The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964
| Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall |
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| Live album by Bob Dylan | ||||
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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19th |
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1h 44m 12s |
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Jeff Rosen, Steve Berkowitz |
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Bob Dylan: Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall is a live double CD released by Columbia Records in 2004 of a concert by Bob Dylan on October 31, 1964 at the Philharmonic Hall on Broadway .
The CD contains the entire concert, consisting of 19 songs (18 original compositions plus the traditional "Silver Dagger"), three of them together with Joan Baez , one sung by her alone.
Dylan is in a very good mood; he laughs a lot, communicates with the audience and cracks jokes. So does he announce Who Killed Davey Moore? with a lot of giggles with the words "This is a song about a boxer ... It is taken out of the newspapers. Nothing has been changed - except the words." And later he says, because it's Halloween night, "I have my Bob Dylan mask on." When he tries to sing "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Met)", the lyrics can't be found at first - so he just asks the audience (who are happy to help out).
In retrospect, this concert heralds the first in a long series of style changes in Dylan's work. While his fan base reveres him as a spokesman for the protest generation, this involuntary role has long been a nuisance to him; his texts lose their daily relevance, he is now looking for his own individual artistic expression. A change is also heralded in the music, because for the last time a purely acoustic solo concert was heard here. Three months later, Dylan recorded his next studio album, Bringing It All Back Home , which was recorded with an electrical backing band and contains Dylan's first rock song, Subterranean Homesick Blues .
Track list
CD 1
- The Times They Are A-Changin ' 2 - 3:29
- Spanish Harlem Incident 3 - 3:07
- Talkin 'John Birch Paranoid Blues 5 - 4:06
- To Ramona 3 - 6:01
- Who Killed Davey Moore? 5 - 4:46
- Gates of Eden 4 - 8:32
- If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night) 5 - 4:06
- It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 4 - 11:26
- I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Met) 3 - 4:01
- Mr. Tambourine Man 4 - 6:33
- A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 1 - 7:44
CD 2
- Talkin 'World War III Blues 1 - 5:52
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 1 - 4:34
- The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 2 - 6:57
- Mama, You Been on My Mind 5 - 3:35 with Joan Baez
- Silver Dagger 5 - 3:47 vocals: Joan Baez (Dylan: guitar / harmonica)
- With God on Our Side 2 - 6:17 with Joan Baez
- It Ain't Me, Babe 3 - 5:11 with Joan Baez
- All I Really Want to Do 3 - 4:01
Chronology of the studio versions
1 The Freewheelin 'Bob Dylan (May 1963)
2 The Times They Are A-Changin' (January 1964)
3 Another Side of Bob Dylan (August 1964)
--- this concert (October 1964) ---
4 Bringing It All Back Home (March 1965)
5 no studio version
