Bob Dylan - Tempest, Sept. 11, 2012

That has more 'old faves' than I would have expected.

when I saw him in '05 he played "I'll Remember You"! My heart leapt.

I re-discovered the mp3's I d/l of the "hears a who" set. Made a nice sleeve and label for a burned CD..

I guess he's not going to do "Green Eggs and Ham"

i've been looking at dylan setlists for like, most of my internet life, so sometimes i wish he'd dig a little deeper, play some things from Infidels or New Morning or something. but this show i just listened to sounded pretty cool.

I figure he played piano on the original therefore it's easier for him.

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/240999.1020.A.jpg

it's funny cuz he digs so deep and plays so many songs compared to most classic rock touring artists but then he TOTALLY ALWAYS PLAYS watchtower, blowin' in the wind, and like a rolling stone

OTOH, they're probably not often recognizable as such- at least until he gets to the chorus (or mumbles a few consecutively intelligible lyrics).

The first time I saw him, mid-80s, he did an acoustic set including Blowin and Times They Are a-Changin, and it felt like Fogey Central. Saw him like 15 years later, and he did this mournful, bluesy version of Blowin' that was just gorgeous. So, yeah, unpredictable.

I don't think 68 minutes is necessarily a bad sign. For one thing, that could mean a 17-minute epic in there, and his track record on those is pretty good. But also, the longer songs on Modern Times completely trump the short ones on Together Through Life.

that could mean a 17-minute epic in there

The song about the TItanic is 14 minutes long.

As I've said elsewhere, the cover looks like a self-released smooth jazz album.

Xpost yeah, last time I saw him took me a verse or two to realize he was playing tangled up in blue

i have never seen dylan live!

i can't claim to be a superfan or anything, it just struck me.

it's weird to think how old love & theft is! he's been playing a lot of that album as a core part of his setlists for over a decade now.

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

puts me in mind of the woody allen conversations we've had here

I haven't seen Woody Allen live either.

we're watching him die

he played literally four blocks from my house last summer at the ballpark & I felt guilty that there's no way I'm going to an outdoor goes-on-forever rock show at a ballpark in the summer here no matter who it is

i dunno, the ballpark thing seems kind of fun? at least more fun than a hockey arena. best time i saw him was at the hollywood palladium.
here's a recent live thing i've been enjoying. i dunno, obviously the ragged vocals will be a roadblock for some, but i think he sounds great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCLBFvqyBkI

and check him out here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuHsXVSFkFs

cover looks like what i'd expect to see in a one-sheet on a new soft cell album anytime in the last 9 years

i dunno, the ballpark thing seems kind of fun? at least more fun than a hockey arena

yeah I guess - I really strongly prefer short sets so I don't go to classic-old-dude shows anyway, and one that's outside in punishing southern summer heat is one I'm especially not going to

yeah i don't know if i'd go if one of those was near me, but maybe if it was cheap ... a beer, a hot dog and blowin in the wind. america.

o t m

I'm mad at myself for not going to see that Dylan/Willie Nelson/John Mellencamp ballpark tour a few years back. Nearest show was 3 hours away, but still.

the only time i've ever seen dylan was in a saint pall ballpark with willie nelson opening (with part of a set pushing his reggae album, too!).

it sure as hell was fuckin america. i had cheese curds. me and my date sat on a blanket in the grass. dylan was doing 'masters of war' a lot then.

it sure as hell was fuckin america. i had cheese curds. me and my date sat on a blanket in the grass. dylan was doing 'masters of war' a lot then.
think this is a quote from On The Road isn't it?

when i was in high school i basically wanted nothing in the world more than to see dylan live but the neverending tour rarely finds its way to oahu let alone to the big island

then he came here to portland the other year and i was like, eh. see also: i could buy half a dozen super soaker xp35s now, and yet.

(i should still go see him at some point. i would like to. it was just an inconvenient week. also i doubt they make the xp35 anymore and nothing will ever be more platonically ideal.)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef016302205689970d-pi

I saw one of the Palladium shows a few years ago and the main thing I remember about that gig is how many people were looking at Johnny Depp being bored at his VIP table instead of at Dylan. I really enjoyed the show though. Warm sound, reasonably sized venue.

