Maple Leaf Gardens
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
October 12, 1978
01 - My Back Pages (instrumental)
02 - I'm Ready
03 - Is Your Love In Vain?
04 - Shelter From The Storm
05 - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
06 - Tangled Up In Blue
07 - Ballad Of A Thin Man
08 - Maggie's Farm
09 - I Don't Believe You
10 - Like A Rolling Stone
11 - I Shall Be Released
12 - Going, Going, Gone
13 - One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
14 - It Ain't Me, Babe (acoustic)
15 - Am I Your Stepchild?
16 - One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
17 - Blowin' In The Wind
18 - Girl From The North Country
19 - Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)
20 - Masters Of War
21 - Just Like A Woman
22 - To Ramona
23 - All Along The Watchtower
24 - All I Really Want To Do
25 - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
26 - Forever Young
(encore)
27 - Changing Of The Guards
Concert # 19 of the 1978 US Fall Tour. 1978 concert # 68.
Concert # 45 with the 1978 World Tour Band:
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar),
Billy Cross (lead guitar),
Alan Pasqua (keyboards),
Steven Soles (rhythm guitar, backup vocals),
David Mansfield (violin & mandolin),
Steve Douglas (horns),
Jerry Scheff (bass),
Bobbye Hall (percussion),
Ian Wallace (drums),
Helena Springs,
Jo Ann Harris,
Carolyn Dennis (background vocals).
1 instrumental without Bob Dylan.
5, 15, 21 Bob Dylan (harmonica).
14 Bob Dylan solo (vocal, harmonica & guitar).
BobTalk:
- All right. This is a love ballad I wrote a few years ago. About ..., it's a
love ballad about three people in love. (before Tangled Up In Love)
- Thank you! I first played this song at the Newport Folk Festival, and they booed me
right out of town. But I keep playing it anyway, I hope that you like it.
It's called I ain't gonna work on Maggie's Farm no more.
- Thank you! thank you! We're gonna take a short break right here.
You what? This is a song.... Which one you want me to do?
Ok, we're gonna do this song, it's a song I recorded with The Band.
Remember The Band ? Anyway we did an album awhile back called Planet Waves.
Sold about 12 copies. Anyway ha ha, ... anyway we'll see you in a short while.
(before Going, Going, Gone)
- Thank you. This is a new song I wrote a while ago, called Am I Your Stepchild ?
- Thank you! Thank you! I want say hello to my good friend Bill Ayliss who's here tonight.
Turn the spotlight on Bill Ayliss. Anyway, Bill I hope you're feeling all right.
(before Girl From The North Country)
- Thank you. I'm sure there's a message there somewhere.
Here's one, straight out of the book of Genesis. (plays All Along The Watchtower)
That was All Along The Watchtower, David Mansfield on the violin.
I wanna say hello to Ronnie Hawkins if he's still here.
If he's still around I want him to know he's a great artist.
- Thank you! I know you wanna know who's playing the drums tonight.
Well I'm gonna tell you folks, that's right.
On the drums tonight, ladies and gentlemen give him a warm hand please, Ian Wallace.
On the bass guitar, Mr. Jerry Scheff.
On the keyboards, the one and only Alan Pasqua.
On the lead guitar, brilliant guitar player, lead guitar, plays it all, Mr. Billy Cross.
On the rhythm guitar, a man who doesn't speak a word of English,
ladies and gentlemen, from Tombstone, Arizona, one of the founders of outlaw music,
give him a warm hand please, Mr. Steven Soles.
On the violin and the mandolin, sometimes lead electric guitar, a young man who's
been with me for five years now. He's fifteen years old. Has a great future, doesn't
smoke dope, drink whiskey or go out with women. He's a very pure boy!
Well, he's pure in his musical mind. Anyway, give him a warm hand, David Mansfield.
On the tenor saxophone, the phenomenal Steve Douglas.
All right, on the backup vocals tonight. On the right my cousin, Jo Ann Harris.
On the other side, my current girlfriend, Carolyn Dennis.
And in the middle, my fianc�e, Helena Springs.
On the conga drums from Detroit the most amazing Miss Bobbye Hall.
All right, this is called It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding.
- Thank you! We're gonna go now. Anyway, here's another song I recorded with The Band
on an album called Planet Waves. Anyway, I wrote it for one of my babies.
(before Forever Young)
Bootleg:
- I Was Young When I Left Home. Golden Stars GZCD 2004
- CEDAR Shingles 004
No new songs compared to previous concert.
Stereo audience recording, 140 minutes.
LB-07392 ; 73min+71min ; 2CDR ; Rating: B+
Bob Dylan, 10/12/78, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
legendary taper G
cut before Like A Rolling Stone, One Of Us Must Know, Just Like A Woman, It's Alright, Ma
Changing Of The Guards last minute missing
Superscope one-point stereo mic -> Sony TC158SD, analog master -> DAT - clone ->(digital transfer) m-audio delta audiophile 2496
-> Wavelab -> ssrc Wavelab, levels raised -> cdwave, tracking -> tlh
I did not harm the sound of the recording in any way
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same recording as LB-1236 <LB-01236.html> based on same clapping wavs at
end of d2t4; in comparison this is very similar but a little harsher;
(did not listen to all of this);
(a bittorrent from 06/09 has flac fingerprints which match this ones
flac fingerprints but has different md5; described the same with this LB
information and number and filenames; is part of the lk 78 series)
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drop/cut end of d1t9, d1t12, d2t6, d2t10
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disc1
1 My Back Pages, 2 I'm Ready (Willie Dixon), 3 Is Your Love In Vain?, 4 Shelter From The Storm, 5 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, 6 Tangled Up In Blue, 7 Ballad Of A Thin Man, 8 Maggie's Farm, 9 I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met), 10 Like A Rolling Stone, 11 I Shall Be Released, 12 Going, Going, Gone, 13 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later), 14 It Ain't Me, Babe,
disc2
1 Am I Your Stepchild?, 2 One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below), 3 Blowin' In The Wind, 4 Girl From The North Country, 5 Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat), 6 Masters Of War, 7 Just Like A Woman, 8 To Ramona, 9 All Along The Watchtower, 10 All I Really Want To Do, 11 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), 12 Forever Young, 13 Changing Of The Guards
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