If you watched ‘It Ain’t Me Babe’ from this same show you might be thinking – this must have been great show. I am only hearing the performances for the first time now and there is something funny about the way Bob Dylan is delivering the songs.
Perhaps that was the kind of performances he was giving around the time. If you ask me I think he still felt bitter about the hippies cramping his style back in the 60s and is giving a ‘fuck you woodstock’ kind of delivery.
Maybe he regretted not playing at the original Woodstock and he was trying to make up for it.
Here is a Great version of Don’t Think Twice to my ears. I didn’t know how they were going to lift the song off the ground at first but they soon enough sorted out a rockin’ groove – pretty fast too. It wears me out just thinking about playing the double bass like Tony Garnier in a song like this. Great band.
I’ve been meaning to post this one for a while now and I could never forget it. I rate this performance very high.
I don’t even know the date or venue but my guess would be some time in 1998 about mid-year. If anyone knows the date and venue of this show, please let me know!
The band would have been:
David Kemper – Drums
Tony Garnier – Bass
Bucky Baxter – Pedal Steel
Larry Campbell – Guitar
This is only the second version of this song I’ve heard. Post sixties of course. Did he do it much in the early 60s?
Anyway, the first version I heard was from a copy of the ‘Mercury Lounge’ show in Melbourne, 1998. I’m pretty sure there weren’t a huge amount of seats sold and many would have been reserved. Was/is the ‘Mercury Lounge a part of Melbourne’s Crown Casino. Don’t know and I don’t really care – they played an awesome show.
What I care about is the way Dylan uses his voice in this period of his career – particularly 1997-1998. To me the melody lines and phrasing patterns Bob uses vocally are very sound and executed, delivered brilliantly.The chord progression is beautiful in this version of the age-old song Pretty Peggy-O, which would go by many a’name as well. The song is elegantly performed by Bob Dylan and his band.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I’ve got an important announcement to make. I wanna introduce one of the.. great talents of the 20th century actually. The one and only, Paul Simon.” . Paul Simon comes out and I’m sure noone would know what to expect.
Relax in your chair and enjoy this wonderful version of ‘Sound of Silence”. The camera work is excellent as is the sound. The song begins with a slow musical intro; The beautiful melody of the classic song. Dylan and Simon honing in on each other having a musical conversation with their guitars.
Singing with Bob Dylan would not be the easiest thing and you have probably heard evidence. This time Bob closely follows Simon and provides at times well timed backup vocals using good notes. For the better part of the song Simon’s and Dylan’s eyes are locked in together allowing them to work in harmony.
After the first verse the pedal steel and drums kick in – David Kemper and Larry Campbell are fantastic players. If you have read previous posts on DylanTube you would know I love Larry Campbell’s steel playing. He makes that four-legged guitar cry.
After the 2nd verse Bob walks over to his amp and picks up one of his harmonicas and plays some strong lines full of emotion.
I quite like the way this video looks and sounds. The pedal steel cuts through and Dylan is center shot. This is one of those Bob videos where you can see other Bobs from the past in Bob, if that makes sense.
Bob performs this one with passion and is deep into the song. I think you can tell how good of a time Dylan is having by the way he plays. He is firing out some good lines on that strat. I think Bob’s guitar sound is pretty cool. Dirty and crunchy.
When it comes to Bob Dylan’s guitar sound what is your favorite time period?
Bob’s vocals blow me out on this performance. Whenever I think I know what his vocal range was for a certain time period, I’m always proved wrong by the man Himself. I really enjoy this song which was first released on Bob’s first album – ‘Bob Dylan’
Apart from the small snippet of video of Dylan and Jack White I saw recently this is the only video I have ever seen of Bob singing ‘One More Cup of Coffee’ post 70s.
I have heard a few versions from around this time but I am happy with the way Bob approaches the song in this performance. The melody lines he chooses to sing are simple but powerful and the band does a good job, although I thought the lead guitarist went off a bit too much at the start of the song.
I’m impressed by this video of ‘Girl From The North Country’ that shows Bob Dylan giving us a very passionate performance, playing emotive guitar runs and beautiful singing. I felt as I was in the song with Bob whilst watching this.
Here we see Bob Dylan singing ‘Chimes of Freedom’ at Bill Clinton’s Inaugural Concert in 1993.
Bill and Hillary appear to thoroughly enjoy Bob’s presence and his choice of song.
Dylan has this song finished in little more than 3 minutes and when I first watched this I was on the edge of my seat the whole time thinking he would completely flunk a verse. It was just too fast and the band’s music sounded rushed as did Dylan’s vocals. Perhaps there were time restrictions or Bob just wanted to do it that way. Wouldn’t suprise me at all!
Patti Smith delivers the song in her own style – which is expressive and theatrcle. Dylan lets Patti take the verses while providing ingenutive backup singing on the chorus parts. The band also do a great job on this song with Bucky Baxter shining once again on the steel guitar.
