Path: online.no!Oslo2.Norway.EU.net!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!howland.erols.net!ais.n et!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!dsinc!newsf eed.pitt.edu!news.duq.edu!newsgate.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!paladin.americ an.edu!auvm!hsn.sll.se!obr Subject: Waiting For A Miracle -- part 5 of 6 From: Olof Bjorner Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 00:41:20 +0100 WAITING FOR A MIRACLE BOB DYLAN 1996 by Olof Bjorner A summary of recording & concert activities. New releases, tapes & books. Copyright (c) 1997 by Olof Bjorner All Rights Reserved This article may be reproduced, retransmitted, redistributed and otherwise propagated at will, provided that this notice remains intact and in place. Part 5 of 6 CONTENTS: ========= 1. INTRODUCTION \ | 2. THE YEAR AT A GLANCE | | 3. CALENDAR | | 4. RECORDINGS | 4.1 New releases | 4.1.1 Brett Whiteley compilation | 4.1.2 Feeling Minnesota soundtrack |-- part 1 of 6 4.1.3 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Concert | 4.1.4 Jerry Maguire soundtrack | 4.2 Recordings from 1996 | 4.3 New tapes | 4.3.1 May 1989 Rehearsals | 4.3.2 The Genuine Bootleg Series - Take Two | 4.3.3 Early rehearsals for The Never-Ending Tour | 4.3.4 Other new old tapes | / 5. THE NEVER-ENDING TOUR CONTINUES \ 5.1 Introduction | 5.2 The Musicians | 5.3 The show | 5.4 US and Canada Spring Tour | -- part 2 of 6 5.4.1 Dates and venues | 5.4.2 The songs | 5.4.3 Statistics | 5.4.4 Comments / 5.5 Summer Tour of Europe \ 5.5.1 Dates and venues | 5.5.2 The songs | -- part 3 of 6 5.5.3 Statistics | 5.5.4 Comments / 5.6 US Fall Tour \ 5.6.1 Dates and Venues | 5.6.2 The songs | -- part 4 of 6 5.6.3 Statistics | 5.6.4 Comments / 5.7 Summary \ 5.7.1 Show statistics | 5.7.2 Alphabetical song list | 5.7.3 Song statistics | -- part 5 of 6 | =========== 6. NEW BOOKS | | 7. SOURCES | | 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT / APPENDIX: THE SET-LISTS -- part 6 of 6 5.7 Summary ----------- 5.7.1 Statistics ---------------- Abbreviations es early songs, 1961-1966 ap songs from the "amnesia period", 1967-1972 70 songs from the middle seventies, 1973-1978 gp songs from the "gospel years", 1979-1982 ls late songs 1983- co covers Tot # # of songs from songs es ap 70 gp ls co US Spring Tour 400 176 95 37 0 51 41 44% 23% 9% 0% 12% 10% European Summer Tour 398 208 80 29 3 50 28 52% 20% 7% 0% 12% 7% US Fall Tour 420 212 94 35 2 70 6 50% 22% 8% 0% 16% 1% 1996 1256 618 276 103 5 175 79 49% 21% 8% 0% 13% 6% Show Statistics - Summary US Fall Tour --- Summer Tour Of Europe --- | US Spring Tour --- | | | | | Total Number of shows: 27 28 28 83 circulating shows: 27 28 28 83 circulating & complete shows: 27 28 28 83 unique shows: 27 28 28 83 (1) different shows: 27 28 28 83 (2) different songs: 71 83 72 99 (3) unique songs: 71 83 72 98 (4) performed songs: 400 398 419 1256 Mean number of performed songs: 15 14 15 14 Variation: 4.8 5.8 4.8 6.8 (5) (1) a show is unique if no other show has the same songs in the same order (2) a show is different from another show if the set of songs are different, regardless of order. (3) electric and acoustic versions are counted as different songs. (4) a song is counted as unique regardless of how it is performed; (5) variation is computed as the ratio between number of different songs and mean number of performed songs. Album statistics: # of # of Album songs perf. Bob Dylan 1 1.1% 4 0.3% Freewheelin' 5 5.3% 85 6.8% The Times They Are A-Changin' 5 5.3% 49 3.9% Another Side 4 4.3% 66 5.3% Bringing It All Back Home 6 6.4% 113 9.0% Highway 61 Revisited 8 8.5% 112 8.9% Blonde On Blonde 10 10.6% 157 12.5% Basement Tapes 2 2.1% 47 3.7% John Wesley Harding 3 3.2% 123 9.8% Nashville Skyline 3 3.2% 37 2.9% Selfportrait 0 0.0% 0 0.0% New Morning 2 2.1% 10 0.8% Greatest Hits Vol 2 3 3.2% 40 3.2% Pat Garrett 1 1.1% 3 0.2% Planet Waves 1 1.1% 5 0.4% Blood On The Tracks 