Lewiston, Maine setlist not waiting for Bill tonight maj 18, 2008 04:32 |
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2. Lay, Lady, Lay (Bob on keyboard)
3. The Levee’s Gonna Break (Bob on keyboard)
4. Shelter From The Storm (Bob on keyboard)
5. Rollin’ And Tumblin’ (Bob on keyboard)
6. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Bob on keyboard)
7. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Bob on keyboard)
8. Mississippi (Bob on keyboard)
9. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on keyboard)
10. Workingman’s Blues #2 (Bob on keyboard)
11. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (Bob on keyboard)
12. Spirit On The Water (Bob on keyboard)
13. Ballad Of Hollis Brown (Bob on keyboard)
14. Summer Days (Bob on keyboard)
15. Ain’t Talkin’ (Bob on keyboard)(encore)
16. Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on keyboard)
17. Blowin’ In The Wind (Bob on keyboard)(Thanks to Ed & Michelle, Susan & Al, and Michael Johnson for the phone calls)
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angry crow puking
this was a great show.
among the highlights were superb performances of Shelter from the Storm, Mississippi and Ain’t Talkin’.p.s.
can anyone offer an explanation for why Bob plays Hattie Carroll each and every time he visits Maine?
thanks for the report…were you on the rail?
is that a stupid question lol?
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Re: Lewiston, Maine setlist maj 19, 2008 06:15 |
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i really feel that he’s back in good voice and putting in an excellent effort.Ballad of a Thin Man in Worcester, for example, was as good as you’ll ever hear it (post-1966, anyway).so my sincere thanks go to bob dylan.
at 67, sir, you’ve still got it.
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Ballad of a Thin Man in Worcester, for example, was as good as you’ll ever hear it (post-1966, anyway).
The Rolling Stones have written a handful (of) good records, with pretty bog standard lyrics
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infidel
No other version comes close.make no mistake: i certainly do agree that no other version comes close.
But its still great to hear Bob performing it over 40 years after that stunning performance in 66 .
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angry crow puking
yes, i was on the rail, but that’s not the reason i was impressed with bob’s singing.
i really feel that he’s back in good voice and putting in an excellent effort.Ballad of a Thin Man in Worcester, for example, was as good as you’ll ever hear it (post-1966, anyway).so my sincere thanks go to bob dylan.
at 67, sir, you’ve still got it.
yes…worcester show was quite good
i’m going to assume you are always on the rail until you indicate otherwise
where is Asshead??!!
Re: Lewiston, Maine setlist maj 20, 2008 08:00 |
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I have very mixed feelings about posting this.it’s certainly not a review. just a series of impressions.
everything is jumbled in my head.the weekend shook me up.
it wasn’t just my first experience seeing Dylan, live on stage. it was my first rock concert–
the Richie Havens evening in the Metropolitan Museum did nothing to prepare me for Worcester and Lewiston.it was hard to be ‘in my life’ today.
even performing Mahler’s ‘Adagietto’ tonight (from 5th Symphony), one of the most beautiful pieces ever written- didn’t help. there was no heart around me. just instrumentalists coasting by for a paycheck.and somewhere else.. tonight, Dylan performed ‘Visions of Johanna’ and ‘Desolation Row’.my weekend went from one extreme (Worcester- everything I’d imagined could go wrong (for me)- did)
to the other (Lewiston- everything went right).
bottom line?
Dylan didn’t need one second of goodwill ‘towards a once-great performer’,
not one second of allowance for a singer ‘past his prime’,
not one second of suspension of admiration from me- and that I was so ready to give him.
he delivers.
his voice, to me, sounds amazing.
amped? sure. and way past human-sized.
nothing without the skill of a sound mixer? sure. that lineup of instrumental artillery- gleaming metal, fiber-glass, and cables- would beat down- no, obliterate- anything human. (did a fragile, wood ‘acoustic’ guitar ever fit into that setup?!)
but the core of the voice, its quality, range of expression- ? cannot be faked.
technology can enhance- but can’t create what’s not there.
and Dylan’s 2008 voice is rich. craggy and magnificent.
it’s unhurried.
it’s ripe.
there are layers upon layers in it.
it can (did, for long moments) envelop you like the irresistibly heavy, swift fall of a dark, dark night.
who knew there were so many shades of dark?
you can lose yourself in his voice.
yes, there are whole- sometimes consecutive- seconds when his voice can lose its way-
(part of my hazy impression of ‘Simple Twist of Fate’ is of him mastering his own upsinging mid-song. at some point, he began to hit those E-flats straight on. as if bending them to his own purposes-)
but in his mind? in the cellular memory forged by how many thousand hours on stage?!
well, inside, something unerring is working.
something way more important than any physical limitation of larynx or lung.
something more true than any physical measure like age. range. power. volume. breath control…
and in this something, Dylan has a plumb line.
it drops like the iron anchor of a battleship,
straight through.
and lands where the end of the phrase is.
lands YOU there. phrase intact. phrasing-driven. the lyric the final weight you can’t help but fall under.
he holds the innards of each song in his hands. (it blows the mind to think about that-)
the voice delivers.
the song delivers.
