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Bob Dylan   04/30/2003

Jillian's Parking Lot, Louisville, KY
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Tech Notes BOB DYLAN

Parking Lot
Jillian's
Louisville, Kentucky
30 April 2003

Disc One
1. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
2. Tell Me That It Isn't True
3. Highway 61 Revisited
4. Lay Lady Lay
5. Things Have Changed
6. Cold Irons Bound
7. Watching The River Flow
8. Blind Willie McTell
9. If Not For You
10. High Water (for Charlie Patton)
11. Saving Grace

Disc Two
1. Honest With Me
2. Bye And Bye
3. Summer Days
4. Like A Rolling Stone
5. All Along The Watchtower
6. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
7. Forever Young

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Concert # 1511 of The Never-Ending Tour.
Concert # 10 of the 2003 US Spring Tour. 2003 concert # 21.
Concert # 10 with the 16th Never-Ending Tour Band:
Bob Dylan (vocal), Freddie Koella (guitar),
Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
Tony Garnier (bass), George Receli (drums & percussion).
1-5, 7-18 Bob Dylan (piano).
2, 4, 11 Larry Campbell (pedal steel guitar).
4, 17 Bob Dylan (harmonica).
6, 18 Bob Dylan (guitar).
7, 12 Larry Campbell (slide guitar).
18 acoustic with the band.
9 new songs (50%) compared to previous concert.
3 new songs for this tour.
27 times the the girlfriend (first cousin) of Mr. Is That Robbie Robertson Or A Look-a-Like?
says, "Oh My God, Oh My God" during Lay Lady Lay.

Review by Jon Daniel (taken from Boblinks)

I was lucky enough to get a spot on the rail, right in front of Bob, for
last night's Louisville show at Jillian's.

My friend Bryan and I made the five hour drive to Louisville, got there
around 4:00 and hoped to grab some dinner at Jillian's before the show.
This was my first trip to Louisville and to Jillian's, which is a
pretty big place with a main bar area, a pool hall, arcade, lounge area
and outside deck area. The parking lot where the show took place is
probably about the size of a football field, and is sunken below street
level and below Jillian's itself. When we arrived there was already a
line, of course, on the main street in front of the parking lot entrance.

We had plenty of time to eat dinner, and then we wandered out to the deck
area, the end of which overlooked the venue, and the side and back of the
stage. Bob's bus was backed up to the other side of the stage.
We managed to get a glimpse of Larry, and then Tony, and then heard the
band soundcheck You're A Big Girl Now, To Be Alone With You, Solid Rock,
and Boots of Spanish Leather, none of which were played at the show.

There were a couple of venue guys manning the end of the walkway that led
down to the parking lot, and my friend and I and some others were
wondering if they'd be admitting fans through this entrance as well, since
they had announced that only ticketholders could be in the restaurant from
about 5:00 on. They weren't sure, but they thought so, but they didn't
know if they'd be opening up at the same time as the main gate or not. We
had time to get another beer, and came back around 5:45 or so, and word
got around that they would open this side gate at 7:00 as well. Soon a
line began to form, with us at the front, and as long as they let us in on
time, we had a straight shot down two flights of steps to the rail, while
anyone at the main gate would have to come a little farther. We thought
our chances might be pretty good at getting close.

Well, we got a break, which probably pissed off some folks who had spent
most of the day camped out at the main gate on the street, because at
about 4 minutes to 7:00, by my watch, they said let's go and we were in,
and my friend and I got a spot on the left side, since we'd heard Bob had
been playing on that side this tour. It was about 3 or 4 minutes later
that the main gate folks came down as well.

I won't review every song, but the vocals sounded great, the sound was
fine down front, and we were right smack 15 feet in front of Bob, who is
playing the keyboards way over on stage right this tour. It was weird to
see him way over there, with Freddy on the other side right next to Larry,
who would kind of coach the new guy throughout the show, and then Freddy
would step to the center on the solos. Bob played guitar on Cold Irons
Bound, and then not again until Forever Young during the encore, and then
it was only the first verse and he went back to the keyboards.
He played the harp on Lay Lady Lay and Rainy Day Women, at least, and on
a couple of songs he would grab one, blow into it once away from the mic,
then change his mind and throw it back.

Bob seemed to be in a good mood, we got two or three "thank yooouuu"s.
Something cracked him up at the beginning of Things Have Changed,
because he barely got the first line out, "I'm a worried man", from
laughing at something. Also, he would walk over and talk to Tony after
almost every song it seemed.

The strangest moment of the show came during Honest With Me. Bob
stepped out from behind the keyboards to the center of the stage to
dance or direct the band a little, and it's a good thing he did because
from out of nowhere a drunken fan (unclekurty?), and a big boy at that, came running
from backstage, right behind the keyboards where Bob had been standing,
paused at the front of the stage, and jumped off. For a second I thought
he was going to jump on us. He took a right turn and security tackled
him. I didn't see Bob's or the band's reaction to all this, but the song
went on with no problem. My friend joked that it was Soy Bomb 2.

My only complaint was the lighting. The stage had no backdrop, and the
band was lit from behind the whole night. The front bank of lights were
never used. This meant that Bob could see us better than we could see
him, or maybe it was so security could see everything down front, but it
wasn't easy on the eyes. We were close enough to still see well, but I
don't know what it looked like from farther back.

All in all it was a great time, if you have a chance to see Bob
somewhere other than an arena or an amphitheater, definitely go because
it's bound to be more interesting. Who knows, he could be coming to a
parking lot near you.










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