I don’t know what it means either: an index to the current series appearing on this website
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We’ve started publishing links to a few complete Dylan concerts that can be found on the internet, and that we have enjoyed returning to.
Obviously, the concerts can be found through a bit of browsing, so I was a bit concerned that the idea might not be of any interest, not least because this doesn’t really fit with our name of “Untold Dylan.” But looking at the number of hits these concerts get, I’ve decided to keep adding the occasional concert to the list – not least because it seems each time we do, our readers then go on to other concerts and articles.
Previously we have had
- Bob Dylan, Little Moses and the complete March 1992 concert
- What Dylan played on 7 July 2024, and how it sounded.
- The concert in full on 3 August 2024.
This time it is Bob with Tom Petty in Australia 1986.
The songs performed are below. The links are to earlier articles on this site about the songs. There have of course been many other articles on each piece – you can find them through the search box, if you wish.
As for me, I utterly enjoyed coming back to this show – the quality of performance and the quality of recording are equally excellent.
- In the garden
- Just like a woman
- Like a Rolling Stone
- It’s all right ma
- Girl from the North Country
- Lenny Bruce is Dead
- When the night comes falling from the sky
- Ballad of a thin man
- I’ll remember you
- Knocking on heaven’s door
Part of Dylan’s creative process is turning roles around, ie bad guy, armed to the teeth, become good guys. ie, Voodoo no longer the rituals practised by former slaves to protect themselves from harm wrought by the powerful, but instead the religion of ruthless drug lords, as in the movie: Band Of The Hand. Reformed by ‘tough love’, a group of young former criminals, somewhat akin to the Dirty Dozen, take on the drug-dealing Voodooists: “We’re gonna blow up your home of voodoo/And watch it burn without any regret “(Bob Dylan: Band Of The Hand).
And Jesus Christ apparently becomes Jewish Dylan’s hero ~ tells Peter to put down his sword after the disciple, seeking to protect his leader, cuts off the ear of a servant of the High Priest, ie, In The Garden)
Just because a writer (a novelist, a poet, a songwriter…) writes something that doesn’t mean he believes it to be so, or wishes to make it a warning.
Don’t know who said otherwise, but of course a written tale doesn’t mean the writer thereof takes it seriously, even as a warning, ie,outlaw Hardin presented a good guy, for example. Nevertheless, at the time ( before singing In The Garden), preacher Bob announces that Christ is a ‘hero’ of his. On the other hand, the, the movie Hand of the Band is satirical, for sure.