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Plague, Disease & Loneliness – A Bob Dylan Playlist

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Stay safe, stay observant and may God be with you.
– Bob Dylan
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One year, and still not over. Let’s seek “comfort” in the words & music of Bob Dylan.

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PLAGUE

No Time to Think

Recorded: April 27, 1978
Released: Street-Legal – June 15, 1978
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Mercury rules you and destiny fools you like the plague with a dangerous wink
And there’s no time to think.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Bob Dylan: 5 GREAT live versions of his brilliant song “Most of the Time”

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]I don’t know who I am most of the time. It doesn’t even matter to me.
~Bob Dylan (David Gates interview Sept 1997)

Most of The Time” is a “big song,” a major work, the sort of listening experience that brings people back to an album again and again.
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performing Artist Volume 3: Mind Out Of Time 1986 And Beyond)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

From the album Oh Mercy (September 18, 1989), recorded March 12, 1989 @ The Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana. Produced by Daniel Lanois.

Live performances:

  • 23 times in 1989
  • 2 times in 1990
  • 11 times in 1992
    –
  • First played – Beacon Theatre, NYC, 10 October 1989
  • Last performance – San Jose, California, 9 May 1992

The Beacon Theatre
New York City, New York
12 October 1989

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Most of the time
I’m clear focused all around
Most of the time
I can keep both feet on the ground
I can follow the path
I can read the signs
Stay right with it[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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GREAT concert: Bob Dylan @ Palác kultury, Prague, Czech Republic – March 11, 1995

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Bob Dylan Prague 11 March 1995

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Dylan opens the year with one of the most remarkable performances of the “Never Ending tour,” despite still visible suffering the after effects of the bug (at several points he sits on the drum rise, scrunched up in some discomfort)… the shock of the evening is not in his song selection.. but the fact that he performs almost the entire show without a guitar.. harmonica in hand, making strange shadow-boxing movements, cupping the harmonica to his mouth on nearly every song, blowing his sweetest harp breaks in years.
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Concert # 641 of The Never-Ending Tour. First concert of the 1995 European Spring Tour. First concert in 1995.

Kongresový sál
Palác kultury
Prague, Czech Republic
11 March 1995

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
  • John Jackson (guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • Winston Watson (drums & percussion)

Setlist

  1. Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)
  2. If Not For You
  3. All Along The Watchtower
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Bob Dylan @ Sun Theater, Anaheim, California – March 10, 2000

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bob dylan anaheim 2000

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]..lots of surprising song selections, a tight band and Dylan in great and authoritative voice, willing to radically experiment (the re-worked Dignity, for example) and – once again – reinventing his back pages.
~Andrew Muir (Razor’s Edge)

Bob seems to be in a good mood, the band is tight, and the performance is incredible. We get to hear two songs performed live for the first time ever.
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Wonderful 2000 shows.

Concert # 1166 of The Never-Ending Tour. First concert of the 2000 US Spring Tour. First 2000 concert.

Sun Theatre
Anaheim, California
10 March 2000
Early show

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

Notes:

  • Live debuts of Tell Me That It Isn’t True and Things Have Changed
  • First Dignity since Manchester 4 April 1995.

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Bob Dylan: 5 Great live versions of “Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)”

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]You say you love me and you’re thinkin’ of me
But you know you could be wrong
You say you told me that you wanna hold me
But you know you’re not that strong[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

“Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine” was recorded by Bob Dylan on March 9, 1966 for his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde.

The song has been performed 315 times live by Dylan.

  • First performance:  Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois – 3 January 1974 – January 3, 1974
  • Last performance: Skravika, Stavern, Norway – 11 July 2014 – July 11, 2014
  • Top year was 1989 – 43 performances

Madison Square Garden
New York City, New York
31 January 1974

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]I just can’t do what I’ve done before
And I just can’t beg you any more
I’m gonna let you pass
Pass and I’ll go last[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Bob Dylan: 5 Great live versions of “Ring Them Bells”

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Ring them bells, ye heathen, from the city that dreams,
Ring them bells from the sanctuaries cross the valleys and streams
For they’re deep and they’re wide and the world’s on its side
And time is running backwards and so is the bride.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

This brilliant song has been performed 31 times live by Dylan.

  • First performance:  Mid-Hudson Arena, Poughkeepsie, New York – October 20, 1989
  • Last performance: Messehalle, Erfurt, Germany – November 6, 2005
  • Top year was 1994 – 5 performances

Mid-Hudson Arena
Poughkeepsie, New York
20 October 1989

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Ring them bells, St. Peter, where the four winds blow,
Ring them bells with an iron hand so the people will know.
Oh, it’s rush hour now on the wheel and the plow
And the sun is a-going down upon the sacred cow.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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