5      THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES. 1

5.11     Summary. 1

5.11.1      Statistics. 1

5.11.2      Show Statistics - Summary. 3

5.11.3      Album statistics. 4

5.11.4      Alphabetical song list 5

5.11.5      Ten most played songs in 1998. 8

5.11.6      Live debuts. 8

5.11.7      Played only once in 1998. 8

 

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5      THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES

 

 

 

 

5.11      Summary

5.11.1                    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 Winter Tour

100

317

133

20

34

117

13

%

41

6

10

36

4

South American Tour with

90 [1]

103

38

11

16

30

7

The Rolling Stones              %

36

10

15

29

6

US & Canada West Coast Tour with Joni Mitchell &

85

106

38

10

17

30

11

Van Morrison                      %

35

9

16

28

10

Europe Summer Tour

100

499

212

44

62

13

155

13

%

42

8

12

2

31

2

Tour of Australia and New

115

257

106

20

38

2

78

12

Zealand                                %

41

7

14

0

30

4

US West Coast Tour With

110

121

48

8

14

2

44

5

Van Morrison                      %

39

6

11

1

36

4

US And Canada Fall Tour

195

275

125

4

30

19

90

7

%

45

1

10

6

32

2

1 9 9 8

1678

700

117

211

36

544

68

%

41,7

7,0

12,6

2,1

32,4

4,1

 

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5.11.2                    Show Statistics - Summary

                                                                                                                                           

1.     US Winter Tour

2.     South American Tour with The Rolling Stones

3.     US & Canada West Coast Tour with Joni Mitchell & Van Morrison

4.     Europe Summer Tour

5.     Tour of Australia and New Zealand

6.     US West Coast Tour With Van Morrison

7.     US And Canada Fall Tour

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

S

Number of shows

21

8

8

33

15

8

17

110

Number of circulating shows

21

2

8

33

12

2

13

91

Number of circulating & complete shows

21

2

8

33

12

2

13

91

Number of unique shows[2]

21

8

8

33

15

8

17

110

Number of different shows[3]

21

8

8

33

15

8

17

110

Number of different songs[4]

58

43

37

84

67

48

54

104

Number of unique songs[5]

58

43

36

83

67

48

54

102

Number of performed songs

317

103

106

499

257

121

275

1678

Mean number of performed songs

15

12

13

15

17

15

16

15

Variation[6]

3.8

3.3

2.8

5.6

3.9

3.2

3.3

6.9

 

5.11.3                    Album statistics

 

# of

# of

Album

songs

%

perf

%

Bob Dylan

1

  1.2%

3

  0.2%

Freewheelin'

5

  5.9%

161

 10.0%

The Times They Are A-Changin'

6

  7.1%

41

  2.6%

Another Side

4

  4.7%

60

  3.7%

Bringing It All Back Home

5

  5.9%

58

  3.6%

Highway 61 Revisited

7

  8.2%

136

  8.5%

Blonde On Blonde

6

  7.1%

213

 13.3%

Basement Tapes

3

  3.5%

23

  1.4%

John Wesley Harding

2

  2.4%

17

  1.1%

Nashville Skyline

4

  4.7%

37

  2.3%

Selfportrait

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

New Morning

2

  2.4%

14

  0.9%

Greatest Hits Vol 2

3

  3.5%

21

  1.3%

Pat Garrett

1

  1.2%

11

  0.7%

Planet Waves

2

  2.4%

53

  3.3%

Blood On The Tracks

5

  5.9%

142

  8.9%

Desire

1

  1.2%

1

  0.1%

Street-Legal

1

  1.2%

15

  0.9%

Slow Train Coming

2

  2.4%

32

  2.0%

Saved

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Shot Of Love

1

  1.2%

4

  0.2%

Infidels

3

  3.5%

5

  0.3%

Empire Burlesque

2

  2.4%

15

  0.9%

Knocked-Out Loaded

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Hearts Of Fire

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Down In The Groove

2

  2.4%

102

  6.4%

Traveling Wilburys Vol 1

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Oh Mercy

5

  5.9%

26

  1.6%

Under The Red Sky

1

  1.2%

7

  0.4%

Traveling Wilburys Vol 3

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Bootleg Series Vol 1

1

  1.2%

11

  0.7%

Bootleg Series Vol 2

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Bootleg Series Vol 3

1

  1.2%

13

  0.8%

Biograph

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Good As I Been To You

1

  1.2%

1

  0.1%

World Gone Wrong

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

Greatest Hits Vol 3

0

  0.0%

0

  0.0%

MTV Unplugged

1

  1.2%

3

  0.2%

Time Out Of Mind

7

  8.2%

379

 23.6%

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5.11.4                    Alphabetical song list

