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C O N T E N T S
INTRODUCTION
1. CALENDAR
2. RECORDINGS
3. A MUSICAL RETROSPECTIVE TOUR
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Musicians
3.3 The Show
3.4 Summary
3.5 The dates
3.6 The songs
3.7 Comments
3.8 Alphabetical song listing
3.9 Statistics
4. DYLAN SONGS 1980
5. REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION
The year started with the continuation of the extensive Gospel Tour.
This tour is covered in the 1979 chronicle. The songs written for the tour
was recorded in February and released after the end of the tour on the SAVED
album. After having refused to play anything else but his new gospel songs
Dylan played a string of 19 dates on the US West Coast in November-December.
This time he played assorted old songs and also a couple of never before
covers. This mini-tour was aptly called 'A Musical Retrospective Tour'.
1. CALENDAR
January 13-14 The second leg of the Gospel tour starts with two shows
in Seattle, Washington.
January Release of the 'Slow Train/Do Right To Me Baby' single.
February 12-17 The SAVED recording sessions in Muscle Shoals Studios.
Februray 22 Dylan receives the Grammy for 'Best Vocal Performance 1979'
at the 22nd Grammy Award at the Shrine Auditorium in
Los Angeles. In his acceptance speech he thanks "The Lord,
Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett who believed".
April 17-20 The Gospel Tour is resumed once more with four shows in the
Massey Hall in Toronto.
May 15 Dylan is interviewed by Pat Crosby. The interview is
broadcast by KDKA TV.
May 21 The 71st and last of the Gospel Tours is played at the
Memorial Hall in Dayton, Ohio. A second show was planned
but had to be cancelled due to poor ticket sales.
Karen Hughes again interviews Dylan.
June 20 Release of SAVED.
June Release of the 'Solid Rock/Covenant Woman' single.
Summer Dylan contributes harmonica on the recording of Keith Green's
song 'Pledge My Head To Heaven', later released on the album
'So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt ..." on Pretty Good Records.
August Release of the 'Saved/Are You Ready?' single.
October Rehearsals for the upcoming tour takes place at the
Rundown Studios in Santa Monica.
November 9-22 Dylan hits the road for the third time this year and
returns to Warfield Theater in San Francisco for 12
new shows. He is joined on stage by guests like Santana
and Jerry Garcia.
November 18 Paul Vincent interviews Dylan backstage. The interview is
broadcast the next day by KMEL-FM radio.
November 21 Ernesto Bladden interviews Dylan via telephone. The interview
is broadcast by KPRI-FM radio on November 25.
December 4 Last shoe of the fall tour in Portland, Oregon.
2. RECORDINGS
Feb 12 The SAVED sessions
-17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Sheffield, Alabama
1. A Satisfied Mind (Red Hayes/Jack Rhodes)
2. Saved (Bob Dylan/Tim Drummond)
3. Covenant Woman
4. What Can I Do For You?
5. Solid Rock
6. Pressing On
7. In The Garden
8. Saving Grace
9. Are You Ready?
Fred Tackett (guitar), Spooner Oldham and Terry Young (keyboards),
Tim Drummond (bass) and Jim Keltner (drums).
Clydie King, Regina Havis and Mona Lisa Young (backing vocals).
Released on SAVED, June 20, 1980.
3 and 5 released on single June, 1980:
2 and 9 released on single August, 1980:
5 released on BIOGRAPH October 28, 1985.
April 17 Soundcheck before concert
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Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1. Ain't Gonna Go To Hell
2. Ain't Gonna Go To Hell
3. Cover Down, Break Through
4. Cover Down, Break Through
5. Ain't Gonna Go To Hell
6. I Will Love Him
7. I Will Love Him
8. Pressing On
9. They Talk About Me (?)
April 22 Soundcheck before concert
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Le Theatre Saint-Denis, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1. Instrumental
2. I Will Love Him (instrumental)
3. I Will Love Him (instrumental)
4. Instrumental
5. I Will Sing (Max Dyer)
6. I Will Sing (Max Dyer)
7. I Will Love Him
8. I Will Love Him
9. I Will Love Him
10. I Will Love Him
11. They Talk About Me (?)
12. They Talk About Me (?)
13. Instrumental
14. Ain't Gonna Go To Hell
15. Cover Down, Break Through
16. Cover Down, Break Through
17. Cover Down, Break Through
18. Slow Train
19. Instrumental
20. Gotta Serve Somebody
21. Gotta Serve Somebody
22. Ain't Gonna Go To Hell
23. Ain't Gonna Go To Hell
May/June Working tapes
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Probably United Western Studios, Los Angeles
1. Is It Worthy?
2. Instrumental
3. Instrumental
4. Instrumental
5. Hallelujah
6. Magic
7. You're Still A Child To Me
8. Wind Blows On The Water
9. All The Way Down
10. Instrumental
11. We're On Borrowed Time
12. You Cannot Make It On Your Own
13. On A Rockin' Boat
14. Instrumental
15. Instrumental
16. Instrumental
17. Instrumental
18. Instrumental
19. Movin' (On The Water)
20. Instrumental
21. Instrumental
22. Instrumental
23. Almost
24. Instrumental
25. Instrumental
26. Let Me See
Probably:
1-25 Fred Tackett (guitar), Spooner Oldham, Terry Young (keyboards),
Tim Drummond (bass) and Jim Keltner (drums).
