Bob Dylan has played in Vietnam for the very first time ever last night (April 10, 2011).
Dylan performed in the capital Ho Chi Minh City, the city formerly known as Saigon during the American invasion of the 60s.
When America was decimating Vietnam during the war, Dylan’s music was a soundtrack to the protest against the US government.
Despite the historic occasion, the Dylan show was far from a sell-out. There were around 4000 empty seats last night at RMIT University when Dylan hit the stage.
Like China days earlier, Dylan had to submit a setlist for approval before the show. His two biggest protest songs ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ and ‘The Times They Are A Changin’’ were absent from last night’s set.
The complete setlist was:
Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
(from Slow Train Coming, 1979)
It Aint Me, Babe (from Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964)
Beyond Here Lies Nothing (from Together Through Life, 2009)
Tangled Up In Blue (from Blood On the Tracks, 1975)
Honest With Me
(from Love and Theft, 2001)
Simple Twist Of Fate (from Blood On the Tracks, 1975)
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
(from Love and Theft, 2001)
Love Sick (from Time Out Of Mind, 1997)
The Levees Gonna Break (from Modern Times, 2006)
A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall (from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963)
Highway 61 Revisited (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Spirit On The Water (from Modern Times, 2006)
My Wifes Home Town
(from Together Through Life, 2009)
Jolene (from Together Through Life, 2009)
Ballad Of A Thin Man
(from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Like A Rolling Stone (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
All Along The Watchtower (from John Wesley Harding, 1967)
Forever Young (from Planet Waves, 1974)
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