Concert # 7 of 21 of the 1993 Europe Summer Tour... emozionato, emozionato!
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Concert # 487 of The Never-Ending Tour
Concert # 7 of the 1993 Europe Summer Tour
1993 concert # 31
Concert # 31 with the 9th Never-Ending Tour Band:
Bob Dylan (vocals & guitar)
Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
John Jackson (guitar)
Tony Garnier (bass)
Winston Watson (drums & percussion)
1, 8-11, 18 acoustic with the band
5, 9-11, 18 Bob Dylan harmonica
1, 8 Bucky Baxter (accordion)
Olof Björner comments: "For the fifth year in a row Dylan came to Europe for a summer tour. This time it was really a Mediterranean tour, the only exceptions being the two Fleadh festivals and the Gurten festival in Bern, Switzerland. A new country, Portugal, was added to the Dylan map. The shows were really excellent with Dylan in a better voice than for many years and reportedly much healthier as well. Some even say he's stopped smoking. These European shows will be remembered for their long songs. In Vitoria, Spain 17 songs took 155 minutes, which means that each song in general was longer than 9 minutes! Dylan played lead guitar for most of these shows leaving John Jackson mostly to rhythm guitar work."
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"In Naples, a couple of nights later, Bob's playing in a circus tent, a big top. It's a neat setting but a pretty thin crowd. The three Italian shows haven't, it seems, sold very well. True, they haven't been very well publicised, but it could be that the frequency with which Bob Dylan has been coming around recently is beginning to take its toll on his audiences' enthusiasm. It's inevitable, really, isn't it, and somewhat disconcerting a truth for us all. The Italian promoter stands to lose a lot of money on these shows. Bob doesn't come cheap and when the promoter discovers that only around 1,000 tickets have been sold for each of the Naples, Pisa and Milan shows, the morose fellow declares that it's positively the last time he'll be bringing Bob to Italy. So desperate is he to shift some more tickets that two days before the Naples show, he faxes Greece, pleading with Bob to do some press interviews to help whip up some punter enthusiasm. Astonishingly, the following day, three incredulous Italian journalists get phone calls from Bob, who's willing to talk about anything they want him to talk about.
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In Naples, Bob sings I Believe In You with extraordinary passion, and lets Mr Tambourine Man go dancing on for ages at the end, searching for its swirling essence in minor cadences, harmonica chiming amid magical guitar mayhem. Naples is a great show. One of the 10 best shows I've seen. Maybe one of the six best. Four best? Do you play this silly game too? Barcelona 1984 is elbowing Meadowlands '86 for the lead while one of the early 1988 Jones Beach shows tries to push its way through on the rails and here comes Paris 1990 with a late run . . ."
Excerpt from ON THE ROAD AGAIN: DIARY OF A BOBCAT by John Bauldie [ Ссылка ]
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The sound quality for this show could be better, but what it lacks in quality it makes up for in audience love & energy, and that wouldn't come across if this had been a soundboard, or 'pre-board', recording. Bob directs not a word to this great crowd, but I think he must've welcomed the fantastic reception. This is a show where I'd forget the timestamps.
1993 European Summer Tour shows on youtube from various uploaders (more to come):
Concert 3, 19 June 1993: Amphitheatre Dimoi Beersheba, Israel [ Ссылка ]
Concert 4, 20 June 1993: Harbour Blues Festival Gate Ten, Port of Haifa, Haifa, Israel [ Ссылка ]
Concert 7, 25 June 1993: Tenda Partenope Naples Italy (this video) [ Ссылка ]
Concert 9, 27 June 1993 Palatrussardi di Milano, Milan Italy [ Ссылка ]
Concert 10, 29 June 1993: Palais des Sports Marseille, France [ Ссылка ]
Concert 11, 30 June 1993: Palais des Sports Toulouse, France [ Ссылка ]
Concert 15, 6 July 1993: Plaza de Toros de Huesca Huesca, Spain (video footage including pre-show empty venue, poor sound) [ Ссылка ]
Concert 16, 8 July 1993: Plaza des Toros Gijon, Spain (partial, playlist) [ Ссылка ]
