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Not that I was around at this time!! but the database says he played in Baltimore Oct 4 1978 at the Civic Center. possibility??

yeah, it sure is. I was young then, had just gotten my driver's license and drove me, my sister, and a couple of brothers we knew to the show. I do, come to think of it, remember driving into Baltimore, finding we were going south on a northbound one way road. My other memory is that it was a big place and we somehow mysteriously (aided by drugs, likely) found ourselves right at the front of the stage, like leaning up against it. I remember my heart was in my hands. Quite amazing to me that my Bobsession then went underground for almost 3 decades, to re-emerge as full-blown Baddiction!

Ah, thanks for checking this.

no problem. and that does sound like a fun show!

helsinki 1988, turku 1995, helsinki 2000, helsinki 2004

all +- 1 year;)

hello everybody!

hey becca lecca, it sounds like you saw Bob in 1978 just a couple of months before I did. I was a huge Bob fan then and I remember thinking this was a "once in a lifetime experience" seeing Bob live. Of course I've seen him dozens of times since then but who new back then? I was a sophomore in college, and I saw Neil Young and Crazy Horse doing that Live Rust tour a week or two earlier. I figured I would be content if I never saw another concert the rest of my life....but I was wrong. The Bob concert was great. He had a big band with back up singers. My favorite song was Like A Rolling Stone. He actually talked to the crowd between songs. I'll post a link to the set list. You can see the songs from your show too.

Updating my list
10/24/2006 Denver CO
7/19/2007 Red Rocks CO
7/20/2007 Red Rocks CO
7/21/2007 Telluride CO
10/26/2007 Omaha NE

10/17/1978 Chicago, IL
10/18/1978 Chicago, IL
06/10/1981 Hoffman Estates, IL
10/16/1981 Milwaukee, WI
10/17/1981 Milwaukee, WI
10/18/1981 Madison, WI
10/19/1981 Merrillville, IN
06/29/1986 Hoffman Estates, IL
06/18/1988 East Troy, WI
07/14/1988 Hoffman Estates, IL
07/02/1989 Hoffman Estates, IL
08/05/1989 Grand Rapids, MI
10/31/1989 Chicago, IL
06/09/1990 East Troy, WI
06/10/1990 Davenport, IA
08/27/1990 Merrillville, IN
11/09/1990 Chicago, IL
11/06/1991 South Bend, IN
08/29/1993 Tinley Park, IL
04/17/1994 Chicago, IL
04/16/1994 Valparaiso, IN
08/26/1994 Merrillville, IN
11/09/1996 Milwaukee, WI
08/28/1997 Tinley Park, IL
11/11/1997 Lisle, IL
10/25/1998 Chicago, IL
02/15/1999 Grand Rapids, MI
07/09/1999 Tinley Park, IL

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The Dylan concerts that I can remamber at my age!! 1974,1978 OLD Chicago stadium, TICKET COST $10 1981 I think this is the tom petty tour poplar creek 1989 POPLAR creek,air crown 1989,Holday star 1990,Riviara1994 New world1997,meto1997Benedictine 1997,park west 1999,World theater 1999,Northwestern 2000,Newport 2002,allstate2002,reviara2004,parkwest2004,Auditorium Theater5 nights2005,Searcenter2006,3 night chicago theater 2007.
It seem I went to more show in the 1980"

02/24/2003 - Wellington, New Zealand
8/11/2007 - Auckland, New Zealand
27/112007 - Auckland, New Zealand*

Super! so, rainyday, why do I remember being so upset (I even wrote a poem about his pale pale face, which unfortunately I've lost), thinking that Bob would keel over an die any minute? Jeez, I wish I could go back to that night and relive it. (and don't forget that link..."wink" )

Updating mine..

10/27/2006 - Chicago, IL
7/14/2007 - Cleveland, OH
7/15/2007 - Indianapolis, IN
10/22/2007 - St. Louis, MO

4 shows, 4 states.

6/78 - Earl's Court- Sunday
7/81 - Earl's Court - Wednesday- spoke to Bob Shelton outside, before the show
7/4?/84 - Wembley Stadium - barrelled my way to front/centre
10/87 - Wembley Arena - Every show (5 in all, I believe). The final night, when McGuinn guested, was one of the best I've been to.
2/1991 - Hammersmith Odeon - 2 nights. The first night (Tuesday?) was the worst I've ever attended.
2?/1993 - Hammersmith- Sunday night, I think
10/1997 - Wembley Arena -Again, the Sunday
11/24/2003 - Hammersmith - excellent
11/25/2003 - Brixton, even better. As mackthefinger points out, Wicked Messenger &, especially, Yeah Heavy, were treasures.

