Dylan on Tour part 5. Manchester 1966, the full concert.

Dylan on Tour: concert recordings selected by Tony Attwood

In this series I’m just searching the internet for complete, or near complete, recordings of Dylan concerts.  In each case I’m not particularly concerned with the video – it is the music, and having the whole concert, or at least a lot of it, that is the heart of the idea.

At the moment I’m particularly interested in some of the earlier concerts, not least because of my reading of Heylin’s book “The Double Life of Bob Dylan” which I’m commenting on in the series, of the same name.    The latest edition of that is The revolution begins, but no one understands, and I’m getting close to the end of that series.   There is an index to all the previous articles in the series at the end of each piece.

But back to the concerts, 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.
• Dylan and Petty, Australia 1986

So this is one of the concerts in two halves.   The first part lasts up to around 48 minutes, then you get the tuning up of the band, and the second half starts with “Tell me mama”.   Indeed I would say that if you are reading Heylin’s book, or indeed if perhaps you have been following my commentary in the “Double Life” series on this site, this is a really record of what actually happened.  It is nothing like you might imagine, just from reading “Double Life”.

The concert ends with “Like a Rolling Stone”and then if you leave it running, rather curiously there is a quick burst of a bit of the Britissh national anthem, which I think they still tended to do at the time in England.

Listening to it today I do find there is much more for me in part one than part two.   But then I would also say that just reading Heylin one wouldn’t have a clue about what to expect, and part two is nothing remotely like the mess he suggests.

I hope you find something of interest herein, if you haven’t heard this before, or maybe not for a long time – and if you really have the time, contrast it with those concerts listed above.

 

There is an index to the current series and some of the past series on the home page of this site.

There is a more complete index on the right side of this page (scroll down a bit) under Indexes and Reference Pages.