DETERMINED TO STAND – Bob Dylan 1987

4 Down In The Groove.. 2

5 Summer Tour with The Grateful Dead.. 3

5.1 Introduction. 3

5.2 The musicians. 3

5.6.1 Show Statistics. 5

5.6.2 Song statistics. 5

5.6.3 Album statistics. 6

5.7 Comments. 6

5.7.1 Songs. 6

5.7.2 Recommended shows. 6

Determined To Stand

1 Introduction

After spending some time recording material for Down In The Groove in the spring, Dylan reappeared together with The Grateful Dead for six summer shows in July. However the boyish image from last summer is now dramatically changed to the extreme opposite. Dylan is suddenly an old man, bearded, with an aching back, nearsighted, silent between songs and silent between shows. During the summer tour with The Grateful Dead and the Temples In Flames Tour in Europe in the fall he says not one single word in 36 concerts and he gives no interviews at all. Dylan 1987 - what happened?

2 1987 At A Glance

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3 The 1987 Calendar

19 February	Dylan makes a guest appearance at a Taj Mahal concert at Palomino in Hollywood, California.
February	Another sideman job, this time Dylan is playing harmonica on a Warren Zevon recording session. The released track is called The Factory and is found on the Sentimental Hygiene album, released in August, 1987.
5 March	Recording sessions for Down In The Groove start in the Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles, California.
11 March	Dylan appears at one of the tribute concerts to George Gershwin at the 50^th anniversary of his death. He performs Soon and the performance is broadcast by ZDF-TV in West Germany, 7 July 1987.
15 April	Dylan records the song Wish I Know Now What I Knew Then, supposedly an original Dylan song with Ringo Starr and his band at the Three Alarm Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. The song remains unreleased but circulates.
20 April	Dylan makes yet another guest appearance, now at a U2-concert at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
16 June	Last Down In The Groove recording session.
June	Dylan and The Grateful Dead rehearse in Club Front in San Rafael, California.
June	Dylan finds time to join U2 in Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee to record a joint composition with Bono, Love Rescue Me. It is released on the U2 album Rattle And Hum, October 1988.
July	Dylan and The Grateful Dead perform six shows together.
5 September	The European tour, named Temples In Flames starts with two shows in Israel, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
17 October	The tour ends in London, England, with four shows at the Wembley Arena.

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4 Down In The Groove

The recording of Down In The Groove took place during a number of sessions starting in March and ending in June. Most songs recorded were covers. A number of titles are probably just the sound engineer’s best guess, and these songs may or may not be Dylan compositions. There are many details missing and the summaries below give only a fragmentary picture.

Summary:

		released on
Date	Song	DITG[1]	P1 [2]	P2 [3]	BEST[4]	FLK[5]
5 March	Street People
	Side Walks
	Sugaree
	My Prayer
27 March	Sally Sue Brown	X	X	X
	Wood In Steel
	Heaven
	Shake Your Money
	Chain Gang
	If You Need Me
3, 11 April	Branded Man
	Chain Gang
	If You Need Me
	Ninety Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street)	X	X	X
	Making Believe
	Darkness Before Dawn
	Just When I Needed You Most
	Important Words
	When Did You Leave Heaven?	X	X	X
	Willie And The Hand Jive
	Twist And Shout
1 May	Almost Endless Sleep
	Bare Foot In
	Let's Stick Together	X	X	X
	Rock'n Roll Ruby
	Important Words			X
	Listen To Me
16 June	You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover
	Tioga Pass
	Ugliest Girl In The World	X	X	X
	Making Believe
	Rank Strangers To Me	X	X	X

Live history

Song	Debut
Sally Sue Brown	State Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 16 April 1992
When Did You Leave Heaven?	Globe Arena, Stockholm, Sweden, 28 May 1989
Rank Strangers To Me	Greek Theatre, Berkeley, California, 10 June 1988
Silvio	Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 21 June 1988

The following songs from Down In The Groove have never been played live: Ninety Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street), Let's Stick Together, Ugliest Girl In The World.

