Bob Dylan: 5 Brilliant live performances from the year 2002

Posted on by Egil Mosbron

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]My friend Renée always likes to rush the stage, and find a place in the front row, literally at Bob’s feet … she was making a bee-line for her favourite spot, she stopped dead. What the fuck? There, in the middle of the stage, where Bob ought to be, was an electric keyboard.
-Stephen Scobie[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Never ENDING TOUR 2002
Start date January 31, 2002
End date November 22, 2002
Legs 3
No. of shows 78 in North America
29 in Europe
–
107 in Total

A year of great cover versions dedicated to the dead and dying. All of these covers came in the last leg of 2002 – US Fall Tour (Oct 5 – Nov 22).

Philips Arena
Atlanta, Georgia
9 February 2002

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar
  • Charlie Sexton (guitar)
  • Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • George Recile (drums & percussion).

Lay Lady Lay

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Lay lady lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Lay lady lay
Lay across my big brass bed[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Manchester Evening News Arena
Manchester, England
9 May 2002

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don’t matter, anyhow
And it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don’t know by now[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Pauline Davis Pavilion
Tehama County Fairgrounds
Red Bluff, California
7 October 2002

Accidentally Like A Martyr (Warren Zevon)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]The phone don’t ring
And the sun refused to shine
Never thought I’d have to pay so dearly
For what was already mine
For such a long, long time[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Excel Energy Center
St. Paul, Minnesota
30 October 2002

Mutineer (Warren Zevon)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Hoist the mainsail, here I come
Ain’t no room on board for the insincere
You’re my witness
I’m your mutineer[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Fleet Center
Boston, Massachusetts
16 November 2002

Old Man (Neil Young)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Old man look at my life,
I’m a lot like you were.
Old man look at my life,
I’m a lot like you were.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Recommended concerts from 2002

  • February 9, 2002 – Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA
  • May 9, 2002 – Manchester, England
  • September 1, 2002 – Buttermilk Mountain, Aspen, CO (Last “classic” Bob Dylan Concert)
  • October 4, 2002 – Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
  • October 7, 2002 – Tehama County Fairgrounds, Red Bluff, CA
  • October 30, 2002 – St. Paul MN
  • November 13, 2002 – MSG, NYC
  • November 16, 2002 – Fleet Center, Boston, Massachusetts
  • November 17, 2002 – Hartford CT
  • November 22, 2002 – Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA

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-Egil

2 thoughts on “Bob Dylan: 5 Brilliant live performances from the year 2002”

    1. I copied the list of concerts from my private notes.. and forgot to remove that part.
      Anyway, it just means that the next concert (Seattle, Washington – 4 October 2002) was the first where he started to use piano/keyboard.. a lot.
      Ref. the Stephen Scobie quote.

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