From: Olof Bj|rner <olof%hsn4@mail.swip.net>
Subject: 1992 - part 1 of 7
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:35:42 GMT



                             BOB DYLAN 1993
                             by Olof Bjorner

               A summary of recording & concert activities.
                       New releases, tapes & books.

                    Copyright (c) 1993 by Olof Bjorner
                          All Rights Reserved

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                              Part 1 of 7

  CONTENTS:
  =========

                         THE YEAR AT A GLANCE               \
                                                             |
  1.  CALENDAR                                               |
                                                             |
  2.  RECORDINGS                                             |
                                                             | -- part 1 of 7
  3.  GOOD AS I BEEN TO YOU                                  |    ===========
                                                             |
  4.  THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES                        |
      4.1 Introduction                                       |
      4.2 The Musicians                                      |
      4.3 The Show                                          / 
      4.4 The Australian Tour                               \ 
  	  4.4.1 Dates and Venues                             |
  	  4.4.2 The songs                                    | -- part 2 of 7
  	  4.4.3 Show statistics                              |
  	  4.4.4 Comments                                    / 
      4.5 The US West Coast Tour                            \ 
  	  4.5.1 Dates and Venues                             |
  	  4.5.2 The songs                                    | -- part 3 of 7
  	  4.5.3 Show statistics                              |
  	  4.5.4 Comments                                    / 
      4.6 Summer Tour of Europe                             \ 
	  4.6.1 Dates and Venues                             |
	  4.6.2 The songs                                    | -- part 4 of 7
	  4.6.3 Show statistics                              |
	  4.6.4 Comments                                    / 
      4.7 Late Summer Tour of North America                 \ 
	  4.7.1 Dates and Venues                             |
	  4.7.2 The songs                                    | -- part 5 of 7
	  4.7.3 Show statistics                              | 
	  4.7.4 Comments                                    / 
      4.8 US Fall Tour                                       |
	  4.7.1 Dates and Venues                             |
	  4.7.2 The songs                                    | -- part 6 of 7
	  4.7.3 Show statistics                              |
	  4.7.4 Comments                                    / 
      4.9 Summary                                           \ 
          4.9.1  Show statistics                             |
          4.9.2  Alphabetical song list                      |
          4.9.3  Song statistics                             |
                                                             |
  5.  NEW TAPES                                              |
      5.1  The 1992 Compilation tape                         |
      5.2  Folksinger's Choice                               |
      5.3  Berkeley Community Theatre 1965                   |
      5.4  A Hotel Room, Denver, Colorado, March 13, 1966    | -- part 7 of 7
      5.5  The Basement Tapes 1967                           |
      5.6  The Band's New Year's Concert 1971/1972           |
      5.7  Rehearsals before Rolling Thunder Revue II, 1976  |
      5.8  Solid Rock Live Album                             |
      5.9  Toronto Concert Film                              |
      5.10 The Plugz Rehearsals                              |
      5.11 Rumored tapes                                     |
                                                             |
  6.  NEW BOOKS                                              |
                                                             |
  7.  REFERENCES & SOURCES                                  /

  APPENDIX: THE SET-LISTS





                          THE YEAR AT A GLANCE

    Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
  |----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
   
    ------  rumored studio sessions
       -------  tour rehearsals in Los Angeles and New York
  
	        ===== Tour of Australia
		     ==== US West Coast tour
  
			   -- studio sessions in Chicago
  
			       == Europe Summer Tour
				        ===== North America tour
  
       30 Anniversary Concert in New York City    X   
  
                                  US Fall Tour   ======
  
	        Release of Good As I Been To You   X
   
  |----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
    Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec



  1.  CALENDAR

  Early January Rumours af an acoustic album comes from Sony Music in France.

  January 4     Rehearsals with the touring band starts in Los Angeles. They
		reportedly included a pedal steel guitarist and some other
		new musicians.

  January 17    Rehearsals for Letterman's 10th Anniversary show. Like A Rolling
		Stone and Dolly Dagger by Jimi Hendrix are played.

  January 18    The taping of Letterman's 10th Anniversary show. Two versions
		of Like A Rolling Stone are run through. The second is being 
		used in the broadcast. Dylan's performance is the only live
		music during the Anniversary show.

  Late January  Noel Redding is quoted as saying that he is doing the new Dylan
		album in Howard Stern Show in New York.