There are no officially released live versions of the songs on Knocked Out Loaded.

Performances during The Never-Ending Tour

Sally Sue Brown	1992
When Did You Leave Heaven?	1989, 1990, 1991
Rank Strangers To Me	1988, 1989, 1997-2001
Silvio	1988-2001, 2003

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5 Summer Tour with The Grateful Dead

5.1 Introduction

Sometime in the spring Dylan and The Grateful Dead apparently decided on a series of concerts together during The Grateful Dead's summer tour. Rehearsals took place at Club Front in San Rafael, California in June.

This collaboration with The Grateful Dead obviously influenced Dylan in (at least) three different ways:

1. The Dead encouraged him to search out his '60's and '70's catalog of songs, resulting in a number of live debuts.

2. From this tour onwards Dylan has played much more varied sets, often deciding the set list right before the show and then changing it on stage.

3. No more lengthy raps on stage. Starting with this tour and up to the Spring tour 1990 Dylan uttered barely a word on stage.

5.2 The musicians

The Grateful Dead were:

Jerry Garcia	guitar, steel guitar, slide guitar & backup vocal
Bob Weir	guitar & backup vocal
Phil Lesh	bass
Brent Mydland	keyboards
Bill Kreutzmann	drums
Mickey Hart	Drums

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5.3 The show

A concert opened with approximately two hours with The Grateful Dead followed by 12 or 13 songs with Bob Dylan and the Dead. There were one or two encores.

5.4 The dates

July

4	Foxboro, Massachusetts	Sullivan Stadium
10	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	John F. Kennedy Stadium
12	East Rutherford, New Jersey	Giants Stadium
19	Eugene, Oregon	Autzen Stadium
24	Oakland, California	Oakland County Stadium
26	Anaheim, California	Anaheim Stadium

All shows circulate in soundboard quality.

5.5 The songs

In order played

				July
	4	10	12		19	24	26	Σ
The Times They Are A-Changin'	1		13			1		3
Man Of Peace	2	3				2		3
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight	3	2				4		3
John Brown	4	5	7					3
I Want You	5					5		2
Ballad Of A Thin Man	6	7	6		11	9	10	6
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again	7	8	2		6	8	9	6
Queen Jane Approximately	8	10	9		10		8	5
Chimes Of Freedom	9	9	10				7	4
Slow Train	10		1			11		3
Joey	11	12	11					3
All Along The Watchtower	12	13	12		15	13	13	6
Knockin' On Heaven's Door	13		15			12	15	4
Tangled Up In Blue		1			13			2
The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest		4			5			2
Simple Twist Of Fate		6			4		4	3
Gotta Serve Somebody		11					12	2
Tomorrow Is A Long Time			3					1
Highway 61 Revisited			4		12	6		3
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue			5		8	7	6	4
The Wicked Messenger			8					1
Touch Of Grey [6]			14		14		14	3
Maggie's Farm					1	3	3	3
Dead Man, Dead Man					2		2	2
Watching The River Flow					3		5	2
Heart Of Mine					7			1
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35					9		11	2
Shelter From The Storm						10		1
Mr. Tambourine Man							1	1
Total # of songs	13	13	15		15	13	15	84

