotte Gainsbourg (The Crocodile Seattle WA April 14, 2010)
11 Down in the Flood – Flatt and Scruggs (Osaka, Japan March 1968)
12 Goin’ to Acapulco – David Rawlings Machine (Largo Los Angeles, CA, February 21, 2009)
13 You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – Loudon Wainwright III and Richard Thompson (The Egg, Albany NY, October 18, 2009)
14 One More Cup of Coffee – Frazey Ford 9Sep 7, 2010 KCRW Radio FM Broadcast Santa Monica, California)
15 Standing in the Doorway – David Nelson Band Dec 19, 2009, Arena Thatre, Point Arena, CA)
16 Forever Young – The Swell Season (Archa theatre, Prague, Czech Republic, June 8, 2008)

Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 32: Tales of Dark Heat and Vain Love

In celebration of Mr. Dylan’s return to Dime, here’s a Street Legal edition of NSD. I send this out with a warm thank you to Chopen, who has reposted the missing volumes of the series both here and at HC.

As always, a big thanks to the tapers, the original uploaders, the nice folks who’ve sent me recordings, the fine artists who’ve created cover artwork, and especially the performers and most of all the composer. Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). If you’ve got something good that deserves consideration for future volumes, PM me.

Finally, I’d like to wish you all a Happy Festivus. When you are done listening to this collection it will be time for the Airing of Grievances, followed by the Feats of Strength.

01 Changing of the Guard – Frank Black and the Catholics (Jul 21, 1999, John Peel Session, London, England)
02 New Pony – Palace Brothers (April 1997, WNUR Airplay, Evanston, IL)
03 Is Your Love in Vain? – Ian Hunter (Sep 16, 1981, The Bayou, Washington DC)
04 Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) – Greensky Bluegrass (Nov 9, 2007, The Stage Stop, Rollinsville, CO)
05 Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat) – Stockholm Syndrome (Mar 14, 2010, The Black Sheep. Colorado Springs, CO)
06 Like a Rolling Stone – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (May 19, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA)
07 The Times They Are a-Changing – Sinead O’Connor (Jul 8, 2010, Arena del mare, Porto Antico, Genova, Italy)
08 Billy #4 – Tom Russell and Gretchen Peters (Jun 17, 2010, Third and Lindsey, Nashville, TN)
09 Lenny Bruce – Stan Ridgeway (Sep 11, 2010, City Winery, New York, NY)
10 Positively Fourth Street – Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits (Dec 11, 2010, Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA)
11 Girl From the North Country – Rosanne Cash (Nov 19, 2009, KCRW, Santa Monica, CA)
12 Ballad in Plain D – Ashley Hutchings All Stars (Jun 2, 1988, Town Hall, Royton Lancashire, England)
13 Simple Twist of Fate – Jeff Tweedy (Aug 15, 2010, Joe’s Field @ Solid Sound Festival, North Adams, MA)
14 Just Like a Woman – Counting Crows and Augustana (Aug 13,2010, MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT)
15 Buckets of Rain – Fistful of Mercy (Nov 11, 2010, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA)
16 I’ll Keep it With Mine – Dean and Britta (Oct 15 2009, Merlyn Theatre, CUB Malthouse, Melbourne, Australia)
17 Fragment – DP MacManus (Nov 3, 2002, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FL)

Various Artists – Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 26

Various Artists
Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 26: Festivus Was Over, the Boys Were All Plannin’ For a Fall – Various Artists MODIFIED

Happy Festivus everyone! Gather round the Festivus Pole and we’ll have the Airing of Grievances, Feats of Strength, and maybe even a Festivus Miracle. We’ve got NSD debuts by Jackson Browne, Los Lobos and The Ramones, among others. We’ve got The Roots’s epic version of “Masters of War.” And we’ve got “the only known Bob Dylan Christmas song.”

As always, thanks to the tapers, the original uploaders, the nice folks who’ve sent me recordings (especially Ramone-master Gaston, who responded to my plea for “My Back Pages”), the fine artists who’ve created cover artwork, and especially the performers and composer. Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). If you’ve got something good, PM me. More volumes will follow in 2008.

Enjoy!

