Bob Dylan
Austin, Texas
Special Events Center
The University Of Texas At Austin
25 November 1978
01 – My Back Pages
02 – Sheís 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 Donít 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 – To Ramona
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 # 50 of the 1978 US Fall Tour. 1978 concert # 99.
Concert # 76 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 had like carnivals. In most carnivals they had this guy called a geek. You know what a geek is?
A geek is a man who in a side show would eat a live chicken. Bites the head off and eats the rest of it, live. Sweeps the feathers up with a broom. (….)
anyway the most people who saw him, you know, they’d insult him. Things like that. He didn’t seem to mind though.
Anyway I was having breakfast one day with the bearded lady and she said that he said that he used to look at other people who paid a quarter to see him as being kind of freaky.
(….) (before Ballad Of A Thin Man)
- I was traveling on to Mexico on this train from Durango to San Diego. An about the time we got to Monterey, this woman with a big family, about 15 children.
They got off this train. But this man with a blanket got on. I saw him in the window as he sat down. (….) I turned, and both his eyes were on fire and there was smoke
coming out of his nostrils. I know this was the man I wanted to talk to. (before SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power))
- Thank you. I went to the South of France on my birthday. Where they have a gypsy holiday (….) anyway I was (….) I met the king of the gypsies over there.
A young man with 16 wives and 120 children. And he took me under his wing and let me party with him for a week, As it was my birthday and I’d took my (….).
It came time to go and he said to me “What would you like?” Well I’d done everything that week. Twice. So I said one more cup of coffee for the road. (….)
And I walked on down the road.
- I wanna dedicate this to the first girl I loved. Lives up in the north country. (before Girl From The North Country)
- Thank you ladies and gentlemen, on the drums tonight, give him a warm hand, Ian Wallace. All right, on bass guitar, Jerry Scheff.
On the keyboards, from Trinidad, the one and only Alan Pasqua. On the electric lead guitar, the oldest membr of this group, born in 1921, ladies and gentlemen, Billy Cross.
All right, on electric violin, electric mandolin, sometimes electric lead guitar, the baby of this group, only fifteen years old, been with me now five years.
Doesn’t smoke dope, drink whiskey or go out with women, all that’s gonna change tonight, yes it is. Ladies and gentlemen, David Mansfield!
On the rhythm guitar, a man from South America, Bogota. He doesn’t speak any English, but he plays his heart out, doesn’t he? Ladies and gentlemen, Steven Soles.
He gave up a career as a sports car driver to be in this band. Anyway, on the tenor saxophone, a man who is really a legend in his own time, ladies and gentlemen,
the phenomenal Steve Douglas. On the backup vocals tonight, as every night, my favourite three ladies. On the right my ex-girlfriend. I like to eat and she doesn’t like to cook.
Anyway, my ex-girlfriend, Jo Ann Harris. All right, in the middle, my current girlfriend Helena Springs. (….). On the other side my fiancÈe, Carolyn Dennis.
All right, on the conga drums, from Detroit City. The most amazing Miss Bobbye Hall. We gotta get out of here pretty soon. Thanks a lot for coming.
We’ll see you next time. (before It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding))
- Thank you. I’m gonna leave you with this song. I wrote it for one of my babies when he was a baby. He’s not a baby an he’s not here, but I wanna play it anyway. (before Forever Young)
1 new song (3%) compared to previous concert. No new songs for this tour.
Mono audience recording, 145 minutes.
LB-05291 ; 74min+74min ; 2CDR ; Rating: D+
11/25/78 Austin, Texas, Special Events Center, University Of Texas At Austin
right channel lower than left;
muffled and seems to break up occasionally like on d1t3;
sound improves over show from D- to C- so overall poor sound [D+];
(a bittorrent from 07/09 of this was part of the lk 78 series)
analog drop d1t1 0:46;
has discontinuity pops at the beginning of most tracks that can sometimes be heard;
drop/cut between cdrs
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