1985 VARIOUS SESSIONS
Previous 1985 Empire
Burlesque sessions
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Oceanway Studios |
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A Radio Studio, |
July
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The Home Of Ron Wood, Live Aid rehearsals |
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John F. Kennedy Stadium, Live Aid concert |
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Cherokee Studio, Hollywood, |
August
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The Home Of Bob Dylan, Bob Brown Interview |
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Universal Studios, Farm Aid rehearsals |
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Backstage Memorial Stadium, |
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The Home Of Bob Dylan, Charles Young Interview |
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Cherokee Studio, |
November
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April 1985 |
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Sly
Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare recording overdub session produced by Bill
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No Name On The Bullet (Sly Dunbar
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Bob Dylan (harmonica).
Official releases
Released on Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare: LANGUAGE
BARRIER,
Released on CD Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare: LANGUAGE
BARRIER, Island 257 279, August 1985.
Notes
Master track recorded earlier at unknown date with
unidentified musicians except of course Sly
Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare.
Stereo studio recording, 6 minutes.
Session
info updated 4 December 2015.
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Cherokee Studio |
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Too Hot To Drive By |
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Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Ira Ingber (guitar), Nedra Wheeler (bass), Charlie Quintana (drums).
Notes.
· These tracks are nor circulating.
· The songs may or may not be Bob Dylan compositions.
Stereo studio recordings.
Session info updated 1 September 2003.
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Cherokee Studio |
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Freedom For The Stallion (Allen Toussaint) |
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Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Greg Arreguin (guitar), Dan Schwartz (bass), Charlie Quintana (drums).
Note. These tracks are not circulating.
Stereo studio recordings.
Session info updated 1 September 2003.
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Oceanway Studios |
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Freedom For The Stallion (Allen Toussaint) |
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Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Sterling Smith (guitar), Barry Goldberg (piano), Jack Morris Sherman (organ), Jorge Calderon (bass), Charlie Quintana (drums).
Note. These tracks are not circulating.
Stereo studio recordings.
Session info updated 1 September 2003.
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A Radio Studio |
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Rock-Line |
Notes
· Bob Dylan answers telephone calls from listeners.
· Conducted by Bob Coburn.
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Broadcast live by various radio stations in US
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Reference. The Fiddler Now Upspoke, Volume 2, Desolation Row Promotions, pages 499-509.
Stereo radio broadcast, 30 minutes.
Session info updated 1 September 2003.
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The Home Of Ron Wood |
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Rehearsals
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Ballad Of Hollis Brown |
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Ballad Of Hollis Brown |
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Ballad Of Hollis Brown |
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Girl From The |
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Girl From The |
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Trouble |
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Blowin' In The Wind |
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Blowin' In The Wind |
Bob Dylan, Ron Wood, Keith Richards (guitars).
1, 3, 9 Bob Dylan (vocal).
4 Bob Dylan & Keith Richards (shared vocals).
5, 6 Keith Richards (vocal).
Bootleg
Voices Of Freedom. Rattlesnake RS076.
Stereo recording, 20 minutes.
Session info updated 1 September 2003.
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John F. Kennedy Stadium |
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Live Aid
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Ballad Of Hollis Brown |
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When The Ship Comes In |
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Blowin' In The Wind |
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We Are The World (Michael Jackson/Lionel
Ritchie) |
1-3 Bob Dylan, Ron Wood, Keith Richards (guitars).
4 Bob Dylan (guitar), shared vocals
by Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, Mick Jagger, Peter Paul And Mary, Lionel Richie,
Kenny Rogers, Tina Turner and many many more.
BobTalk
I wanna
introduce some people who came along tonight. Keith Richards and Ron Wood. I
don't know, where they are?
(Richards & Woods appear and Ballad Of Hollis Brown is
performed) Thank you. I thought that was
a fitting song for this important occasion. You know while I'm here, I just
hope that some of the money that's raised for the people in Africa, maybe they
could just take just a little bit of it, 1 or 2 million maybe, and use it to,
maybe use it to pay the mortgages on some of the farms, that the farmers here
owe to the banks.
