Expecting Rain

Bob Dylan and His Band
Cap Roig Festival
Botanical Gardens Auditorium
Cap Roig, Spain
Saturday, 14 July 2012
Capacity: 1600


Show number 26 of the '2012 Never Ending Tour' plows on into Cap Roig, Spain to continue his festival run. This one promises to be an intimate venue with a small crowd. The one to not dare miss! Damn.


from:
http://www.caproigfestival.com/en/artistas/bob-dylan-2/

Cap Roig, SPAIN - Bob Dylan, ‘the poet laureate of rock ‘n’ roll’, is scheduled to perform the Grand Opening Concert at the 12th Cap Roig Festival on 14 July. Bob Dylan & His Band are now in the middle of a world tour during which the singer-songwriter may be finishing up the details for the launch of his new album, featuring titles with a Latin American influence.
Robert Allen Zimmerman, who adopted his stage name as an expression of his admiration for the poet Dylan Thomas, began his musical career by forging his own style based on the revival of folk music to which he added lyrics loaded with symbolism and rebellion that made him a leader of his country’s defiant youth.
Songs like ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’, ‘Masters of War’ and ‘Talkin’ World War III Blues’ revolutionised popular music all over the world and opened up new horizons for both singer-songwriters and rock bands alike. Some of his most noteworthy albums include The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963), Blood on the Tracks (1975), the five album anthology Biograph (1985), Oh Mercy (1989), Love and Theft (2001) and the phenomenal Modern Times (2006), which was named Rolling Stone magazine’s best album of the year and Billboard’s number one album, and won two Grammys – one for best contemporary folk album – as well as going platinum in both the US and the UK.
Holder of an honorary doctorate from Princeton University, Dylan has been nominated on several occasions for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his contributions as a writer, and in 2007 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. Among his many achievements, he has received numerous Grammys – including the special Lifetime Achievement Award for his entire artistic career – and an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best song for his ‘Things Have Changed’.
His protest songs don’t only reflect people’s feelings about contemporary issues, but their lyrics are also filled with poesy, containing messages that give a new meaning to popular music and which have earned him the honor of being the voice of his generation. Bob Dylan, one of the most important and influential American singers and songwriters of modern music and the touchstone by which all singer-songwriters are measured: a musical icon whose performance will open the Cap Roig Festival.

6 years ago on July 6, 2006 he also played at the Cap Roig Festival. Here is the setlist for that show:

1. Maggie's Farm (Bob on keyboard)
2. The Times They Are A-Changin' (Bob on keyboard and harp)
3. Down Along The Cove (Bob on keyboard)
4. Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob on keyboard and harp)
5. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (Bob on keyboard, Donnie on violin)
6. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
(Bob on keyboard and harp)
7. Love Sick (Bob on keyboard, Donnie on electric mandolin)
8. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on keyboard)
9. Girl Of The North Country (Bob on keyboard and harp)
10. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
11. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
(Bob on keyboard and harp)
12. Masters Of War (Bob on keyboard)
13. Summer Days (Bob on keyboard)

(encore)
14. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on keyboard)
15. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on keyboard)

A beautiful version of "Girl From The North Country"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tsw63e

Two songs he surely will not play today:
"It's Alright Ma"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/60l1y4
"Down Along The Cove"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/o02um7

Song to Woody would be nice today.

Was just thinking the same thing. A shout out to Woody on his 100th Birthday seems appropriate.

TheTruthIsObscure: thanks for the mp3´s!

Love that "Down along the cove"-live version! It really GROOVES!

listened to the davos smoke water and beach blanket bingo shows - let's all go "yea, but what does it mean!" on this together then

rock it hard cobra, fifty fingers, glimmer gunner, django Tono'Sex, Steel Ripper and johnny Keys

Yep, so did I. Chances are slim but, hey, it's Bob, so who knows ...

Must be Leopard time or close to it by now, no? Almost 9pm in Cap Roig right now I think.