5 5.3% 74 5.9% Desire 1 1.1% 3 0.2% Street-Legal 1 1.1% 8 0.6% Slow Train Coming 1 1.1% 1 0.1% Saved 1 1.1% 1 0.1% Shot Of Love 2 2.1% 3 0.2% Infidels 3 3.2% 14 1.1% Empire Burlesque 3 3.2% 29 2.3% Knocked-Out Loaded 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Hearts Of Fire 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Down In The Groove 1 1.1% 85 6.8% Traveling Wilburys Vol 1 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Oh Mercy 8 8.5% 29 2.3% Under The Red Sky 3 3.2% 18 1.4% Traveling Wilburys Vol 3 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Bootleg Series Vol 1 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Bootleg Series Vol 2 1 1.1% 8 0.6% Bootleg Series Vol 3 1 1.1% 13 1.0% Biograph 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Good As I Been To You 0 0.0% 0 0.0% World Gone Wrong 0 0.0% 0 0.0% Greatest Hits Vol 3 0 0.0% 0 0.0% MTV Unplugged 1 1.1% 7 0.6% 5.9.2 Alphabetical song list ----------------------------- op opener s1 first electric set ac acoustic set s2 second acoustic set en encores US Fall Tour --- Olympic Games shows --- | Summer Tour Of Europe --- | | US Spring Tour --- | | | Nomura show --- | | | | | | | | | Song # of times as/during | | | | | op s1 ac s2 en Tot | | | | | Absolutely Sweet Marie 5 5 3 2 Alabama Getaway 1 42 43 1 27 10 2 3 All Along The Watchtower 86 86 1 27 28 2 28 Ballad Of A Thin Man 12 12 2 8 1 1 Ballad Of Hollis Brown AB 7 7 6 1 Blowin' In The Wind AB 2 2 2 Boots Of Spanish Leather AB 10 10 2 5 1 2 Born In Time 2 2 2 Cat's In The Well 3 3 1 2 Crash On The Levee 40 40 9 5 26 Desolation Row AB 7 7 5 2 Disease Of Conceit 1 1 1 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right AB 27 27 1 7 8 1 10 Drifter's Escape 20 20 11 9 Every Grain Of Sand 1 1 1 Everything Is Broken 9 9 1 3 5 Forever Young AB 5 5 1 4 Friend Of The Devil AB 21 21 14 4 3 Gates Of Eden AB 3 3 2 1 Girl From The North Country AB 1 16 17 7 6 4 God Knows 11 11 1 1 9 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall AB 3 3 1 2 Highway 61 Revisited 28 4 32 9 4 1 18 I And I 5 5 1 4 I Believe In You 1 1 1 I Don't Believe You 10 10 5 3 2 I Shall Be Released 6 1 7 2 3 2 I Want You 11 11 2 4 5 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 17 17 4 5 8 I'll Remember You 7 1 8 1 2 5 If Not For You 8 8 2 2 4 If You See Her, Say Hello 10 10 5 2 3 In The Garden 1 1 1 It Ain't Me, Babe AB 25 25 6 9 1 9 It Takes A Lot To Laugh 14 2 16 5 4 1 6 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue AB 11 11 2 2 7 Joey 3 3 1 2 John Brown AB 6 1 7 1 6 Jokerman 1 2 5 8 1 2 3 2 Just Like A Woman 15 15 1 4 5 5 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 10 10 1 2 3 4 Knockin' On Heaven's Door AB 2 2 2 Knockin' On Heaven's Door AE 1 1 1 Lay Lady Lay 8 8 2 3 3 Lenny Bruce 2 2 1 1 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 13 13 7 5 1 Like A Rolling Stone 1 5 20 26 1 4 21 Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll AB 6 2 8 1 3 1 3 Love Minus Zero/No Limit AB 10 10 2 4 1 3 Maggie's Farm 1 38 39 1 16 13 1 8 Mama, You Been On My Mind AB 8 8 5 3 The Man In Me 2 2 1 1 Man In The Long Black Coat 10 10 5 4 1 Man Of Peace 1 1 1 Masters Of War AB 36 36 13 8 15 Most Likely You Go Your Way 8 8 3 3 2 Mr. Tambourine Man AB 38 38 1 12 12 13 My Back Pages AB 6 15 21 5 9 1 6 Never Gonna Be The Same Again 4 4 2 2 The New Minglewood Blues 1 1 2 2 Obviously Five Believers 8 8 4 3 1 One Too Many Mornings AB 6 7 13 1 12 Pledging My Time 3 3 2 1 Positively 4th Street 20 1 21 5 9 7 Pretty Peggy-O 4 4 4 Queen Jane Approximately 2 1 3 1 2 Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 77 77 23 25 1 28 Real Real Gone 1 1 1 Ring Them Bells 1 1 1 Seeing The Real You At Last 17 17 6 4 7 Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) 8 8 3 2 3 Seven Days 13 13 7 6 Shake Sugaree 7 7 6 1 She Belongs To Me 12 12 3 4 1 4 Shelter From The Storm 7 7 2 2 3 Shooting Star 1 1 1 Silvio 84 1 85 27 28 2 28 Simple Twist