Bob Dylan

[sifi]

Inevitable that I'd start this thead. He's been rumoured for a while, and Eavis wants him back, and he is one of Eavis' favourite artists. He's always on tour too. It's possible I suppose. Obviously he plays whatever the heck he wants in ways that don't please anyone but the die-hards, don't expect a greatest hits set.

But I suppose it's just possible that it might work.

In keeping with these kind of threads I've prepared a Fantasy set list. I'll post it in small because, erm, there's a fair bit on it.

Dream songlist :

If you are gonna go, go now ; Sitting on a barbed wire fence ; Blind Willie McTell ; Series of Dreams ; Santa-Fe ; If Not For You ; Wallflower ; Tangled up in Blue ; Chimes of Freedom ; Buckets of Rain ; A Hard Rain's gonna fall ; All along the watchtower ; It Ain't me Babe ; The Man in Me ; One More cup of Coffee ; Temporary Like Achilles ; Lay Lady Lay ; Forever Young ; Absolute Sweet Marie ; Highway 61 Revisited ; Isis ; Visions of Johanna ; It's Alright Ma ; New Pony ; Queen Jane ; From a Buick ; We Better Talk this Over ; Positively 4th Street ; Thunder on the Mountain ; It's All Good ; Love Minus Zero / No Limit ; The Times They are a-Changin' ; Precious Angel ; Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat ; Every Grain of Sand ; Idiot Wind ; Never Say Goodbye ; Don't Think Twice, It's Alright ; One More Night ; Tough Mama ; Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues ; Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands ; Workingman's Blues II ; Hazel ; It's All Over Now Baby Blue ; If You see Her, Say Hello ; Something there is about you ; Mississipi ; It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry ; Desolation Row ; Black Diamond Bay ; Shelter from the Storm ; Simple Twist of Fate ; Tell Me it isn't True ; I'll be your Baby tonight ; Knocking on Heaven's Door ; Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again ; Masters of War ; Just like a Woman ; The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest ; To be Alone with you ; I threw it All Away ; The Mighty Quinn ; Wheels on Fire ; One of Us Must Know ; I Want You ;

Encore :

Like a Rolling Stone

Edited December 10, 2009 by sifimaster

[The Nal]

Is he the guy that covered that Guns n Rose tune?

[St.Jimmy]

Is he the guy that covered that Guns n Rose tune?

Edited December 10, 2009 by St.Jimmy

[r0w]

Is he the guy that covered that Guns n Rose tune?

[Wooderson]

No "Hurricane"? Sifi you philistine.

[Macca87]

How can you list almost every song from Blood on the Tracks and not have You're a Big Girl Now!!

[In transit]

Subterranean Homesick Blues???

[staggerlee]

How can you list almost every song from Blood on the Tracks and not have You're a Big Girl Now!!

[zlatan07]

Subterranean Homesick Blues???

[staggerlee]

Best songwriter ever in my opinion. I am a diehard Dylan fan and I still found him deeply disappointing when I saw him a couple of years back. If he played I would still be there of course, hoping he showed Bono what it is to be a genius (disregarding of course that he is a good friend of Bono's).

Edited December 10, 2009 by staggerlee

[danbailey80]

Obviously Dylan's genius and back-catalogue is undeniable. But there is no dough in my mined that it would be a let down if headlining, (which he would rightly only be given as a slot). He never plays many hits, and even then he often plays them in a totally different way. The likelihood he would suddenly decide to play loads of crowd pleasers, in there original style is zero. Definitely one for the albert hall, not a Glastonbury headliners stot. I'm obviously speaking outside the box, not as a fan. Having said that, if any night, it would be better on Sunday.

[Boris]

Frankly he is a let- down live these last 15 years or more... I am drawn to his obvious genius & legend... but his shows are very workmanlike.... he hasn't any spark. When he does the older stuff I can't blame him for being f**king sick of performing the same old songs for 50 odd years in some cases... and he just drawls like an old git.. but the newer stuff seems to wake him up, his singing improves too... and he can be pretty darn good for a while.

[frodoisdead]

I've seen Bob a few times now and he is quite hit and miss. I'm not sure what he'd be like with a festival crowd these days to be honest. I'd still have him on the bill in a flash cos he's still one of my favourite artists.

