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Bob Dylan – Birmingham, England (10/11/87)

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Bob Dylan/Tom Petty/Roger McGuinn
11 October 1987
National Exhibition Centre,
Birmingham, England

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soundcheck

01. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
02. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

1. Blowin’ In The Wind
2. Like A Rolling Stone
3. Maggie’s Farm
4. Forever Young
5. Watching The River Flow
6. Ballad Of A Thin Man
7. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
8. Tangled Up In Blue
9. John Brown
10. Gotta Serve Somebody
11. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
12. I’ll Remember You
13. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

14. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
15. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

Concert #25 of 1987 Temples In Flames Tour. Concert #85 with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. 1987 concert #31.

1-10, 12-15 Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar) with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.

Bob Dylan (vocal, guitar, harmonica)
Tom Petty (guitar),
Mike Campbell (guitar),
Benmont Tench (keyboards),
Howie Epstein (bass),
Stan Lynch (drums)

and with The Queens Of Rhythm: Carolyn Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec (backing vocals).

11 Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Mike Campbell (guitar), Benmont Tench (organ).
4, 12, 13 Bob Dylan (harmonica).
14, 15 Roger McGuinn (guitar).

12 new songs (80%) compared to previous concert. No new songs for this tour.

Source 1:

LB-5118

Soundcheck Only

Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)?, Roger McGuinn (vocal & guitar) with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
Tom Petty (guitar), Mike Campbell (guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Howie Epstein (bass), Stan Lynch (drums) and with The Queens Of Rhythm: Carolyn Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec (backing vocals).

Another installment of Dylan arcana — or maybe this one is apocrypha. Two takes of “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere,” with McGuinn the dominant vocalist, and somebody with a vaguely Dylanesque vocal style seemingly audible from time to time, not so prominently. Might be Dylan. Could be Petty. Could be somebody in the band goofing around; members of Dylan’s NET bands have been said to do their own faux-Bob vocals at soundchecks. This is a fully realized arrangement, not just a let’s-try-this-out moment. I’m not aware of McGuinn playing this at any dates on the “Temples In Flames” tour (and maybe somebody has better info than I do) ; so this could have been a possible alternate for the Petty/McGuinn “RocknRoll Star” duet, or even the Dylan/McGuinn “Chimes Of Freedom”. Several folks whose opinions I respect don’t include this in their Dylan discographies, and they certainly had access to it — so that’s a few strikes against Bob performing here. On the other hand, the taper, or somebody near him, comments “That’s Dylan” as the song begins, so maybe they saw him onstage. Or just got the ID wrong. You make the call. The Queens of Rhythm provide some surprisingly convincing country harmonies.

Sound quality isn’t great, a bit distant, but certainly listenable.

Source 2:

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Good quality audience recording from silver CD ‘Temples in Flames, 1987 European Tour Anthology’ (White Bear – WB16) > flac 8

Bob Dylan – Paso Robles, CA (08/06/86)

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Bob Dylan w/Tom PettY & the Heartbreakers
8/6/86
Paso Robles, CA
Mid-State Fairground

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Soundcheck:

Brownsville Girl (instrumental)
Brownsville Girl
I Want You (instrumental)/Maggie’s Farm
Shake (instrumental)
Shake (instrumental)
unidentified blues instrumental

Show:
Shake A Hand
All Along The Watchtower
Clean Cut Kid
I’ll Remember You
Shot Of Love
We Had It All
Brownsville Girl
Masters Of War
Straight Into Darkness (Petty),
Think About Me (Petty),
The Waiting (Petty),
Breakdown (Petty)
It Ain’t Me, Babe
One Too Many Mornings
Mr. Tambourine Man
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
Band Of The Hand
When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky (cut)
Lonesome Town
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Even The Losers (Petty)
Spike (Petty)
Heartbreak Hotel (Petty)
Tonight Might Be The Night (Petty)
Refugee (Petty),
Rainy Day Women Nos. 12 & 35
Gotta Serve Somebody
Seeing The Real You At Last
Across The Borderline –
I And I
Like A Rolling Stone
In The Garden
Blowin’ In The Wind
Rock ‘Em Dead
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (incomplete)

Source 1:

LB-3195, (79min+69min+22min), Off Master – Possibly New Source

This is one of the shows recorded by Russ Cansler that I received strictly for the purpose of digitizing and posting at dime THANK YOU RUSS!, Equipment Used Realistic Pzm’s and a Sony wmD6-C Right Side Of Stage, There is some audience noise in the tape, listen to a sample to find out if you want to grab it. I know my old copy didn’t have the Petty set so this source was a new addition for me. I did not use any EQ or fancy editing. This is an exact replica of the master tape for the purists out there., Notes:, Last show of the 1986 tour and I believe it’s the only live version of Brownsville Girl, Tape Flip at End Of Think About Me, When The Night Comes Falling has the end CUT because of tape ending, Rainy Day Women has the end CUT because of tape flip, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door is just the beginning before the vocals INCOMPLETE track, Tonight Might Be The Night may be the incorrect title.. I dunno; bittorrent download 09/05; good to very good sound [B-]; very close to mono; cdr tracking numbers were not specified in the info file so ones were chosen that did not break up a song since placing cdr breaks logically by petty sets ending resulted in splitting songs since they are not always tracked right at the beginning of a song; background talking d2t12

Source 2:

Soundcheck Only

LB-5123

Complete circulating soundcheck. Track numbering preserved from the original fileset, which included other material, just in case anybody’s ready to join in seeding. The track IDs have been improved from the originals (I hope), but the flacs are unchanged.

