Bob Dylan 1984 Rehearsals Acid Project 104

Bob Dylan  - 1984 Rehearsals
Acid Project 104

Europe tour rehearsals

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Beverly Theater, Los Angeles, CA
May 23, 1984

Excellent soundboard

CD 01
01. Instrumental
02. Maggie's Farm 
03. All Along The Watchtower 
04. Just Like A Woman 
05. Just Like A Woman 
06. When You Gonna Wake Up 
07. When You Gonna Wake Up 
08. Shelter From The Storm 
09. Watered-Down Love 
10. Masters Of War
11. Masters Of War
12. Jokerman 
13. Simple Twist Of Fate 
14. Simple Twist Of Fate 
15. Man Of Peace 
16. Man Of Peace 
17. I And I  
18. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 
19. Ballad Of A Thin Man 
20. Heart Of Mine 
21. Highway 61 Revisited 
22. Around And Around 
23. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 
24. Unidentified Instrumental 
25. It's All Over Now Baby Blue
26. Almost Done
27. Always On My Mind - instrumental
28. Always On My Mind
29. Always On My Mind
30. Every Grain Of Sand 
31. Every Grain Of Sand 
32. Every Grain Of Sand 
33. Girl From The North Country

Verona, Italy
May 27 & 28, 1984
(soundboard recordings) LB-04229

CD 02 (May 27): 
01.(instrumental #1)
02.(instrumental #2)
03.(instrumental #3)
04.(Vocal improvisation/Jam?)
05.(instrumental #4)
06.(instrumental #5)
07.(instrumental #6)
08.(instrumental #7)
09. War Time (instrumental #1)
10. War Time (instrumental #2)
11. War Time
12.(instrumental #8)
13.(instrumental #9)
14. Almost Done #1
15. Almost Done #2
16. Almost Done #3
17. Almost Done #4 (instrumental)
18. Almost Done #5 (instrumental)
19. Enough Is Enough
20.(instrumental #10)
21. Dirty Lies
22. Why Do I Have To Choose? (Willie Nelson)
23. To Each His Own (Ray Evans/Jay Livingston)
24.(instrumental #11)

CD 03 (May 28):
01. Jokerman
02. All Along The Watchtower
03. Just Like A Woman
04. Highway 61 Revisited
05. I And I
06. Shelter From The Storm #1
07. Shelter From The Storm #2
08.(instrumental)
09. License To Kill
10. Ballad Of A Thin Man
11. When You Gonna Wake Up
12. To Ramona
13. Girl From The North Country


Personnel:
Bob Dylan - vocals, guitar, & harmonica
Mick Taylor - guitar
Ian McLagan - keyboards
Gregg Sutton - bass
Colin Allen - drums

INFO ON CD`s 2 & 3:
HEAR VERONA AND LIVE
By Clinton Heylin
(source: "Rolling Telegraph Supplement" #18, pp. 25-26)

The award for Most Interesting Tape Of The Month goes to a ninety minute 'rehearsal' tape from 1984 which an English collector has recently turned up. The tape apparently originates from two days spent rehearsing in Verona, Italy prior to the 1984 European Tour [May 27-28th], and the tape itself appears to be 45 minutes of two separate sessions – I would suspect the first is from the 27th as there is much more jamming and working on new material, and that the second part is from the afternoon of the 28th as Dylan tries to whip the band into shape. The recording quality is spot-on. It probably even has the edge on the previous '84 Tour Rehearsals
The instrumentals are not as boring as may at first sight appear as Dylan plays some nice harmonica on them, and the songs do have some kind of structure, they are not just aimless jams. The source for the tape credits Carlos Santana as on guitar on this side, though I'm not necessarily convinced. 'To Each His Own' is the old crooner's classic written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingstone. However the most interesting songs are the two original Dylan compositions heard here for the first time: 'Dirty Lies' and 'Almost Done'. I’d like to convince myself that 'Almost Done' is in fact 'Angel Of Rain', the other new Dylan song (aside from 'Enough Is Enough' and 'Dirty Lies') to be mentioned at the Verona press conference. It has the right tune for a song called 'Angel Of Rain', though no self-evident lyrical similarities. In fact we have heard a brief snippet of 'Almost Done' before. It is the fragment of a song on the Beverly Theatre tape which I christened 'The Dawn Is Gonna Shine' (song number 24 in 'Master Of The Tracks'). Dylan is still clearly working on the song, though the melody seems pretty well worked-out. The second side of the tape is much more a final run-through of the live set. Indeed the eleven songs performed consist of the entire first set at the opening show plus band versions of 'To Ramona' and 'Girl From The North Country', two songs only performed acoustically on the tour.

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