  February 6    Broadcast of Letterman's 10th Anniversary show.

  February 9    Robert Hilburns interview with Dylan in Erie last year is
		published in The Los Angeles Times Magazine.

  February      Dylan attends Neil Young's shows on The Beacon Theatre in
  13-15         New York. They both one night turned up at the Bitter End
		to catch David Bromberg's set there. 

  March 9       Final rehearsals for the Australian tour starts at the Leeds
	        Rehearsal Facility in Hollywood.	 

  March 13      Stuart Coupe interviews Dylan in Los Angeles via telephone
		from Sydney. Dylan is in good mood and this 15 minute chat
		is one of the most enjoyable from the last years. 
		In this interview Dylan reveals that he will record in
		Chicago in June and that "half of the songs are done".
		He also mentions that Random House will publish a book of
		drawing done while touring, appropriately titled Road Drawings.
		The Interview is later printed in a number of Australian papers.

  March 19      The Australian tour starts in Perth. The set list contains
		Dolly Dagger and an electric version of Little Maggie,
		later to be included on Good As I Been To You. Sadly none
		of these songs reappear in 1992. Also debuted was West L.A.
		Fadeaway from Grateful Dead's In The Dark album and Cat's In
		The Well from Under The Red Sky. The latter was to be a regular
		during most of 1992. This is the last show with the "1991"
		format: 8 electric - 4 acoustic - 4 electric - 2 encores.

  March 28      During the show in Dylan tries to get Bonnie Raitt on stage
                before Highway 61 Revisited but for some unknown reason she
		fails to appear. Bonnie Raitt and Marc Cohen shared the bill
		this evening with Dylan.

  April 1       Peter Wilmouth interviews Dylan backstage at the Palais Theatre
		after there show there. The interviews is later printed in
		The Age, April .

  April 2       The show in Melbourne features the first Idiot Wind since 
		Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, May 25, 1976.

  April 5       During the performance of Desolation Row Dylan is overcome by
		emotion and has to stop singing. Dylan speaks briefly with 
		Jackson and the band goes on playing while Dylan goes to the
		back of the stage for a while. He then comes back and finishes 
		the song.

  April 14      Dylan again tries Desolation Row but the same thing happens.
		His voice breaks during the line "He was famous long ago for
		playing the electric violin". Desolation row is next played
		in San Francisco, May 4, without interrupt.

  April 27      Dylan is back on the West Coast for the first time in three
		years. The band is now expanded with Charlie Quintana on drums.

  May 2         At the show in Santa Rosa when Dylan had sung the first two
		lines of Mr. Tambourine Man when woman from the audience came
		on stage and ran towards Dylan. He looked startled and jumped
		back. The band continued to play and the woman "sang",
                repeating a few lines several times. She tried to get Dylan to
		sing with her but he stayed back. Given the length of this
		performance it was obvious that security allowed her to stay
		on stage. When they came to lead her off, Dylan took her arm
		and raised it above her head as in triumph! The same woman
		reappeared and ran to the microphone when Dylan was starting
		"Blowin' In The Wind". She said a word or two but security
		took her off stage immediately this time.

  May 3         Dylan attends the Jerry Garcia concert at the Warfield but
		doesn't come on stage.

  May 5         Jerry Garcia attends the Bob Dylan at the Warfield and comes
		on stage for two songs, Cat's In The Well and Idiot Wind.

  May 9         T-Bone Burnett guests on three songs: Idiot Wind, The Times 
		They Are A-Changin' and Highway 61 Revisited at the show in 
		San Jose.

  May 23        The tour ends in Las Vegas, first time ever for Dylan.

  May 24	Bob celebrates his birthday in Las Vegas with ....

  June 4        More than two weeks studio sessions in Chicago appear to
		have been spent taping mostly covers with David Bromberg
		and his band. Dylan recorded 26 songs, mainly folk and blues
                material. Some songs rumoured to have been finished:
                Lady From Baltimore, Polly Vaughan, Casey Jones, Duncan And
                Brady, Catskills Serenade, World Of Fools (both by Bromberg),
                Rise Again and Nobody's Fault But Mine. On the two last songs
                a 25-person gospel choir is added.

  June 26       The European starts on a street corner in a very northern
		harbour town in Sweden, Lulea. You probably can't get much
		further from Bally's casino in Las Vegas where the last show
		was played! It is now that the acoustic numbers start getting
		very long (Mr. Tambourine Man is almost 10 minutes) thus
		extending the show length to about two hours in many cases.

  July 2        The show in Belfort was unusually short due to the fact that
		the main event this evening was Bryan Adams!

  July 12       The final show in Juan-les-Pins started with Jimi Hendrix's
                Hey Joe making it the 8th debut in 11 shows! The others:

                  First acoustic version of West L.A. Fadeaway.
                  Live debut of The Girl On The Green Briar Shore.
                  First I And I during the Never-Ending Tour.
                  Live debits of A Hazy Shade Of Winter and The Roving Blade.
                  Live debut of 2 X 2.
                  First airing of I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine
		                        since Toad's Place in January 1990.
                  Live debut of Around And Around.

  August 22     At the show in Ottawa Dylan finally gets around to play
		the only single from Under The Red Sky, Unbelievable.
		This leaves only Handy Dandy and 10,000 Men never played live.

  August 29     Dylan begins an outstanding five night residency at the
		Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis an establishment he once owned
		with his brother David.

  October 16    "Columbia Records Celebrates The Music Of Bob Dylan"
		This three and a half hour tribute show was broadcasted live
		by various TV and radio stations in US and Europe. A number
		of artist paid their tribute by playing one or two Dylan songs
		backed by Booker T and the MGs with G.E. Smith on extra guitar
		as "musical director". Two notable exceptions: John Hammond Jr
		had rehearsed I'll Be You Baby Tonight, but right before the 
		show the evening's host, Kris Kristofferson insisted on doing
		it, so John Hammond Jr, not knowing any other Bob Dylan songs,
		sung See That My Grave Is Kept Clean by Jesse Fuller.
		Sinead O'Connor got booed for her recent appearance at Saturday
		Night Live, where she for some reason had tore up a picture of
		the Pope. Instead of just get on with her act she choose to
		challenge the audience, ended up screaming an a-capella version
		of Bob Marley's War and left the stage in tears. 
		Elvis Costello was to have done Positively 4th Street and
		Van Morrison Just Like A Woman but neither turned up.

                Bob's part is listed below in chapter 2, RECORDINGS

  October 23    The fall tour continues in Newark, Delaware and ends on

  October 30    Release of GOOD AS I BEEN TO YOU.

  November 15   in West Palm Beach where Dylan's voice is so shot that he
		skips the two electric encores. Still it's a great concert
		and a fitting end to fifth year of The Never-Ending Tour.


  2.  RECORDINGS 

  Jan 18   Letterman Anniversary
           =====================
           Radio City Music Hall, New York City

	    1. Like A Rolling Stone
	    2. Like A Rolling Stone

	   Backed by: Jim Keltner (drums), Will Lee (bass),
	   Syd McGuinness (guitar), Paul Schaeffer (keyboards), 
	   Edgar Winter (horn), James Brown (horn), Doc Severinsen (trumpet), 
	   Carole King (keyboards), Chrissie Hynde (guitar), Steve Vai (guitar),
           Mavis Staples, Roseann Cash, Michelle Shocked, Emmy Lou Harris and 
	   Nancy Griffith (backup vocals).

           2 broadcast on Late Night with David Letterman, February 6, 1992.

           Stereo audience recording 20 minutes.

  Oct 16   Columbia Celebrates The Music Of Bob Dylan
	   ==========================================
	   Madison Square Garden, New York City

            1. Song To Woody
            2. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
            3. My Back Pages
            4. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
            5. Girl From The North Country

          1, 2, 5  Bob Dylan (vocal & acoustic guitar)

          3, 4 backed by G.E. Smith (guitar), Steve Cropper (guitar),
               Donald "Duck" Dunn (bass), Booker T (keyboards), 
	       Jim Keltner (drums), Anton Fig (drums).

          3  Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Tom Petty,
             Roger McGuinn (shared lead vocal & guitar).

          4  backup vocal by George Thorogood, Sophie B. Hawkins, Lou Reed,
	     Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Tracy Chapman, Johnny Cash,
	     June Cash Carter, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Wood,
	     Richie Havens, The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, Sinead O'Connor,
	     Neil Young, Chrissie Hynde, Eric Clapton, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko,
	     Levon Helm, Shawn Colvin, Roseanne Cash, Mary Chapin Carpentier,
	     George Harrison, Tom Petty & Roger McGuinn.

          Broadcast live by various TV channels and radio stations in USA,
	  Canada & Europe.

