Bob Dylan
Pacific National Exhibition Hall
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
11 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 – Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
14 – The Times They Are A-Changin’
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 – We Better Talk This Over
21 – Masters Of War
22 – Just Like A Woman
23 – All Along The Watchtower
24 – All I Really Want To Do
25 – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
26 – Forever Young

27 – Changing Of The Guards

Concert # 40 of the 1978 US Fall Tour. 1978 concert # 89.
Concert # 66 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).
13 Helena Springs, Jo Ann Harris, Carolyn Dennis (vocals) without Bob Dylan.
15 Bob Dylan solo (vocal, harmonica & guitar).

BobTalk:

• Thank you. This is a love ballad I wrote a few years back. I didn’t want to but
  I had to. About three people who were in love all at the same time.
  (plays Tangled Up In Blue) Thank you. That was Alan Pasqua on the organ.
  Steve Douglas on the tenor saxophone.
• Thank you. This song I wrote in Mexico, in Monterey, a place called Chihuahua.
  Tales Of Yankee Power. (plays SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power))
  We’re gonna take a break here. We’ll be back in ten minutes.
• Thank you. That was Masters Of War, it was Billy Cross on the lead guitar.
• Thank you. That was All Along The Watchtower. That was David Mansfield playing
  the violin.
• Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, on the drums tonight … playing the
  drums, give him a warm hand, Ian Wallace.
• On the bass guitar, Jerry Scheff. Playing the keyboards tonight, Alan Pasqua.
  Lead guitar, Billy Cross. On the violin and mandolin, David Mansfield.
  On the rhythm guitar, from Bogota, doesn’t speak any English, but he plays his
  heart out. Does it with rhythm. Ladies and gentlemen, Steven Soles.
  On the tenor saxophone, a legend in his own time. Ladies and gentlemen, the
  phenomenal Steve Douglas.
  All right, on the backup vocals tonight, my three favorite girls.
  On the right, Jo Ann Harris. In the middle, Helena Springs.
  And on the other side, Carolyn Dennis. On the conga drums, on the conga drums,
  from Detroit, the most amazing, don’t you agree, Miss Bobbye Hall.
  All right, we’re gonna head out of here pretty soon. I hope we played something
  right tonight. I know we tried. (before It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding))
• Thank you. All right, we’re gonna leave you with this song. A song I wrote for
  one of my babies, when he was a baby. He’s not a baby anymore, he’s not here
  tonight, but I wanna play it anyway. (before Forever Young)

3 new songs (11%) compared to previous concert.

Stereo audience recording, 130 minutes.

LB-04116 ; 75min+62min ; 2CDR ; Rating: B+

11/11/78 Vancouver BC, Pacific Coliseum

version “a”;
Lineage: Master cassette > cassette > cassette > HD
Transfer: unknown pro cassette deck with external mics > unknown consumer cassette deck (master to 1st gen);
unknown consumer cassette deck > unknown consumer cassette deck (1st gen to 2nd gen);
Nak BX1 > HD (digital transfer)
Encoding: CDWave > flac frontend > flac
Taped by: a friend of a friend
Transfered by: Pantagruel

File Size: 772 MB (FLAC)

QUALITY WARNING! THERE IS AUDIBLE HISS ON THIS RECORDING. CHECK SAMPLES BEFORE DOWNLOADING!

In honor of Bob’s show tonight in Vancouver, here is my first Dylan show, which took place
27 years and eleven months ago tonight in the very same venue.

This recording is quite dynamic — loud parts are pretty loud, quiet parts are very quiet.
The hiss is quite audible during quiet passages.
I don’t know if recording levels were low on the master, and an attempt to compensate was made
at some point during the transfers, or what. In any case, some parts of it sound not too bad.
There are some flaws, for sure. The first track fades in. Other fades were on my source tape.
Volume seems to fluctuate a bit here and there.
In spite of the flaws, I’m seeding this in the hope that somebody out there can put up a better one.
This show does circulate, and I have no idea how this compares with any other version that may be out there.
I’ve been unable to get this in a trade, and I got tired of waiting for it to show up.
On the positive side, it’s relatively low gen and the lineage is known.

So consider this an official appeal; if anybody out there has a better one, please bring it on.
And to all the local Bob fans . . , see you tonight!

bittorrent download 10/06;
same recording as LB-2888 based on same cough at begin of d1t4 and same clapping;
in comparison this makes that one sound muffled; right channel is lower volume than left;
very good to excellent sound [B+]

fade out to cut d1t10 4:22