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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · 19d

Bobtalk for all Bob Dylan Outlaw shows has been updated by Luke Poling!

He didn't say much but anything he did say was taken down by Luke and used in evidence at bobserve.com

To quote the great Bob Dylan from the Outlaw tour: "Thank you"

Also, this: bobserve.com/setlist/bobt...

14. Positively 4th Street

I didn't really write that song about, uh, anybody. I just wrote it to write one.

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madisonstu.bsky.social @madisonstu.bsky.social · 22d

@bobserve.com Alpine Valley Outlaws. Full concert audio:
archive.org/details/outl...

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · 25d

Congratulations to Bill Pagel for 30 years (!) of his boblinks.com Bob Dylan setlist site. I cannot recall a single concert date when he was not on duty! Incredible.

Bill Pagel announces the 30th anniversary of his web site.

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · Aug 19

Can You Please Destroy This Record, use your arms and legs it won't ruin you

AL BAKKE
September 1ly 1965
Gentlemen:
A new Bob Dylan record titled "ositively th Street," Columbia
1-43389, has o not progron 1t.
thie reeord, been mailed several radio stations. If'you received
The rong song was inadvertently pressed on thie record and it is
not licensed For broadcast. Please destroy this record.
In the near future we shall send you the correct record of
"Positively 4th Street," by Bob Dylan.
Sincerely,
COLMRTA RECORD DISTRTROURORS
AA Sarn
Kal Pakke
Promotion Manager
S Tht reord ve ask you to destroy begins with these lyries:
"Be sts in his rocm - he'e tued with a fist-tul1 of tacks."
The second record you will receive vill have the same title and
number and is licensed for broadcast. It begins with theee lyrics:
"You gotta' a lot of nerve to say you are my friend."
HB/as
COLUMBIA RECORD DISTRIBUTORS- 8808 EMPRES ROW - DALLAS 47, TEXAS

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · Aug 7

The Bob Dylan songs most frequently seen performed in person by bobserve users
bobserve.com/dylanytics/m...

Mostheard originalsongs
Song
Times
AllAlong The Watchtower 12506
Highway61 Revisited
12363
LikeARollingStone
11304
TangledUpInBlue
9922
Blowin In TheWind
9072
Things HaveChanged
8410
Love Sick
6850
Summer Days
6475
BalladOfAThin Man
6335
Honest WithMe
6239

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · Aug 4

Read up on all the commentary on Bob Dylan's Wantagh/Jones Beach concert from Aug 1st.

bobserve.com/setlist/comm...

bobserve
August 1, 2025
Wantagh, New York
Jones Beach Theater
Concert- Outlaw Music Festival: 10th
Anniversary Tour
Source
Title
boblinks.com
Fan review(s)
(link works only if review is
available)
Adam Chicago
Bob Dylan at Jones Beach
2025
Bawker
Lknow.you're dissatisfied
with your_ position and
your place..don't.you
understand it's not my
problem? (Last night at
Jones Beach)
Expecting Rain
Live Setlist Thread
Tour Forum
Flagging Down Last Night at Jones Beach
The Double ES
(by.Jesse Jarnow)
HenryJ.
Bernstein
Friday_ Night at Jones
Beach -BOB DYLAN!
Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson,

bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · Jul 30

Inputting the VA Beach July 29 Bob Dylan setlist into bobserve.

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · Jul 17

Whoever it was who said Bob Dylan doesn't talk or acknowledge his audience simply doesn't know what they're talking about

Bobtalk
Bob Dylan's spoken words at concerts.

July 5, 2025
Dallas, Texas
Dos Equis Pavilion
Concert - Outlaw Music Festival: 10th Anniversary Tour

1. Gotta Serve Somebody

2. I Can Tell (Samuel Smith, Ellas McDaniel)

3. Forgetful Heart (Bob Dylan, Robert Hunter)

4. Axe And The Wind (Willie Dixon)

5. To Ramona

*** Thank you. ***

6. Early Roman Kings

7. Under The Red Sky

8. I'll Make It All Up To You (Charlie Rich)

9. All Along The Watchtower

10. 'Til I Fell In Love With You

11. Desolation Row

12. Love Sick

13. Share Your Love With Me (Alfred Braggs, Deadric Malone)

14. Blind Willie McTell

15. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · Jul 10

Play a selection from among hundreds of Bob Dylan performances tagged as "favorites" by bobserve users: bobserve.com/pocketsofcha...
Login to tag your own favorites by tapping the star next to any song in a setlist

Page at bobserve.com showing "five songs favorited by anyone"

Bobserve. Com screenshot showing menu for how to access randomized audio page

bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · Jul 5

I can kind of see how they got there, though, to be fair

bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · Jul 5

Bob Dylan song title caption fail... Big if true!

