Bob Dylan - In Concert- Royal Festival Hall, London, Britain, 5-17-1964

Here's another one of what I consider Bob Dylan's essential bootleg recordings. 

In 1964, Dylan released two studio albums, and he played more concerts than the year before. But, for whatever reason, there are very few decent concert recordings from this year. There's one that stands out: on Halloween, he played a concert in New York City that was professionally recorded. The whole thing was eventually released as the album "The Bootleg Series, Volume 4: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall." But aside from that one, most recordings are incomplete and/or sound pretty bad. 

This concert is the other big exception. All of it came out on the "Anniversary Collection" for 1964, which is an extremely limited release to extend copyright control over the recordings in Europe. This comes from that source, since it's the best sounding one. In my opinion, the sound quality is just as good as that for the Halloween concert, and some say the performance was even better. The set list is somewhat different because it took place six months earlier. 

However, there's one thing lacking with this concert recording: there's no banter between songs whatsoever. One doesn't even get the sound of guitar tuning, or anything else. There's just a couple of seconds of clapping, and then bam, the next song already. This clearly couldn't have been how the concert actually went. Dylan has gone long stretches in his concert tours when he's said nothing whatsoever between songs, but this wasn't one of those times. Take for instance that Halloween concert later in the year, where he wasn't loquacious, but he at least said something before almost every song. Plus, of course, he would have needed to tune his guitar from time to time. I searched for other versions of this concert in hopes of finding one with some talking, but I couldn't find any such version. So this will have to do.

This album is an hour and 33 minutes long.

01 The Times They Are A-Changin' (Bob Dylan)
02 Girl from the North Country (Bob Dylan)
03 Who Killed Davey Moore (Bob Dylan)
04 Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues (Bob Dylan)
05 The Ballad of Hollis Brown (Bob Dylan)
06 It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob Dylan)
07 Walls of Red Wing (Bob Dylan)
08 Chimes of Freedom (Bob Dylan)
09 Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan)
10 Eternal Circle (Bob Dylan)
11 A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan)
12 Talkin' World War III Blues (Bob Dylan)
13 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob Dylan)
14 Only a Pawn in Their Game (Bob Dylan)
15 With God on Our Side (Bob Dylan)
16 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan)
17 Restless Farewell (Bob Dylan)
18 When the Ship Comes In (Bob Dylan)

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In 1963, a couple of Dylan concerts were professionally recorded for a planned live album. The album never happened, but it came so close to being released that a cover was designed for it. In 2005, an EP of six songs from a 1963 concert called "Live at Carnegie Hall 1963" was released. It's not well known because it's so short. But it used almost the exact same cover as the planned 1963 one. However, the lettering was changed, with "Bob Dylan In Concert" changed to "Bob Dylan Live at Carnegie Hall 1963." I've used the "Carnegie Hall" cover as the basis of this one, because it has higher picture quality. But I changed the text back to "Bob Dylan In Concert." I also added some more text at the bottom.