Bob Dylan UK dates 2009

[billy]

Bob Dylan - If You Ever Go To Houston - Live in Dublin 5th May 2009


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0KRdH1l8PY

[billy]

Bob Dylan - Highway61 Revisited - Live in Glasgow 2nd May 2009


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vohiy0BCZs&feature=related

[davidmjs]

Bob Dylan - Highway61 Revisited - Live in Glasgow 2nd May 2009


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vohiy0BCZs&feature=related

Thanks Billy.  That is spectacularly, car-crashingly, awful. I just sent it to a friend who went who replied...."great, thanks, reminds me what a fantastic gig it was".  I was momentarily speechless.

[Dave Russell]

I thought the Liverpool gig was pretty good: Dylan did what Dylan does.  His voice is old and knackered and he copes as best he can, but then it never was a thing of beauty.  And here's an artist who was part of a whole new agenda back then and has constantly reinvented his approach over a period of nearly 50 years.  That's what we go for, not in the expectation of hearing the latest endlessly-polished version of a well trodden arrangement.  And the band are perfect - the arrangements are basic but they just play them so well, they get a great feel,  and adapt to whatever curved balls the boss throws on the night.  

[jaypeter (Peter)]

Bob Dylan - Highway61 Revisited - Live in Glasgow 2nd May 2009


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vohiy0BCZs&feature=related

Thanks Billy.  That is spectacularly, car-crashingly, awful. I just sent it to a friend who went who replied...."great, thanks, reminds me what a fantastic gig it was".  I was momentarily speechless.

I quite liked it...........funny old world innit?

[billy]

I thought the Liverpool gig was pretty good: Dylan did what Dylan does.  His voice is old and knackered and he copes as best he can, but then it never was a thing of beauty.  And here's an artist who was part of a whole new agenda back then and has constantly reinvented his approach over a period of nearly 50 years.  That's what we go for, not in the expectation of hearing the latest endlessly-polished version of a well trodden arrangement.  And the band are perfect - the arrangements are basic but they just play them so well, they get a great feel,  and adapt to whatever curved balls the boss throws on the night.  

I love his voice mate,always have done,still do.I just can't stand that weird slant he puts on in so many of the songs nowadays.I also can't stand the way half the population talk in that Aussie quizzical talk where they keep emphasising words as if you are an idiot.Perhaps it's just me.

[Dave Russell]

 
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I also can't stand the way half the population talk in that Aussie quizzical talk where they keep emphasising words as if you are an idiot.Perhaps it's just me.
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I'm with you on that one!

[Poor Will (Bill)]

 

I also can't stand the way half the population talk in that Aussie quizzical talk where they keep emphasising words as if you are an idiot.Perhaps it's just me.
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I'm with you on that one!
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[billy]

Final tour stats for Europe (from Desolation Row/Expecting Rain) :
 
Bob performed 33 concerts and sung/played 573 songs of which 82 have been different. The figures in parentheses show how many times Bob has performed a particular song on this tour; if no figures are given then the song has only been played once.  
 
 
 
All Along The Watchtower (33)
Like A Rolling Stone (33)  
 
Blowin' In The Wind  (31)  
 
Spirit On The Water (29)
Highway 61 Revisited (29)
Thunder On The Mountain  (26)  
 
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (20)  
 
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum  (15)  
 
Honest With Me (13)  
 
Sugar Baby  (12)  
 
Rollin' And Tumblin'  (12)  
 
Beyond The Horizon  (11)  
 
The Levee's Gonna Break  (11)  
 
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (10)  
 
Just Like A Woman (10)  
 
Po' Boy  (10)  
 
Things Have Changed  (9)  
 
Summer Days (9)  
 
Ain't Talkin' (9)  
 
When The Deal Goes Down  (  
 
Workingman's Blues #2  (  
 
High Water (For Charley Patton)  (  
 
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (  
 
Watching The River Flow  (7)  
 
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll  (7)  
 
Desolation Row  (7)  
 
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (7)  
 
Cat's In The Well (6)  
 
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)  (6)  
 
Maggie's Farm (6)  
 
John Brown (6)
Masters Of War  (6)  
 
The Wicked Messenger  (6)  
 
Man In The Long Black Coat  (6)  
 
Ballad Of A Thin Man  (6)  
 
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat  (6)  
 
When I Paint My Masterpiece (5)  
 
Love Sick (5)  
 
Ballad Of Hollis Brown  (5)
Til I Fell In Love With You  (5)  
 
Tryin' To Get To Heaven (5)  
 
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight  (4)  
 
Make You Feel My Love  (4)  
 
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue  (4)  
 
Chimes Of Freedom (4)  
 
Nettie Moore  (4)  
 
Million Miles (4)  
 
Lay, Lady, Lay (Bob on guitar)  (4)  
 
Boots Of Spanish Leather  (4)  
 
Tangled Up In Blue  (4)  
 
Blind Willie McTell  (4)  
 
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (3)  
 
I Believe In You  (3)
Gotta Serve Somebody  (3)  
 
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall  (3)
Tough Mama  (3)  
 
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues  (3)  
 
Mr. Tambourine Man  (3)  
 
Girl Of The North Country  (3)  
 
Lonesome Day Blues  (3)
Under The Red Sky  (3)  
 
The Man In Me (2)  
 
One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)  (2)  
 
Return To Me  (2)  
 
This Wheel's On Fire  (2)  
 
The Times They Are A-Changin'  (2)  
 
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35  (2)
Every Grain Of Sand  (2)  
 
Visions Of Johanna (2)  
 
If You Ever Go To Houston  (2)  
 
Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)  
Billy  
Cry A While  
Forever Young  
 
Simple Twist Of Fate  
 
Shooting Star
Dignity  
 
My Back Pages  
 
Can't Wait  
 
The Times We've Known    
 
It Ain't Me, Babe  
 
Something  

[Shankly (Peter)]

Seems that Bob had a good time in Liverpool  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8046278.stm

Folk legend Bob Dylan mingled unnoticed with Beatles tourists during a minibus tour to John Lennon's childhood home.

