Bob Dylan

[gurnemanz]

Here's good old Bob from a couple of nights back in Nashville doing 'Goodbye Jimmy Reed' and 'Every Grain of Sand' and then wowing the audience with a wee bit moothie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtbXIetFPY

Thanks JC. Sounding amazingly good. I loved that Every Grain. As the 82-year-old continues his ongoing "Rough and Rowdy Ways" Tour (New Orleans tonight - tickets available) this 74-year-old is planning some light gardening,

On that YouTube page I clicked a link to a video of Dylan's bus leaving a venue. (Not riveting maybe but of marginal interest to the seriously committed). He doesn't hang around after gigs, as I remember when we saw him in Cardiff a few years ago. As we were heading home after the concert we overtook his bus on the M4 towards England.

[johncorrigan]

On that YouTube page I clicked a link to a video of Dylan's bus leaving a venue. (Not riveting maybe but of marginal interest to the seriously committed). He doesn't hang around after gigs, as I remember when we saw him in Cardiff a few years ago. As we were heading home after the concert we overtook his bus on the M4 towards England.

One of the books I ended up buying while working through 'Mixing Up the Medicine', gurney, was Sam Shepard's 'Rolling Thunder Logbook'. It was mentioned in one of the essays in the book. There are some great wee insights into life on the road with Bob and his entourage and one in particular springs to mind when Bob heads off in his campervan trying to stay clear.
Worth looking out, I thought.

http://www.sam-shepard.com/rollingthunder.html

[johncorrigan]

I love this version of 'Tangled' from Wembley in '84 - genius what he does with this wonderful song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJjyU1mhg2A

[johncorrigan]

Uncle Bob gives us a great version of the classic from 'Hard Days Night'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV2k-GAfT0w

[Jazzrook]

Dylan with The Plugz playing ‘Jokerman’ in 1984:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=FnRmr7k8jsQ

& the Letterman Rehearsal:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=t5fWNYsyoGw

JR

[cloughie]

In the troubled war torn world we are living in I often have the words of ‘God on our side’ as an earworm - I think Paul Jones with Manfred Mann’s Recording of this really connected with me in my late teens - I wonder if and how Dylan would update this now!

https://youtu.be/c53RqNwogQI?feature=shared

The Manfreds both with PJ and Mike d’Abo did justice to Bob’s songs.

[Jazzrook]

In the troubled war torn world we are living in I often have the words of ‘God on our side’ as an earworm - I think Paul Jones with Manfred Mann’s Recording of this really connected with me in my late teens - I wonder if and how Dylan would update this now!

https://youtu.be/c53RqNwogQI?feature=shared

The Manfreds both with PJ and Mike d’Abo did justice to Bob’s songs.

A great version which I’d never heard before.
It prompted me to seek out the track on CD and buy a Manfred Mann album for the first time in my life!
Many thanks, cloughie.

JR

[johncorrigan]

Dylan with The Plugz playing ‘Jokerman’ in 1984:

JR

Thanks JR - loved Bob's moothie malfunction.

The Manfreds both with PJ and Mike d’Abo did justice to Bob’s songs.

Thanks, cloughie. I thought Paul Jones was a great front man - really fine singer and very excellent on the moothie as he briefly shows here when the Manfreds did their great cover of Bob's 'If you Gotta Go, Go Now'. Still sounds terrific, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Tl2cVeCbY

Bob recorded it for 'Bringing it All Back Home', but it didn't make it onto the LP. Here he is singing it in Leicester in '65 with just the geetar and moothie for company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZRd2Smk3NU

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[johncorrigan]

Eighty-three today...Happy Birthday , Bob. He's not finished yet, but he ain't gonna work on Maggie's Farm no more, it would appear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkTgAUrR5UA

[LMcD]

In the troubled war torn world we are living in I often have the words of ‘God on our side’ as an earworm - I think Paul Jones with Manfred Mann’s Recording of this really connected with me in my late teens - I wonder if and how Dylan would update this now!

https://youtu.be/c53RqNwogQI?feature=shared

The Manfreds both with PJ and Mike d’Abo did justice to Bob’s songs.

I always regarded the Manfreds as one of the best groups around at the time and haven't changed my opinion since.