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Bob Dylan 05/10/02
National Exhibition Centre Arena, Birmingham, UK
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Set I
Maggie's Farm (Acoustic)
You're A Big Girl Now (Acoustic)
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)(Acoustic)
Tomorrow Is A Long Time (Acoustic)
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Moonlight
Cry A While
Fourth Time Around (Acoustic)
Masters Of War (Acoustic)
Tangled Up In Blue (Acoustic)
Summer Days
Sugar Baby
The Wicked Messenger
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

Encore:
Love Sick
Like A Rolling Stone
Forever Young (Acoustic)
Honest With Me
Blowin' In The Wind (Acoustic)
Set II
 
Set III
 
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Pete W (3/5) shn / 2 A View   Crystal Cat
Notes: Aud
CJ Higgs (3/5) CDR / 2 A- View  
Notes: Great show! The band is in great form and Bob's voice sounds good
MJC (3/5) SHN / 2 View  
pieceofgum (3/0) CDR / 2 View  
Matt Blankman (3/0) CDR / 2 A A View   AUD
Notes: liberated Crystal Cat bootleg "Birmingham 2002"
Chad Schuldt (3/0) cdr / 2 View  
Notes: Crystal Cat
Mark (3/0) CD-R / 2 A A View  
TREV (2/0) cd / 0 View  
Buddha-san (2/5) shn / 2 View  
Notes: Liberated Crystal Cat - CC 643-44; <http://bobsboots.com/CDs/cd-b32.html>
My Back Pages (2/0) CDR / 2 View  
thejerman02 (2/5) CDR / 2 A View   Commercial Bootleg
Greg H (2/0) CDR / 2 View  
Notes: Crystal Cat
Peter D (2/0) SHN / 2 A+ A+ View  
John (2/0) / 2 View  
Jerry Morgan (1/5) cd / 2 View  
forgottenspace (1/4.5) CD / 2 View   Crystal Cat 643-44
forgottenspace (1/4.5) CD / 2 View   Crystal Cat 643-44
forgottenspace (1/4.5) CD / 2 View   core sound cardioids > denecke ad-20 > sony tcd-d8
forgottenspace (1/4.5) CD / 2 View   Low-gen audio disks > (dBpowerAMP set to compression level 6) flac.
forgottenspace (1/4.5) CD / 2 View   Crystal Cat
Mike Kelly (1/4.3) cdr / 2 View   Audience Recording
Ed Izsak (1/5) CDR / 2 A- View   DAUD
thegreatdivide6 (1/0) flac / 0 View   LB-0843
Notes: audience
Stuart Ferguson (1/4.3) CDR / 2 View   Audience
Notes: DVD 781; lineage:
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x poordevil (1/5) DVD aud / 2 View  
Maria Reine (1/5) CD-R / 2 View  
Notes: SHN
Smoke Signal (1/0) CDR / 2 A- View   Aud.
Jeff (1/5) SHN / 2 View   commercial bootleg>unclekurty's wallet>eac>wav>shn
Notes: AT24 Bob Dylan Birmingham 2002 May 10, 2002 Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham NEC Arena Crystal Cat 643-44 commercial bootleg>unclekurty's wallet>eac>wav>shn Disc One 1 Intro 2 Maggie's Farm (acoustic) 3 You're A Big Girl Now (acoustic) 4 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (acoustic) 5 Tomorrow Is A Long Time (acoustic) 6 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 7 Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum 8 Moonlight 9 Cry A While 10 Fourth Time Around (acoustic) 11 Masters Of War (acoustic) 12 Tangled Up In Blue (acoustic) Disc Two 1 Summer Days 2 Sugar Baby 3 The Wicked Messenger 4 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (encore) 5 Love Sick 6 Like A Rolling Stone 7 Forever Young (acoustic) 8 Honest With Me 9 Blowin' In The Wind (acoustic) Review from Bob Links by Ian Blagbrough(most of this is included in the booklet) The NEC Birmingham (England) is a cavernous beast, nothing better than impersonal. It takes 12,000 with a few hundred standing, mostly faraway seats, from my back row position, it was a full 50 m to where the ants were performing. I was last here for Sept 2000, and today's concert sold-out even without the excellent publicity that this tour has received in the UK. I have always enjoyed aspects of the Dylan gigs here, I came up the two hour drive from Bath with a strong hope, following on from Bournemouth and Cardiff, but then there is always room for some doubt with a Dylan gig. Here again, immediately there is IMO a true, warm feeling towards the artist. The audience is mainly wanting or needing to be seated, they are elderly enough to know the line-up for Deep Purple here next month. The set-list follows on from Bournemouth and Cardiff, and elsewhere this week, if you wanted to get ready for a gig then it must be Blonde on Blonde and L&T that you turn to, but rewatch that MTV Unplugged video and you will be really well-prepared for acoustic bass. Before the blow-by-blow which you might not want to read, the main thrust is that this was really good overall, parts were excellent. Unlike Bournemouth with its snarling, tonight there was singing, real harmony. The voice kept going, it did not break away by #8, but it did the silly three on one note and then a very high note only occasionally e.g. the new version of Forever Young. In two hours covering real folk, some country, excellent R&B, a touch of lounge, powerful R&R, the band are excellent. Finally, there was further proof, if any is required that is no obvious difficulty with Larry Campbell, I cannot remember when Bob allowed a band member front and centre twice, that is without him, to start songs or sing one! Larry and Charlie share the lead with Bob. We did not cheer enough for a genuine encore, but also this is the middle of 5 straight nights, so perhaps 2 hours and 20 songs were enough. Actually, I do not think we raised our game as much, being mainly seated and 50 m away, there was enough room for a Dallas Cowboys game between me and Bob. Finally, small venues are better, or 8-9,000, but all standing with general admission. It did work in the NEC arena, but it did not work as well. If it works here it will work anywhere, get a ticket! Blow-by-blow: 7.30 arrives with Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, loud and clear, played to an audience still arriving by the thousand, no real interest. The black drapes display in white the huge all-seeing eye with crown and flames, naff merchandising is available. Anticipation is