A part of me wants to see him live now that he's ditched the organ crutch, but I don't think I'd go to an arena show to see God. Too bad fucking Knopfler's opening for him instead of John & Exene like last time.

hrm
http://www.jambands.com/images/2012/07/18/37190/DylanKnopfler-353x.jpg

knobpfler

money for knothin

Seen him three times, most recently in summer '05 with Nelson. The sound was fabulous: a locomotive running through a baseball stadium centerfield. Stuck to piano.

i guess dylan/knopf toured europe last fall together, did some jams, but sadly did not play infidels in its entirety.

dates for n. america. man he tours pretty hard, doesn't he. two colorado dates, kind of tempted, especially if he's playing new stuff.

Oct 05 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre
Oct 06 - Regina, SK - Brandt Centre
Oct 08 - Saskatoon, SK - Credit Union Centre
Oct 09 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
Oct 10 - Calgary, AB - Scotiabank Saddledome
Oct 12 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena Rogers Arena
Oct 13 - Seattle, WA - Key Arena
Oct 15 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden Arena
Oct 17 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Oct 18 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Oct 19 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre
Oct 20 - Sacramento, CA - Power Balance Pavillion Power
Oct 22 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara County Bowl
Oct 24 - San Diego, CA - Valley View Casino Center
Oct 26 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
Oct 29 - Broomfield, CO - 1st Bank Center
Oct 30 - Broomfield, CO - 1st Bank Center

Nov 01 - Grand Prairie, TX - Verizon Theatre
Nov 02 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center
Nov 03 - Omaha, NE - CenturyLink Center
Nov 05 - Madison, WI - Alliant Energy Center
Nov 07 - St. Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
Nov 08 - Milwaukee, WI - BMO Harris Bradley Center
Nov 09 - Chicago, IL - United Center
Nov 12 - Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena
Nov 13 - Detroit, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills
Nov 14 - Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre
Nov 16 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre Bell Centre
Nov 18 - Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden
Nov 19 - Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Nov 20 - Washington, DC Verizon Center
Nov 21 - Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center

hm SF show is on my bday

absolutely hate that venue tho

yeah the CO venue is lame-o too. funny, leonard cohen is playing there a couple days later. how much gravel can one building stand?

He's playing US & Canada all August and September too.

he's playing an outdoor venue in Indy in late August & then the United Center in Chi in November, both p much equidistant from me. former is prob a more fun venue but the weather's been so savage here that I'm not sure I want to take my chances. but lawn seats are only $30ish! whereas the United Center is not likely to be as loose, but also not going to be meltorama. not sure.

He's playing US & Canada all August and September too.
yeah! crazy. obviously nothing new, but still. he must really like performing. i assume he doesn't need the $$$.

i'd be pretty happy to see this setlist

Lyon, France
Fourviere Nights Festival
Theatres Romains De Fourviere

July 18, 2012

1. Absolutely Sweet Marie
(Bob on keyboard, Donnie on violin, Stu on acoustic guitar)
2. Man In The Long Black Coat
(Bob center stage with harp, Stu on acoustic guitar)
3. Things Have Changed (Bob center stage with harp, Stu on acoustic guitar)
4. Tangled Up In Blue
(Bob center stage with harp then on grand piano, Stu on acoustic guitar)
5. Rollin' And Tumblin' (Bob on grand piano)
6. Desolation Row (Bob on grand piano, Donnie on electric mandolin,
Stu on acoustic guitar, Tony on standup bass)
7. High Water (For Charley Patton)
(Bob center stage with harp then on grand piano, Donnie on banjo, Tony on standup bass)
8. Sugar Baby (Bob on grand piano, Stu on acoustic guitar, Tony on standup bass)
9. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Bob on grand piano)
10. Forgetful Heart (Bob centere stage with harp, Donnie on violin,
Stu on acoustic guitar, Tony on standup bass with bow)
11. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on grand piano)
12. Blind Willie McTell
(Bob center stage with harp, Donnie on banjo, Stu on acoustic guitar, Tony on standup bass)
13. Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on grand piano)
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man
(Bob center stage with harp then on grand piano and back to center stage with harp)
15. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on grand piano)
16. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on grand piano)

(encore)
17. Blowin' In The Wind (Bob on grand piano then center stage with harp,
Donnie on violin, Stu on acoutic guitar, Tony on standup bass)

High Water from that set:

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

my fave tempest covers

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http://www.popsike.eu/pix/20080601/320258850754.jpg

but i like the dylan cover. except his name doesn't really fit...somehow. the rest i like. would look good for the vinyl version.