This might be the best-sounding soundcheck in my ongoing series of Dylan arcana, nearly as good as quite a few of the 1986 audience concert tapes, and is one of the most interesting (even though “Brownsville Girl” never delivers the goods, or much audible Dylan). No, there may not be much in terms of lead Dylan vocals, but the material is interesting and the performances solid. “Brownsville Girl” is pretty much the same arrangement (repeated chorus only!) used for the song’s one-and-only live “performance,” at this show. “Maggie’s Farm,” which Dylan launches into after the band riffs on “I Want You,” never turned up in any of the 1986 Dylan/Petty concerts, but it turns up, remarkably enough, as the opening song in their next appearance together, in September 1987 in Tel Aviv. “Shake”, like “Maggie’s Farm” part of the Dylan/Petty 1985 Farm Aid set, is a little known set of Dylan lyrics that never reached a final form, set to a tune very much like Roy Head’s “Treat Her Right”; it had disappeared from the Dylan/Petty playlist after a few airings in Australia earlier in the year. These two songs offer an unexpected preview of the 1987 “Temple In Flames” concerts, looser than most of the “True Confessions” tour and probably more fun as well. If you remember the Rolling Stone article about the early 1986 Dylan/Petty rehearsals and studio sessions that held out so much promise that was never delivered — this is a little window into what probably was going on then, that we’ve never had a chance to hear. Nothing revelatory, but Dylan relaxing and just making music is usually more interesting than Dylan forcing himself to deliver. If, as he said in an interview (or was it Chronicles), he’d lost the ability to perform naturally onstage by the mid-1980s, he could still do it when the audience wasn’t there.

Grateful Dead – Atlanta, GA (03/29/95)

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Grateful Dead
March 29, 1995
The Omni
Atlanta, GA

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I have three sources for this show, you can read the info here.

Soundcheck

01. [01:20] Band goes over set “Help on the Range, Franklin’s Glauwer, Trauma in the Train, Florina”
02. [00:36] Phil “Do you want to try Unbroken Chain tonight??”
03. [03:11] Steve get’s chords up and Jerry complains to Harry about reverb
04. [07:09] Unbroken Chain
05. [04:00] Help on the Way >
06. [06:59] Slipknot >
07. [15:52] Franklin’s Tower

08. [00:37] Jam out of Playin >
09. [10:31] SOTM

Show

Disk 1:
1. Tuning
2. Jack Straw
3. Row Jimmy
4. Walkin’ Blues
5. Jack A Roe
6. Mama Tried* >
7. Mexicali Blues >
8. Brown Eyed Women
9. Cassidy

Disk 2:
1. Unbroken Chain
2. Help On The Way >
3. Slipknot! >
4. Franklin’s Tower >
5. Corinna >
6. Mathilda
7. Drums >

Disk 3:
1. Space >
2. I Need A Miracle >
3. Standing On the Moon >
4. Not Fade Away
5. E: U.S. Blues

* Weir on acoustic

Grateful Dead – Atlanta, GA (03/28/95)

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Grateful Dead
1995-03-28
The Omni, Atlanta, GA
SOUNDCHECK

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This is a tagged version of shnid: 80018
Source: mtownshend
FM SBD Monitor -> MC -> Cass (Maxell XLII 90)

Transfer: mtownshend
Cassettte playback on Nakamichi MR-1 (no NR) -> gold-plated RCA Apogee cable -> RCA RX-D302B Receiver -> Optical out w/ Apogee Cable -> M-Audio CO2 Coax/Optical Converter -> S/PDIF -> M-Audio 1010-LT -> Recorded in Sound Forge8 (24/48 KHz WAV)

Edits: mtownshend
Wavelab > Waves XHum (60Hz tone removed)/DeNoiser /L3 Multimaximizer/IDR (hi res CD settings) -> 16 bit WAV -> CD Wave Editor 1.95 -> FLAC Frontend -> FLAC level 8

1. When a Man Loves a Woman (Abbreviated) [1:16]
2. Phil Tuning [2:00]
3. Banter [0:33]
4. Schoolgirl (1) [5:56]
5. Schoolgirl (2) [2:26]
6. Jerry’s ABB Idea * [0:40]
7. Schoolgirl (3) [5:32]
8. The ABB Idea Considered * [0:34]
9. Neighbor Neighbor [4:20]
10. Hi-Heeled Sneakers [4:13]
11. Big Boy Pete [3:26]
12. Big Boy Pete (2) [1:42]
13. Big Boy Pete (3) [1:11]
14. Paperback Writer (Abbreviated) [1:10]
15. Attics (1) [2:11]
16. Jerry Complaint [0:41]
17. Attics (2) [2:35]
18. Phil Explains to Jerry / Tuning -> Out [3:01]
Total [43:16]

* One Way Out Snippet

From the original uploader:
This one is a bit more listenable, although it has typical problems associated with recording methods.

This was recorded in an office inside the Omni. The Static is our attempt to fine tune Jerry�s ear monitor. The frequencies changed every night and were very close together.

Enjoy!
-mt

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