SETTIN’ MY DIAL ON THE RADIO - BOB DYLAN 2006

 

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5                                THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES





 

 

 

5.8                           Summary

5.8.1                       Song statistics

Abbreviations:

es      early songs, 1961-1966                                     80     songs from the 80s

ap      songs from the "amnesia period", 1967-1972     90     songs from the 90s

70      songs from the middle seventies, 1973-1978      00     songs from the new millennium

gp      songs from the "gospel years", 1979-1982          co      covers

 

 

 

Tot #

 

 

 

 

# of songs from

 

 

 

 

songs

es

ap

70

gp

83-89

90s

00s

co

US Spring Tour

418

231

61

0

4

7

46

69

0

 

 

55%

15%

0%

1%

2%

11%

17%

0%

Europe Summer Tour

296

187

52

5

4

4

8

36

0

 

 

63%

18%

2%

1%

1%

3%

12%

0%

US Summer Tour

281

128

53

20

2

3

26

49

0

 

 

46%

19%

7%

1%

1%

9%

17%

0%

US Fall Tour

464

185

42

39

4

3

21

170

0

 

 

40%

9%

8%

1%

1%

5%

37%

0%

2006

1459

731

208

64

14

17

101

324

0

 

 

50%

14%

4%

1%

1%

7%

22%

1%

 

 

5.8.2                       Show Statistics - Summary

1. US Spring Tour                3. US Summer Tour

2. Europe Summer Tour       4. US Fall Tour

 

 

1

2

3

4

S

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number of shows

29

20

20

29

98

Number of circulating shows

29

20

20

29

98

Number of circulating & complete shows

29

20

20

29

98

Number of unique shows[1]

28

20

19

29

96

Number of different shows[2]

28

20

19

29

96

Number of songs

50

42

58

63

79

Number of performed songs

418

296

281

464

1459

Mean number of performed songs

14

14

14

16

14

Variation[3]

3.5

2.8

4.1

3.9

5.3

 

 

5.8.3                       Album statistics

 

 

# of

 

# of

 

Album

songs

%

perf

%

Bob Dylan

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Freewheelin'

4

  5.2%

85

  6.0%

The Times They Are A-Changin'

4

  5.2%

56

  3.9%

Another Side

4

  5.2%

32

  2.3%

Bringing It All Back Home

4

  5.2%

169

 11.9%

Highway 61 Revisited

7

  9.1%

236

 16.6%

Blonde On Blonde

7

  9.1%

118

  8.3%

Basement Tapes

3

  3.9%

23

  1.6%

John Wesley Harding

3

  3.9%

126

  8.9%

Nashville Skyline

2

  2.6%

16

  1.1%

Selfportrait

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

New Morning

2

  2.6%

6

  0.4%

Greatest Hits Vol 2

2

  2.6%

37

  2.6%

Pat Garrett

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Planet Waves

1

  1.3%

8

  0.6%

Blood On The Tracks

3

  3.9%

43

  3.0%

Desire

1

  1.3%

3

  0.2%

Street-Legal

1

  1.3%

10

  0.7%

Slow Train Coming

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Saved

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Shot Of Love

2

  2.6%

14

  1.0%

Infidels

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Empire Burlesque

1

  1.3%

1

  0.1%

Knocked-Out Loaded

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Hearts Of Fire

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Down In The Groove

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Traveling Wilburys Vol 1

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Oh Mercy

1

  1.3%

2

  0.1%

Under The Red Sky

3

  3.9%

26

  1.8%

Traveling Wilburys Vol 3

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Bootleg Series Vol 1

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Bootleg Series Vol 2

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Bootleg Series Vol 3

1

  1.3%

13

  0.9%

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

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

MTV Unplugged

1

  1.3%

4

  0.3%

Time Out Of Mind

6

  7.8%

76

  5.4%

Love And Theft

6

  7.8%

205

 14.4%

Modern Times

8

 10.4%

110

  7.8%

 

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5.8.4                       Alphabetical song list

 

op

opener

1  US Spring Tour

ma

main set

2  Europe Summer Tour

en

encores

3  US Summer Tour

 

 

4  US Fall Tour

 

Song

op

ma

en

S

1

2

3

4

Absolutely Sweet Marie

4

8

 

12

5

3

 

4

Ain't Talkin'

 

 

1

1

 

 

 

1

All Along The Watchtower

 

 

91

91

29

20

15

27

Ballad Of A Thin Man

 

16

 

16

6

5

2

3

Ballad Of Hollis Brown

 

5

 

5

 

 

 

5

Blind Willie McTell

 

13

 

13

4

4

3

2

Boots Of Spanish Leather

 

14

 

14

6

2

2

4

Cat's In The Well

19

5

 

24

5

 

13

6

Cold Irons Bound

 

27

 

27

12

3

5

7

Desolation Row

 

15

 

15

1

4

3

7

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

 

27

 

27

11

6

4

6

Down Along The Cove

 

16

 

16

4

12

 

 

Every Grain Of Sand

 

11

 

11

4

4

1

2

Forever Young

 

8

 

8

 

4

4

 

Girl From The North Country

 

21

 

21

8

8

3

2

God Knows

 

1

 

1

1

 

 

 