Dylan delivers.
when all is said and done, he delivers.
for the rest- my impressions- oddly. unexpectedly. frighteningly? were all about violence.
the violence of the crowd the first night. (I was in a bad spot in the hall and prevented from hearing or seeing more than 2-3 songs of the concert)
the violence of my disappointment- not explained fully by wasted time and money.
the violence to one’s life and body- the extremes you go to in order to get up close !? X hours in a line? X hours drive? the wait. the wait. the full, all-out run across a covered hockey rink (me?) to be one of the few who will have the privilege to see and hear the music unhindered (this is no night sitting in a red, velour seat under chandeliers, dressed up and full after a ‘pre-theater-menu’ dinner).
the violence of the sound- yes, even with earplugs, my entire body was rocked with the sheer volume. Beethoven would’ve heard this set right through his bones-
I wasn’t going to mention any of that- but realized-remembered there’s another side to violence.
the violence of creation.
all I could think of (as a metaphor) was metamorphic rock.
igneous rock. the fire that is lava- that, when formed on the ocean floor, is cooled instantly by the mass of water…
and is the newest ‘skin’/surface of the Earth.
that kind of violence.
I’ll be darned it isn’t right there, in front of me, when Dylan performs.
it is the act of creating itself that he is up there, actually, ‘doing’.
actually ‘can do’.
it’s explosive and random when it happens.
that, too, is mind blowing.
it feels dangerous, somehow. also.
you can’t look at the sun.
supposedly, you can’t say the ‘real’ name of god. for the same reason.
certainly, it is humanly impossible to be near lava.
no, I’m not saying Dylan is the sun or god or anything ridiculous like that.
I’m saying a healthy respect for power is just that- healthy.
because there is something in Dylan’s gift/power that you get close to at your own peril-—
that explosive creating is riveting. galvanizing. but yet, it has the awful capacity to render your own life– pale?
and then-
what?
I never saw the dangerous side of the Tambourine Man image before.
he exists within the embrace of a song.
a fantastical, magical figure. beckoning- to delight.
but outside the song…
who wants to be permanently ragged? permanently the clown? permanently in shadow- ? permanently follower/following- ?!
I don’t know that I can explain what I mean.
have to think about how to put it into words.
all that is coming to my mind at this moment is an old spiritual,
“this little light o’ mine. I’m gonna let it shine”..?
we all have a little light within. (ok, so that sounds Hallmarkhorrible- uh)
art (for some) turns it up- brighter- can bring a sense of inspiration? wonder? whatever. we’re all different.
for some it’s sports, and/or a physical high- (from the intelligence of the body)
for some, it’s intellectual (math. cosmology- the contemplation of infinity. again ‘whatever’-)..
for some, it’s religious etc.
no matter WHAT it is (all are equal, in my opinion), they all can lead us to feel a-w-e.
for those of us whom Dylan reaches (Watchtowerers! et al), he/his music’s power has the ability to reach in and yank that switch to blinding-high.
a wonderful thing?
yes- but also not:
that 90 mins onstage made my day. and the next day. and today.. less vividly colored? a little unreal- ?
as I said, I don’t know how to express this–
I’ll just say- I don’t want the experience of listening to/seeing Dylan to be my ‘high’ in life.
he cannot live my life for me.
my private name for Dylan has been, for months now, electric Orpheus.
seeing him live on stage shook that up too. the name’s way too pretty.
there’s some Prometheus in the figure I saw “Live. On Stage. With His Band”-
so it was great? I think. (see. coulda said it in 3 words.)
but my head is scrambled.
and now I’ve got to figure out how to live within? despite? alongside-
the overtones he’s left resonating in my inner ear—
details of songs? you don’t want them, trust me.
I’d disappoint you all.
my brain was so logy, I felt stupid. I couldn’t keep up.
I didn’t recognize even familiar songs for an embarassingly long time.
except for Ain’t Talkin’.
(I’d wished/hoped most to hear either Not Dark Yet or Ain’t Talkin’. so when the song began, it hit me like a physical thrill.)
