Expecting Rain

Fun version, that!

2003 was the Year of Koella and as many would attest, he was one of Bob's finest guitarists.
Creative & challenging, he also brought out the best in Dylan....

Summer Days was Freddy's song no doubt. It was the closing song before the encores every night
and every night, he destroyed it....

However, i think I found the one night to outshine all other nights:

Louisville Kentucky
April 30 2003
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tldtwm

Enjoy.

^
Hey, that was blast! Thanks for posting that, marker.

No problem Stetson!
That's an amazing version isn't it!!!

Here's a clipped version that cuts out all the bs before & after:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mmfyyv

I find it amazing that Koella had only been with Bob a few weeks at this point and already had taken command in a way no other guitarist had ever done before (or since). His performances of Like A Rolling Stone and All Along the Watchtower had his stamp from the very first show. This became true of everything he played but from the very beginning Summer Days, Like A Rolling Stone and All Along the Watchtower received his incredible touch.

This is awesome man. Wish I could play this.

This song just seems so complex to me and blows me away each time i hear it, i catch a new line each time. It took me awhile to warm up to. But i'm nuts about it. Have no idea what it's about.

Seems like a song of Dylan getting upset that no one understands him or takes him serious anymore or follows what he sings, but gets over it.

That was sweet, marker--like The Basement Tapes version of Summer Days!

Hey , that's fantastic

Thanks for the compliments folks!! It's such a fun song to perform as
well as listen to, honestly, despite its endless airing live, this is still my
favorite song on Love & Theft.....

Anyways, I had to post another Freddy Koella extraordinaire of this bad-ass song.
It's almost fully a year since Freddy started playing with the band and here you can just
marvel in his mastery...so inventive, so playful,
and Bob still sounds so good before his voice was ravaged throughout that year.
This particular version also features guest drummer Richie Hayward Little Feat, who sadly
passed away a few years later....It's got a real gut-bucket garage band sound and fits the song
perfectly....

Check it out y'all!!

Washington D.C.
April 3, 2004
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mqfkin

Tony Garnier spinning around on the floor on his back.....great fun!


- nate

One can't help recalling how "You've read all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books"

^ The Great Gatsby wasn't a Thirties novel. It celebrated the Roaring Twenties, was set in 1922, and published in 1925.

It's pretty good on "Love and Theft" but this is definitely a track that always shined more live I think. He might not kill with it everytime out, but he delivers it with force on more than one occasion. He was particularly solid with this in 2002 and 2003 I think.

I really love this song. I play it quite a lot, in fact. Especially in the morning to get me moving for the day. I'm a big fan of "Love & Theft" in general, I listen to it a lot.

This song has so many great lines, as have been pointed out, and I also love how he fits all those syllables into that one line LJ mentioned. More proof that "no one can sing Dylan like Dylan" - his vocal delivery is so idiosyncratic. He's actually very hard to sing along to, I find, because he holds some syllables longer than you'd expect, clips some shorter & then there's the packing-in-as-many-syllables-as-possible, maybe more than most would find possible.

I really loved when he played this live when I saw him last November. Made my night. I was not the only one out of my seat & dancing! (Never though when I first saw him in the first month of the NET in 1988 that I'd dance at a Dylan show, but he always surprises us...)