Bob Dylan started his fall tour last night with an intimate show at the Moore Theatre in Seattle with a few surprises.
First of all, as previously reported, Charlie Sexton is back with the band. The current line-up is Bob Dylan (keyboard, guitar, harp), Stu Kimball (guitar), Charlie Sexton (guitar), Tony Garnier (bass), George Recile (drums), and Donnie Herron (miscellaneous instruments including banjo, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel, trumpet). Denny Freeman is no longer in the band.
No songs were played from Dylan’s upcoming holiday album, “Christmas In The Heart”, which was not surprising. It is not even clear if Dylan will play any songs from the album when the album is released next week.
Dylan concentrated on fairly recent material. Only five of the 16 songs performed were from the 1960’s. The opening song, 1979’s “Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking”, was last performed live in 1980, although it was rehearsed with the Grateful Dead in June, 1987.
Speaking of changing, Dylan mixed up the guitar / keyboard / vocals-only pacing of the show. On the last tour, Dylan usually opened up on guitar, then switched over to keyboards for the rest of the set. Dylan occasionally would sing from center stage without guitar or keyboard. Last night’s show featured six songs with Dylan center stage, and Dylan returned to guitar mid-set.
Here’s the set list compiled from various sources:
Seattle, Washington
The Moore Theatre
October 4, 2009
1. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking (Bob center stage)
2. Shooting Star (Bob center stage on harp)
3. Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (Bob center stage on harp, Donnie on trumpet)
4. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob on guitar)
5. Lonesome Day Blues
6. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (Bob center stage)
7. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
8. Not Dark Yet (Bob center stage on harp)
9. High Water (For Charley Patton) (Bob on guitar)
10. When The Deal Goes Down
11. Highway 61 Revisited
12. Nettie Moore
13. Thunder On The Mountain
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man (Bob center stage on harp)
(encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone
16. Jolene
Dylan played keyboards unless otherwise noted.
Here's audio of Dylan covering a Warren Zevon song at the Key Arena in Seattle, on October 4, 2002.
If you want to share your concert experience, please feel free to comment below.
Comments
go babycakes!xxx
IT IS ABOUT TIME BOB WE ARE GETTING BORED WITH THE SAME OLD ,SAME OLD.NICE TO SEE CHARLIE TO,FINALLY A TRUE GUITAR PLAYER AS WELL IN CHARLIE,IT MIGHT BE TIME TO GO BACK AND SEE BOB AGAIN AND CHANGE MY WAY OF THINKIN'.............
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