[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Then, in October 1987, playing Locarno. Switzerland, “and Tom Petty’s band and the female singers he now says he used to hide behind, Dylan had his breakthrough. It was an outdoor show – he remembers the fog and the wind – and as he stepped to the mike, a line came into his head. “It’s almost like I heard it as a voice. It wasn’t like it was even me thinking it. I’m determined to stand, whether God will deliver me or not. And all of a sudden everything just exploded. It exploded every which way. And I noticed that all the people out there – I was used to them looking at the girl singers, they were good-looking girls, you know? And like I say, I had them up there so I wouldn’t feel so bad. But when that happened, nobody was looking at the girls anymore. They were looking at the main mike. After that is when I sort of knew: I’ve got to go out and play these songs. That’s just what I must do … He’s been at it ever since.
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Piazza Grande
Locarno, Switzerland
5 October 1987
- Bob Dylan (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)
- Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
- Like A Rolling Stone
- Maggie’s Farm
- I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
- Dead Man, Dead Man
- The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest
- Seeing The Real You At Last
[last 2:30 only] - Watching The River Flow
- Simple Twist Of Fate
- Tomorrow Is A Long Time
To be considered a fairly representative example of the autumn 1987 Dylan/Heartbreakers shows, Locarno would have to have included a show-stopping performance of Dylan singing ”Tomorrow Is a Long Time” without the band, backed only by Tench on piano and Campbell on guitar – and it did, a particularly fine example of the species.
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performing Artist Volume 3: Mind Out Of Time 1986 And Beyond)
- Ballad Of A Thin Man
[cuts after 4:40] - Shot Of Love—
[last 4:05 only] - Trust Yourself
- Blowin’ In The Wind
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