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Friday, January 12, 2024

Dylan of The Day - BOB DYLAN - TOAD’S PLACE Jan 1990 - this from the Bob Dylan Fan Club Facebook page . . .


Posted at the Fanclub and from the page Bob Dylan On This Day

"12th January 1990 - Bob Dylan performs one of his most surprising concerts of his career at Toad's Place, New Haven, Connecticut. Labelled as a "rehearsal" for the upcoming tour, Dylan performs to a crowd of just 700 for over 5 hours. The show, which featured four electric sets by Dylan started at 9pm and ended at some point after 2am!


The first night of touring for 1990 saw Dylan trying out a selection of songs including almost the entire track listing from Oh Mercy - The band consisted of Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), G. E. Smith (guitar), Tony Garnier (bass) and Christopher Parker (drums).


The show although rough and very much sounding like a rehearsal in places (with some songs played more than once) Dylan performs 50 songs, of which 18 are covers and others are rare or unperformed originals. As well as requests from the audience!!!"


The Full set list:

 

1.   Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Joe South)

2.   One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)

3.   Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

4.   Trouble No More (McKinley Morganfield)

5.   I've Been All Around This World (trad.)

6.   Political World

7.   Where Teardrops Fall

8.   Tears Of Rage (Bob Dylan & Richard Manuel)

9.   I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine

10.   It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

11.   Everybody's Movin' (Glen Trout)

12.   Watching The River Flow

13.   What Was It You Wanted

14.   Oh Baby It Ain't No Lie (Elizabeth Cotten)

15.   Lenny Bruce

16.   I Believe In You

17.   Man Of Peace

18.   Across The Borderline (Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson)

19.   Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

20.   All Along The Watchtower

21.   Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)

22.   Political World

23.   What Good Am I?

24.   Wiggle Wiggle

25.   Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

26.   Pay The Price (Moon Martin)

27.   Help Me Make It Through The Night (Kris Kristofferson)

28.   Man In The Long Black Coat

29.   Congratulations

30.   Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen)

31.   Lonesome Whistle Blues (Hank Williams-Jimmy Davies)

32.   Confidential (Dolinda Morgan)

33.   In The Garden

34.   Everything Is Broken

35.   So Long, Good Luck And Goodbye (Weldon Rogers)

36.   Where Teardrops Fall

37.   Political World

38.   Pretty Peggy-O (trad. arr. Bob Dylan)

39.   I'll Remember You

40.   Key To The Highway (Charles Segar/Willie Broonzy)

41.   Joey (Bob Dylan & Jacques Levy)

42.   Lay Lady Lay

43.   I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)

44.   When Did You Leave Heaven? (W. Bullock/R. Whiting)

45.   Maggie's Farm

46.   I've Been All Around This World (trad.)

47.   In The Pines (Huddie "Leadbelly" Leadbetter)

48.   Highway 61 Revisited

49.   Precious Memories (arr. by Bob Dylan)

50.   Like A Rolling Stone


"Marking the 34th anniversary of a singular Dylan event. (A friend of mine was actually there!) 

From the setlist - there were a number of "only ever performed on this night" covers - these were Walk A Mile in My Shoes (Joe South), Trouble No More (Mckinley Morganfield), Pay the Price, Help Me Make It Through The Night (Kris Kristofferson) and Dancing in The Dark (Bruce Springsteen).


Also of note was a rare outing for Precious Memories from his 1986 album Knocked Out Loaded. This song has only ever been played live 3 times by Dylan with this being the last live performance, to date! Also the final (to date) performance of the Traveling Wilburys song Congratulations again played only three times in Dylan's career."


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3 comments:

Gus said...

Hola Amigo: Un link para bajar esto, por favor , gracias !!!!!!!!!!!!

Andy Swapp said...

Querido Gus, es un artículo sobre el concierto en Toads Place, pero está disponible en todas partes como pirata.

Andy Swapp said...

Hola Gus!
there are two cd ROIOs mentioned on Bob’s Boots but there is this review on Rolling Stone and four hours of it on YuoTube

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bringing-it-all-back-home-dylan-thrills-with-exhaustive-show-71301/

https://youtu.be/r5eu3W0wjfU?si=VVNF938E81kmadvp

Hope this is helpful

Thanks for dropping by Gus