I thought it was a staggeringly beautiful performance.
it’s very late at night. after a 13 hour work day. and I’m just reckless enough to post this.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/20/2008 08:11 by blue-eyed.
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blue-eyed –
so glad you loved rather than hated the experience. You’re clearly not familiar with electric rock conerts, so maybe your experience was so very similar to the 1966 crowds who were so shocked by the electric sets after the folk performances they were used to. They too commented on the loudness of course. And whilst many booed, others ultimately loved it, just like you.
Lovely post, don’t even think of deleting it!
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Some more questions for blue-eyed:
– however much you like 2008 Dylan, doesn’t it make you wish you could have witnessed 1966 Dylan, like in No Direction Home?
– I first really got into Bob after my 40th birthday. I’ll forever have the regret of missing out on 20 years of live performances. Do you feel the same?
– the other thing that differentiates a rock concert from a classical concert is the positive side of that crowd violence – the cheeering, the shouting of “come on Bobby!”, the communal moving with the beat and cheering the end of each song. How did you find that? A shame you had some bad crowd experiences the first night. What did you make of the audience for a Dylan performance, as people, as a group?
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That was a great reflection of your 1st and 2nd NET experiences! As usual I’d love to know what was in there before the first and second edits
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he delivers.
his voice, to me, sounds amazing.
amped? sure. and way past human-sized.
nothing without the skill of a sound mixer? sure. that lineup of instrumental artillery- gleaming metal, fiber-glass, and cables- would beat down- no, obliterate- anything human. (did a fragile, wood ‘acoustic’ guitar ever fit into that setup?!)
Don’t pay any attention to your snobby friends, they’re right in their way, and you’re right in yours.
And yes, a fragile, wood ‘acoustic’ guitar fit very nicely, were that it would reappear again someday….
I think if this were an ‘American leg’, wild horses couldn’t stop you from following Bob and the Boys all the way to the left coast.
ACP’s post made me larf, sorry I missed seeing that. Between that and Karen’s post I envisioned the scene in I’m Not there where Bob is tethered like a balloon trying to float up up and away. We must make a NET show together
And what Timbo said
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blue-eyed
I wish there was a thread I could sort-of-hide this on.
I have very mixed feelings about posting this.it’s certainly not a review. just a series of impressions.
everything is jumbled in my head.the weekend shook me up.
it wasn’t just my first experience seeing Dylan, live on stage. it was my first rock concert–
the Richie Havens evening in the Metropolitan Museum did nothing to prepare me for Worcester and Lewiston.it was hard to be ‘in my life’ today.
even performing Mahler’s ‘Adagietto’ tonight (from 5th Symphony), one of the most beautiful pieces ever written- didn’t help. there was no heart around me. just instrumentalists coasting by for a paycheck.and somewhere else.. tonight, Dylan performed ‘Visions of Johanna’ and ‘Desolation Row’.my weekend went from one extreme (Worcester- everything I’d imagined could go wrong (for me)- did)
to the other (Lewiston- everything went right).bottom line?
Dylan didn’t need one second of goodwill ‘towards a once-great performer’,
not one second of allowance for a singer ‘past his prime’,
not one second of suspension of admiration from me- and that I was so ready to give him.he delivers.
his voice, to me, sounds amazing.
amped? sure. and way past human-sized.
nothing without the skill of a sound mixer? sure. that lineup of instrumental artillery- gleaming metal, fiber-glass, and cables- would beat down- no, obliterate- anything human. (did a fragile, wood ‘acoustic’ guitar ever fit into that setup?!)but the core of the voice, its quality, range of expression- ? cannot be faked.
technology can enhance- but can’t create what’s not there.
and Dylan’s 2008 voice is rich. craggy and magnificent.
it’s unhurried.
it’s ripe.
there are layers upon layers in it.it can (did, for long moments) envelop you like the irresistibly heavy, swift fall of a dark, dark night.
who knew there were so many shades of dark?
you can lose yourself in his voice.yes, there are whole- sometimes consecutive- seconds when his voice can lose its way-
(part of my hazy impression of ‘Simple Twist of Fate’ is of him mastering his own upsinging mid-song. at some point, he began to hit those E-flats straight on. as if bending them to his own purposes-)
but in his mind? in the cellular memory forged by how many thousand hours on stage?!
well, inside, something unerring is working.something way more important than any physical limitation of larynx or lung.
something more true than any physical measure like age. range. power. volume. breath control…
and in this something, Dylan has a plumb line.
it drops like the iron anchor of a battleship,
straight through.
and lands where the end of the phrase is.
lands YOU there. phrase intact. phrasing-driven. the lyric the final weight you can’t help but fall under.he holds the innards of each song in his hands. (it blows the mind to think about that-)
the voice delivers.
the song delivers.