Of Fate 9 1 10 3 2 5 Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The M 13 2 15 5 4 1 5 Tangled Up In Blue AB 40 40 13 13 1 13 Tears Of Rage 7 7 2 3 2 This Wheel's On Fire 4 12 16 15 1 The Times They Are A-Changin' AB 11 11 4 5 2 To Be Alone With You 11 11 8 2 1 To Ramona AB 10 10 4 3 3 Tombstone Blues 6 6 1 3 1 1 Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With Y 18 18 7 2 1 8 Under The Red Sky 4 4 1 2 1 Visions Of Johanna AB 2 2 1 1 Watching The River Flow 25 25 9 8 1 7 What Good Am I? 4 4 2 1 1 When I Paint My Masterpiece 8 8 4 2 2 Where Teardrops Fall 1 1 1 Yesterday AB 1 1 1 You're A Big Girl Now 7 7 2 2 1 2 5.7.3 Song statistics ---------------------- Ten most played songs in 1996: --------------------------------- 1. All Along The Watchtower 86 2. Silvio 85 3. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 77 4. Alabama Getaway 43 5. Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) 40 Tangled Up In Blue 40 7. Maggie's Farm 39 8. Mr. Tambourine Man 38 9. Masters Of War 36 10. Highway 61 Revisited 32 Live debuts: ------------ The New Minglewood Blues Shake Sugaree This Wheel's On Fire Played only once before: NONE One-offs (= live debuts, played only once): NONE Played only once in 1996: ------------------------- Disease Of Conceit Buffalo, New York, May 11 Every Grain Of Sand Birmingham, Alabama, November 2 I Believe In You Cottbus, Germany, July 14 In The Garden Tambach, Germany, July 10 Man Of Peace Austin, Texas, October 26 Real Real Gone Molde, Norway, July 19 Ring Them Bells Differdange, Luxembourg, June 24 Shooting Star Syracuse, New York, April 30 Where Teardrops Fall Austin, Texas, October 26 6. NEW BOOKS Here's a, no doubt incomplete, list from the never-ending flood of new Dylan books: --- Looking For Some Answers - The Bob Dylan Quiz Book (Volume 3) Privately published, UK, October 1996. (Note that there is no volume 2 of this book!) John Baldwin The fiddler now upspoke, Volume 3. A collection of Bob Dylan interviews and press conferences. Desolation Row Promotions, 1996. 210 pages. Tim Dunn The Bob Dylan Copyright Files 1962-1995 A Rolling Tomes/Not-A-CES Publication 1996, 111 pages. Vincente Escudero Bob Dylan En La Prensa Espanola (1980-1993) Los Jugulares, Ediciones Jucar, Madrid 1996, 170 pages. Articles, mainly from Spanish newspapers, on Bob Dylan activities in Spain. Clinton Heylin A Life In Stolen Moments. Bob Dylan Day By Day 1941-1995. Schirmer Books 1996, 404 pages. An update of his 1988 book Stolen Moments. John Hume I've Been Shooting In The Dark Too Long With a Foreword by Paul Williams. A Photographic record of 12 years of Bob Dylan in concert (1984-1995). Bulletproof Books, February 1996, 112 pages. Jenny Ledeen Prophecy in the Christian Era. A study of Bob Dylan's work from 1961 to 1967, emphasizing his use of enigma to teach ethics, and comparing him to Dante Alighieri and other poets. Doctoral thesis. Peaceberry Press of Webster Groves, December 1995, 241 pages. Paul Williams Watching The River Flow Observations on Bob Dylan's Art-in-Progress, 1966-1995. A collection of Williams' writings on Dylan. Omnibus Press 1996, 255 pages. Robert Witting The Meaning of an Orange. Pocket Tarantula. Exploding Rooster Books 1996, 60 pages. Mike Wyvill So Many Roads. Bob Dylan's 1995 Concerts John Wraith Wanted Man, 1996. 62 pages. Concert listings and comments plus a lot of pictures from The Telegraph. 7. SOURCES Reviews and other postings on rec.music.dylan. Bill Pagel's excellent tour reports on his Bob Links page. (http://www.execpc.com/~billp61/boblink.html). Karl Erik Andersen's fabulous Expecting Rain page. (http://bob.nbr.no/). The Wicked Messenger column in Isis 1996. Articles and columns in The Telegraph, On The Tracks, Series Of Dreams 1996. My own tape collection. 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like very much to thank Sven Erick Alm for taking the time to read and comment on this material.