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · Jun 23

Good quality video links for most of last night's Bob Dylan concert

June 22, 2025
Cincinnati, Ohio
Riverbend Music Center

bobserve.com/setlist?even...

June 22, 2025
Cincinnati, Ohio
Riverbend Music Center
Concert - Outlaw Music Festival: 10th Anniversary Tour

1. Gotta Serve Somebody
2. Simple Twist Of Fate
3. Forgetful Heart (Bob Dylan, Robert Hunter)
4. Axe And The Wind (Willie Dixon)
5. To Ramona
6. Early Roman Kings
7. Under The Red Sky
8. I'll Make It All Up To You (Charlie Rich)
9. All Along The Watchtower
10. 'Til I Fell In Love With You
11. Desolation Row
12. Love Sick
13. Share Your Love With Me (Alfred Braggs, Deadric Malone)
14. Blind Willie McTell
15. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

via https://bobserve.com/setlist?event=4764

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · Jun 23

Come get your own digital golden ticket, like Henry here!

Henry B 🎸🖖🏻✡️🔧 @henrybernstein.bsky.social · Jun 22

There's nothing like going to bobserve to add your latest show☺️

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · May 26

(Does not count private concerts, corporate gigs, guest appearances, etc.). Only regular concerts.

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · May 26

Confirmed: May 25 '25 was Bob Dylan's shortest concert since Jun '88 (7 songs).

Next shortest: 9-song sets:

Jul 17, '94 cut short for rain bobserve.com/setlist?even...

Jul 27, '95 opened for Rolling Stones bobserve.com/setlist?even...

July 4, '05 Willie Nelson Picnic bobserve.com/setlist?even...

2025-05-25 George, WA

Bob Dylan setlist at bobserve.com

bobserve.com

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · May 24

Bob Dylan sings Happy Birthday, 1986

Lots more here:
bobserve.com/songinfo?id=...

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · May 24

It's a good day to listen to Happy Birthday as performed at various Bob Dylan concerts.

Here: bobserve.com/songinfo?id=...

Recent audio links added to bobserve.com

Various Happy Birthday performance links to audio

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · May 16

Bob Dylan played Rick Nelson's Garden Party last night (May 15), a song he talked about in 1986:

"This is the very stage where Ricky Nelson got booed off for singing Garden Party, this is the one, the very one."
bobserve.com/setlist/bobt...

Bobtalk
July 17, 1986
New York, New York
Madison Square Garden
Concert

I wanna play a real special song here in this special place. This is the very stage where Ricky Nelson got booed off for singing
Garden Party, this is the one, the very one. Anyway, it gives me a real great pleasure to sing one of Ricky's songs in this place. This
is one that <inaudible> when I was growing up, called Lonesome Town.

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · May 16

Last night Dylan dropped 6 songs, added 10 songs, and left 7 unchanged from the previous concert
bobserve.com/setlist/setc...
#BobDylan

Report listing song changes from previous concert two days ago

Recap in list format: Dropped 6 songs, added 10 songs

bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · May 13

The bobserve charts are now also interactive.

bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · May 13

Upgraded the look of song charts by switching to apexcharts
bobserve.com/songinfo?id=...

Early Roman kings song performance count chart

Rollin and tumblin song performance count chart

I believe in you song performance count chart

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Dag B @dagb.bsky.social · Apr 29

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bobserve (Bob Dylan database) @bobserve.com · Apr 29

Every time Mike Peters played in concert with Bob Dylan: bobserve.com/musician?id=...

Every time The Alarm opened for Bob Dylan: bobserve.com/onthebill?id...