Small venue. Less chance of live communication lines. I think jcastro is there, so he may report, or ad lib, later.

Carme Fenoll ‏@CarmeFenoll
Encara queden entrades pel concert de Bob Dylan avui al Cap Roig pel mòdic preu de 100 a 260€. No sé si amb IVA del 8 o del 21.

There are still tickets for Bob Dylan concert at Cap Roig today the modest price of € 100 to 260. I do not know if VAT of 8 or 21.

Just to kill some time ...
Wasn't that an awesome performance?
http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/bob-d ... BXa2gSmYCw

He could do that one tonight if he's not in the mood for Song to Woody - would be alright with me ...

What was this link supposed to point to. I went 90 miles an hour down a dead end street.

The ole Law of Supply and Demand thing goin' on.

Sorry, SGB. Strange, cause it's working for me. It's Bob doing Do re mi on that TV special from 2009(?).

Oh thanks prophet I searched it and it popped up here...No need to apologize.
http://cdn.blinkx.com/stream/b/29/Under ... p4hi_0.mp4
Very appropriate and thanks. I forgot Ry Cooder was with him on that - Woody's Do Re Mi.

I wonder what's happenin' at tonight's show...

Don't expect this to happen. It seems Bob doesn't usually pay tribute to dead people that he has praised/paid tribute to while they were alive. Probably thinks "Been there done that" and there would be some truth to that.

True. Never expect anything from Bob. That's a sure-fire recipe for letdown.

It was a 10 pm start, not 9. So we must be closing in on Thunder by now.

At least he paid tribute to Elvis
16.08.2009 Stateline 32th death day "Heartbreak Hotel"
And
21.05.1998 Frank sinatra (one day after death announcement. Frankie died on 14.05.) "Restless Farewell"
05.04.1997 Allen Ginsberg (Death day) "Desolation"
He paid tribute to both of them while they were alive!!!

Excellent stats, as usual, Maria. I thought you'd be in Cap Roig, actually.

No, this year only Salzburg and Barolo. (That's enough with Bobs actual show "voice, band, etx), although Salzburg was very enjoyable).
I've done too many shows since 1978.

I understand. I only catch a few per year anymore, either. Although, I still would've loved to do both Latin America & Europe if time and money allowed.

I was really surprised in Salzburg. It was really an improvement compared to the terrible shows with MK in autum and some shows 2009-2010. I know most of us never get enough. The same faces at the rail since the early 90's. Sorry, but I can't stand them anymore (I was also one of them. Now I try to speak with them less as possoble). Something happened last years. It's still Bob but the feeling isn't the same anymore. Still great for few shows a year but not for the whole tour. sometimes I wonder how he can go on like this but then he made a terrific job again. Still the big years for me were 1990-2001 (1991 too ). Something happened 2002, although these were the best NET shows for many. After switching too IOT, nothing was the same again, but we still had many legendary great shows.

BTW I think he played Hollies Brown and Hattie Carroll today and Desolation, Hard rain or Visions.

Cap Roig, Spain
Cap Roig Festival
Botanical Gardens Auditorium
July 14, 2012

1. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
2. To Ramona
3. Things Have Changed
4. Tangled Up In Blue
5. The Levee's Gonna Break
6. Every Grain Of Sand
7. Ballad Of Hollis Brown
8. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
9. Rollin' And Tumblin'
10. Visions Of Johanna
11. Highway 61 Revisited
12. Simple Twist Of Fate
13. Thunder On The Mountain
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man
15. Like A Rolling Stone
16. All Along The Watchtower

(encore)
17. Blowin' In The Wind

Thanks to Sullylove for the phone call and Jordi for the email

Set lists, reviews, and information on
upcoming concerts can be found on the Bob Links
Tour Infomation page located at:
http://www.boblinks.com

Song's Performed in 2011 at:
http://www.boblinks.com/song2011.html

Bob Links Main Page:
http://www.boblinks.com