Bob Dylan
L.S.U. Assembly Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
29 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 – 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 # 53 of the 1978 US Fall Tour.
1978 concert # 102.
Concert # 79 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:
- You remember all those carnivals that they used to have? Always coming through.
At least they did to in the 50’s. And every one used to have, what they called a geek.
You know what a geek is? A man who would eat a live chicken.
He’d bite the head off, eat that. The he eats the rest of it. Eats it all.
Sweeps the feathers up with a broom. Cost in them days a quarter to see him.
Anyway, most people coming, you know, they’d insults to him and (….).
Anyway, I was having breakfast one day with the bearded lady and she told me that
he wasn’t funky, he’s low down, low down as it gets, but ….
Anyway, she said he was mighty strange because he considered other people to be
rather strange and freaky. Anyway, that used to give me kind of a lot of encouragement
as I traveled around the world. (before Ballad Of A Thin Man)
- Thank you. This is the song that got me booed out of the Newport Folk Festival in 1963.
They ran me out of town, tarred and feathered me. Anyway, we’re gonna sing it.
(before Maggie’s Farm)
- Thank you. I was riding on a train one time from Mexico en-route from San Diego.
When that train pulled through Monterey it was night time.
I was looking out the window of the train, it was like a mirror.
There was this whole family got off the train.
Must have been about 12 to 15 children.
As they got off the train this old man stepped onto the train.
He must have been about 150 years old, he was wearing a blanket.
He got on the train and sat across the aisle from me.
Anyway I was looking at him through the window and I decided to look at him head on
and I did, could see that both his eyes were burning.
There was smoke coming out of his nostrils.
I figured this was the man I wanted to talk to.
I didn’t have anything to say. (before SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power))
- Three years back I went on my birthday to the South of France to a high holy gypsy holiday.
They meet there and they party for a week.
I really didn’‰t have anything better to do, so I went over to check it out and that’s
what they do. They partied for a week. So seeing it was my birthday they let me join them.
And I did everything about twice, three times that week.
Anyway, it was time for me to go and they let me go.
They asked me what I’d like to take with me.
And just to play it safe I just said, one more cup of coffee, black.
They gave it to me in a paper bag.
- Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. On the drums tonight, from Kingston, Jamaica,
give him a warm hand, Ian Wallace. On electric bass guitar, Mr. Jerry Scheff.
On the keyboards, the one and only, from the Bahamas, Alan Pasqua.
On the lead guitar, Billy Cross. On the electric violin, and the mandolin,
and sometimes lead electric guitar, the youngest member of this group, fifteen years old.
He’s been with me now five years however. Doesn’t smoke dope, drink whiskey, chase women.
All that’s gonna change tonight though. David Mansfield! All right, from Bogota,
South America, a man who doesn’t speak any English, but he plays his heart out on the
guitar, Mr. Steven Soles. On the tenor saxophone, a real legend in his own lifetime.
He used to play with Duane Eddy. Remember Duane Eddy? He used to play with him.
And he …, made many of Phil Spector’s great records. Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Steve Douglas! All right, on the backup vocals tonight, three young ladies who
I couldn’t do without any more. I know I don’t have the greatest voice in the world.
But they cover it up so good. Anyway, Jo Ann Harris, my ex-girlfriend, Jo Ann Harris.
Helena Springs. And Carolyn Dennis. On the conga drums, from Detroit, Miss Bobbye Hall.
All right, we’ll see you again sometime. (before It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding))
- Thank you. I wanna thank you for coming, but we’ve got to say goodbye now, till next time.
We may be back soon though, I’m not just ready to be put out to pasture just yet. (before Forever Young)
No new songs compared to previous concert.
Mono audience recording, 130 minutes.
LB-06412 ; 72min+73min ; 2CDR ; Rating: B+
11/29/78 Baton Rouge, Louisiana
“From Low Generation Tape” JTT,
Good Audience Recording
SOURCE: Low Generation Cassettes (JG) > Akai GX 95 > Line in to Soundforge 9 >
FLAC Level 6 align on sector boundaries
Mastered & Artwork by JTT, August 2008
bittorrent download 08/08;
same recording as LB-2392 based on similar clapping wavs at end of d2t10 except inverted
and full spectrum; same recording as LB-4537 based on similar clapping wavs at end of d2t10;
in 3-way comparison this is very similar sound to LB-4537 and LB-2392 except LB-2392 has more hiss;
even though LB-4537 is reported to have had levels normalized, it has more peak level variation
than this one (did not listen to all of this) (Date Validated by bob talk at end of watchtower
matches show dylanbase97 says is 11/29/78)
(a bittorrent from 07/09 was this file set and was part of the lk 78 series)
has some occasional digi-pops and discontinuities; drop/cut end of d1t13, between cdrs
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