Bob Dylan 1994 US Fall Tour - Roseland Ballroom New York City, NY USA 20 October 1994

Thanks to the taper and to anyone else who’s had a hand in the passage of this music from gig to us. The concert information below comes from the excellent bjorner.com http://www.bjorner.com/DSN15420%20-%2... Concert # 622 of The Never-Ending Tour. Concert # 15 of the 1994 US Fall Tour. 1994 concert # 86. Concert # 166 with the 9th Never-Ending Tour Band: Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar) Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar) John Jackson (guitar) Tony Garnier (bass) Winston Watson (drums & percussion) 7–9 acoustic with the band 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 14 Bob Dylan harmonica 15, 16 Bruce Springsteen (guitar), Neil Young (guitar) This concert was the third of three nights at the Roseland Ballroom. The second night – 19th October 1994 - is uploaded here:    • Bob Dylan 1994 US Fall Tour - Roseland Bal...   I have to thank Thomas Muscheck for drawing my attention to this gig. A couple of reviews of the show: 1 “When Bob Dylan finally took the stage it was with about as much ceremony as a roadie who mistakes the stage door for the bathroom. Sporting the prototypical black suit, Dylan evoked several of his own past incarnations, from outlaw to prophet, from preacher to “the man in the long black coat.” But as he began to perform, the anonymity was swept aside, and he was once again the original troubadour – reinventing his songs in the image of the moment. Dylan’s voice carried his musical lines and wry turns of phrase as well as the irrevocable weight of age, fatigue and substance abuse. Yet the concert remained a remarkable tribute to Dylan’s resilience and continued relevance. His songs have penetrated culture so deeply as to become lore. Like legend, Dylan’s lore has been absorbed and recycled yet has retained its identity. Backed by a superlative ensemble, Dylan rolled through history – his own and ours. He took center stage both as singer and as performer, playing electric lead guitar on “Jokerman” and “Positively 4th Street” In “All Along the Watchtower,” a wailing guitar became the howling wind itself, and Dylan’s harmonica rhapsodized on the songs about love and love lost. “Maggie’s Farm” took the evening to an even higher level It was flippant and fiery Southern rock. The acoustic “My Back Pages” had a languid reverence that far transcended recent versions. This time, Dylan’s knowing, almost confessional voice formed a ghostly counterpoint to his self-confident 1964 original. How do you top that? Bring Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young onstage for an encore. Guitars in hand, they bunched into a boogie-woogie “Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35.” And they dosed with “Highway 61 Revisited,” done as a classic hard-rockin’ highway song which – like “Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)” brought the past and present together, releasing Dylan into his future.” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/mu... 2 “I don’t know what/whose show YOU saw last week, but what I saw was the best show I’ve seen Dylan do in maybe FIFTEEN years, a MASTER at the height of his POWERS, singing (singing real good!) playing just INCREDIBLY, with a CRACK band supporting him (finally!), playing songs from EV’RY PERIOD of his lengthy CAREER and just doing everything right. I’m talking about before, LONG BEFORE Neil and Bruce came out during 3rd encore and place went ultra-nuts. When they were sitting with GINSBERG (& GE Smith) in VIP area, and Dylan was singing ‘Only TIME WILL TELL who has fell and who’s been left BEHIND’, how could they have felt??? Here he was, just beautiful, singing strong and loud, no mumbles - if you stop trying to force the songs to sound like his old vocal stylings and just lissen, he is doing really amazing versions - of MY BACK PAGES, JOEY, BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER - songs from ev’ry one of his MANY times. Dressed in impeccable black pin-striped suit, I felt he’d finally come through, after a decade of alkie/druggie/sexxee troubles and lame shows, he finally seemed ready to assume the mantle which he RIGHTLY DESERVES - the same respect that Neil (f’rinstance) has. It also occurred to me that in a way his lame shows of past years have actually PROTECTED him, that his not succeeding to be more successful has PREVENTED him from having to try to get over to ARENA-ROCK size audiences - the slow death of anybody good.” Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=608&__cf...