A year ago, on July 21, 2013, Bonnie Raitt performed Bob Dylan’s “Million Miles” in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The song appeared on her 2012 album, Slipstream, as did Dylan’s “Standing in the Doorway.”
Studio version:
Another live version, this one performed at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, GA, on May 9, 2012:
Continue reading Video: Bonnie Raitt Sings Bob Dylan’s ‘Million Miles’ – July 21, 2013 – Copenhagen, Denmark
Forty-nine years ago, on July 20, 1965, one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll records was released.
Bob Dylan’s revolutionary “Like A Rolling Stone” soon raged from across the country, and the world was a different place.
Here, then, are some of Bob Dylan’s many performances of the song.
The original:
Live at Newport, July 25, 1965:
Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Live… by toma-uno
Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Queens, NY, August 28, 1965:
Manchester, May 17, 1966:
Royal Albert Hall, London, England, May 26, 1966:
Isle of Wight, Wootton, England, August 31, 1969:
Bob Dylan and The Band, Academy of Music, New York, December 31, 1971:
Bob Dylan and The Band, Oakland Coliseum, February 1974:
Los Angeles, January 6, 1978:
San Francisco, Nov., 15, 1980:
Bob Dyland with Mick Taylor, Arena di Verona, Verona, Italy on May 28 or 29, 1984 (There’s an interview and then it goes into the song):
Bob Dylan and Tom Petty, 1986:
Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Greek Theater, University of California, Berkeley, California, June 10, 1988:
And, finally, here’s Jimi Hendrix covering “Like A Rolling Stone” in his own unique and amazing way:
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Bob Dylan performed “House of the Rising Sun,” a song off his debut album that he didn’t write, at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle, England on April 12, 2007.
It was a tribute of sorts to The Animals who had a huge hit with their electric version of the song and who came from Newcastle.
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This is a cool version of Tim Buckley’s “Song To The Siren,” as sung by Robert Plant.
I don’t know when or where this took place. If you know, let me know.
But it’s great.
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The night of July 16, 2014, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver joined Sharon Van Etten at the Minneapolis venue First Avenue to perform “Love More.”
It’s beautiful.
Here’s Sharon Van Etten’s recording of “MOre Love”:
Here’s a version of “More Love” by Bon Iver.
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At the Music Vault website I’ve found five complete video clips and one partial clip of Bob Dylan performing at the Oakland Coliseum in 1988.
He was performing at a benefit for the Bridge School. G. E. Smith accompanies Dylan on acoustic guitar.
There’s an incredible version of “Forever Young.”
And it’s great to hear Dylan sing “San Francisco Bay Blues” just across the bay from San Francisco.
The entire set is great.
You can watch them right now here.
The songs:
1 San Francisco Bay Blues 04:33
2 Pretty Boy Floyd 03:47
3 With God On Our Side 07:10
4 Girl From The North Country 04:47
5 Gates Of Eden (Incomplete) 03:15
6 Forever Young 05:32
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New video from the excellent Lykke Li, “Gunshot.”
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Beautiful song from Sharon Van Etten, “Our Love,” and a sexy video to go with it.
Check it out:
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Oh fuck. What a sad day.
Tommy Ramone, dead at 65.
Did you hear me? Oh fuck!!!
Already gone: Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee.
And now Tommy.
“Tom died yesterday, July 11, at 12:15 p.m. at his home in Ridgewood, Queens,” Andy Schwartz, publisher of New York Rocker magazine, said on behalf of Ramone’s family. “He was in hospice care following treatment for cancer of the bile duct.”
And how can this be? How can The Ramones be dead?
I remember it all so well.
Reading about The Ramones in the Village Voice, and the anticipation leading up to the release of their first album in 1976.
And what an album. You put it on and it was over almost before you realized it. The songs were so short. I think the whole album clocks in at 30 minutes.
And then they were coming to the Bay Area!