high, incense is high, will it break the run of excellent gigs? How long will he keep us waiting? Hundreds still to enter, no real interest, he is always late, the house-lights go out - 7.43 The ludicrous "L&G please welcome Columbia Recording Artist ?", and immediately we are away. The band (stick insects) in smart pale blue-grey suits (confederate you might say), hard to be sure from this distance under the lighting, the song and dance man in black with the large white Stetson. Certainly more country or lounge than R&R. The acoustic set opens, but not with a sound check, what is happening here, he is not working on Maggie's farm any more. Larry is excellent on mandolin. The concert has started. Hundreds more decide to find a seat. So, a real song and into You're A Big Girl Now. Actually, the singer-songwriter is having fun with us here, I suspect that he is in really good health, rude health even. So those all important Dylan lyrics are reworked, into whatever you want with "find you in somebody's room, but I don't care to LOOK, just put my order in with the COOK, - pause- hang my coat up on a HOOK", lots of genuine smiles and laughter sets the early tone, see playing about with "gum" later. It's Alright, Ma gets its sad cheer for a naked president, and we move on smoothly to mouth-organ (lots of cheers, before it is played that is) and a beautiful, tender, deeply felt Tomorrow Is A Long Time, sung straight by Larry (note) with Bob's harmonies over (a highlight). An excellent, opening acoustic set, nothing to fault, lots to enjoy. Hundreds still to enter, security - well it is more than my jobsworth etc. The next surprise after Maggie's is the choice of the "so-called" electric set (we are keeping strictly to the 15-5 pattern readers will know about), but this is electric folk, and certainly no Fender party. There is no R&R here, a nod towards R&B, but much more Blonde-on -Blonde and electric folk. So we are lost in the rain, and it is past Easter time, lets not put on any airs, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues was clear and moving. It was really well delivered, perhaps this was tonight's real treat. 5 down, nothing new, then T Dee & T Dum continues to keep us smiling, loud, long, well performed, still good clarity, at this distance our hopes are in the sound system. So lets do songs from the new L&T album, lets take a walk in the (lounge like) moonlight together, the lava-lamp effect on the backdrop. Actually, I've cried for you baby, so now its your turn to. Excellent work on the double-bass, more of this later, and the slide guitar are preludes of enjoyment soon to come. Some leave for the bar. The black-back school-curtains are dragged aside to reveal the pleated grey school curtains on which the lighting can play. The second acoustic group starts with an awesome Fourth Time Around, ask here for some-Jamaican rum, spit out your gum, you have a crutch, don't ask for mine, this was another highlight. Bob has serious fun leaning and questioning "gum", more laughter. Then a deeply felt, powerful Masters of War. Red and yellow beams flood the stage, the singer-songwriter is still going strong. There have been those pleas in these pages to put TUIB to rest, well its re-invention is now complete. Tonight, Larry takes a spot front and centre WITHOUT Bob, he plays entirely through TUIB if you know the chords and the tune line, only then is he joined by Bob in a 2nd spot, each in a single shaft of light, everything else pitch black, one plays, the other sings, right through the first verse, and then the stage floods with blue, the band jump in, and we are really rocking. Summer days in golden light, but pure R&B, spits out Sugar Baby. A brief mention here for Tony Garnier who spins around his double-bass to show that acoustic R&B has roots close to jazz. The strong 7-beat downward progression, (one-two-three-four, double-time five-six, long seven), it is mouth-organ in the Wicked Messenger, well delivered as a good example of R&R, but with compound (cf German) nouns, compound sentences. Immediately recognised chords for RDW with Larry on steel, Jim Keltner (he of 7 songs on TOOM) working closely with Tony, Bob almost sings the name checks, cheers for each, away they go it is 9.22. Away for 3 long mins, 9.25 the encores/second set start, we have really cheered for them. I'm sick of love, I'm love sick. Then LARS, tonight not the usual "only a crowd pleaser", but a much more animated singer-songwriter. As often at Birmingham, Forever Young, lots of crowd pleasure, some sing-along, genuine applause. Some of the silly three words to one note and then a very high almost falsetto ruining, re-interpreting for some, Forever Young. Well, I've been honest with you (Larry excellent on slide), and then BITW and its close harmonies and a new stop as in: the answer my friend is -pause- BITW. There were only a few boring one- or two-note guitar solos (don't you just love "re-interpretation", but when standing next to Larry and Charlie, please) generally lots of good guitar work. At the back, un-sung hero Tony works constantly hard with signals to Jim Keltner, who has nicely used brushes, and underplayed rather than the reverse. We yell, but not enough, and they are a way to the two black coaches and off to the hotel. Tonight 20 songs in 2 hours - with 6 off L&T, more lounge and R&B, less R&R. This was generally a good show, Tom Thumb's Blues if you please, but it is a hard impersonal venue. Everything was good, some a little better, the voice held up, but I'll be queuing for Bournemouth, Cardiff, and Portsmouth tix next time. Yes, I'll see him in anything, I'll stand in line. ------------------------------------------------------ [email protected] Size: 951 MB Includes EAC logs and cover scans. 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Arthur Sutherland (1/5) SHN / 2 View   commercial bootleg>unclekurty's wallet>eac>wav>shn