Bob Dylan: 5 Brilliant live performances from the year 1991

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]You hear sometimes about the glamour of the road, but you get over that real fast. There are a lot of times that it’s no different from going to work in the morning. Still, you’re either a player or you’re not a player. It didn’t really occur to me until we did those shows with the Grateful Dead [in 1987]. If you just go out every three years or so, like I was doing for a while, that’s when you lose touch. If you are going to be a performer, you’ve got to give it your all.”
-Bob Dylan (to Robert Hilburn, November 1991)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Facts from Wikipedia:

Start date January 28, 1991
End date November 20, 1991
Legs 6
No. of shows 33 in Europe
59 in North America
9 in South America
101 in Total

Hall 3
Scottish Exhibition And Conference Center
Glasgow, Scotland
3 February 1991

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • John Jackson (guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • Ian Wallace (drums)

Positively 4th Street

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Legendary bootleg: Van Morrison – Pagan Streams

van morrison - Pagan Streams

From my perspective, there are better sound-quality boots out there (Live In Montreux, for example), but no Van boot I have — and I have more than a few — so integrates solid sound with a stunning performance: Live In Montreux comes close, but at 150+ minutes, Pagan is the winer. This boot is so good, so valued, that much like the ancestral heir loom one only wears on special occasions, I listen to Pagan Streams infrequently. If I listened to it too often, I would quit my job, leave my wife and dog, and sell my soul to attend every one of the Man’s concerts. I know it took me a while to track this boot down, and all I can say is: if you can find it, buy it.
Niall Connors (oocities.org)

The sound quality of this double CD is a very good audience recording. In fact it sounds a lot like a soundboard recording. There is some distortion in a few tracks but it isn’t a huge problem and is very listenable. Van actually “booted” some tracks from this boot for his Gloria CD single.
-Russell Parkinson  (oocities.org)

Utrecht, Holland – April 1, 1991

  • Van Morrison – vocal
  • Hajih Ahkba – flugelhorn & trumpet
  • Dave Early – drums
  • Georgie Fame – keyboards
  • Howard Francis – keyboards
  • Steve Gregory – saxophone
  • Ronnie Johnson – guitar
  • Nicky Scott – base
  • Candy Dulfer – alto saxophone

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