We’d already seen Patti Smith, and she was the greatest of course. But The Ramones were something else.
It was as if The Ramones had invented a new kind of rock ‘n’ roll. The lyrics to their songs were a kind of haiku, as my wife Leslie described it. And the songs were so short. And they mostly sounded like subtle variations on the same song. One song. One.
You wanna get an idea of how radical The Ramones music was in 1976? Go put on a Doobie Brothers album from the early ‘70s, or an album by Journey. Then follow it with The Ramones “Beat On The Brat.”
It’s like someone taking a sledgehammer to a refrigerator and smashing the thing to bits.
Yeah, get it?
I met the original band – Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy in August 1976 when they came out here. Out West. We sat next to a swimming pool at a cheap South of Market Street motel, and I attempted to interview them. I was 23, and new at interviewing bands. Their skin was an anemic white. Like they never had been out in the sun before. (There’s a photo by Jenny Lens of Joey Ramone lounging near the pool here.)
They didn’t say much.
They were so New York. So cool. They looked just like the cover of that first album. Same clothes – Black leather jackets, ripped jeans, and well-worn t-shirts.
They played in a small room at the back of North Beach bar, The Savoy, on upper Grant Avenue, just a half block or so from the Café Trieste, you know, where some of the Beats hung out.
It was hot and sweaty and packed. How did all these people know about The Ramones? All these people amounting to maybe 80 people. Maybe.
The music was loud. I’d never heard rock played at such a volume in such a small room.
But it wasn’t just the volume. It was everything. And we knew it, whose of us who were there. In 1976, this was the New Thing. The ‘60s were already long gone, but it was The Ramones who ushered in what came next.
Their music, and all of punk, is now old hat too. That’s what happens.
Tommy Ramone. Sixty-five years old. Much too young to die.
Imagining Tommy Ramone at 65, when I want to remember Tommy and Joey and Johnny and Dee Dee just as they were in 1976, that’s a hard pill.
The Ramones, 1974:
The Ramones, Arturo’s loft, 1975:
The Ramones, Max’s Kansas City, 1976:
The Ramones in England, 1977:
“I Wanna Be Sedated” and “The KKK Took My Baby Away”:
The Ramones:
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Neil Young, wore a black t-shirt with “Earth” on the front and played a beautiful Gretsch White Falcon guitar for some of his show at the Live at the Marquee festival at The Docklands in Cork, Ireland on last night, July 10, 2014.
“Who’s Gonna Stand Up and Save the Earth?” is a new song that Young played for the first time on July 7, 2014 in Iceland.
“Days That Used To Be”:
“After The Gold Rush”:
“Love To Burn”:
“Separate Ways”:
“Don’t Cry No Tears”:
“Blowin’ in the Wind”:
“Red Sun”:
“Heart Of Gold”:
“Psychedelic Pill”:
“Rocking In The Free World”:
“Who’s Gonna Stand Up and Save the Earth?”:
“Roll Another Number (For the Road)”:
Set List:
01. Love And Only Love
02. Goin’ Home
03. Days That Used To Be (on White Falcon)
04. After The Gold Rush (on White Falcon w/band)
05. Love To Burn
06. Separate Ways
07. Only Love Can Break Your Heart (on White Falcon w/band)
08. Don’t Cry No Tears (on White Falcon)
09. Blowin’ In The Wind (solo)
10. Red Sun (solo)
11. Heart Of Gold (solo)
12. Powderfinger
13. Psychedelic Pill
14. Rockin’ In The Free World
15. Who’s Gonna Stand Up And Save The Earth? (on Broadcaster/Telecaster)
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16. Roll Another Number
Neil Young – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Frank Sampedro – electric guitar, keyboards, vocals
Ralph Molina – drums, vocals
Rick Rosas – bass
Dorene Carter – vocals
YaDonna West – vocals
Thanks to Thrasher’s Wheat for the set list and band info.
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