Thank you. It sounds all right out there ? How much time we got ? Right. (after When The Ship Comes In)
Bootlegs
The Day The World Rocked. Mama Records LP.
Live Aid The Global Juke Box Vol. 2. Global Juke Box LP.
Live Aid. A Short Shame Story. Live Aid LP.
Now’s The
Special Night-Special Guests. American Concert Series / Acs 018.
Voices Of Freedom. Rattlesnake RS076.
Official release
Fragment of 3 and all of 4 released in the DVD, TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY, Warner R2-970451, July 2005.
Notes
Broadcast live on television worldwide by satellite.
Dylan’s speech after the first song prompted the first Farm Aid concert later in 1985.
First live version of Ballad Of Hollis Brown since the evening concert at The Forum, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, 14 February 1974.
First live version of When The Ship Comes In since Royal Festival Hall, London, England, 17 May 1964.
Stereo PA recording,
Session info updated 5 December 2015.
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Cherokee Studio |
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Bob Dylan (harmonica).
Note. Master track recorded earlier at unknown date with
unidentified musicians except of course Little Steven..
Official releases
1 released on single
1 released on video
Released on ARTISTS UNITED AGAINST APARTHEID/SUN CITY, Manhattan ST 53019,
Stereo studio recordings, 15 minutes.
Session info updated 1 September 2003.
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Video
shooting of When The Night Comes
Falling From The Sky and Emotionally
Yours |
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Jam
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Instrumental Blues |
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When The Night Comes
Falling From The Sky |
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Blackbird (John Lennon/Paul
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Jam
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When The Night Comes
Falling From The Sky |
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When The Night Comes
Falling From The Sky |
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When The Night Comes
Falling From The Sky |
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When The Night Comes
Falling From The Sky |
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When The Night Comes
Falling From The Sky |
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When The Night Comes
Falling From The Sky |
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Unidentified Instrumental |
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I Shall Be Released |
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Emotionally Yours |
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Emotionally Yours |
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Emotionally Yours |
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Emotionally Yours |
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Emotionally Yours |
1 Bob Dylan (guitar), Hunt Sales (organ), Phil Chen (bass), Clem Burke (drums).
2-13 Bob Dylan (guitar), David Stewart (guitar), Phil Chen (bass), Hunt Sales (congas), Feargal Sharkey & Steven Scales (percussion), Clem Burke (drums).
3, 6-11 Bob Dylan (vocal) and Pamela ? (2nd vocal).
12 Feargal Sharkey
13 David Stewart
14 David Stewart (guitar),
14-18 Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar).
Note. 3, 6-11 and 14-18 sung and played on top of the playback of the recordings released on Empire Burlesque. These live performances are however hardly audible.
2, 4, 5 mono audience recordings.
1, 3, 6-18 mono PA recordings.
70 minutes.
Session info updated 1 September 2003.
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September 1985 |
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Farm Aid
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I Shall Be Released |
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Gotta Serve Somebody |
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Across The Borderline (Ry Cooder/John
Hiatt/Jim Dickinson) |
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Señor (Tales Of Yankee
Power) |
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Trouble |
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Clean Cut Kid |
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I'll Remember You |
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That Lucky Old Sun (Haven Gillespie/Beasley
Smith) |
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Maggie's Farm |
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In The Garden |
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Sing Me Back Home (Merle Haggard) |
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Union Sundown |
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Come Together (John Lennon/ Paul McCartney) |
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This Was My Love (Jim Herbert) |
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Lonesome Town (Baker Knight) |
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License To Kill |
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I Shall Be Released |
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Lenny Bruce |
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Rocky Road Blues (Bill Monroe) |
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Never Gonna Be The Same
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Baby Stop Crying |
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Shake (?) |
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Across The Borderline (Ry Cooder/John
Hiatt/Jim Dickinson) |
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Tight Connection To My
Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love) |
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Dead Man, Dead Man |
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Heart Of Mine |
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Baby Stop Crying |
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Come Together (John Lennon/ Paul McCartney) |
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This Was My Love (Jim Herbert) |
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Red Cadillac And A Black
Moustache (W.
