Bob Dylan’s focal album for his first show in Melbourne last night was the 1965 classic ‘Highway 61 Revisited’.
Dylan performed 5 tracks from the album including the 10 minute epic ‘Desolation Row’ as well as ‘Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues’, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’, ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’ and his signature tune ‘Like A Rolling Stone’.
‘Like A Rolling Stone’ is one of Bob’s most played songs. Last night was the 1,826th time he had played it live.
‘Together Through Life’, Dylan’s most recent album of original songs, was represented with only one song, the rarely played ‘Forgetful Heart’. Bob has only done it 34 times live.
The setlist for the first Melbourne show was:
Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking (from Slow Train Coming, 1979)
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (from The Freewheeling Bob Dylan, 1962)
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Things Have Changed (from Wonder Boys soundtrack)
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (from Love and Theft, 2001)
Tangled Up In Blue (from Blood On the Tracks, 1975)
Rollin' And Tumblin' (from Modern Times, 2006)
Forgetful Heart (from Together Through Life, 2009)
High Water (for Charlie Patton) (from Love and Theft, 2001)
Desolation Row (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Highway 61 Revisited (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Simple Twist Of Fate (from Blood On the Tracks, 1975)
Thunder On The Mountain (from Modern Times, 2006)
Ballad Of A Thin Man (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Like A Rolling Stone (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Forever Young (from Planet Waves, 1974)
Bob Dylan will perform again tonight at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne with support Paul and Dan Kelly.
Other Australian dates are:
April 23, Wollongong, WIN Entertainment Centre
April 25 and 26, Byron Bay, Bluesfest
April 27 and 28, Sydney, Entertainment Centre
April 30, Auckland, New Zealand, Vector Arena
VIDEO: Dan Kelly, watch his Undercover uSessions:
