Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 00:12:46 +0200
From: Olof Bjorner
Subject: With One Hand Waving Free - Bob Dylan 1995 - part 7 of 8
WITH ONE HAND WAVING FREE
BOB DYLAN 1995
by Olof Bjorner
A summary of recording & concert activities.
New releases, tapes & books.
Copyright (c) 1996 by Olof Bjorner
All Rights Reserved
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otherwise propagated at will, provided that this notice remains
intact and in place.
Part 7 of 8
CONTENTS:
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1. INTRODUCTION \
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2. THE YEAR AT A GLANCE |
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3. CALENDAR |
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4. RECORDINGS |-- part 1 of 8
4.1 New releases |
4.1.1 MTV Unplugged |
4.1.2 Highway 61 Interactive |
4.1.3 Greatest Hits Volume 3 CD+ |
4.2 Recordings from 1995 |
4.3 New tapes |
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5. THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES \
5.1 Introduction |
5.2 The Musicians |
5.3 The show |
5.4 Europe Spring Tour | -- part 2 of 8
5.4.1 Dates and venues |
5.4.2 The songs |
5.4.3 Statistics |
5.4.4 Comments /
5.5 US Spring Tour \
5.5.1 Dates and venues |
5.5.2 The songs | -- part 3 of 8
5.5.3 Statistics |
5.5.4 Comments /
5.6 Europe Summer Tour \
5.6.1 Dates and Venues |
5.6.2 The songs | -- part 4 of 8
5.6.3 Statistics |
5.6.4 Comments /
5.7 The Fall Classics Tour \
5.7.1 Dates and Venues |
5.7.2 The songs | -- part 5 of 8
5.7.3 Statistics |
5.7.4 Comments /
5.8 The Paradise Lost Tour \
5.8.1 Dates and Venues |
5.8.2 The songs | -- part 6 of 8
5.8.3 Statistics |
5.8.4 Comments /
5.9 Summary \
5.9.1 Show statistics |
5.9.2 Alphabetical song list |
5.9.3 Song statistics | -- part 7 of 8
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6. NEW BOOKS |
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7. REFERENCES & SOURCES /
APPENDIX: THE SET-LISTS -- part 8 of 8
5.9 Summary
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5.9.1 Statistics
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Abbreviations
es early songs, 1961-1966
ap songs from the "amnesia period", 1967-1972
70 songs from the middle seventies, 1973-1978
gp songs from the "gospel years", 1979-1982
co covers
Tot # # of songs from
songs es ap 70 gp ls co
Europe Spring Tour 371 206 74 30 9 51 1
55% 19% 8% 2% 13% 0%
US Spring Tour 408 218 85 20 6 79 0
53% 20% 4% 1% 19% 0%
European Summer Tour 273 131 64 24 7 47 0
47% 23% 8% 2% 17% 0%
Fall Classics Tour 482 232 96 29 8 82 35
48% 19% 6% 1% 17% 7%
Paradise Lost Tour 150 70 28 14 2 26 10
46% 18% 9% 1% 17% 6%
1 9 9 5 1684 857 347 117 32 285 46
50% 20% 6% 1% 16% 2%
Show Statistics - Summary
Paradise Lost Tour ---
Fall Classics --- |
Summer Tour Of Europe --- | |
US Spring Tour --- | | |
Europe Spring Tour --- | | | |
| | | | | Total
Number of
shows: 26 29 19 32 10 116
circulating shows: 26 29 19 32 10 116
circulating & complete shows: 26 29 19 32 10 116
unique shows: 26 29 19 32 10 116 (1)
different shows: 26 29 19 32 10 116 (2)
different songs: 73 73 72 85 61 101 (3)
unique songs: 73 73 72 84 61 100 (4)
performed songs: 371 408 273 482 150 1684
Mean number of
performed songs: 14 14 14 15 15 14
Variation: 5.1 5.2 5.0 5.6 4.1 7.0 (5)
(1) a show is unique if no other show has the same songs in the same
order
(2) a show is different from another show if the set of songs are
different, regardless of order.
(3) electric and acoustic versions are counted as different songs.
(4) a song is counted as unique regardless of how it is performed;
(5) variation is computed as the ratio between number of different songs
and mean number of performed songs.
Album statistics:
# of # of
Album songs % perf. %
Bob Dylan 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Freewheelin' 4 4.1% 106 6.3%
The Times They Are A-Changin' 5 5.1% 77 4.6%
Another Side 4 4.1% 79 4.7%
Bringing It All Back Home 6 6.1% 192 11.4%
Highway 61 Revisited 8 8.2% 163 9.7%
Blonde On Blonde 9 9.2% 211 12.5%
Basement Tapes 2 2.0% 94 5.6%
John Wesley Harding 3 3.1% 158 9.4%
Nashville Skyline 4 4.1% 23 1.4%
Selfportrait 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
New Morning 2 2.0% 21 1.2%
Greatest Hits Vol 2 3 3.1% 34 2.0%
Pat Garrett 1 1.0% 17 1.0%
Planet Waves 1 1.0% 1 0.1%
Blood On The Tracks 5 5.1% 93 5.5%
Desire 1 1.0% 6 0.4%
Street-Legal 1 1.0% 17 1.0%
Slow Train Coming 1 1.0% 9 0.5%
Saved 1 1.0% 9 0.5%
Shot Of Love 2 2.0% 14 0.8%
Infidels 3 3.1% 27 1.6%
Empire Burlesque 4 4.1% 63 3.7%
Knocked-Out Loaded 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Hearts Of Fire 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Down In The Groove 1 1.0% 84 5.0%
Traveling Wilburys Vol 1 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Oh Mercy 10 10.2% 56 3.3%
Under The Red Sky 3 3.1% 44 2.6%
Traveling Wilburys Vol 3 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Bootleg Series Vol 1 1 1.0% 11 0.7%
Bootleg Series Vol 2 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Bootleg Series Vol 3 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Biograph 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Good As I Been To You 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
World Gone Wrong 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Greatest Hits Vol 3 1 1.0% 11 0.7%
5.9.2 Alphabetical song list
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op opener s1 first electric set
ac acoustic set s2 second acoustic set en encores
Paradise Lost Tour ---
Fall Classics --- |
Summer Tour Of Europe --- | |
US Spring Tour --- | | |
Europe Spring Tour --- | | | |
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Song # of times as/during | | | | |
op s1 ac s2 en Tot | | | | |
Alabama Getaway 29 29 20 9
All Along The Watchtower 115 115 26 29 19 31 10
Ballad Of A Thin Man 6 16 22 6 6 5 4 1
Boots Of Spanish Leather AB 28 28 15 5 3 5
Born In Time 6 6 1 2 2 1
Cat's In The Well 4 1 5 2 2 1
Confidential AB 1 1 1
Crash On The Levee 86 86 26 26 10 18 6
Dark Eyes AB 7 7 7
Desolation Row AB 9 9 3 2 2 2
Dignity 1 10 11 10 1
Disease Of Conceit 1 3 4 1 1 2
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right AB 35 35 8 9 4 13 1
Drifter's Escape 27 27 3 8 12 4
Every Grain Of Sand 3 2 5 1 1 1 1 1
Everything Is Broken 1 1 2 1 1
Forever Young 1 1 1
Friend Of The Devil 1 1 1
Gates Of Eden AB 14 14 1 6 2 5
Girl From The North Country AB 4 7 11 2 2 4 3
God Knows 32 32 8 8 4 11 1
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall AB 3 1 4 2 1 1
Highway 61 Revisited 1 30 7 38 8 10 6 10 4
I And I 6 6 2 1 1 1 1
I Believe In You 2 7 9 1 3 3 2
I Don't Believe You 13 13 3 3 2 4 1
I Shall Be Released 1 4 10 15 5 4 4 2
I Want You 18 18 5 6 3 2 2
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 16 16 3 5 3 4 1
I'll Remember You 12 12 2 4 1 5
If Not For You 16 16 4 5 3 4
If You See Her, Say Hello 12 12 3 2 6 1
In The Garden 9 9 3 1 2 3
It Ain't Me, Babe AB 35 35 12 9 6 7 1
It Takes A Lot To Laugh 15 2 1 18 2 6 3 6 1
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue AB 24 1 25 4 7 7 5 2
It's Too Late 1 1 2 2
Joey 6 6 1 3 1 1
John Brown AB 4 4 3 1
Jokerman 3 12 15 6 2 1 4 2
Just Like A Woman 38 38 18 11 2 6 1
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 9 1 10 2 4 2 2
Key To The Highway 1 1 1
Knockin' On Heaven's Door 1 2 13 16 1 7 5 3
Knockin' On Heaven's Door AB 1 1 1
Lay Lady Lay 14 14 3 3 4 3 1
Lenny Bruce 8 1 9 4 1 1 2 1
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 2 6 1 9 2 5 1 1
License To Kill 4 2 6 1 1 2 2
Like A Rolling Stone 1 40 41 21 14 5 1
Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll AB 3 3 2 1
Love Minus Zero/No Limit AB 16 16 3 4 4 3 2
Maggie's Farm 1 31 1 33 15 1 13 4
Mama, You Been On My Mind AB 11 11 1 1 2 2 5
The Man In Me 5 5 1 2 2
Man In The Long Black Coat 11 7 18 7 3 1 6 1
Masters Of War AB 56 56 10 14 7 19 6
Most Likely You Go Your Way 13 1 14 2 3 2 5 2
Mr. Tambourine Man AB 86 86 26 27 5 22 6
My Back Pages AB 17 17 3 6 4 3 1
Never Gonna Be The Same Again 8 8 5 2 1
Obviously Five Believers 31 31 11 3 15 2
One More Night AB 1 1 1
One Too Many Mornings AB 7 9 16 1 3 3 7 2
Pledging My Time 8 8 3 1 3 1
Positively 4th Street 13 1 14 3 5 2 3 1
Queen Jane Approximately 6 6 2 1 2 1
