WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Decades Later He’s Still On the Road ***
byVanderleunonAugust 16, 2022
Here is Bob Dylan performing live in 1966. He’d continue to do so for the next 56 years (and counting):
Dylan’s 80 now but he still performs in sold-out venues around the world dozens of times a year:
Dylan wrote:
Don’t be bewildered by the Never Ending Tour chatter. There was a Never Ending Tour but it ended in 1991 with the departure of guitarist G. E. Smith. That one’s long gone but there have been many others since then: “The Money Never Runs Out Tour” (Fall of 1991) “Southern Sympathizer Tour” (Early 1992) “Why Do You Look At Me So Strangely Tour” (European Tour 1992) “The One Sad Cry Of Pity Tour” (Australia & West Coast American Tour 1992) “Outburst Of Consciousness Tour” (1992) “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down Tour” (1993) and others, too many to mention each with their own character & design.
His subsequent touring schedule has continued to be referred to as the “Never Ending Tour” by most media outlets.
According to Swedish researcher Olof Björner, Dylan played his 2,000th show of the Never Ending Tour on October 16, 2007, in Dayton, Ohio. He played his 3,000th show of the Never Ending Tour on April 19, 2019, in Innsbruck, Austria
Like all prophets, Dylan foresaw all this long ago:
***“But me, I’m still on the road Headin’ for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in blue”
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No matter what one might say, the voice of generations.
I’m still quite sure, the little guy playing in a corner, at a party I was at, with a strange voice, in NYC way way back then, was Dylan, but I admit memory’s a fickle thang.
Roy LofquistAugust 16, 2022, 2:08 PM
The Beatles were playing on the radio but Bob was playing in my mind. The King is dead but my new obsession, Angelina, has brought him back. But Bob is still on my mind.
Brilliant song. And not a bad cover. Dylan, still has the stuff. He must grow it.
JackAugust 16, 2022, 3:24 PM
The introduction of the Expanded Beehive. Reminds me of Burt Reynolds to Ms. Toot (Bernadette Peters) in The Longest Yard…. ‘My, you have lovely hair. Ever find any spiders in it”?
Casey KlahnAugust 16, 2022, 2:48 PM
Dylan is my favorite song man. To the extent that he is the voice of his generation, his excellence as a song write, performer, musician and personality, reflects well upon the generation that embraced him.
JackAugust 16, 2022, 3:20 PM
I tend to agree but I reserve agreement for those rare moments that I can understand just what it is he’s saying. Or trying to say.
His songs have not grown old. (unlike him and the rest of us all)
OT- Casey, here’s PJ Watson on modern art. Just thought your blood pressure needed a spike. 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXrzhxsG5tA&t=497s
JWM
Snakepit KansasAugust 16, 2022, 3:58 PM
He played at Lawrence (Larry) Dumont Stadium in Wichita in SEP2004. AA ball diamond which has since been razed. Good show and glad I went.
Ulysses TooleAugust 16, 2022, 5:55 PM
I’ve seen The Who Farewell Tour twice now and I see they are on tour again.
Snakepit KansasAugust 16, 2022, 7:27 PM
Well, don’t get fooled again.
ghostsniperAugust 17, 2022, 6:24 PM
But Mama’s got a squeezebox….and that’s alright.
captfleeAugust 18, 2022, 8:18 AM
Ha! Good one.
rocdoctomAugust 16, 2022, 6:47 PM
From Hibbing MN. Go figure. Always liked Bob Dylan and always will. Been listening to and appreciating him for 60 + years. Hard to believe. Dinkytown days still alive in my mind. North country boy here.
captfleeAugust 16, 2022, 8:17 PM
The old boy has had a pretty good run, I’d say. I can close my eyes and find my younger self in the El Batey up on Calle Cristo in Old San Juan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” boiling out of the juke box, listening to Davy Jones bang on about the old days with Hunter and high times with Mick, wreathed in his perpetual miasma of stogie smoke.
Raleigh lad that I was, I was unaware that Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel” derived from an almost song on “Pat Garrett…”, fleshed out much later by Ketch Secor.
As I was unaware that there are at least two songs about Dock, no, three, no, quite a few songs about Dock Ellis tripping balls and pitching a no hitter, though I am unaware of any by Bob.
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
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No matter what one might say, the voice of generations.
I’m still quite sure, the little guy playing in a corner, at a party I was at, with a strange voice, in NYC way way back then, was Dylan, but I admit memory’s a fickle thang.
The Beatles were playing on the radio but Bob was playing in my mind. The King is dead but my new obsession, Angelina, has brought him back. But Bob is still on my mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTbKhkceR00
Brilliant song. And not a bad cover. Dylan, still has the stuff. He must grow it.
The introduction of the Expanded Beehive. Reminds me of Burt Reynolds to Ms. Toot (Bernadette Peters) in The Longest Yard…. ‘My, you have lovely hair. Ever find any spiders in it”?
Dylan is my favorite song man. To the extent that he is the voice of his generation, his excellence as a song write, performer, musician and personality, reflects well upon the generation that embraced him.
I tend to agree but I reserve agreement for those rare moments that I can understand just what it is he’s saying. Or trying to say.
His songs have not grown old. (unlike him and the rest of us all)
OT- Casey, here’s PJ Watson on modern art. Just thought your blood pressure needed a spike. 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXrzhxsG5tA&t=497s
JWM
He played at Lawrence (Larry) Dumont Stadium in Wichita in SEP2004. AA ball diamond which has since been razed. Good show and glad I went.
I’ve seen The Who Farewell Tour twice now and I see they are on tour again.
Well, don’t get fooled again.
But Mama’s got a squeezebox….and that’s alright.
Ha! Good one.
From Hibbing MN. Go figure. Always liked Bob Dylan and always will. Been listening to and appreciating him for 60 + years. Hard to believe. Dinkytown days still alive in my mind. North country boy here.
The old boy has had a pretty good run, I’d say. I can close my eyes and find my younger self in the El Batey up on Calle Cristo in Old San Juan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” boiling out of the juke box, listening to Davy Jones bang on about the old days with Hunter and high times with Mick, wreathed in his perpetual miasma of stogie smoke.
Raleigh lad that I was, I was unaware that Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel” derived from an almost song on “Pat Garrett…”, fleshed out much later by Ketch Secor.
As I was unaware that there are at least two songs about Dock, no, three, no, quite a few songs about Dock Ellis tripping balls and pitching a no hitter, though I am unaware of any by Bob.
“you’re gonna make me lonesome when you go..”
I can’t understand
She let go of my hand
And left me here facing the wall
There are some songs that invoke the channel change button.
Dylan, and a few others, do not.
Have to say honestly, I never got that guy.
In my defense I always assumed the fault was in me more than him. But I never worried too much about it.