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

 

8

 

8

1

2

3

2

High Water (For Charley Patton)

 

26

 

26

14

 

1

11

Highway 61 Revisited

 

84

 

84

20

17

19

28

Honest With Me

 

18

 

18

9

5

1

3

I Don't Believe You

 

13

 

13

7

4

1

1

I Shall Be Released

 

2

 

2

 

 

1

1

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

 

19

 

19

6

4

7

2

It Ain't Me, Babe

 

2

 

2

2

 

 

 

It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

 

51

 

51

16

12

9

14

Joey

 

3

 

3

 

 

1

2

John Brown

 

4

 

4

 

 

 

4

Just Like A Woman

 

26

 

26

10

6

6

4

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

 

11

 

11

1

2

2

6

Lay Lady Lay

 

15

 

15

7

2

6

 

Lenny Bruce

1

1

1

3

 

 

1

2

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

2

3

 

5

 

 

3

2

The Levee's Gonna Break

2

 

 

2

 

 

 

2

Like A Rolling Stone

 

 

98

98

29

20

20

29

Lonesome Day Blues

 

24

 

24

12

 

5

7

The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

 

11

 

11

4

2

2

3

Love Sick

 

15

1

16

7

5

2

2

Maggie's Farm

60

 

 

60

20

20

7

13

Make You Feel My Love

 

8

 

8

7

 

1

 

The Man In Me

 

2

 

2

 

 

1

1

Masters Of War

 

29

 

29

7

8

6

8

Million Miles

 

1

 

1

 

 

1

 

Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)

5

13

 

18

7

2

1

8

Mr. Tambourine Man

 

22

 

22

7

14

1

 

My Back Pages

 

3

 

3

 

 

3

 

Nettie Moore

 

15

 

15

 

 

 

15

Never Gonna Be The Same Again

 

1

 

1

1

 

 

 

New Morning

 

4

 

4

 

3

1

 

Not Dark Yet

 

3

 

3

 

 

2

1

Positively 4th Street

 

31

 

31

11

8

5

7

Queen Jane Approximately

 

11

 

11

10

1

 

 

Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

 

6

5

11

4

2

5

 

Rollin' And Tumblin'

 

22

 

22

 

 

 

22

Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)

 

10

 

10

 

1

 

9

She Belongs To Me

 

36

 

36

20

4

1

11

Shelter From The Storm

 

4

 

4

 

 

4

 

Shooting Star

 

2

 

2

1

 

 

1

Simple Twist Of Fate

 

11

 

11

 

 

4

7

Spirit On The Water

 

11

 

11

 

 

 

11

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

 

41

 

41

9

14

11

7

Sugar Baby

 

8

 

8

 

 

6

2

Summer Days

 

77

 

77

17

16

19

25

Tangled Up In Blue

 

28

 

28

 

 

7

21

Tears Of Rage

 

5

 

5

4

 

1

 

Things Have Changed

4

5

 

9

4

 

2

3

This Wheel's On Fire

 

6

 

6

4

1

 

1

Thunder On The Mountain

 

 

28

28

 

 

 

28

'Til I Fell In Love With You

 

21

 

21

15

 

2

4

The Times They Are A-Changin'

 

26

 

26

4

16

5

1

To Ramona

 

14

 

14

4

4

3

3

Tombstone Blues

1

 

 

1

 

 

 

1

Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

 

1

 

1

 

 

1

 

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

 

52

 

52

13

15

15

9

Under The Red Sky

 

1

 

1

 

 

 

1

Visions Of Johanna

 

5

 

5

1

1

1

2

Watching The River Flow

 

35

 

35

7

10

9

9

When The Deal Goes Down

 

19

 

19

 

 

 

19

Workingmans Blues 2

 

12

 

12

 

 

 

12

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

 

12

 

12

 

 

11

1

 

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5.8.5                       Ten most played songs in 2006

1

Like A Rolling Stone

98

times

2

All Along The Watchtower

91

 

3

Highway 61 Revisited

84

 

4

Summer Days

77

 

5

Maggie's Farm

60

 

6

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

52

 

7

It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

51

 

8

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

41

 

9

She Belongs To Me

36

 

10

Watching The River Flow

35

 

 

 

5.8.6                       Played only once in 2006

 

Ain't Talkin'

New York City, New York, 20 November

God Knows

Sun City West, Arizona, 8 April

Million Miles

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 24 August

Never Gonna Be The Same Again

Reno, Nevada, 1 April

Tombstone Blues

Portland, Oregon, 14 October

Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

New Britain, Connecticut, 29 August

Under The Red Sky

Denver, Colorado, 24 October

 

5.8.7                       Live debuts of Dylan songs

 

Ain't Talkin'

New York City, New York, 20 November

Nettie Moore

Sacramento, California, 18 October

Rollin' And Tumblin'

Portland, Oregon, 14 October

Spirit On The Water

San Diego, California, 22 October

The Levee's Gonna Break

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18 November

Thunder On The Mountain

Seattle, Washington, 13 October

When The Deal Goes Down

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 11 October

Workingman's Blues #2

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 11 October

 

5.8.8                       Covers played in 2006

None!!

 

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[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] variation is computed as the ratio between number of different songs and mean number of performed songs.