Dylan delivers.
when all is said and done, he delivers.for the rest- my impressions- oddly. unexpectedly. frighteningly? were all about violence.
the violence of the crowd the first night. (I was in a bad spot in the hall and prevented from hearing or seeing more than 2-3 songs of the concert)
the violence of my disappointment- not explained fully by wasted time and money.
the violence to one’s life and body- the extremes you go to in order to get up close !? X hours in a line? X hours drive? the wait. the wait. the full, all-out run across a covered hockey rink (me?) to be one of the few who will have the privilege to see and hear the music unhindered (this is no night sitting in a red, velour seat under chandeliers, dressed up and full after a ‘pre-theater-menu’ dinner).
the violence of the sound- yes, even with earplugs, my entire body was rocked with the sheer volume. Beethoven would’ve heard this set right through his bones-I wasn’t going to mention any of that- but realized-remembered there’s another side to violence.
the violence of creation.all I could think of (as a metaphor) was metamorphic rock.
igneous rock. the fire that is lava- that, when formed on the ocean floor, is cooled instantly by the mass of water…
and is the newest ‘skin’/surface of the Earth.that kind of violence.
I’ll be darned it isn’t right there, in front of me, when Dylan performs.it is the act of creating itself that he is up there, actually, ‘doing’.
actually ‘can do’.
it’s explosive and random when it happens.that, too, is mind blowing.
it feels dangerous, somehow. also.
you can’t look at the sun.
supposedly, you can’t say the ‘real’ name of god. for the same reason.
certainly, it is humanly impossible to be near lava.no, I’m not saying Dylan is the sun or god or anything ridiculous like that.
I’m saying a healthy respect for power is just that- healthy.because there is something in Dylan’s gift/power that you get close to at your own peril-—
that explosive creating is riveting. galvanizing. but yet, it has the awful capacity to render your own life– pale?
and then-
what?I never saw the dangerous side of the Tambourine Man image before.
he exists within the embrace of a song.
a fantastical, magical figure. beckoning- to delight.
but outside the song…
who wants to be permanently ragged? permanently the clown? permanently in shadow- ? permanently follower/following- ?!I don’t know that I can explain what I mean.
have to think about how to put it into words.all that is coming to my mind at this moment is an old spiritual,
“this little light o’ mine. I’m gonna let it shine”..?we all have a little light within. (ok, so that sounds Hallmarkhorrible- uh)
art (for some) turns it up- brighter- can bring a sense of inspiration? wonder? whatever. we’re all different.
for some it’s sports, and/or a physical high- (from the intelligence of the body)
for some, it’s intellectual (math. cosmology- the contemplation of infinity. again ‘whatever’-)..
for some, it’s religious etc.no matter WHAT it is (all are equal, in my opinion), they all can lead us to feel a-w-e.
for those of us whom Dylan reaches (Watchtowerers! et al), he/his music’s power has the ability to reach in and yank that switch to blinding-high.
a wonderful thing?
yes- but also not:
that 90 mins onstage made my day. and the next day. and today.. less vividly colored? a little unreal- ?as I said, I don’t know how to express this–
I’ll just say- I don’t want the experience of listening to/seeing Dylan to be my ‘high’ in life.
he cannot live my life for me.my private name for Dylan has been, for months now, electric Orpheus.
seeing him live on stage shook that up too. the name’s way too pretty.
there’s some Prometheus in the figure I saw “Live. On Stage. With His Band”-so it was great? I think. (see. coulda said it in 3 words.)
but my head is scrambled.
and now I’ve got to figure out how to live within? despite? alongside-
the overtones he’s left resonating in my inner ear—details of songs? you don’t want them, trust me.
I’d disappoint you all.
my brain was so logy, I felt stupid. I couldn’t keep up.
I didn’t recognize even familiar songs for an embarassingly long time.except for Ain’t Talkin’.
(I’d wished/hoped most to hear either Not Dark Yet or Ain’t Talkin’. so when the song began, it hit me like a physical thrill.)
I thought it was a staggeringly beautiful performance.it’s very late at night. after a 13 hour work day. and I’m just reckless enough to post this.
WOW, what can I say? I keep wondering what your reaction/post would be if it was a 1995 or 2000 show you had attended for the first time, I think that you would likely have imploded
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…Judging by the first two shows of this tour, which I’ve heard, this could be a classic year to compare with ’95 and 2000.