26 Bob Dylan solo on electric guitar.
Backup vocals probably by Clydie King, Glen Ewans, Mary Elizabeth
Bridget, Mona Lisa Young and Regina Havis.
Titles are suggestions.
This songs could come from several different sessions.
Heylin attributes these sessions to summer 1982.
October Tour rehearsals
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Rundown Studios, Santa Monica
1. Yonder Comes Sin
2. Blowin' In The Wind
3. Gotta Serve Somebody
4. Mr Tambourine Man
5. Slow Train
Fred Tackett (guitar & mandolin), Willie Smith (keyboards),
Tim Drummond (bass), Jim Keltner (drums),
Clydie King, Carolyn Dennis and Regina Havis (backing vocals).
1 used as a Special Rider demo.
2-5 broadcast as fragments in an ad for the Nov 26 concert in
San Diego on KPRI-FM radio, Nov 6.
Nov 19 Soundcheck before concert
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Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco
1. Saved
2. Saving Grace
3. Nobody's Fault But Mine (Nina Simone) (instr)
4. Nobody's Fault But Mine (Nina Simone)
5. Nobody's Fault But Mine (Nina Simone)
6. Instrumental
7. Solid Rock (instr)
8. Ain't No Man Righteous, No Not One
9. Rise Again (Dallas Holm)
10. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (instr)
4,5 vocal by Maria Muldaur.
8 vocal by King, Dennis and Havis.
3. A MUSICAL RETROSPECTIVE TOUR
3.1 Introduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After the uncompromising Gospel Tour, Dylan returned to the road with
a new show, where gospels were mixed with his classic songs. The tour
only consisted of 19 dates on the US West Coast.
3.2 The Musicians
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Fred Tackett (guitar & mandolin), Willie Smith (keyboards),
Tim Drummond (bass), Jim Keltner (drums),
Clydie King, Carolyn Dennis and Regina Havis (backing vocals).
3.3 The Show
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Again a mixed show:
- 4 songs by the backing singers and Willie Smith on piano
- 3 songs by Bob Dylan and the band
- 1 song by one of the girls with the band minus Dylan
- 2 songs by Dylan and the band
- 1 song by Dylan on acoustic guitar and Willie Smith on piano
- 2-3 songs by Dylan and the Band
- 1 song by one of the girls with the band minus Dylan
- 2-3 songs sung by Dylan and Clydie King (duets below) with Dylan on piano
- 5-6 songs by Dylan and the Band
Encores:
- 2-3 songs by Dylan and the Band
- 1-2 songs by Dylan solo.
3.4 Summary
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Number of shows: 19
Number of circulating shows: 19 100%
Number of complete shows: 19 100%
Number of unique shows: 19 100% [1]
Number of different shows: 19 100% [2]
Number of different songs: 41 [3]
Total number of performances: 430
Mean number of songs/show: 22
[1] a unique show is a show where both the songs played and the order in
which they were played is unique
[2] a show is different from another show is the set of songs differ,
regardless of order.
[3] electric and an acoustic versions are regarded as different songs!