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 3 71 74 5 10 18 31 10
Ramblin' Man 1 1 1
Real Real Gone 2 1 3 1 2
Ring Them Bells 2 2 4 2 1 1
Seeing The Real You At Last 5 31 36 20 6 8 2
Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) 17 17 4 4 3 3 3
She Belongs To Me 18 18 4 4 3 6 1
Shelter From The Storm 9 2 1 12 3 3 2 3 1
Shooting Star 6 2 8 1 2 2 3
Silvio 83 1 84 1 23 19 31 10
Simple Twist Of Fate 14 1 15 3 5 1 4 2
Stuck Inside Of Mobile 2 15 1 18 5 5 5 3
Tangled Up In Blue 14 14 14
Tangled Up In Blue AB 28 2 30 2 13 11 4
Tears Of Rage 8 8 2 1 2 1 2
That Lucky Old Sun AB 1 1 1
The Times They Are A-Changin' AB 1 28 29 6 6 6 10 1
To Be Alone With You 1 1 1
To Ramona AB 14 14 1 5 2 5 1
Tombstone Blues 10 9 19 5 7 4 2 1
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here 7 7 5 2
Unbelievable 1 1 2 1 1
Under The Red Sky 6 1 7 1 1 1 3 1
Visions Of Johanna AB 1 1 1
Watching The River Flow 16 16 3 2 2 8 1
West L.A. Fadeaway 1 4 5 4 1
West L.A. Fadeaway AB 1 1 1
What Good Am I? 5 4 9 3 2 2 2
What Was It You Wanted 1 1 1
When I Paint My Masterpiece 2 1 3 1 2
Where Teardrops Fall 2 2 2
Willing AB 1 1 1
With God On Our Side AB 1 1 1
You're A Big Girl Now 10 10 2 1 4 2
5.9.3 Song statistics
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Ten most played songs in 1995:
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1. All Along The Watchtower 115
2. Crash On The Levee 86
Mr. Tambourine Man 86
4. Silvio 84
5. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 74
6. Masters Of War 56
7. Tangled Up In Blue 44
8. Like A Rolling Stone 41
9. Highway 61 Revisited 38
Just Like A Woman 38
Live debuts:
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Obviously Five Believers
Played only once before:
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Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) New York City, Jan 1, 1972
Dark Eyes Sydney, Australia, Feb 25, 1986
Never Gonna Be The Same Again Melbourne, Australia, Feb 21, 1986
One More Night Toronto, Ontario, Jun 6, 1990
One-offs (= live debuts, played only once): NONE
Played only once in 1995:
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Confidential
Forever Young
Friend Of The Devil
Key To The Highway
One More Night
Ramblin' Man
That Lucky Old Sun
To Be Alone With You
What Was It You Wanted
Willing
Visions Of Johanna
With God On Our Side
6. NEW BOOKS
Here's a, no doubt incomplete, list from the flood of new Dylan books:
John Baldwin The fiddler now upspoke, Volume 1 & 2.
A collection of Bob Dylan interviews and press
conferences.
Desolation Row Promotions, 1995. 300+266 pages.
John Bauldie The Diary of a Bobcat
Wanted Man 1995, 90 pages.
Collected diaries from The Never-Ending Tour.
Ben Cruikshank Bob Dylan (American Poet and Singer)
Part 1: Blottingpaper Man
Part 2: Man In The Long Black Coat
A retrospective journey thru Bob Dylan's official
albums.
Agenda 1995, 94 + 84 pages.
Clinton Heylin Great White Wonder. A History of Rock Bootlegs.
Viking 1994, 442 pages.
Lots of references to Dylan bootlegs starting with the
very first.
Clinton Heylin Bob Dylan, The Recording Sessions 1960-1994
St. Martin's Press, 1995, 233 pages.
Patrick Humphries The Complete Guide to The Music of Bob Dylan.
Omnibus Press 1995, 152 pages.
Another album-by-album run-down of the officially
released stuff. CD-sized pocket.
Elliott Landy Woodstock Vision - The Spirit Of A Generation
US edition of the German original.
Contains 13 new photos of Dylan from 1968 to 1970.
Continuum, New York 1995, 128 pages, 21 pages on Dylan.
John Roberts A. J. Weberman Dylanologist
A home produced 100+ page booklet containing articles
about and by the world's premier garbologist.
Mike Wyvill From Town To Town Bob Dylan's 1994 Concerts
John Wraith Wanted Man, 1995. 52 pages.
Concert listings and comments plus a lot of pictures
from The Telegraph.
Robert Witting Orpheus Revisited: A Celebration Of Highway 61 Revisited
Exploding Rooster Books 1995, 108 pages.
7. REFERENCES & SOURCES
Reviews and other postings on rec.music.dylan.
The Wicked Messenger column in Isis 1995.
Articles and columns in The Telegraph, On The Tracks, Series Of Dreams 1995.
"A GUIDE TO THE HIGHWAY 61 INTERACTIVE CD-ROM" or
"I wouldn't know how to use it if I had to" by Sven Erick Alm
(sea@math.uu.se).
Highway 61 Intercative by Derek & Tracy Barker in two parts, Isis 59 60.
"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 CD Plus. A summary of the audio content."
by Sven Erick Alm (sea@math.uu.se).
My own tape collection.
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