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Audio: 41 Years Ago Bob Dylan & The Band Play Toronto – ‘As I Went Out One Morning’

Photo via Manhattman.com.

Forty-one years ago, on January 10, 1974, Bob Dylan and The Band played the second of a two-night run at the Maple Leaf Gardens in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The 1974 tour had begun just seven days earlier at Chicago Stadium in Chicago, Illinois. The second Toronto show was Dylan’s sixth performance of the tour.

It was, of course, Dylan’s first tour with The Band since they had stormed through Europe together, dismaying many fans of Dylan’s ‘folk’ phase with some of the most exciting rock ‘n’ roll ever played on this planet.

It was a huge tour — the shows were held at arenas across the country. In Oakland in February 1974, for example, two shows at the Oakland Coliseum Arena sold out.

Here’s a recording of “As I Went Out One Morning,” from the second night at the Maple Leaf Gardens.

It’s from a bootleg of the show, As I Went Out One Evening.

According to www.bjorner.com this is the only time Bob Dylan has ever performed “As I Went Out One Morning” live.

“As I Went Out One Morning” appeared on John Wesley Harding.

As I Went Out One Morning by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

Plus the John Wesley Harding version:

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Audio: Bob Dylan Sings ‘Pressing On,’ Nov. 2, 1979 & Toronto, April 20, 1980 + Jerry Garcia Joins Dylan for ‘To Ramona’

I attended a show by Bob Dylan at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco on November 1, 1979.

Dylan had just released Slow Train Coming so I figured we were in for his new gospel songs.

The show was a disaster. I’d seen Dylan with The Band five years earlier at the Oakland Coliseum and that was really something.

For this show, Dylan had the wrong band and I was shocked at the mediocre performance. (The next night, Nov. 2, 1979, was recorded and you can hear the entire set below, and it sounds much better than what I remember of the show I attended.)

But then, at the end, with many already gone from the theater, Dylan returned, took a seat at the piano, and played a beautiful song I’d not heard before, “Pressing On.”

The solo performance of “Pressing On” that night was spectacular.

The song ended up on Saved, but that recording doesn’t touch what I heard live.

Here is a better version from a show in Toronto at Massey Hall, April 20, 1980:

And here’s a performance of “To Ramona” with Jerry Garcia on guitar. This is from Dylan’s return engagement at the Warfield. For those 1980 shows he was once again singing some of the songs that made him famous.

Here’s the entire November 2, 1979 show at the Warfield:

Part One:

Set list

Gotta Serve Somebody
I Believe In You
When You Gonna Wake Up
When He Returns
Man Gave Names To All The Animals
Precious Angel
Slow Train
Covenant Woman
Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)….

Part Two:

Set list

Solid Rock
Saving Grace
What Can I Do For You?
Saved
In The Garden
Blessed Be The Name
Pressing On

Bob Dylan with Jerry Garcia, November 16, 1980, Warfield Theater, San Francisco:

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Video: Bob Dylan Does ‘Cold Irons Bound’ in Toronto, 1998

Bob Dylan, Toronto, 1998.

Here’s a live version of “Cold Irons Bound” that Bob Dylan played at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON, Canada, October 29, 1998:

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Video: Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Play ‘Million Miles’ Live

Bob Dylan, Toronto, 1998.

Two live versions of Bob Dylan playing “Million Miles” (off Time Out Of Mind) plus a live take on the song by Bonnie Raitt.

Bob Dylan at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON, Canada, October 29, 1998:

Bob Dylan at the Theater, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, January 16, 1998:

Bonnie Raitt at Amager Bio in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 21st, 2013:

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