5 THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES

5.7 Summary

5.7.1 Show Statistics

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

	Mean	Tot #			# of songs from
	time	songs	es	ap	70	gp	ls	co
US Spring Tour	116	400	176	95	37	0	51	41
			44%	23%	9%	0%	12%	10%
European Summer Tour	112	398	208	80	29	3	50	28
			52%	20%	7%	0%	12%	7%
US Fall Tour	120	420	212	94	35	2	70	6
			50%	22%	8%	0%	16%	1%
1 9 9 6	116	1256	618	276	103	5	175	79
		6%	49%	21%	8%	0%	13%

Show Statistics - Summary

Number of shows	27	28	28	83
Number of circulating shows	27	28	28	83
Number of circulating & complete shows	27	28	28	83
Number of unique shows[1]	27	28	28	83
Number of different shows[2]	27	28	28	83
Number of different songs[3]	71	83	72	95
Number of unique songs[4]	71	83	72	94
Number of performed songs	400	398	419	1255
Mean number of performed songs	15	14	15	14
Variation[5]	4.8	5.8	4.8	6.8

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5.7.2 Album statistics

	# of		# of
Album	songs	%	perf	%
Bob Dylan	1	1.1%	4	0.3%
Freewheelin'	5	5.3%	85	6.8%
The Times They Are A-Changin'	5	5.3%	49	3.9%
Another Side	4	4.3%	66	5.3%
Bringing It All Back Home	6	6.4%	113	9.0%
Highway 61 Revisited	8	8.5%	112	8.9%
Blonde On Blonde	10	10.6%	157	12.5%
Basement Tapes	2	2.1%	47	3.7%
John Wesley Harding	3	3.2%	123	9.8%
Nashville Skyline	3	3.2%	37	2.9%
Selfportrait	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
New Morning	2	2.1%	10	0.8%
Greatest Hits Vol 2	3	3.2%	40	3.2%
Pat Garrett	1	1.1%	3	0.2%
Planet Waves	1	1.1%	5	0.4%
Blood On The Tracks	5	5.3%	74	5.9%
Desire	1	1.1%	3	0.2%
Street-Legal	1	1.1%	8	0.6%
Slow Train Coming	1	1.1%	1	0.1%
Saved	1	1.1%	1	0.1%
Shot Of Love	2	2.1%	3	0.2%
Infidels	3	3.2%	14	1.1%
Empire Burlesque	3	3.2%	29	2.3%
Knocked-Out Loaded	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Hearts Of Fire	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Down In The Groove	1	1.1%	85	6.8%
Traveling Wilburys Vol 1	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Oh Mercy	8	8.5%	29	2.3%
Under The Red Sky	3	3.2%	18	1.4%
Traveling Wilburys Vol 3	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Bootleg Series Vol 1	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Bootleg Series Vol 2	1	1.1%	8	0.6%
Bootleg Series Vol 3	1	1.1%	13	1.0%
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	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
MTV Unplugged	1	1.1%	7	0.6%

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5.7.3 Alphabetical song list

