Dylan back in Europe

[cohenadmirer]

Sadly Leonard has left Europe but a small number of us will be glad to welcome Mr Dylan back

Opening the tour last night in Oslo , in dim lighting ,with some new lyrics ( if you can discern them !) to
Tangled up in blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCilg3lSzA

Looking forward to his UK concerts

[Zimmy66]

Thanks for posting.

Same person has uploaded Simple Twist of Fate - which is superb!

Roll on Glasgow in November.

Robert

[Marlene J.]

Although the whole concert was fantastic, "Forgetful Heart" was (in my opinion) one of the finest moments that evening: http://youtu.be/_uXRcQmxfbM. Simply wonderful.

[cohenadmirer]

And here's an unusually close video from Copenhagan.
Mr Dylan is much harder to film than Leonard so the videographer did well- but may not last long on You Tube
I wouldn't be surprised if this song turns up at all the European concerts - infact the setlists generally are showing much less variability than we've come to expect on Dylan tours

Long and wasted years ( from the album Tempest)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6xHaYcji6M

[Lazysuit]

Talk to me about this tour people - Talk to me.

[Zimmy66]

Talk to me about this tour people - Talk to me.

Went to all three concerts in Glasgow and can quite honestly say Bob is in tremendous form. (This coming from someone for whom these were Dylan concerts 171, 172 &173)People who went expecting a greatest hits set, were sorely disappointed. However they - like the rest of us - were left in awe at the energy commitment and passion that Bob and the band put into the show (s). Bob, like Leonard, has assembled a bunch of committed professionals to help him in the delivery of his songs. This bunch of musicians are as tight as the proverbial duck's arse!

All of the songs played from Tempest were delivered with gusto. Long and Wasted Years ends the concert with Bob centre stage spitting out the lyrics with venom. Forgetful Heart becomes a truely beautiful ballad with Tony on stand up base (played with a bow), and Donny playing a very soulful violin. Bob's voice on that one (as well as She Belongs to Me & Simple Twist of Fate) was just sublime. (no shit!)

The whole tour is being recorded - allegedly for a live album- hence no deviation to set list throughout the tour. The only exception to this were the two nights in Rome, as the mobile recording truck didn't make it there. Over those two nights, Bob played no less than 34 different songs. Most of them from the sixties.

So, to summarise, wonderful wonderful stuff. A true legend.

Want more? Then just head on over here: http://www.boblinks.com

Robert

[cohenadmirer]

World premiere of Roll on John in Blackpool - 24/11/13

https://soundcloud.com/cohenadmirer/bob ... -blackpool

Whole concert also there

David

[Vicomte]

Sorry but the link to Roll on John is about as bad as Bobness has sounded in the last 5 years or more.

I am truly one of Bob's early fans and have stuck with him through all the many periods of music, still a great admirer of the man but his singing now is just poor. The crazy part is that he can still knock out great studio albums and I continue to buy them but live, goodness me......Let's be honest here, if LC sounded even one quarter as bad as Bobness does, how many would want to see him. OK I know what will happen, the fluffy flock will say they will see him whatever but if he had come back in 2008 singing as bad, my money is that the tour would not have seen Christmas that year.