university of arizona

Bob Dylan
Tucson, Arizona
McKale Memorial Center
University Of Arizona
19 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 – We Better Talk This Over
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

    (encore)

28 – Changing Of The Guards

Concert # 46 of the 1978 US Fall Tour. 1978 concert # 95.
Concert # 72 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

Thank you. This song took ten minutes to write, ten years to live. (before Tangled Up In Blue)
Back in the Midwest in the 50ís they used to have these carnivals that come through town. Most every carnival had someone called a geek.
If you donít happen to know what a geek is Iíll tell you what a geek is. A geek is somebody who works on a sideshow, he bites the head off a chicken,
eats the head and then bites the rest of the chicken and eats all of the chicken live. Costs a quarter to see this man. Let me tell you, if you think youíre funky,
this geek is very low-down. Anyhow, he used to get insulted all the time (…..) too much respect, but I used to speak with him every once in a while.
Never did get too tight with him, but I learned one thing from him; he used to think of other people as being pretty freaky.
Thatís helped me out a lot as Iíve traveled through the world. (…..). (before Ballad Of A Thin Man)
Thank you. I was riding on a train one time to Mexico (…..). (…..) there was nobody on this car that I was on and a full moon was shining.
So, we made one stop, I think it was near Monterey. This old man got on the train, he had a blanket and he sat down on the side of me, the other side of….you know, the (cutaway).
And he looked at me one time and, this is true, his eyes, both his eyes were burning like they were on fire. And there was smoke coming out of his nostrils.
He looked to be about 150 years old, but anyway, I just wanted to ask him everything. But I couldnít think of where to begin. (before SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power))
Thank you. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, on the drums tonight, give him a warm welcome, Mr. Ian Wallace. On the bass guitar, Mr. Jerry Scheff.
On the keyboards, ladies and gentlemen, from the Bahamas, the one and only Alan Pasqua. On the lead guitar, the oldest member of this group, born in 1921, Clearwater, Florida.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Billy Cross. All right, on the rhythm guitar, doesn’t speak any English, but he plays his heart out, doesn’t he?
Ladies and gentlemen, Steven Soles. All right, on the violin and the mandolin, the youngest member of this group, only 15 years old, been with me now for five years.
Doesn’t smoke dope, drink whiskey, go out with women, doesn’t swear or talk on the telephone. He’s a real bore. Ladies and gentlemen, a great musician, David Mansfield.
I’ll write that on his tombstone. All right. On the tenor saxophone, a genius in his own right. He used to play with Duane Eddy. Remember Duane Eddy?
Anyway, the phenomenal Steve Douglas. On the backup vocals tonight. Wait a minute. All right. On the left my ex-girlfriend, Jo Ann Harris. Right. I like to eat and she can’t cook.
Anyway, in the middle my current girlfriend, she loves to cook, Helena Springs. On the other side, my fiancÈe, Carolyn Dennis. On the conga drums, from Detroit,
ladies and gentlemen, the most amazing Miss Bobbye Hall. All right, we’re gonna get out of here real soon. (before Itís Alright, Ma (Iím Only Bleeding))
Thank you. (…..) a wonderful crowd, hope we can come back here. So, I wrote this song for one of my babies when he was a baby.
Heís not a baby anymore and heís not here, but I wanna play this anyway. (before Forever Young)