# of songs played # of shows
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17 1
19 1
20 3
21 1
22 1
23 3
24 3
25 4
26 2
3.5 The dates
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Nov 9 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California SA
10 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California SA
11 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California SA
12 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California SA
13 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California SA
15 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California SA/PA
16 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California SA/PA
17 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California SA
18 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California MA
19 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California MA
21 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California MA
22 Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California SA
24 Community Center, Tuscon, Arizona SA
26 Golden Hall, San Diego California MA
29 Paramount Northwest Theater, Seattle, Washington SA
30 Paramount Northwest Theater, Seattle, Washington SA
Dec 2 The Armory, Salem, Oregon SA
3 Paramount Theater, Portland, Oregon SA
4 Paramount Theater, Portland, Oregon MA
3.6 The songs
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The following abbreviations are used:
S Bob Dylan solo
D Bob Dylan in duet with Clydie King
N o v e m b e r
9 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19
Total # of songs played 17 20 19 20 20 21 23 22 25 25
Gotta Serve Somebody 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
I Believe In You 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Like A Rolling Stone 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3
Man Gave Names To All The Animals 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 8
Precious Angel 5 5
Ain't Gonna Go To Hell 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 8 7 7
Girl From The North Country 7 7 7 8 7 7 7 9 8 6
Slow Train 8 8 8 9 8 8 8 10 9 11
Abraham, Martin And John D 9 9 9 10 9 9 9 11 12
Let's Keep It Between Us 10 10 10 11 10 10 10 12 11 14
Covenant Woman 11 11 11 12 11 12 12 14 15
Solid Rock 12 12 12 13 12 13 13 16 14 18
Just Like A Woman 13 13 13 15 15 14 14 17 15 19
When You Gonna Wake Up 14 15 15 17 18 19 18
Senor 15 16 14 16 15 15 18 16 20
In The Garden 16 17 16 17 17 18 19 20 19 22
Blowin' In The Wind 17 18 17 18 18 19 20 21 20 23
To Ramona 5 5 5 6 6
What Can I Do For You 14 13 17
City Of Gold 19 18 19 19 20 21 22 21 24
Love Minus Zero - No Limit S 20 20 21
Simple Twist Of Fate 5 14 5 16 2
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue S 19 22 22 25
Mary From The Wild Moor 7 11 11 13 17
Carribean Wind 16
The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar 14 16 17 16
It Ain't Me Babe S 20
All Along The Watchtower 3 5 5
We Just Disagree 7 4
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 13
A Couple More Years 15 9
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right S 23
Rise Again D 10 13
Do Right To Me Baby 12
Nobody's Fault But Mine 10
Saved 21
N o v e m b e r D e c
21 22 24 26 29 30 2 3 4 Tot
Total # of songs played 25 24 23 26 23 24 24 26 25 430
Gotta Serve Somebody 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 19
I Believe In You 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 18
Like A Rolling Stone 3 3 3 3 3 3 24 3 18
Man Gave Names To All The Animals 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 19
Precious Angel 2
Ain't Gonna Go To Hell 8 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 7 19
Girl From The North Country 9 7 8 10 9 9 9 9 8 19
Slow Train 10 10 10 11 10 10 10 11 9 19
Abraham, Martin And John D 11 11 11 12 11 11 11 12 10 18
Let's Keep It Between Us 13 13 13 14 13 13 13 14 12 19
Covenant Woman 9
Solid Rock 17 15 15 16 15 15 15 16 14 19
Just Like A Woman 18 16 16 17 16 16 16 17 15 19
When You Gonna Wake Up 20 19 21 19 19 21 18 14
Senor 19 17 17 18 17 17 17 18 16 18
In The Garden 21 20 22 20 20 20 22 20 18
Blowin' In The Wind 22 20 21 23 21 21 21 23 21 19
To Ramona 21 5 10 19 9
What Can I Do For You 16 18 20 18 18 20 17 10
City Of Gold 23 22 22 24 22 22 22 24 22 18
Love Minus Zero - No Limit S 25 4
Simple Twist Of Fate 7 5 7 5 18 5 5 12
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue S 25 23 25 23 25 9
Mary From The Wild Moor 14 14 14 15 14 14 14 15 13 13
Carribean Wind 1
The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar 19 5
It Ain't Me Babe S 23 2
All Along The Watchtower 6 5 7 7 7 7 7 10
We Just Disagree 5 8 6 6 6 6 6 9
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 15 6 5 5 5
A Couple More Years 8 19 4
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right S 24 23 23 23 5
Rise Again D 12 12 12 13 12 12 12 13 11 12
Do Right To Me Baby 1
Nobody's Fault But Mine 1
Saved 19 2
Fever 6 6 2
Mr Tambourine Man 18 1
Knockin' On Heaven's Door 19 1
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 24 26 24 3 3 25 6
It's Alright Ma S 26 24 2
3.7 Comments
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Recommended shows:
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San Francisco Nov, 12 and 22.
San Francisco Nov 15 and 16, the (incomplete) PA-tapes.
Songs
~~~~~
This tour featured an unusual number of outtakes or songs that so far have
not been officially released by Dylan:
Ain't Gonna Go To Hell - reworked version
Carribean Wind - later recorded at the Shot Of Love sessions in 1981.
and finally released in 1985. Lyrics differ on this early version.
City Of Gold
The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar - later recorded at the Shot Of Love
sessions in 1981 and released as single. Lyrics differ on this
early version.
Let's Keep It Between Us
A number of new covers:
Abraham, Martin And John, A Couple More Years, Fever, Mary From The Wild Moor,
Nobody's Fault But Mine , Rise Again,
We Just Disagree.
