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Go to bed with the melody of “Like a Rolling Stone” still in your head from the concert in the SAP Arena in Mannheim last and wake up to Dave Gilmour and Robert Wyatt singing “Comfortably numb” at the Meltdown Festival in 2001.

24 hours of concert films on 3Sat.

And the sun’s shining

And today’s a holiday.

We must be in heaven, man!!

Bit worried last night, though

“Cat’s in the well” was just a wall of dull, muddy sound and I thought “Fuck, he we go again. Ice hockey stadium. Same as Clapton in Cologne last year”

Quick as flash, they had it sorted and we had almost 2 hours (started right on the button at 7:30) of stuff that you just know that no-one will hear in that form ever again – bits of “Pinball Wizard” dropped into “Stuck inside of Mobile”, “Nettie Moore” sounds like “Blackbird” re-mixed.

And – as usual – recognition of “Blowing in the wind” only kicks in at the chorus.

Mentioned that to Hans-Willi, my journalist mate across the road after a concert in Frankfurt a couple of years back and he said
“We’ll, it’s obvious (innit, Brian) – you accessed Dylan through his lyrics, he hooked us on the melodies. Change the melody and he loses his (40+ ) German audience until we pick up a lyric we recognise.”

And – being a predominantly 40+ German audience, the fucking Metro(G)nomes kick in as soon as he goes into 4/4.

Which is thankfully rarely.

Here’s the playlist with a couple of alternate takes, bootleg cuts, unexpected artists and a cracker at the end – Wolfgang Ambros does “Like a Rolling Stone” in Austrian.

Clap along in 4/4 if you feel like it.

Cat’s In The Well – Bob Dylan from Under The Red Sky
It Ain’t Me, Babe – Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash from The Essential Johnny Cash
Watching The River Flow (Don’t have it. If someone would care to help out, I’d be well pleased)
Don’t think twice, it’s alright – Elvis Presley from Elvis
To Ramona – Bob Dylan from Another Side Of Bob Dylan
Rollin’ And Tumblin’ – Bob Dylan from Modern Times
Spirit On The Water – Bob Dylan from Modern Times
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again [Alternate Take] – Bob Dylan from No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7)
When The Deal Goes Down – Bob Dylan from Modern Times
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum – Bob Dylan from Love & Theft
My back pages – Byrds from Younger than yesterday
Tangled Up In Blue – Bob Dylan And His Band from Live At The Phoenix, March 20, 2004
Nettie Moore – Bob Dylan from Modern Times
Highway 61 Revisited [Alternate Take] – Bob Dylan from No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7)
Blowin’ In The Wind – Joan Baez from Forrest Gump

Encore

Thunder On The Mountain – Bob Dylan from Modern Times
Allan wia a Stein – Wolfgang Ambros from Das Beste Von Wolfgang Ambros

Plus Al Kooper as a bonus. Sort of a “thank you” for the organ riff.

Am I Wrong – Al Kooper from Black Coffee