 

1.      US Winter Tour

2.      South American Tour with The Rolling Stones

3.      US & Canada West Coast Tour with Joni Mitchell & Van Morrison

4.      Europe Summer Tour

5.      Tour of Australia and New Zealand

6.      US West Coast Tour With Van Morrison

7.     US And Canada Fall Tour                                                            

 

op

opener

s1

first electric set

ac

acoustic set

s2

second electric set

en

encores

 

 

Song

op

s1

ac

s2

en

S

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

 

Absolutely Sweet Marie

29

29

21

3

5

 

Across The Borderline

1

1

1

 

Alabama Getaway

1

1

1

 

All Along The Watchtower

6

1

1

8

1

6

1

 

Ballad Of A Thin Man

6

1

7

2

2

1

2

 

Ballad Of Hollis Brown

AB

2

2

2

 

Blind Willie McTell

1

12

13

3

4

2

2

2

 

Blowin' In The Wind

AB

66

66

1

25

15

8

17

 

Boots Of Spanish Leather

AB

5

5

1

3

1

 

Born In Time

8

1

9

3

1

3

1

1

 

Can't Wait

55

1

8

64

15

3

14

14

8

10

 

Cocaine Blues

AB

24

24

12

3

3

4

1

1

 

Cold Irons Bound

81

1

82

8

5

8

31

14

4

12

 

Dark As A Dungeon

AB

1

1

1

 

Desolation Row

AB

15

15

3

7

3

1

1

 

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

AB

23

10

33

4

1

11

8

3

6

 

Every Grain Of Sand

2

2

4

1

1

2

 

Everything Is Broken

2

2

1

1

 

Forever Young

AB

16

34

50

3

2

4

13

14

3

11

 

Friend Of The Devil

AB

4

4

1

2

1

 

Girl From The North Country

AB

5

5

1

3

1

 

Gotta Serve Somebody

31

31

12

1

2

16

 

Happy Birthday

AB

1

1

1

 

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

AB

8

8

2

5

1

 

Highway 61 Revisited

65

27

92

18

6

8

27

12

5

16

 

I And I

1

1

1

 

I Believe In You

1

1

1

 

I Don't Believe You

2

1

3

1

1

1

 

I Shall Be Released

9

1

10

1

2

3

3

1

 

I Threw It All Away

2

2

2

 

I Want You

11

11

2

2

3

1

1

2

 

If Not For You

6

6

1

4

1

 

If You See Her, Say Hello

5

5

1

2

2

 

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

8

8

2

1

4

1

 

I'll Remember You

11

3

14

1

1

1

11

 

I'm A Rovin' Gambler

AB

4

4

1

1

1

1

 

I'm Not Supposed To Care

2

1

3

2

1

 

It Ain't Me, Babe

AB

6

33

39

10

3

4

8

5

1

8

 

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A

7

1

8

1

3

2

2

 

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

AB

12

12

1

2

1

4

1

1

2

 

Joey

1

1

1

 

John Brown

AB

3

3

1

2

 

Jokerman

1

1

1

 

Just Like A Woman

28

1

29

5

3

3

5

4

1

8

 

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

2

1

3

1

2

 

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

2

2

1

1

 

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

AB

6

3

9

2

3

2

1

1

 

Lay Lady Lay

10

10

1

1

2

2

3

1

 

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

21

1

2

24

1

9

8

3

3

 

License To Kill

3

3

1

1

1

 

Like A Rolling Stone

6

6

4

1

1

 

The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carro

AB

6

6

1

1

1

1

2

 

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

AB

6

6

2

3

1

 

Love Sick

1

102

103

21

5

7

30

15

8

17

 