Somehow I think it might be a mock-up, or a working visual, like a working title. Just to make the press release more festive, and fit with its massive pimping of awards and chart-toppings from Time Out Of Mind onwards. First time I saw him was in the late-ish 70s, the tour he'd started with Rolling Thunder whiteface shaded to something more tasteful, no stubble, coiffure, Hot August Night-type stage attire (this is when he and Neil Diamond shared some elements of management and/or lawyers, plus Robertson had produced Beautiful Noise, which I'd still like to check[ might be how Neil got to be in The Last Waltz). By the time they got to Birmingham, Dyl was in a rumpled Cisco Kid suit, black and silver (which he wore for this whole leg of the tour, judging by the highlight reel I later saw), side of his hair flattened, hunched over and totin' that big ol' guitar, like he'd just rolled out of the blankets and straight to another night's work. But with enough campfire bacon and coffee to tap that dirty sneaker and direct diff subsets of musicians, and sometimes the whole 20 or so usually onstage (though some were sent into or summoned from the wings). Plus a female gospel chorus in several contexts, incl. a gospel-speed-metal-orchestral "Masters of War."

Another time I saw him, in the early 90s, he was more into playing than singing, lots of fine complex folkie picking and some screaming solos, from him and steel guitarist, especially in "Highway 61" and "Tombstone Blues." "All Along The Watchtower" kept witholding the expected guitarpocalypse, more of a band=laidback Roadrunner, people all along the watchtower and in our mountain amphitheater seats=Wile E. Coyote. It was diabolical, and finally/suddenly we were in the middle of another song.

that highwater is great.

tim heidecker pre-covers Titanic: http://vimeo.com/46246490

haaaaaaa

early, not terribly revealing, report from uncut.

Tempest seemed to find Dylan on unquestionably formidable form. Its ten tracks run over a total playing time of around 75 minutes, the title track alone taking up a fair chunk of that, with verse following verse in a manner that might remind you of “Desolation Row”. There was a lot, therefore, to take in on a single encounter, especially with note-taking discouraged. There was no track listing forthcoming, either, not that this matters at the moment since I am obliged to not go into premature detail ahead of the album’s September 10 release.
I think I can say without punitive consequences, though, that if you’re trying to imagine what Tempest sounds like you may want to think less perhaps of the rambunctious roadhouse blues that was central to most of Together Through Life and parts of Modern Times, although this is a recent signature sound that hasn’t been entirely abandoned.
Neither are there too many of the jazzy riverboat shuffles of “Love And Theft” in evidence here as much as there are echoes of a folk tradition that was manifest on, say, “High Water (For Charley Patton)” and also “Nettie Moore”, from Modern Times. You may also want to keep in mind as a point of reference “Mississippi” from “Love And Theft” and something like “Red River Shore”, recorded for Time Out Of Mind, but not released until 2009, when it appeared on the Tell Tale Signs three-CD set, where also lurked “’Cross The Green Mountain”, the epic civil war song Dylan wrote for the soundtrack to the 2003 film, Gods And Generals. Hardly anyone heard it when it originally came out, but it came several times to mind as Tempest unspooled spectacularly a few weeks ago, concluding with a song that will probably be much-talked about, although not here, right now.

Also, love this album's last track, "Roll On John."

I forgot that anecdote, need to reread Chronicles soon

Roll On, John is great

listening to "tempest" (the song) this really is a kooky thing

"Petals fell from flowers
'Til all of them were gone
In the long and dreadful hours
The wizard's curse played on"

it's somewhat similar to lily rosemary and the jack of hearts in its failed attempt at telling an epic tale on an epic scale