A few nights ago Patti Smith performed at the Brussels Summer Festival Place des Palais, Bruxelles.
Below are video clips of many of the songs.
Patti Smith, “Ain’t It Strange,” Brussels Summer Festival Place des Palais, Bruxelles August 8, 2014:
“Dancing Barefoot”:
“Redondo Beach”
“April Fool”
“Pissing in a River,” excerpt:
“My Blakean Year”:
“Beneath the Southern Cross”:
“Ain’t It Strange
Because the Night”:
“People Have the Power”
“Banga”
“Gloria” & “Rock N Roll Nigger”:
Plus:
Patti Smith, “Ghost Dance” at the Burg Herzberg Festival, Alsfeld, Germany, August 1, 2014:
And Patti Smith, “Perfect Day” at the Haldern Pop Festival, Haldern, Germany, August 7, 2014:
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Bob Dylan will be performing 15 shows in Australia beginning August 13 in Perth, Australia. He’ll also be in Melbourne, and Sydney.
So today you can check out some past performances and interviews Dylan did in Australia.
Dylan said some interesting things during the following 1986 press conference.
Journalist: What does Bob Dylan think of Bob Dylan?
Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan doesn’t ever think about Bob Dylan
Journalist: Are you shy man?
Bob Dylan: Yeah, most of the time.
Journalist: Because of being shy, is it a burden being Bob Dylan?
Bob Dylan: Who’s Bob Dylan?
[laughter]
Bob Dylan: I’m only Bob Dylan when I have to be Bob Dylan. Most of the time I can just be myself.
And later in response to a question about the past, Dylan says this:
Dylan: We live here in the present time. You get up and have to deal with today. Yesterday’s gone, tomorrow’s not promised. So this is all we have, really.
Dylan press conference, 1986, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney
This was shot at a Dylan press conference in 1986. There’s 18 minutes of the press conference.
“Rollin’ and Tumblin’,” Byron Bay Bluesfest April 26, 2011:
“Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum,” Byron Bay Bluesfest April 26, 2011:
“Cold Irons Bound,” Byron Bay Bluesfest April 26, 2011:
“Tangled Up In Blue,” Byron Bay Bluesfest April 26, 2011:
“Highway 61 Revisited” / “Ballad of a Thin Man,” Byron Bay Bluesfest April 26, 2011:
“Like A Rolling Stone,” Byron Bay Bluesfest April 26, 2011:
Bob Dylan radio interview, Adelaide, Australia 1966:
“Ballad Of A Thin Man,” Sydney, April 13, 1966:
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” Sydney, April 13, 1966:
“Positively Fourth Street,” Sydney, April 13, 1966:
“Visions Of Johanna,” Melbourne, April 20, 1966:
“She Belongs To Me,” Melbourne, April 20, 1966:
“Baby, Let Me Follow You Down,” Melbourne, April 20, 1966:
“Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues,” Melbourne, April 20, 1966:
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Here’s Spoon performing live in the KEXP studio, July 24, 2014.
Songs:
Knock Knock Knock
Rent I Pay
Who Makes Your Money
Rhthm & Soul
The Ghost of You Lingers
Rainy Taxi
Small Stakes
Metal Detektor
Got Nuffin
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Another song from Tweedy, the band formed by Jeff Tweedy.
This one is called “High As Hello.”
The group’s album, Sukierae, is out on Sept. 23.
Tweedy includes members of R.E.M. (Scott McCaughey) and Lucius (singers Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig). Plusw Tweedy’s 18-year-old son Spencer on drums
There’s a cool video of Tweedy and band performing the song live at NPR.
And this song, “Wait For Love,” is good too:
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last night at the Santa Barbara Bowl Arcade Fire covered the Dead Kennedys’ infamous “California Über Alles.”
A fan shot this fragment of the performance.
“Afterlife”:
“Flashbulb Eyes” and “Reflektor”:
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Bob Dylan at the Fisher Auditorium at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, on April 22, 1997.
“I Shall Be Released”:
Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello, “I Shall Be Released,” Tramps, New York, NY, July 26, 1999:
Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers, fragment:
Neil Young with some help from his friends, Bridge School Benefit, 1999:
The Band, Festival Express:
Jeff Buckley:
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Spoon rocking Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show” last night with “Do You” off their excellent new album, They Want My Soul.
This is a great, infectious song and the band really swings.
Plus backstage at the “Tonight Show” Spoon played “Inside Out”:
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Neil Young and Crazy-Horse at Bergenhus Festning, Bergen, Norway, August 1, 2014.
“Heart Of Gold”:
Another view, excerpt:
“Tonight’s The Night,” excerpt:
Plus The Waterboys, “The Whole Of The Moon,” excerpt:
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This is the complete performance of “Like A Rolling Stone.” While it appears to be the Manchester Free Trade Hall show from May 17, 1966 because of the “Judas” quote, a fellow Dylan fan pointed out that the actual performance of the song is from the May 21, 1966 Newcastle concert.
Bob Dylan and most, but not all, of The Hawks, later The Band.
This was originally shot for “Eat the Document,” the never officially released documentary of Dylan’s 1966 tour of England. Later it showed up in “No Direction Home,” the documentary that Martin Scorsese put together for Dylan.
I’ve been listening to various unofficial and official audio of Dylan’s Europe tour shows beginning in the early ’70s and they never get old.
Incredible.
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Cool animation using real audio from 1985 of Bob Dylan talking about music videos:
Brian Ives writes at radio.com:
On Minimation, we comb through the archives of legendary New York radio station WNEW-FM and animate interviews with legendary rock artists. This installment is taken from a 1985 interview with Bob Dylan, where he discusses his feelings about the then-budding art form of music videos. This minimation was created for Radio.com by Elliot Lobell.
Bob Dylan’s 1966 short film for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” is often cited as being one of the first music videos. Shot and released decades before there was any real outlet for the medium, it was something of a curiosity at the time. But in 1985, when this interview was recorded, it was a much different era. MTV was becoming a dominant cultural force, and it was pretty much mandatory that artists made at least one video (if not more) to promote their new albums. Ever the contrarian, Dylan’s mood on music videos had cooled by then.
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