Maggie's Farm

13

13

1

2

2

6

2

 

Make You Feel My Love

7

27

34

1

4

14

1

4

10

 

Mama, You Been On My Mind

AB

11

11

8

1

2

 

The Man In Me

8

8

2

1

2

1

2

 

Man In The Long Black Coat

10

10

2

5

1

1

1

 

Masters Of War

AB

49

49

11

1

2

15

4

3

13

 

Million Miles

3

22

25

20

1

1

1

3

 

Mr. Tambourine Man

AB

18

18

1

1

1

8

3

1

3

 

My Back Pages

AB

9

4

13

2

1

3

2

1

4

 

Not Dark Yet

3

1

4

3

1

 

Not Fade Away

1

1

1

 

Oh Baby It Ain't No Lie

AB

2

2

1

1

 

One Too Many Mornings

AB

10

10

2

1

4

1

1

1

 

Positively 4th Street

6

5

11

3

2

2

1

1

2

 

Pretty Peggy-O

3

3

1

1

1

Queen Jane Approximately

1

4

5

3

1

1

 

Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

1

101

102

21

5

8

30

15

8

15

 

Rank Strangers To Me

AB

3

3

2

1

 

Restless Farewell

AB

1

1

1

 

The Roving Blade

AB

1

1

1

 

Roving Gambler

AB

2

2

2

 

Seeing The Real You At Last

1

1

1

 

Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)

15

15

3

3

1

6

2

 

She Belongs To Me

1

8

9

3

3

1

2

 

Shelter From The Storm

4

4

1

1

2

 

Shooting Star

2

2

1

1

 

Silvio

98

1

99

21

8

8

33

13

8

8

 

Simple Twist Of Fate

14

14

4

2

3

2

2

1

 

Stone Walls And Steel Bars

AB

13

13

2

2

4

2

3

 

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The

5

13

18

5

4

1

3

5

 

Tangled Up In Blue

AB

109

109

21

8

7

33

15

8

17

 

Tears Of Rage

3

4

7

2

1

3

1

 

This Wheel's On Fire

10

10

3

1

1

3

2

 

This Wheel's On Fire

AB

1

1

1

 

'Til I Fell In Love With You

46

21

67

17

5

2

9

13

6

15

 

The Times They Are A-Changin'

AB

17

17

2

2

7

4

1

1

 

The Times We've Known

1

1

1

 

To Be Alone With You

6

6

4

2

 

To Ramona

AB

5

5

4

1

 

Tomorrow Is A Long Time

AB

6

6

2

1

3

 

Tomorrow Night

AB

1

1

1

 

Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With

20

20

7

1

7

2

3

 

Tough Mama

3

3

2

1

 

Under The Red Sky

7

7

2

3

1

1

 

Watching The River Flow

3

1

1

5

2

2

1

 

What Good Am I?

3

3

2

1

 

The White Dove

AB

3

3

2

1

 

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

4

1

5

3

1

1

 

You're A Big Girl Now

10

10

2

2

1

2

2

1

 

                                                           

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5.11.5                    Ten most played songs in 1998

 

  1

Tangled Up In Blue

109

times

  2

Love Sick

103

  3

Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

102

  4

Silvio

 99

  5

Highway 61 Revisited

 92

  6

Cold Irons Bound

 82

  7

'Til I Fell In Love With You

 67

  8

Blowin' In The Wind

 66

  9

Can't Wait

 64

10

Forever Young

 50

 

5.11.6                    Live debuts

 

Million Miles

New London, Connecticut, 14 January

 

5.11.7                    Played only once in 1998

 

Across The Borderline

Rochester November 3

Alabama Getaway

Hamburg June 12

Dark As A Dungeon

Melbourne August 19

I And I

Dijon July 1

I Believe In You

Rochester November 3

Joey

New York City, November 1

Jokerman

Miami Beach, March 31

Matchbox

Adelaide, August 24

Not Fade Away

Vancouver, May 13

Restless Farewell

Los Angeles, May 21

The Roving Blade

Belfast, June 19

Seeing The Real You At Last

Dijon July 1

The Times We've Known

New York City, November 1

Tomorrow Night

Auburn Hills, October 28

 

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[1]  only two shows in circulation!

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

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

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

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

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