Bob Dylan 1979 "Gotta Serve Somebody", "I Believe in You" and "When You Gonna Wake Up”.SNL NBC Studios, New York City, 1979.

 some Jesus freaks posted this over (under the tag 'burning for Jesus'!!? ) on Flickenabok and I thought it fun to post again here . . . . . folks knowing me well know I am an atheist and at a push an agnostic atheist but like the Borrowers and Unicorns and Faeryfolk I care not that they don’t exist and of course I maintain I am just as much an atheist as you and whatever belief system you subscribe to of the many thousand of deities you DON’T believe in I merely don’t believe in one more than you . . . I have posted the Lennon riposte “Serve Yourself" that Bob’s ‘born again’ evangelising period of his life so inspired his ire . 

1979    "Gotta Serve Somebody", "I Believe in You" and "When You Gonna Wake Up”.

From NBC Studios, New York City, NY, 10/20/1979. This was Dylan's first and only performance on Saturday Night Live. 

so we will play Devil’s advocate (ahem  ha ha ha ha ha - ED) and post this here . . . . . it is actually of course quite fascinating musically which is why I post here . . .the songs? I best leave it! 

Why IS it that evangelicals wear white (white shoes with whites strides?!) with their pressed trousers and powder blue?  or even aquamarine? jacket - juss askin’! within a couple of years after this side tracked issue he was back to his former self and acknowledging his Jewish roots and more mystical bent . . . 🤔

Seemed apposite for a Sunday ya get me?! 😉

Paul Simon - Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 08-12-2000 | so many roads

Paul Simon - 2000-12-08 - Beacon Theater, New York, NY

Paul Simon

2000-12-08

Beacon Theater

New York, NY **

01. That's Where I Belong

02. Graceland

03. One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor

04. You're The One

05. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

06. That Was Your Mother

07. Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard

08. The Teacher

09. Spirit Voices 

10. Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes >

11. You Can Call Me Al

12. Old Friends/Bookends

13. Homeward Bound

14. I Am A Rock

15. Darling Lorraine 

16. Old

17. The Boy in the Bubble

18. American Tune

19. The Coast

20. Late In The Evening

21. The Late Great Johnny Ace 

22. Hurricane Eye

23. Proof

24. Still Crazy After All These Years

25. Pigs, Sheep, and Wolves

26. Mrs. Robinson

27. The Boxer

28. Kodachrome

On October 3, 2000, Paul Simon rleased his 10th solo studio album, The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2001, making Simon the first artist to be nominated in that category in five consecutive decades (1960s-2000s). In 2006, Paul McCartney became the only other artist to match that feat when his disc Chaos and Creation in the Backyard was nominated. The album went to #19 on the US Billboard charts and to #20 on the UK charts. This soundboard recording captures Simon on tour in support of You're The One, at the beacon Theater on December 2, 2000.

 **As per with alternate multiple sources and this is high quality stuff! Great addition from Speedy the boss at  so many roads

Post VH-1 Storytellers! RAY DAVIES Westbury NY 1997 | Albums That Should Exist

Ray Davies - Westbury Music Fair, Westbury, NY, 10-20-1997

Paul Says : The posting of this album is another side effect of posting a flood of "VH-1 Storytellers" albums. Ray Davies of the Kinks was the performer for the very first Storytellers episode in 1996, and the show was basically modeled after his solo concerts at the time, which mixed songs with lots of banter, including readings from his autobiography, "X-Ray."

Hearing the Davies episode made me want to hear a full-length concert by him from this time period. In 1998, he released the album "Storyteller." It was basically a live album of these solo concerts he was doing at the time. (It had one new studio track at the end.) He did acoustic concerts from 1995 to 1999, backed only by a second guitar player. "Storyteller" is a great album, but it's only 70 minutes long (not including that studio track). I wanted a full, long concert.

Unfortunately, all of the bootlegs of his solo concerts from the late 1990s are audience boots, with poor to middling sound... with one exception. That exception is this concert from Westbury, New York, which is a true soundboard. Not only is the sound quality great, but it seems Davies performed an extra long concert with some rarely performed songs. For instance, according to the setlist.fm website, he only performed "My Diary" three times in his entire music career, and this was the only solo acoustic version.

That said, there were some issues with this recording. For example, the volume of the banter between song was way lower than the songs. There also was hiss, especially with the banter. I managed to fix the volume imbalances and get rid of most of the hiss. I also fixed other problems, like occasional dropouts. This sounds noticeably better than the bootleg version floating around the Internet, in my opinion. Basically, it sounds just as good as his "Storytellers" album, only it's twice as long, with lots more songs and more banter. I think this is a "must have" for any Kinks/ Ray Davies fan, especially since it's the only known soundboard recording from this time period.

This concert is two hours and 16 minutes long. 

