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.