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Under The Boardwalk (Arthur Resnick/Kenny Young) |
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Seeing The Real You At
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Dead Man, Dead Man |
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Emotionally Yours |
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I And I |
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Heart Of Mine |
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In The Garden |
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Under The Boardwalk (Arthur Resnick/Kenny Young) |
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Save The Last Dance For Me
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Heart Of Mine |
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I And I |
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Trust Yourself |
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This Was My Love (Jim Herbert) |
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Red Cadillac And A Black
Moustache (W.
B. Thompson/L. May) |
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Red Cadillac And A Black
Moustache (W.
B. Thompson/L. May) |
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I Shall Be Released |
13 Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar, keyboards, harmonica), Tom
Petty (guitar &vocals), Mike Campbell (guitar), Benmont
Tench (keyboards), Howie Epstein (bass), Stan Lynch
(drums), Debra Byrd, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn
Bootleg
The 1985 Rehearsal
Tape. Rattlesnake
Notes
These tracks started circulating in June 2016 when the bootleg The 1985 Rehearsal Tape became available.
14
long take.
22
fragment.
29 short take .
41 instrumental.
First known recording of Sing Me Back Home, Come Together, Lonesome Town, Rocky Road Blues,
Shake, Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache, Under The
Boardwalk and Save The Last Dance For
Me.
Stereo studio recordings, 150 minutes.
Session info created 5 July 2016.
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The Home Of Bob Dylan |
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Interview by Bob Brown. |
Official release
Partly released on the DVD ABC NEWS CLASSICS-BOB
DYLAN 1985, ABC News Productions Inc, 2007.
Reference
The Fiddler Now Upspoke, Volume 5, Desolation Row Promotions, pages 1051-1052.
Notes
Partly broadcast by ABC-TV,
Complete 52 minute interview available as raw TV footage.
Mono TV recording, 6 minutes.
Session info updated 5 December 2015.
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Farm Aid
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Unidentified Song |
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What'd I Say (Ray Charles) |
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Baby What You Want Me To
Do (Jimmy
Reed) |
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Shake (?) |
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I'll Remember You |
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Then He Kissed Me (Jeff Barry/Ellie |
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Instrumental Blues |
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Forever Young |
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Forever Young |
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Unidentified Instrumental |
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Trust Yourself |
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Louie, Louie (Richard Berry) |
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That Lucky Old Sun (Haven Gillespie/Beasley
Smith) |
1-7, 10-13 Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Tom Petty
(guitar), Mike Campbell (guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Howie Epstein (bass), Stan Lynch
(drums), Peggi Blue, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn
9, Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Peggi Blue, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec, Carolyn
Dennis (backing vocals).
Official release
Parts of 7, 9 released on the DVD ABC NEWS
CLASSICS-BOB DYLAN 1985, ABC News Productions Inc, 2007.
Notes
1 is only a fragment.
9 and fragment of 7 broadcast by ABC-TV, 10 October 1985 in the program “20-20”.
The fragments released on the DVD are shorter than in the broadcast.
Available as raw ABC TV footage.
Clinton Heylin in A Life in Stolen Moments. Day By Day 1941-1995 suggests that Shake is a song with Bob Dylan lyrics to the tone of Roy Head’s Treat Her Right.
Mono studio recording, 45 minutes.
Session info updated 9 February 2017.
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Memorial Stadium |
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That Lucky Old Sun (Haven Gillespie/Beasley
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Maggie's Farm |
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I Like It Like That (Chris Kenner) |
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Tom Petty (guitar), Mike Campbell (guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Howie Epstein (bass), Stan Lynch (drums), Peggi Blue, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec, Carolyn Dennis (backing vocals).
Notes
Incomplete stereo audience recording, 15 minutes.
Session info updated 9 February 2017.
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Memorial Stadium |
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I'll Remember You |
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Trust Yourself |
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That Lucky Old Sun (Haven Gillespie/Beasley
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Maggie's Farm |
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Tom Petty (guitar), Mike Campbell (guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Howie Epstein (bass), Stan Lynch (drums), Peggi Blue, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec, Carolyn Dennis (backing vocals).