01 Desolation Row – Jackson Browne (Dec 15, 2007, Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, NC)
02 Outlaw Blues – Dream Syndicate (Sep 5, 1982, KPFK, Los Angeles, CA)
03 Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright – Bryan Ferry (Nov 22, 2002, Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA)
04 Clothesline Saga – The Roches (Oct 19, 2007, Kent Stage, Kent, OH)
05 Went to See the Gypsy – Martha Scanlon (Oct 29, 2007, Folkscene, Los Angeles, CA)
06 Senor – Richard Shindell (Sep 4, 2007, La Pomme d’Eve, Paris)
*07 [DELETED DUE TO VHS RELEASE] Property of Jesus – The Pretenders (Feb 1986, Royal Albert Hall, London)
08 Tryin’ to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door – Peter Rowan (Sep 25, 1999, Freight and Salvage, Berkeley, CA)
09 Highway 61 Revisited – Los Lobos with Dave Alvin and John Doe (Oct 6, 2007, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, San Francisco, CA)
10 Meet Me in the Morning – Sloan Wainwright (Sep 8, 2007, Levin Music Performance Studio, Chicago, IL)
11 Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You – The Jayhawks (Oct 21, 1995, The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA)
12 Buckets of Rain – Martin Simpson (Jul 28, 2007, Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge, UK)
13 Farewell Angelina – Watkins Family Hour (May 8, 2004, Largo, Los Angeles, CA)
14 Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – Georgia Satellites (Feb 22, 1987, The Ritz, New York)
15 My Back Pages – The Ramones (Sep 25, 1994, London, England)
16 Masters of War – The Roots (Nov 15, 2007, Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA)

Bob Dylan – Rome, Italy (06/20/84)

Bob Dylan
Roma Palaeur
Rome, Italy
20 June 1984

1 Highway 61 Revisited
2 Jokerman
3 All Along The Watchtower
4 Just Like A Woman
5 Maggie’s Farm
6 I And I
7 License To Kill
8 Just My Imagination
9 A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (acoustic)
10 Tangled Up In Blue (acoustic)
11 It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (acoustic)
12 Simple Twist Of Fate
13 Masters Of War
14 Ballad Of A Thin Man

1 When You Gonna Wake Up
2 Like A Rolling Stone
3 Mr. Tambourine Man (acoustic)
4 To Ramona (acoustic)
5 It Ain’t Me, Babe (acoustic)
6 The Times They Are A-Changin’
7 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
8 Tombstone Blues
9 Blowin’ In The Wind

Bob Dylan
Mick Taylor (guitar)
Ian MacLagan (keyboards)
Gregg Sutton (bass)
Colin Allen (drums)

Carlos Santana (guitar) during the encores

further info http://www.bjorner.com

legendary taper B

cut before Like A Rolling Stone

Sony ECM 150 t -> Sony D6, cassette master -> DAT – clone -> (digital transfer) m-audio delta audiophile 2496
-> Wavelab -> ssrc -> cdwave for tracking -> tlh

I did not harm the sound of the recording in any way

Bob Dylan – Various Interviews, 1984

Bob Dylan
Various Interviews, 1984

Bob Dylan and Carlos Santana
Sirmione, Italy
Press Conference
29 May 1984

Broadcast in part by Italian TV in June (this is the source recording- not the broadcast).
source my tape -> Tascam 102 -> Cooledit Pro (normalisation, edits) -> Traders Little helper

Press Conference #1 – length 58:32

LB-09827 ; 75min+22min ; 2CDR ; Rating: B

xx/xx/84 1984 interviews

press conferences lk

Interview with Antione De Caunes, Bob Dylan, Nice, France 17 June 1984,
Broadcast in part on Antenne II, France 30 June and partly on MTV 27 January 1985,
source my tape -> Tascam 102 -> Cooledit Pro (normalisation, edits) -> Traders Little helper
(this is the source recording- not the broadcast).

interview – length 16:26,

Press Conference, Bob Dylan and Carlos Santana, Sirmione, Italy, 29 May 1984,
Broadcast in part by Italian TV in June (this is the source recording- not the broadcast).
source my tape -> Tascam 102 -> Cooledit Pro (normalisation, edits) -> Traders Little helper

Press Conference #1 – length 58:32

Press Conference, Bob Dylan, Hamburg, West germany, 31 May 1984,
Broadcast in part on ZDF-TV, (this is the source recording – not the broadcast).

Press Conference #2 – length 21:14

Various Artists – Covering Van Morrison

Various Artists
Covering Van Morrison



This is another one where I have no information about it.

Inarticulate Speech of the Heart – Pee Wee Ellis
Moondance – Georgie Fame
Carrying a Torch – Bob Dylan
Caravan – Counting Crows
And the Healing Has Begun – Deacon Blue
Angeliou – Deacon Blue
Into the Mystic – Eddi Reader
Sweet Thing – The Waterboys
Madame George – Marianne Faithful
Real Real Gone – Bob Dylan
You Don’t Know Me – Bob Dylan
Gloria – Grateful Dead