Guests
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Carlos Santana, guitar on Covenant Woman, Solid Rock, What Can I Do For You
and The Groom's Still ... on Nov 13.
Mike Bloomfield, guitar on Like A Rolling Stone and The Groom's Still ...
on Nov 14, this was to be his last live performance.
Jerry Garcia, guitar on all songs from To Ramona to The Groom's Still ...
on Nov 16.
Maria Muldaur, vocal in Nobody's Fault But Mine on Nov 19.
Roger McGuinn, guitar and shared vocal on Mr Tambourine Man and Knockin'
On Heaven's Door on Nov 22.
David Grisman, mandolin on To Ramona, Dec 4.
3.8 Alphabetical song listing
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Abraham, Martin And John 18 D,[1]
Ain't Gonna Go To Hell 19
All Along The Watchtower 10
Blowin' In The Wind 19
Carribean Wind 1
City Of Gold 18
A Couple More Years 4 [2]
Covenant Woman 9
Do Right To Me Baby 1
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 5 S
Fever 2 [3]
Girl From The North Country 19
Gotta Serve Somebody 19
The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar 5
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 6
I Believe In You 18
In The Garden 18
It Ain't Me Babe 2 S
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 9 S
It's Alright Ma 2 S
Just Like A Woman 19
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 5
Knockin' On Heaven's Door 1
Let's Keep It Between Us 19
Like A Rolling Stone 18
Love Minus Zero - No Limit 4 S
Man Gave Names To All The Animals 19
Mary From The Wild Moor 13 [4]
Mr Tambourine Man 1
Nobody's Fault But Mine 1 [5]
Precious Angel 2
Rise Again 12 D,[6]
Saved 2
Senor 18
Simple Twist Of Fate 12
Slow Train 19
Solid Rock 19
To Ramona 9
We Just Disagree 9 [7]
What Can I Do For You 10
When You Gonna Wake Up 14
Notes
~~~~~
[1] WB Dick Holler, performed in duet with Clydie King.
[2] WB Shel Silverstein and Dennis Locorriere,
also in the Hearts of Fire soundtrack.
[3] WB by Johnny Davenport and Eddie Cooley.
A hit with Elvis Presley and Peggy Lee.
[4] trad.
[5] WB Nina Simone, sung by Maria Muldaur.
[6] WB Dallas Holm, performed in duet with Clydie King.
[7] WB Jim Kreuger.
3.9 Statistics
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# of # of
songs % perf. %
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Electric 34 82.9% 378 87.9%
Acoustic 5 12.2% 22 5.1%
Duets 2 4.9% 30 7.0%
Other vocal 1 2.4% 1 0.2%
Outtakes 5 12.2% 62 14.4%
Albums 29 70.7% 309 71.9%
Covers 7 17.1% 59 13.7%
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# of # of
Album songs % perf %
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Bob Dylan 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Freewheelin' 4 9.8% 49 11.4%
The Times They Are A-Changin' 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Another Side 2 4.9% 11 2.6%
Bringing It All Back Home 4 9.8% 16 3.7%
Highway 61 Revisited 2 4.9% 23 5.3%
Blonde On Blonde 1 2.4% 19 4.4%
Basement Tapes 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
John Wesley Hardin 1 2.4% 10 2.3%
Nashville Skyline 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
New Morning 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Greatest Hits Vol 2 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Pat Garrett 1 2.4% 1 0.2%
Planet Waves 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Blood On The Tracks 1 2.4% 12 2.8%
Desire 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
Street-Legal 1 2.4% 18 4.2%
Slow Train Coming 8 19.5% 102 23.7%
Saved 4 9.8% 48 11.2%
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4. DYLAN SONGS 1980
February-April gospel songs, please refer to 1979.
September Her Memory [1]
October Carribean Wind [2]
Every Grain Of Sand
The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar [2]
Let's Keep It Between Us [3,4]
Yonder Comes Sin
November City Of Gold [3]
Notes
~~~~~
[1] co-written with Helena Springs and Ken Moore.
[2] later reworked and recorded at the Shot Of Love sessions in 1981.
[3] no studio recording known.
[4] recorded by Bonnie Raitt and released on the album 'Green Light'.
5. REFERENCES
A Vagabond Rapping In Late 1980, by Clinton Heylin in The Telegraph #24
Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody (lyrics) - Isis #20
Caribbean Wind (lyrics) - The Telegraph #1
The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar (lyrics) - The Telegraph #6
I Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody (lyrics) - The Telegraph #5
Let's Keep It Between Us (lyrics) - The Telegraph #10
Saved! three articles by Clinton Heylin in The Telegraph #28-#30
The Paul Vincent Interview (interview) - Endless Road #2
With The Uncompromising Bob Dylan (interview) - Occasionally #5
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