Bob Dylan: 5 Great live versions of “Gates of Eden”

Posted on by Egil Mosbron


[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Of war and peace the truth just twists
Its curfew gull just glides
Upon four-legged forest clouds
The cowboy angel rides[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Written by Bob Dylan for his fifth studio album Bringing It All Back Home and recorded January 15, 1965.

Performed 217 times live, first @ Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts – Oct 24, 1965 & last @ Kingsford Smith Park, Seagulls Rugby League Football Club, Ballina, New South Wales, Australia – Mar 31, 2001.

Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, California
3 September 1965

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]The lamppost stands with folded arms
Its iron claws attached
To curbs ‘neath holes where babies wail
Though it shadows metal badge[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Jones Beach Theater
Jones Beach State Park
Wantagh, New York
30 June 1988

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]The savage soldier sticks his head in sand
And then complains
Unto the shoeless hunter who’s gone deaf
But still remains[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Huntsville Convention Center
Huntsville, Alabama
19 April 1993

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]With a time-rusted compass blade
Aladdin and his lamp
Sits with Utopian hermit monks
Side saddle on the Golden Calf[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Kölnarena
Köln, Germany
11 May 2000

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Relationships of ownership
They whisper in the wings
To those condemned to act accordingly
And wait for succeeding kings[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Kosei Nenkin Kaikan
Osaka, Japan
7 March 2001

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]The motorcycle black Madonna
Two-wheeled gypsy queen
And her silver-studded phantom cause
The gray flannel dwarf to scream[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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