Dylan's Christian period

ha yeah, it's not a dylan album i actually want to listen to.
but yeah aside from a few one offs, it seems like he just picks a setlist for a tour and sticks to it these days. which actually is fine (if less fun for internet trainspotters like you & me) -- the recent shows i've heard have been really solid and together, probably because the band knows those songs cold.

this is his current set, which is impressively non-greatest hits for the most part.

1. Things Have Changed
2. She Belongs To Me
3. Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
4. What'll I Do
5. Duquesne Whistle
6. Melancholy Mood
7. Pay In Blood
8. I'm A Fool To Want You
9. Tangled Up In Blue
(intermission)
10. High Water (For Charley Patton)
11. Why Try To Change Me Now
12. Early Roman Kings
13. The Night We Called It A Day
14. Spirit On The Water
15. Scarlet Town
16. All Or Nothing At All
17. Long And Wasted Years
18. Autumn Leaves

(encore)
19. Blowin' In The Wind
20. Love Sick

good to seem some stadows material in there

Xxp MY GOD THEY KILLED HIM

good to seem some stadows material in there
yeah and a couple from Stadows In The Night II: Still Stadowy

JEFFERSON TURNIN OVER IN HIS GRAVE

just put on side 2 of Saved and maybe it's just the holidays but sounds pretty good to me! remembered this as a total dud...

I love how "In the Garden" is as much about Dylan as Jesus

it's certainly not abt Mel Gibson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCRFeRyfJW8

anyone know who's drumming?

It's not Stan Lynch?

I guess it must be - was that an entire tour with Petty & Heartbreakers backing Dylan?

Not 100% sure, but obviously from that video you can see Petty and some other Heartbreakers, and I just glanced at Behind The Shades and some other books and it seems to be the case. And Stan didn't leave the band until much later.

SO much oPRESSion
can't keep TRACK OF IT NO MORE

how many 60s dinosaurs went into the 80s as cleareyed as "well i dunno which is worse / doin your own thing or just being cool"

SO much oPRESSion
can't keep TRACK OF IT NO MORE

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this makes me of think of dylan keeping a spreadsheet of forms of oppression and needing to hire interns to update it

for one of his list songs

Doctor, can you hear me? I need some MEDICAID!!!
I seen the kingdoms of the WORLD and it’s makin’ me feel afraid!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0J3Y5s_kfo

Just stumbled over this reappearance of the Toronto 1980 show. Much improved quality!

Also, thanks to all in this thread who convinced me to revisit this so-wrongly-dismissed era.

the sermon around the hour twenty mark and the blistering song afterwards...I just love seeing him so unjaded

yeah, such an intense performance overall.
was just revisiting this early take of "caribbean wind" which isn't quite there, but is nice nonetheless
https://vimeo.com/66756497

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/no-man-righteous-dylan-and-pseudoconservatism/

time is forever just running out … The apocalypticism of the paranoid style runs dangerously near to hopeless pessimism, but usually stops short of it

...

a fear of the end-times quickly becomes indistinguishable from a yearning for them

...

the various songs yield an exhaustive, Whitmanesque catalog of villains

but enough about 60s dylan

ew rob horning

YA HEAR THAT, ROB HORNING??!?

Has anyone here been discussing THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOLUME 13: TROUBLE NO MORE?

yep quite a bit in the Dylan bootleg series thread

everyone loves it and is baptised in the blood of the lamb

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series

im going to see the "trouble no more" film tonight!

jealous!
i love the lord & these live albums

jesus christ & bobby dylan are my reconciliation

I DON'T CARE ABOUT ECONOMY

I DON'T CARE ABOUT ASTRONOMY

"Ain't No Man Righteous" is such a jam.

aw man the "slow train coming" in this is MEAN

that and "what can I do for you" were the highlights

there really should be a Mavis thread, but anyway:

First, they couldn't settle on who has to sing the line "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse." "He said, 'You're going to sing it this time. I did it for you last time,' " Staples recalls. "I said, 'You didn't do it for me. It's your song!' " And with the song's seven verses, Staples, 78, had trouble getting the lyrics straight. "I asked him, 'Do you have a teleprompter?' He says" – she drops her voice to Dylan's guttural rasp – " 'I'm too cheap to buy a prompter, Mavis.' I told him, 'You can buy one for me, Bobby!' "

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/mavis-staples-second-act-bob-dylan-jeff-tweedy-w517080

He and Staples had a fling in the Sixties, with Staples famously rejecting his marriage proposal.

If this information is “famous,” I never heard it before!

was dylan sober from drugs and alcohol during the christian period?

maybe for a minute, but i think he got back into it pretty quick.
was just listening to the 1981 live performances on Trouble No More — really wild vocals from Dylan, like an attempt to create a whole new style for himself.

I’ve been sleeping on this bootleg series set, but will prob’ly have to get it.... I love “Saved” and some of the other stuff from this period.

Discussed this a bit on the Bootleg Series thread. I listened to almost nothing else for a month or two.

I DON'T CARE ABOUT ECONOMY

I DON'T CARE ABOUT ASTRONOMY

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otm

grain-elevators-are-burstin'

love the Trouble No More set so much.

It's innaresting how angry and uninviting Dylan's version of xtianity is. Like, very little of it is uplifting or rapturous or thankful, a lot of it focuses on the harsh, judgmental end of things, not really the kind of angle that wins a lot of converts.

i always crack up during precious angel, which seems kinda like a tender love song until: "Can they imagine the darkness that will fall from on high /
When men will beg God to kill them and they won't be able to die."

haha yeah that's a prime example

there's still humor poking through, and occasional moments of tenderness and then hey don't forget FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

it's esp jarring because so much 70's pop-Christianity was inclusive and liberal e.g. Godspell, the Good News Bible, the communal "Jesus movement" etc., this is the v much the Reagan-era advent of evangelism as conservatism

but fuck yeah this set kicks so much ass

yeah it does coincide w Reaganism but my memories of the 80s evangelism revival doesn't really fit Dylan either - those guys were transparent hucksters in the faith healer tradition, constantly bursting into tears and dancing and reveling in opulence and the GLORY and btw send money

Bakker, Swaggart, Falwell, Robertson - Dylan bears at best a passing resemblance to those clowns. To a man they projected an avuncular happiness (and venality) that Dylan doesn't go anywhere near.