          Stereo FM broadcast, 30 minutes.


  3. GOOD AS I BEEN TO YOU

  This album was rushed out to profit on the interest in Dylan after the
  Madison Square Garden tribute concert. Many has over the years wished
  for an all acoustic album, but now we got it's a bit of a disappointment.
  First and foremost because there are no new Dylan songs on it. Since the
  album before GAS (Under The Red Sky) was recorded mainly in January 1990,
  it's most likely that at the end of 1992 we have yet to hear a Dylan song
  from the 90's!

  The songs:

   1.  Frankie & Albert (trad. arr. by Bob Dylan)
   2.  Jim Jones (trad. arr. by Bob Dylan)
   3.  Blackjack Davey (trad. arr. by Bob Dylan)
   4.  Canadee-i-o (trad. arr. by Bob Dylan)
   5.  Sittin' On Top Of The World (Bo Carter/Walter Jacobs)
   6.  Little Maggie (trad. arr. by Bob Dylan)
   7.  Hard Times (Stephen Foster)
   8.  Step It Up And Go (Blind Boy Fuller)
   9.  Tomorrow Night (Sam Coslow/Will Grosz)
  10.  Arthur McBride (trad. arr. by Bob Dylan)
  11.  You're Gonna Quit Me (Mance Lipscomb)
  12.  Diamond Joe (Tex Logan)
  13.  Froggie Went A-Courtin' (trad. arr. by Bob Dylan)

  Not only is this record acoustic, it's Dylan all by himself, guitar and
  harmonica, although the latter is used on two songs only, 5 and 9
  (another source of disappointment). All songs are traditional or
  "in the public domain", meaning that the copyright owner failed to renew.

  Original authors are indicated above where known.

  Recording date(s) and studio(s) are as yet unknown. The reports from the June
  sessions in Chicago seems to indicate that this record was recorded at some
  other location.

  Released on October 30.

  A special advance sampler in a plain cardboard box with sticker on it
  containing Sittin' On Top Of The World, Tomorrow Night, Canadee-I-O and
  Hard Times was released in mid-October. (Columbia CSK 4857).

  The promotion material distributed before the release to the music business
  mentioned both a single and a video, but neither had appeared at the end of
  1992


  4.  THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES

  4.1  Introduction
  -----------------

  For the seventh year in a row Bob Dylan spent a good deal of his time on the 
  road. This is also the fifth year of the Never-Ending Tour. Rumours in late
  1991 had it that Dylan would take a long break. In the end he decided to give
  it another year. This year he played 92 concerts that kept getting longer and
  longer despite the fact that the number of songs remained constant. The shows
  were in general of a much greater quality compared to 1991, mostly due to
  Dylan's apparent renewed interest in both singing and playing guitar. Maybe as
  a consequence he became less and less talkative. Some of the late 1992 shows
  rank as the best ever from the Never-Ending Tour!
  
  The 1992 tour consisted of five new "legs":

  1  March-April       Australia & New Zealand  20 shows
  2  April-May	       US West Coast	        21 shows
  3  June	       Europe		        11 shows
  4  August-Sept       US and Canada	        20 shows
  5  October-November  US East Coast            20 shows


  4.2  The Musicians
  ------------------

  The addition of Bucky Baxter on a steel guitar and other guitar variants
  also meant a fuller sound and a greater diversity in arrangements.
  During the spring tour Dylan also added an extra drummer, making the 
  backing band a quintet.

					       1  2  3  4  5
  John Jackson      guitar                     X  X  X  X  X
  Bucky Baxter      pedal steel guitar         X  X  X  X  X
		    lap steel guitar
		    electric & acoustic
		    slide guitar, dobro
		    electric mandolin
  Tony Garnier      bass                       X  X  X  X  X
  Ian Wallace       drums                      X  X  X  X  X
  Charlie Quintana  drums                         X  X  X  
  Winston Watson    drums                               X  X


  4.3  The show
  -------------

  After the first show in Australia, which had the 1991 format, all shows
  were structured as follows:

  Main set: 7 electric songs
            4 acoustic
	    2 electric
	    1 acoustic with the band/1 electric
	    1 electric

  Encores:  2 electric
	    1 acoustic solo

  All in all 18 songs. Exceptions were summer festival shows, which were
  generally shorter and some shows with fewer or no encores, due to either
  bad weather or sound problems.

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