01 talk
02 Lola 
03 talk 
04 A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy
05 Shangri-La 
06 talk 
07 My Diary 
08 Animal Farm
09 Dead End Street
10 Celluloid Heroes
11 talk 
12 Victoria 
13 talk 
14 20th Century Man 
15 talk
16 London Song
17 talk 
18 That Old Black Magic 
19 talk 
20 That Old Black Magic [Reprise] 
21 Tired of Waiting for You 
22 talk
23 Set Me Free 
24 talk
25 See My Friends 
26 Autumn Almanac 
27 talk 
28 X-Ray 
29 Minnie the Moocher 
30 talk 
31 Art School Babe 
32 talk 
33 A Well Respected Man 
34 talk
35 The Ballad of Julie Finkle 
36 talk 
37 Back in the Front Room
38 talk 
39 You Really Got Me 
40 talk
41 Waterloo Sunset 
42 talk 
43 You Really Got Me [Reprise]
44 Come Dancing 

What am I listening to? : TAJ MAHAL - JOHNNY TOO BAD/ TAKE A GIANT STEP Live at Ultrasound Long Island NY 1974

Extraordinary live set from the Taj here . . . . . .wondrous arrangements check out Johnny Too Bad Written by the Slickers: Trevor "Batman" Wilson, Winston Bailey, Roy Beckford and Derrick Crookss

The Slickers sang it on the Harder They Come soundtrack which is where I first heard this classic reggae) 

or Take A Giant Step (Gerry Goffin and Carole King - yes really!) I thought it was his song! AWESOME!

Take a Giant Step 

Johnny Too Bad If you listen to anything today make it THIS!

How many songs can you name that have kalimba solos!? only the Taj!

Live at Ultrasonic Studios 1974! We listed this one from Heavybootz the other day and if you want it go there!

Taj Mahal here . . . . . .

Dylan of The Day - RAY PADGETT’s Flagging Down The Double E’s Newsletter - NY Power outage!

Greeting Fans During a Blackout

2003-08-20, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY

RAY PADGETT AUG 20 ∙

On August 14, 2003, Bob Dylan played New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom.

Well, almost. He was supposed to play New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom. His third show in a row in the small club. But, sometime around soundcheck, the power went out. 

Not just at the club. The whole city. In fact, a big chunk of the Eastern seaboard and Canada lost power. The Department of Energy calls it “the worst power blackout in history.”

There are plenty of news clips you can watch if you don’t remember this, but my favorite artifact of this moment this Conan O’Brien episode taped using a generator and the few staff members who stuck around, wearing headlamps.

The power went out at 4:15 pm. Since the Hammerstein gig was a general-admission club show, a number of Dylan fans were already in line. And who should come out to check on them but the man himself? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported: 

Outside the Hammerstein Ballroom, a concert hall on 34th Street, a group of diehard fans of Bob Dylan were waiting for a second day. They had arrived at 5 a.m. Thursday for a Dylan concert that was canceled that night. They were hoping it would be held Friday night.

They were rewarded for their persistence when Dylan himself stopped by Thursday night to chat.

“He just came walking up and said, ‘So what do you want to ask me?’” marveled Mike Amrein of Simsbury, Conn. “Somebody asked, ‘Who dresses you?’ And Dylan said, ‘My wife,’” Amrein said.

“I come to his concerts quite often, and this was absolutely not my first night on the sidewalk,” Amrein said.

Sadly, this was just before ubiquitous camera phones or I’m sure there would be more visual evidence of this extremely un-Boblike behavior. But I found one photo of Dylan visiting with the line out on the street:

Photo by Andrea Orlandi

Some posts in old fan forums add detail. One poster notes that Dylan bailed pretty quickly when one crazy lady started asking him questions like “Can I give you a makeover?” and “Were you breastfed?” And you wonder with Dylan doesn’t spend more time hanging out with his fans

read more here . . . .

ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST | Woodstock '94, Day 3, Part 15: BOB DYLAN

Dylan plays Woodstock! (94 that is!) - Albums that should exist

So ATSE just keeps on coming with the complete (sic) Woodtock Festival sets from 1994 and today's is no exception! 

Ladies and Gentlemen please welcome Columbia Recording artist Mr BOB DYLAN

 

Paul he say: The 15th album from Day Three of the Woodstock '94 Festival was a set by legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.

The Wikipedia entry about this festival has a good paragraph about the Dylan set, so I'll quote it in full here:

"After being injured in a traffic accident in 1966 and his subsequent disappearance from the popular music scene, Bob Dylan declined to go to the original Woodstock Festival of 1969, even though he lived in the area at the time. He set off for the Isle of Wight Festival the day the Woodstock festival started and performed at Woodside Bay on August 31, 1969. Dylan, however, did accept an invitation to perform at Woodstock '94 and was introduced with the phrase: 'We waited twenty-five years to hear this. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Bob Dylan.' Although he was an hour and a half late to his performance, his set was considered one of the greater moments of the festival by various critics and represented the beginning of another new phase in his lengthy career. Uncharacteristically for the time, Dylan played lead guitar in a more rock-oriented electric set."

I would add to that that Dylan was in the middle of a songwriting dry spell when this festival occurred. His last album of original material had been released in 1990, "Under the Red Sky." He released acoustic folk albums made up entirely of cover songs in 1992 and 1993. He would eventually come roaring back with a strong album of original material in 1997. But for this festival, nearly all the songs he played were classics that were at least a decade old. The only exception was "God Knows," from his 1990 album. He also said absolutely nothing between the songs.

This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.

01 talk (Bob Dylan)

02 Jokerman (Bob Dylan)

03 Just like a Woman (Bob Dylan)

04 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)

05 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Bob Dylan)

06 Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Bob Dylan)

07 Masters of War (Bob Dylan)

08 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan)

09 God Knows (Bob Dylan)

10 I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan)

11 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)

12 Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35 (Bob Dylan)

13 It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob Dylan)