The Alarm's Mike Peters Dead At 66

Mike Peters, who found fame in the 1980s as frontman for Welsh rock band the Alarm and co-founded a cancer charity that recruited thousands of stem cell donors, has died. As The Guardian reports, Pete...

www.stereogum.com

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Henry B 🎸🖖🏻✡️🔧 @henrybernstein.bsky.social · Apr 23

Another fun feature on @bobserve.com is seeing the album count. Per the above post, R&RW is my most viewed album. Primarily because Bob played it in full for 5 years straight. Check out my count for "not on an album" and some other 1-2 timers.

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Henry B 🎸🖖🏻✡️🔧 @henrybernstein.bsky.social · Apr 23

I love lists, rankings and stats. Before Bob Dylan's Rough&Rowdy Ways tour, my most heard live songs were Highway 61, Watchtower, BoaTM, LARS, Thunder on the Mountain and Love Sick. Look how things have changed. The most surprising: I'll Be Your 👶 is #1!
Thank you @dylyricus.com @bobserve.com

HI Be Your Baby Tonight
22
Highway 61 Revisited
19
Watching The River Flow
18
When I Paint My Masterpiece
17
Ballad Of A Thin Man
17
To Be Alone With You
16
My_Own Version Of You
16
Mother Of Muses
16
Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
16
I've Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You
16
Contain Multitudes
16
Goodbye Jimmy Reed
16
False Prophet
16
Every Grain Of Sand
16
Black Rider
16
Thunder On The Mountain
15
Summer Days
15
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine).
15
Love Sick
15
Things Have Changed
14
Like A Rolling Stone
14
Gotta Serve Somebody.
14
Crossing The Rubicon
14
All Along The Watchtower
14
Early Roman Kings
13
Soon After Midnight
12
Simple Twist Of Fate
12
Tangled Up In Blue
11
It Ain't Me, Babe
11
High Water (For Charley Patton).
11
Workingman's Blues #2
9
Honest With Me
9

Desolation Row
8
Blowin' In The Wind
8
Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
8
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
7
Spirit On The Water
7
Rollin' And Tumblin'
7
Pay In Blood
7
That Old Black Magic
6
She Belongs To Me
6
Jolene
6
Can't Wait
6
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
6
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
5
Forgetful Heart
5
When The Deal Goes Down
4
Tryin' To Get To Heaven
4
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
4
Nettie Moore
4
Maggie's Farm
4
Long And Wasted Years
4
It's Alright, Ma (Im Only Bleeding)
4
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
4
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry.
4
Duquesne Whistle
4
Cold Irons Bound
4
Blind Willie McTell
4
Waitin' For You
3
Under The Red Sky.
3
The Times They Are A-Changin
3
The Man In Me
3
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
3
Sugar Baby.
3
Stella Blue
3

Stay With Me
3
Six Days On The Road
3
Shooting Star
3
Scarlet Town
3
Mr. Blue
3
Melancholy Mood
3
Man In The Long Black Coat
3
Little Queenie
3
Girl From The North Country.
3
Visions Of Johanna
2
Truckin'
2
This Dream Of You
2
The Levee's Gonna Break
2
Silvio
2
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
2
Positively 4th Street
2
Po' Boy.
2
Not Dark Yet
2
Moonlight
2
Million Miles
2
Make You Feel My Love
2
Lenny Bruce
2
Lay Lady Lay.
2
It's All Good
2
If You Ever Go To Houston
2
Down Along The Cove
2
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
2
Chimes Of Freedom
2
Cat's In The Well
2
Born In Chicago
2
Boots Of Spanish Leather
2
Big River
2
Ballad Of Hollis Brown
2

Ain't Talkin'

Why Try To Change Me Now?
1
What Good Am I?
1
Tombstone Blues
1
To Ramona

The Wicked Messenger
1
The September Of My Years
1
The End Of The Innocence
1
Tell Me That It Isn't True

Sing Me Back Home

San Diego Serenade
1
Once Upon A Time
1
Old Man
1
New York State Of Mind
1
My Back Pages

Mr. Tambourine Man

Masters Of War

Lonesome Day Blues

Knockin' On Heaven's Door
1
Killing Floor
1
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
1
Just Like A Woman

Joey.
1
Jesus Gonna Be Here
1
I'll Remember You
1
I Feel A Change Comin' On
1
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
1
I Believe In You
1
Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking

Forty Days and Forty Nights

Forever Young

Bye And Bye
1
Brown Sugar
1
Autumn Leaves
1
'Til I Fell In Love With You
1

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