Can I recommend the bootleg Love Sick At Wembley? No way it sounded that good on the night. At least not from where I was sitting.

....boy, do I have egg on my face? Becca darling, I did in fact forget about the link.....but here it is

http://hisbobness.info/

once you get there you may have to navigate around to find your particular show in Baltimore , so in case that doesn't work for you, I took the liberties to copy and paste the set list here (bringing back some memories?)

1978 Baltimore, MD, USA
Civic Center
04-Oct-78

1. My Back Pages
2. I'm Ready
3. Is Your Love In Vain?
4. Shelter From The Storm
5. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
6. Tangled Up In Blue
7. Ballad Of A Thin Man
8. Maggie's Farm
9. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
10. Like A Rolling Stone
11. I Shall Be Released
12. Going, Going, Gone
13. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
14. It Ain't Me, Babe
15. Am I Your Stepchild?
16. One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
17. Blowin' in the Wind
18. I Want You
19. Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
20. Masters of War
21. Just Like A Woman
22. Baby, Stop Crying
23. All Along the Watchtower
24. All I Really Want To Do
25. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
26. Forever Young
27. Changing of the Guards

that was a helluva set list becca, especially for a kid in high school (ha ha, uh, you did say you were in high school then didn't you?)....as for your poem, well, I do remember thinking I was witnessing a once in a lifetime experience, but that didn't make me sad, baby....it was one of my best concert experiences ever.....and did I mention Bob talked between the songs?.....pretty cool banter about the geek in "Thin Man" and the old man on a train in "Senor"......good stuff, good stuff....

jeez, I heard all that!!!!!?????
I hate to think it was wasted on me, me likely wasted myself since I recall NO specifics. Especially that number 15 song: Am I Your Stepchild? What is THAT??
(how do you remember that stuff, rainy?)

You have a much better memory than me, of Dylan concerts, mack. All I can remember from that night is an Ikea flat-pack falling out of the unlocked boot of my car, en route. And the fact that it wasn't Hammersmith, 1991!

It was the only show to date I've convinced my wife to come to with me. She said that she reckoned she would have liked it if she'd been able to make out the slightest word Dylan sang. To be honest, I knew the songs and I felt the same way. But the bootleg recording confirms that that was the venue and our seats' fault far more than Dylan's.

I trust you caused a nightmare of a traffic jam on the North Circular.

Luckily, the flat-pack ejectory incident occurred on my back-doubles, North Circular-free, Wembley route. I did take the missus to that 1991 Hammer(horror)smith show. She's not seen him since. I wonder why. She did, however, opine that she found him 'sexy', when he ambled on at the 1987 Wembley closing show, after McGuinn and Petty had done their thing. We were 10 rows from the front, and dead centre. That was a great Dylan concert.

1969 Isle of Wight If I could only go back there . . .


2004 Belfast Was to have been outside at Stormont but moved to Odyssey Arena. Great sound
2007 somewhere in Ireland, took my lad and shared my cookies. Flaky start but ended on a high

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Update:
that was 2006, kilkenny. seems like only yesterday

belle isle said, "2007 somewhere in Ireland, took my lad and shared my cookies."


welcome aboard belle isle......shared your cookies, huh?

That was a rite of passage thing.

And now those dates in transatlantic format:
08/31/1969
06/26/2004
06/24/2006

.......how do I remember?..... I accidentally left my quaaludes back at the dorm that night

I've seen him every time he's come through the Twin Cities area since around 1990, I'll have to look up the exact dates but I'll post them when I do. I also went to see him in Rochester, MN in Sept of 2006 and in Shakopee when he played with Paul Simon around 1998 or 99, like I say I'll have to look up the exact date. That show in Shakopee was a killer, one of the best I've seen - one of my fondest memories is hearing him perform Desolation Row there. And he also did a duet with Paul Simon on Sounds of Silence which was amazing. My other favorite is the one he did in Midway Stadium in St Paul in August of 2005 - I remember a beautiful harmonica solo he did on Just Like a Woman in that show.