Friday 8 April 2011

Sad Boo Boo...Dylan continued


If you haven't heard already, this one is funny.

Shanghai Xin Min Newspaper printed a headline article about Bob Dylan's debut performance in China BUT they put a picture of Willie Nelson instead. Whoops. Embarrassing....Someone or some people will get fired for this i'm sure.

Anyway the setlist was censored by China's Culture Ministry for political sensitivities. Bob Dylan was denied to perform in Beijing a year ago because he refused to sign a pledge promising "not to hurt the feelings of Chinese People".

I'm glad he changed his mind. Mountain Man and I expected to go in not knowing a lot of the songs (to quote Mountain Man "Just wanna see him before he dies") but surprisingly he played quite a number of old favourites.

1. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking (Bob on keyboard)
2. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob on guitar)
3. Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (Bob on guitar)
4. Tangled Up In Blue (Bob center stage on harp)
5. Honest With Me (Bob on keyboard)
6. Simple Twist Of Fate (Bob on guitar)
7. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Bob on guitar)
8. Love Sick (Bob on keyboard)
9. Rollin' And Tumblin' (Bob on keyboard)
10. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Bob on keyboard)
11. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on keyboard then center stage on harp)
12. Spirit On The Water (Bob on keyboard and harp)
13. Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on keyboard)
14. Ballad Of A Thin Man (Bob center stage on harp)
(1st encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on keyboard)
16. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on keyboard then guitar)
(2nd encore)
17. Forever Young (Bob on keyboard and harp)

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