2019 proved to be great N.E.T. year. Many brilliant and surprising live performances. Here 15 samples.
Le Grand Rex
Paris, France
12 April 2019
When your rooster crows at the break a dawn
Look out your window and I’ll be gone
You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on
Don’t think twice, it’s all right
Of the virtues, I suppose I think integrity is the most essential. Not dignity – a thief can have dignity.
~Bob Dylan (to Barbara Kerr, Feb 1978)
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‘Dignity’, which describes so resourcefully the yearning for a more dignified world, would have been the album’s [Oh Mercy] ideal opening track. It scorches along musically, declaring its allegiance to the timeless appeal of the blues, while sounding, above all things, fresh. Its lyric, meanwhile, though ‘Dylanesque’ in that it sounds like no-one else’s work and sounds like a restrained, mature revisit to a mode of writing you might otherwise call mid-1960s Dylan, is fully alert and freshly itself, admits of no leaning on laurels, and has the great virtue that while not every line can claim the workaday clarity of instructional prose, the song is accessible to anyone who cares to listen, and offers a clear theme, beautifully explored, with which anyone can readily identify.
~Michael Gray (The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia)
Dignity was originally recorded for “Oh Mercy” in 1989, but Dylan wasn’t satisfied with it… and left it behind.
Officially there are 5 different versions available:
Continue reading “Bob Dylan: 10 Great Live Versions of “Dignity””
Fat man lookin’ in a blade of steel
Thin man lookin’ at his last meal
Hollow man lookin’ in a cottonfield
For dignity
Continue reading “September 22: Watch Bob Dylan’s version of “Dignity” in Sheffield, England 2000″
When I got into rock ‘n’ roll, I didn’t even think I had any option or alternative. It showed me where my future was, just like some people know they are going to be doctors or lawyers or shortstop for the New York Yankees.
– Bob Dylan (Nov 10, 2003)
Facts from Wikipedia:
| Never ending tour 2003 | |
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| Start date | February 6, 2003 |
| End date | November 25, 2003 |
| Legs | 4 |
| No. of shows | 11 in Oceania 54 in North America 33 in Europe – 98 in Total |
Uneven year with a great last leg (Europe fall: Oct 9 – Nov 25).
If not for you
Babe, I couldn’t find the door
Couldn’t even see the floor
I’d be sad and blue
If not for you
We’re playing over here with a lot of pride, it’s a big honor to play in this country, Great Britain. When I grew up, they used to tell me about the Battle of Britain, RAF, Winston Churchill, all that stuff. Now, we all know that Britain stood alone and without any allies; and that always meant a lot to me and everybody that I grew up With.
-Bob Dylan (Onstage, Wembley Arena, London, 5th October 2000)
Never Ending Tour 2000 |
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| Start date | March 10, 2000 |
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| End date | November 19, 2000 |
| Legs | 5 |
| No. of shows | 75 in North America 37 in Europe 112 in Total |
The year 2000 is regarded by many bobcats to be among the best N.E.T. years.
The year kicked-off with 2 great shows @ Anaheim, California on March 10. The early show featured 2 live debuts; Tell Me That It Isn’t True and Things Have Changed.
I have heard rumors all over town
They say that you’re planning to put me down
All I would like you to do
Is tell me that it isn’t true