The 67-year-old troubadour paid £16 for the public trip to the 1940s semi in Woolton, Liverpool, last week as his European tour called at the city.

He was one of 14 tourists to examine photos and documents in the National Trust-owned home, where Lennon grew up with his aunt Mimi and uncle George.

A National Trust spokeswoman said Dylan "appeared to enjoy himself".

The trust said its tours of the Beatle's childhood home form "an insight into his humble beginnings".

Visitors are free to wander around the property while asking questions of the curator.

But as tourists prepared to drive out to the house to get an insight into one musical icon, they did not recognise another one sitting next to them.

"He took one of our general minibus tours. People on the minibus did not recognise him apparently," the spokeswoman said.

"He could have booked a private tour but he was happy to go on the bus with everyone else," she added.

The house, called Mendips, has been restored to its original 1940s style by the trust and contains early Lennon memorabilia.

Lennon is said to have developed his passion for music in the suburban house and wrote some of the earliest Beatles songs in his bedroom.

The spokeswoman said a number of singing stars had been on the tour in the past, including James Taylor and Corinne Bailey Rae.

But she refused to be drawn on whether Dylan was the biggest star they had shown around.

[billy]

Saw him in his sparkly suited Elvis period at Earls Court in 78, he didn't speak, the music bore little resemblance to the original but the gig was brilliant. Think "Live at Budakan" and you get the idea.

He actually spoke quite a lot at all 6 shows of that run.Not that i'm one for hearing chit chat,i'd rather hear extra songs than loads of waffle.

[billy]

Bob Dylan Pretty Boy Floyd1988


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD5qNL4uFZI&feature=related

[billy]

Shows to Come

 

Summer in the US. All minor league baseball park shows co-headlining with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp unless otherwise stated:

 

July 1st, Summerfest, Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (with Willie Nelson only)

July 2nd, GCS Ballpark, Sauget, Illinois

July 4th, Coveleski Stadium, South Bend, Indiana
July 5th, Double JJ Ranch, Rothbury, Michigan – A festival; not a part of the Ballpark tour

July 8th, Louisville Slugger Field, Louisville, Kentucky

July 10th, Fifth Third Field, Dayton, Ohio

July 11th, Classic Park, Eastlake, Ohio

July 13th, Consol Energy Park, Washington, Pennsylvania

July 14th, Coca Cola Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania

July 15th, New Britain Stadium, New Britain, Connecticut

July 17th, Centennial Field, Essex Junction, Vermont

July 18th, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel Woods, New York

July 19th, Alliance Bank Stadium, Syracuse, New York

July 21st, McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

July 23rd, First Energy Park, Lakewood, New Jersey

July 24th, Ripken Stadium, Aberdeen ,Maryland

July 25, Harbor Park, Norfolk, Virginia

July 28th, Durham Bulls Athletic Park, Durham, North Carolina

July 29th, Heritage Park Amphitheatre, Simpsonville, South Carolina

July 30th, Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Alpharetta, Georgia

July 31st, The Amphitheater at the Wharf, Orange Beach, Alabama
August 2nd, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Houston, Texas
August 4th,The Dell Diamond, Round Rock, Texas

August 5th, Whataburger Field, Corpus Christi, Texas

August 7th, Quik Trip Park, Grand Prairie, Texas

August 8th, Jones AT & T Stadium, Lubbock. Texas

August 9th, Journal Pavilion, Albuquerque, New Mexico
August 11th, Camelback Ranch, Glendale, Arizona

August 12th, The Diamond, Lake Elsinore California
August 14th, Chukchansi Park, Fresno, California

August 15th, Banner Island Ballpark, Stockton, California

August 16th, Harveys, Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Possibly just with Willie Nelson.

[Poor Will (Bill)]

Saw him in his sparkly suited Elvis period at Earls Court in 78, he didn't speak, the music bore little resemblance to the original but the gig was brilliant. Think "Live at Budakan" and you get the idea.

He actually spoke quite a lot at all 6 shows of that run.Not that i'm one for hearing chit chat,i'd rather hear extra songs than loads of waffle.

That was certainly the case at the show I saw during that stint.

[billy]

That was the first time i saw him.I had tickets for all six shows but as our oldest son (31 today) was born the day after the first show i only made it to three.

[frogcrutches]

That was the first time i saw him.I had tickets for all six shows but as our oldest son (31 today) was born the day after the first show i only made it to three.

Do you like Bob, Billy?
You should have mentioned it before.

[billy]

I don't mind a bit of Bob but i prefer the incomparable Sandy Denny.

[frogcrutches]

I don't mind a bit of Bob but i prefer the incomparable Sandy Denny.

I haven't noticed you posting much about her.
Mind you, I'm very slow.

[billy]

I try and stay in this thread as much as possible to keep out of trouble.  

[billy]

Backstage with Bob Dylan



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ4ZXsyqsWo