by Tony Attwood
Revision note: although my link to the concert noted below worked ok when I first put it up, it has now been blocked – at least in the UK. But if you find it blocked what you can try is going to the website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmsvImKHGD4 (just copy and paste it into your browser) or failing that try typing in “Bob Dylan Live at Royal Festival Hall (May 17, 1964)” Hopefully one of these might work for you. If I remember, when the series is over, I’ll go back and have another look.
With this extraordinary recording of this remarkable event, you can even see the programme that was produced for the concert, which includes one of the first public performances of Tambourine Man.
Indeed, when I first thought of this series, I started out with the idea of just a few videos for the most important historic events in Bob Dylan’s life as a touring artist, with this being one of them. But the whole thing grew very quickly to the idea of one concert a year, so I have held back on this one, but always with the thought that at some stage this recording would be featured.
A list of all the 43 concerts in this series is givn at the foot of the article, and if you have any suggestions for videos we ought to include (even if we already have a concert for that year) please do drop a note to tony@schools.co.uk
A list of our other current and recent series can be found on the home page.
Set List
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- Girl from the North Country
- Who Killed Davey Moore?
- Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues
- Ballad of Hollis Brown
- It Ain’t Me, Babe
- Walls of Red Wing
- Chimes of Freedom
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Eternal Circle
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Talkin’ World War III Blues
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- Only a Pawn in Their Game
- With God on Our Side
- The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
- Restless Farewell
- When the Ship Comes in
The concerts covered in previous articles….
- 2025: April 2025, Iowa
- 2024: Erfurt 8th October 2024
- 2024: The Mountain View, California concert in full on 3 August 2024.
- 2024: What Dylan played on 7 July 2024, and how it sounded.
- 2022: London
- 2021: The Beacon Theatre NYC, 21 November 2o21
- 2019: 14 October Palo Alto.
- 2017: 17 November New York
- 2015:Regensburg 11 November
- 2013: Blackpool (UK) 24 November
- 2012: Wisconsin: 5 November
- 2010: Kansas City
- 2009: Paris, 8 April 2009
- 2007: St Louis
- 2006: Atlanta 5 May
- 2004: Glasgow.
- 2002: 9 February 2002: Atlanta. Sublime
- 2000: Portsmouth. 25 September 2000.
- 1999: April 7 1999 Lisbon
- 1997: August 7. Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto
- 1995: Brighton (“The Brighton Centre”)
- 1992: Bob Dylan, Little Moses and the complete March 1992 concert
- 1991: Stuttgart. The worst show ever?
- 1989: Vaughan, Ontario
- 1988: 30 June. New York.
- 1986: 3 August 2024. Mountain View, California; 3 August 2024
- 1985: July 13: Live Aid.
- 1984: Newcastle: St James Park, 5th July 1984.
- 1981: Earls Court, London 28 June
- 1980: 15 January Seattle
- 1978: Earls Court, London 1978
- 1976: Fort Collins 23 May 1976
- 1976: January 1976: the rehearsals
- 1974: Largo, Maryland; 15 January 1974
- 1972: New Years Eve 1971
- 1971: Maddison Square Gardens. 1 August
- 1969: The Isle of Wight (four songs).
- 1968: Concert for Woodie Guthrie
- 1967: I regret we have no concerts for this year
- 1966: Manchester 1966, the full concert.
- 1965: The Hollywood Bowl 3 September
- 1964: The Festival Hall, London – the perfect recording!
- 1961: The Carnegie Chapter Hall concert in full: 4 November 1961