4-6 Willie Nelson (acoustic guitar).
3, 4 Madelyn Quebec (shared vocal).
Unauthorized
Releases
(The
release is unauthorized and is not associated with or approved by Bob Dylan or
his current recording label).
3, 4, 6 released in the UK on DVD Bob Dylan Live Transmissions: Part One, RMS 2661, March 2008.
6 released
in the UK on Bob Dylan Transmissions,
Storming Music Company, SMC 2520, 3 December 2007.
3, 6
released in the UK on Bob Dylan
Re-Transmissions, Storming Music Company, SMC 2642, 10 March 2008.
Bootlegs
Now And Then. Ruthless Rhymes LP.
Now’s The
Then & Now / Farm Aid. LP
Notes
2-4, 6 broadcast live by several radio and TV-stations in US and Canada,
Clinton Heylin in A Life in Stolen Moments. Day By Day
1941-1995 suggests that Shake is
a song with Bob Dylan lyrics to the tone of Roy Head’s Treat Her Right.
Live debuts of Clean Cut Kid, Shake, I'll Remember You, Trust
Yourself and That Lucky Old Sun.
1-6 available as raw TV footage, but 2 and 5 are permanently zoomed out.
1 mono TV recording.
2-6 stereo PA recording.
1-6 stereo audience recording
Session info updated 10 March 2021.
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Conversation
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Notes
Recorded by ABC TV but not broadcast
Available as raw TV footage.
Stereo TV recording, 3 minutes
Session info created 7 December 2015.
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The Home Of Bob Dylan |
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September 1985 |
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Interview by Charles Young. |
Notes
·
Broadcast by MTV,
· An additional brief part later broadcast by MTV in the Liner Notes Program on Dave Stewart.
Incomplete mono TV recording, 4 minutes.
Session info updated 1 September 2003.
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Baby Coming Back From The Dead |
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Nothing Here Worth Dying For |
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Won't Go Back 'Til
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Let Me Come, Baby |
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Bring It On Home To Me |
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I'm Ready For Love |
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26 Storeys High |
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You Can Have Her |
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My Sweet Baby (Around & Around) |
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Nothing Here Worth Dying For |
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You Can Have Her |
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Find Me |
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Nothing Here Worth Dying For |
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Right Hand Road Blues |
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That's All (Alan Brandt & Bob Haymes) |
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Unidentified musician
(guitar), Unidentified musician (keyboards), Vito San Filippo (bass), Raymond
Lee Pounds (drums), Carolyn Dennis, Madelyn
5 Bob Dylan (harmonica).
Bootleg
After The Empire. Rattlesnake.
Notes
These tracks started circulating in June 2016 when the bootleg After The Empire became available.
There may be more than one guitarist besides Dylan.
Stereo studio recordings, 70 minutes
Session info updated 4 July 2016.
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Celebration
of Bob Dylan’s first 25 years in the music business. |
Notes
· Short acceptance speech by Bob Dylan.
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Broadcast by ABC-TV in the program
“Entertainment Tonight” and by MTV,
Mono TV recording, 2 minutes.
Session info updated 1 September 2003.
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Unidentified Instrumental |
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Unidentified Instrumental |
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Under Your Spell (Bob Dylan & Carole
Bayer Sager) |
Bob Dylan (guitar), Dave Stewart (guitar), Patrick Seymour
(keyboards), John McKenzie (bass), Clem Burke (drums).
Notes
1, 2 recorded
1, 2 broadcast by BBC 2, England,
3 overdubbed May 1986 and later released on Knocked Out Loaded.
According to Mike Scott in a private communication he,
together with his bandmates from The Waterboys, Steve
Wickham and Anthony Thistle, played at these sessions.
Stereo studio recordings, 4 minutes.
Session info updated 3 July 2021.
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Interview by Andy Kershaw. |
Note. Partly broadcast by BBC 2,
Reference. The Fiddler Now Upspoke, Volume 5, Desolation Row Promotions, pages 1053-1054.
Mono TV recording, 4 minutes.
Session info updated 1 September 2003.
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