n	released on Dylan & The Dead

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In song order

				July
	4	10	12		19	24	26	Σ
All Along The Watchtower	12	13	12		15	13	13	6
Ballad Of A Thin Man	6	7	6		11	9	10	6
The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest		4			5			2
Chimes Of Freedom	9	9	10				7	4
Dead Man, Dead Man					2		2	2
Gotta Serve Somebody		11					12	2
Heart Of Mine					7			1
Highway 61 Revisited			4		12	6		3
I Want You	5					5		2
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight	3	2				4		3
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue			5		8	7	6	4
Joey	11	12	11					3
John Brown	4	5	7					3
Knockin' On Heaven's Door	13		15			12	15	4
Maggie's Farm					1	3	3	3
Man Of Peace	2	3				2		3
Mr. Tambourine Man							1	1
Queen Jane Approximately	8	10	9		10		8	5
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35					9		11	2
Shelter From The Storm						10		1
Simple Twist Of Fate		6			4		4	3
Slow Train	10		1			11		3
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again	7	8	2		6	8	9	6
Tangled Up In Blue		1			13			2
The Times They Are A-Changin'	1		13			1		3
Tomorrow Is A Long Time			3					1
Touch Of Grey			14		14		14	3
Watching The River Flow					3		5	2
The Wicked Messenger			8					1
Total # of songs	13	13	15		15	13	15	84

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5.6 Statistics

5.6.1 Show Statistics

Number of shows	6
Number of circulating shows	6
Number of circulating & complete shows	6
Number of unique shows [7]	6
Number of different shows [8]	6
Number of different songs [9]	29
Number of unique songs [10]	29
Number of performed songs	84
Mean number of performed songs	14
Variation [11]	2.1

5.6.2 Song statistics

	# of		# of
	songs	%	perf.	%
Electric	29	100.0	84	100.0
Acoustic solo	0	0	0	0

Albums	28	96.6	81	96.4
Singles	0	0.0	0	0.0
Outtakes	0	0.0	0	0.0
Covers	1	3.4	30	3.6

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5.6.3 Album statistics

	# of		# of
Album	songs	%	perf	%
Bob Dylan	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Freewheelin'	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
The Times They Are A-Changin'	1	3.6%	3	3.7%
Another Side	1	3.6%	4	4.9%
Bringing It All Back Home	3	10.7%	8	9.9%
Highway 61 Revisited	3	10.7%	14	17.3%
Blonde On Blonde	3	10.7%	10	12.3%
Basement Tapes	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
John Wesley Harding	3	10.7%	10	12.3%
Nashville Skyline	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Selfportrait	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
New Morning	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Greatest Hits Vol 2	2	7.1%	3	3.7%
Pat Garrett	1	3.6%	4	4.9%
Planet Waves	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Blood On The Tracks	3	10.7%	6	7.4%
Desire	1	3.6%	3	3.7%
Street-Legal	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Slow Train Coming	2	7.1%	5	6.2%
Saved	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Shot Of Love	2	7.1%	3	3.7%
Infidels	1	3.6%	3	3.7%
Empire Burlesque	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
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%
MTV Unplugged	1	3.6%	3	3.7%

Note the high presence of songs from John Wesley Harding and the total absence of songs from Empire Burlesque!

5.7 Comments

5.7.1 Songs

The following songs made their live debut:

The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest

Joey

John Brown

Queen Jane Approximately

The Wicked Messenger

All were also performed during the fall tour in Europe.

5.7.2 Recommended shows

None.

[1] Down In The Groove

[2] Down In The Groove, 1^st promotional cassette

[3] Down In The Groove, 2^nd promotional cassette

[4] Best Of Bob Dylan, Volume 3

[5] Folkways: A Vision Shared – A Tribute To Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly

[6] Sung by Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan on guitar.

[7] a show is unique if no other show has the same songs in the same order

[8] a show is different from another show if the set of songs are different, regardless of order.

[9] electric and acoustic versions are counted as different songs.

[10] a song is counted as unique regardless of how it is performed.

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

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1 Introduction

2 1987 At A Glance

3 The 1987 Calendar

4 Down In The Groove

Debut

5 Summer Tour with The Grateful Dead

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The musicians

5.3 The show

5.4 The dates

5.5 The songs

5.6 Statistics

5.6.1 Show Statistics

5.6.2 Song statistics

5.6.3 Album statistics

5.7 Comments

5.7.1 Songs

5.7.2 Recommended shows