[bobobaggins]

[grumpyhack]

One of the things that can mark out a great songwriter is that the songs can be performed by other people too and not just the original composer and in a wide variety of ways.

I love this version of Girl From The North Country. It's actually Danny's version of an arrangement by Walter Trout. Beautiful guitar.

[G1T]

I thought he did the Sunday 'golden oldie' slot a few years ago.....

and kind of died a death....

no?

[The Nal]

Yep. Lots.

The whole thing was weird, it was 1998 IIRC. Before he came on, some seriously hardcore fans were handing out flyers about some sort of church based around his music that they'd set up. Really odd and creepily cultish people.

When he came on he had the screens beside the stage turned off, the only act I've ever seen do that. There was no audience interaction or talking between songs at all. The whole thing just felt like an odd croaky old man with a huge set of clinically precise session musicians playing along side him, all going through exactly the same motions they'd been through a thousand times before. You may as well have listened to an album.

To cap it all, i nipped backstage before the end to see if i could bump into him and get a photo. I was waiting by the vehicle gate behind the pyramid stage, when someone suddenly shouted 'look out' and grabbed me out of the way, as a car with blacked out windows sped past, at a dangerous speed given the amount of people about, and drove straight down towards the site exit. That was him apparently, and it was pretty much straight after he finished.

So basically, he turned up, turned off the screens, went through the motions and sped off as soon as possible.

Perhaps 11 years later he's got over himself. I hope for his sake he has.

[When Jokers Attack]

I Want him to play as he is my second favourite solo artist of all time behind Neil Young and he is my favourite lyricist of all time. I just can't see where he would play, He couldn't pull off a headline set on the Pyramid thesedays I don't think.

Where would he fit in?

[marktea]

I Want him to play as he is my second favourite solo artist of all time behind Neil Young and he is my favourite lyricist of all time. I just can't see where he would play, He couldn't pull off a headline set on the Pyramid thesedays I don't think.

Where would he fit in?

[danbailey80]

Yep. Lots.

The whole thing was weird, it was 1998 IIRC. Before he came on, some seriously hardcore fans were handing out flyers about some sort of church based around his music that they'd set up. Really odd and creepily cultish people.

When he came on he had the screens beside the stage turned off, the only act I've ever seen do that. There was no audience interaction or talking between songs at all. The whole thing just felt like an odd croaky old man with a huge set of clinically precise session musicians playing along side him, all going through exactly the same motions they'd been through a thousand times before. You may as well have listened to an album.

To cap it all, i nipped backstage before the end to see if i could bump into him and get a photo. I was waiting by the vehicle gate behind the pyramid stage, when someone suddenly shouted 'look out' and grabbed me out of the way, as a car with blacked out windows sped past, at a dangerous speed given the amount of people about, and drove straight down towards the site exit. That was him apparently, and it was pretty much straight after he finished.

So basically, he turned up, turned off the screens, went through the motions and sped off as soon as possible.

Perhaps 11 years later he's got over himself. I hope for his sake he has.

[jeffie]

I saw him at Glastonbury in '98 (bloody hell '98!) he was pretty average, and I'm a big fan.

To be fair, I think he made a mistake in that he played most of the tracks from his then new album, which I think had only been released a week or so before.

It was only when he played his older stuff at the end that the crowd got going.

Which sort of links to the Radiohead thread - artists at festivals really do need to play a chunk of their greatest hits as a lot of the audience are passing trade if you get me.

J

[robalotalob]

Which sort of links to the Radiohead thread - artists at festivals really do need to play a chunk of their greatest hits as a lot of the audience are passing trade if you get me.

J

[jeffie]

Do you think that artists of the stature of Radiohead and Bob Dylan really care about appealing to a certain audience? They play certain hits because they want to. Radiohead don't even have a label breathing down their necks advising them what they should play. And Dylan's newer versions of his hits are hardly recognisable to the originals.

[russycarps]

nick cave is a better lyricist.

That is all.

[jeffie]

nick cave is a better lyricist.

That is all.

Edited December 11, 2009 by jeffie