Category: shows in history

Listen to The New Riders of the Purple Sage perform “Six Days On the Road” in 1971

I’m still playing around with these shows in history posts. I’m having a lot of fun uploading single songs to YouTube. Right now I’m just picking out a show from this day, finding a song I like and putting it up. If I get good at this I may do more, or have more to say about it.

Unless the powers that be start taking me down. But for now this is fun. I hope you enjoy.

Listen To Bob Dyan Perform “Slow Train Coming” on this Day in 1980

I love the idea of regularly doing a shows in history post. It seems super fun to listen to a show that happened on this day sometime in the past. I do have to train myself to remember to actually listen to a show from this day in history.

Also, the last couple of times I did this, I got a lot of questions concerning where you could download the show.  I need to make sure everyone knows I am no longer uploading shows. If I do a show in history, it is just for fun. It is just to talk about the show, but I won’t be putting download links on this site.

I have been having fun uploading one song from a show to YouTube. I’m still learning how to do it properly, but it seems like a fun way to share a snippet of the shows I’m talking about.

In this case I haven’t had time to actually listen to any show from today. I did listen to a bit of this show from Bob Dylan in Montreal, 1980. The audience recording isn’t great. And to be honest, I wasn’t really in the mood for Christian Bob, but this version of “Slow Train Coming” is a good one and I thought you all might enjoy.

I’ll try to do some more actual Shows in History posts soon.

Shows in History: Bob Dylan – London, England (03/31/95)

bob dylan brixton academy

I managed to listen to this show this afternoon and then got busy and forgot to write anything about it.  And now it is late, and I have some other things to do, so this will be short.

Get this show. It is excellent. There are at least two versions of it over at Expecting Rain, and I can’t recommend it enough.

Bob is in excellent form, and the band is on fire.  And if that wasn’t enough, you get Elvis Costello (guitar & shared vocals), Chrissie Hynde, and Carole King on a couple of songs.

Here’s the setlist:

Brixton Academy 
London, England 
31 March 1995 

01 – Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)
02 – SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
03 – All Along The Watchtower
04 – I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
05 – Tombstone Blues
06 – Shelter From The Storm
07 – Mr. Tambourine Man
08 – The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
09 – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
10 – Highway 61 Revisited
11 – In The Garden
12 – Joey (Bob Dylan-Jacques Levy/Bob Dylan)

  (encore)

13 – Like A Rolling Stone
14 – My Back Pages
15 – I Shall Be Released
16 – Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

I uploaded “Shelter From the Storm” for your listening pleasure.

Other shows that were played on this date in history.

Miles Davis – Los Angeles, CA (03/31/46)

1984 (Featuring Brian May) – Teddington, England (03/31/67)

Queen – Tokyo, Japan (03/31/76)