	Alabama Getaway												29		29							20		9
	Absolutely Sweet Marie										5				5					3				2
	Alabama Getaway								1				42		43	1		27		10		2		3
	All Along The Watchtower						86								86	1		27		28		2		28
	Ballad Of A Thin Man										12				12			2		8		1		1
	Ballad Of Hollis Brown		AB						7						7					6		1
	Blowin' In The Wind		AB										2		2					2
	Boots Of Spanish Leather		AB						10						10			2		5		1		2
	Born In Time										2				2									2
	Cat's In The Well										3				3					1				2
	Crash On The Levee				40										40			9		5				26
	Desolation Row		AB						7						7			5		2
	Disease Of Conceit						1								1			1
	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right		AB						27						27	1		7		8		1		10
	Drifter's Escape				20										20			11		9
	Every Grain Of Sand						1								1									1
	Everything Is Broken										9				9			1		3				5
	Forever Young		AB										5		5			1						4
	Friend Of The Devil		AB						21						21			14		4				3
	Gates Of Eden		AB						3						3					2				1
	Girl From The North Country		AB						1				16		17			7		6				4
	God Knows										11				11			1		1				9
	Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall@A		AB						3						3			1		2
	Highway 61 Revisited										28		4		32			9		4		1		18
	I And I										5				5			1						4
	I Believe In You										1				1					1
	I Don't Believe You						10								10			5		3				2
	I Shall Be Released										6		1		7			2		3				2
	I Want You						11								11			2		4				5
	I'll Be Your Baby Tonight						17								17			4		5				8
	I'll Remember You										7		1		8			1		2				5
	If Not For You						8								8			2		2				4
	If You See Her, Say Hello						10								10			5		2				3
	In The Garden										1				1					1
	It Ain't Me, Babe		AB										25		25			6		9		1		9
	It Takes A Lot To Laugh						14				2				16			5		4		1		6
	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue		AB						11						11			2		2				7
	Joey										3				3			1						2
	John Brown		AB						6		1				7			1		6
	Jokerman				1		2				5				8	1		2		3				2
	Just Like A Woman						15								15	1		4		5				5
	Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues						10								10	1		2		3				4
	Knockin' On Heaven's Door		AB										2		2									2
	Knockin' On Heaven's Door		AE						1						1					1
	Lay Lady Lay						8								8			2		3				3
	Lenny Bruce										2				2					1				1
	Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat				13										13			7		5				1
	Like A Rolling Stone								1		5		20		26	1				4				21
	Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll		AB						6				2		8			1		3		1		3
	Love Minus Zero/No Limit		AB						10						10			2		4		1		3
	Maggie's Farm								1		38				39	1		16		13		1		8
	Mama, You Been On My Mind		AB						8						8			5		3
	The Man In Me						2								2			1						1
	Man In The Long Black Coat						10								10			5		4				1
	Man Of Peace										1				1									1
	Masters Of War		AB						36						36			13		8				15
	Most Likely You Go Your Way						8								8			3		3				2
	Mr. Tambourine Man		AB						38						38	1		12		12				13
	My Back Pages		AB						6				15		21			5		9		1		6
	Never Gonna Be The Same Again										4				4			2						2
	The New Minglewood Blues				1								1		2					2
	Obviously Five Believers										8				8			4		3				1
	One Too Many Mornings		AB						6				7		13					1				12
	Pledging My Time						3								3			2		1
	Positively 4th Street						20				1				21			5		9				7
	Pretty Peggy-O						4								4					4
	Queen Jane Approximately						2				1				3					1				2
	Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35												77		77			23		25		1		28
	Real Real Gone												1		1					1
	Ring Them Bells										1				1					1
	Seeing The Real You At Last										17				17			6		4				7
	Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)						8								8			3		2				3
	Seven Days										13				13			7		6
	Shake Sugaree						7								7					6		1
	She Belongs To Me										12				12			3		4		1		4
	Shelter From The Storm						7								7			2		2				3
	Shooting Star						1								1			1
	Silvio						84				1				85			27		28		2		28
	Simple Twist Of Fate						9				1				10			3		2				5
	Stuck Inside Of Mobile										13		2		15			5		4		1		5
	Tangled Up In Blue		AB						40						40			13		13		1		13
Tears Of Rage						7								7			2		3				2
This Wheel's On Fire						4				12				16			15		1
The Times They Are A-Changin'		AB										11		11			4		5				2
To Be Alone With You				11										11					8		2		1
To Ramona		AB						10						10			4		3				3
Tombstone Blues										6				6			1		3		1		1
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You						18								18			7		2		1		8
Under The Red Sky						4								4			1		2		1
Visions Of Johanna		AB						2						2			1		1
Watching The River Flow						25								25			9		8		1		7
What Good Am I?										4				4			2		1				1
When I Paint My Masterpiece										8				8			4		2				2
Where Teardrops Fall										1				1									1
Yesterday		AB										1		1					1
You're A Big Girl Now						7								7			2		2		1		2

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5.7.4 Song statistics

Ten most played songs in 1996:

1	All Along The Watchtower	98	times
2	Silvio	85
3	Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35	77
4	Alabama Getaway	43
5	Crash On The Levee	40
	Tangled Up In Blue	40
7	Maggie's Farm	39
8	Mr. Tambourine Man	38
9	Masters Of War	36
10	Highway 61 Revisited	32

Live debuts:

The New Minglewood Blues	Århus, Denmark, 15 June
Shake Sugaree	Berlin, Germany, 17 June
This Wheel's On Fire	Madison, New Jersey, 13 April

Played only once before: NONE L

One-offs (= live debuts, played only once): NONE L

Played only once in 1996:

Disease Of Conceit	Buffalo, New York, 11 May
Every Grain Of Sand	Birmingham, Alabama, 2 November
I Believe In You	Cottbus, Germany, 14 July
In The Garden	Tambach, Germany, 10 July
Man Of Peace	Austin, Texas, 26 October
Real Real Gone	Molde, Norway, 19 July
Ring Them Bells	Differdange, Luxembourg, 24 June
Shooting Star	Syracuse, New York, 30 April
Where Teardrops Fall	Austin, Texas, 26 October

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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] 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.