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Bob Dylan’s Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour continues! Show 4: Copenhagen

Read the setlist for his show at Copenhagen's Royal Arena

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Bob Dylan ‘s Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour continues to make its way through Europe.

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Last night [September 30], Dylan and his band performed at Copenhagen’s 16,000-capacity Royal Arena.

Previously, the tour has stopped at:

Oslo Spektrum, Norway on September 25

Avicii Arena, Stockholm on September 27

Scandinavium, Gothenburg on September 29

According to Boblinks , the setlist for Dylan and his band in Copenhagen was:

Watching The River Flow (Bob on piano) Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine) (Bob on piano) I Contain Multitudes (Bob on piano) False Prophet (Bob on piano) When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob on piano with full backing band) Black Rider (Bob on piano) My Own Version of You (Bob on piano) I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob on piano) Crossing The Rubicon (Bob on piano) To Be Alone With You (Bob on piano) Key West (Philosopher Pirate) (Bob on piano) Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob on piano) I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You (Bob on piano) That Old Black Magic (Bob on piano) Mother of Muses (Bob on piano) Goodbye Jimmy Reed (Bob on piano) — Band introductions (Bob on piano) Every Grain of Sand (Bob on harp and piano)

After opening the tour in Oslo with a stripped-back version of “ When I Paint My Masterpiece “, Dylan has since reverted to the full full-band version. However, posters on Expecting Rain have noted a new arrangement for “ False Prophet “, which Dylan introduced in Sweden. According to poster nanook82 on Expecting Rain , this new version is “kind of slower, but without losing intensity. Really brought the lyrics to the forefront and allowed for more interesting phrasing.”

nanook82 also attending the Copenhagen show, where some drama unfolded during the show. “Someone in the audience fell ill and was carried off on a stretcher during I’ve Made Up My Mind, hope they’re ok! Bob must have noticed since it all happened right in front of him – somehow it seemed to push his singing to new levels on that song.”

Dylan’s next show is on Sunday, October 2 in Flensburg , Germany. He reaches the UK on October 19, for a 12-date tour that includes four nights at the London Palladium . This will be Bob’s first UK tour for five years.

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Expecting Rain: Meeting Place For Bob Dylan Fans

One of the great music resources on the web is ExpectingRain.com , a site curated by its founder Karl Erik Andersen that’s devoted to Bob Dylan as well as related topics that pass muster via Andersen’s lens. Each day, he reads through scores of email submissions–largely sent to him by his devoted following–of stories, videos and more. It’s become an indispensable read for features and news.

Andersen did an interview that originally appeared on the CBC Music  website in 2012. It was conducted by Vish Khanna , a musician and editor, who has also worked as a host and producer at CBC Radio. (He also hosts a topical interview podcast called  Kreative Kontrol .) We’re grateful to Khanna and Andersen for allowing us to re-run a slightly updated version.

The words “expecting rain” are in the lyrics to Dylan’s 1965 opus “Desolation Row,” from the  Highway 61 Revisited album.

Karl Erik Andersen

How would you describe ExpectingRain.com in terms of what it does for Bob Dylan fans? KEA: ExpectingRain.com is a hub and a meeting place for Dylan appreciators. Daily updates on all matters surrounding Bob Dylan and the musical styles he works in ensure that a visit a day keeps you informed ahead of the general media trickle down of news.

When and why did you start this site? What is the nature of your personal relationship with Dylan’s music and seeing him live? Oh, and where are you based? KEA: I started the site in 1994 because I loved a girl. She wanted me to make still frame photos of the art used in Dylan’s “Jokerman” video, and I found the Internet and made a web page for the scans. I started following the news group rec.music.dylan and was impressed by the extent of discussion and interest centered around Bob Dylan. At that time I only had one Dylan book, the Anthony Scaduto biography from 1972, and it was a revelation to discover there was bookshelf upon bookshelf of Dylan literature that I did not know about.

From there it seemed a good idea to collect and preserve meaningful posts from rec.music.dylan and not only keep it on my own hard drive, but also make the contents of that hard drive accessible to others. So I used the Mac at work to set up a web server which became among the first ten thousand web sites in the world. After a few years with the server on my desktop Mac at the National Library in Mo i Rana, Norway under the Arctic Circle, I moved it to a U.S. hosting service. In 2016 I moved myself to Oslo.

To me, it’s always been the ultimate online Dylan resource. What kind of feedback have you gotten about it from fans and perhaps even the Dylan camp? Can you recommend complementary Dylan sites? KEA: The feedback from visitors has been gratifying. [Andersen has saved some messages; excerpts of several are included at the end of this article.] As for other Dylan sites, I have to admit that I don’t have time to read any other sites than the ones I carry links to. But I must mention Bill Pagel’s BobLinks.com , where you can always find last night’s playlist after a Dylan concert.

This site seems like a lot  of work. How are you able to maintain it? Is this your main gig so to speak? KEA: The site is a lot of work. I do have a full time day job, but ExpectingRain.com means I have no problems finding things to do with my free time. I have updated the site with daily news since the year 2000. I spend some time every morning, afternoon and evening adding new links of interest. Most link suggestions come from contributors who dig up much more material than I could hope to find by myself.

Bob Dylan outside his Woodstock home in 1968 © Landy Vision. Used with permission.

Let me add that a large part of the appeal of the site is the forum called Expecting Rain Discussions with 26,000 registered members and 1.5 million posts made. All the credit for the forum must go to the members and especially the moderators who are making an invaluable effort to ensure the survival of this meeting place.

Finally, what do you suppose it says about Bob Dylan’s work that inspires fans to create things like ExpectingRain.com? KEA: All this because of Bob Dylan. It is his undisputable greatness that inspires to take part in preserving, protecting and spreading awareness of his work. It is only natural that this is done, and I am happy to be part of this undertaking.

* 2018 update from Karl Erik: My number of Dylan concerts attended is now more than 20!

Selected reader comments to Anderson:

You have created an international community of Dylan listeners, watchers, fans and scholars all of whom share a profound devotion for an artist who has elevated the human condition over a lifetime of dedication to his craft. Thank you, Karl, for bringing us all together in harmony.

Can’t tell you how much your site has meant to me over the past 20 years! Thanks for all your hard work – it is certainly appreciated.

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KEA’s website is as indispensable as my first cup of tea every morning.

This site is absolutely the best regarding Bob and other Greats of the Sixties ! I couldn`t do without it ! Cheers !

Every morning, a cup of coffee with the Dutch news, BBC news and Expectingrain.com. Its been the same for years, and I guess it always will.

This young “Bobcat” began in 10th Grade English Class when our teacher played us “John Wesley Harding”-Been a Bob Fan ever since!

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What to expect when you’re expecting Bob Dylan

We have answers to all of your ‘rough and rowdy ways tour’ queries.

Oh, hello. I was waiting for you.

Not really. I didn’t want to give you the satisfaction of surprising me, was all.

Consider it forgotten. So . . . Bob Dylan. Bobby Z. The Bard of Hibbing. Ol’ Mumble Pants.

. . . Sure?

He’s coming to town, you know. This Friday through Sunday, at the Orpheum.

Indeed. First time in Boston in two years!

What do we think he’ll do?

How so? Like, the songs? The style? The vibe?

Any of it. All of it.

Well, the thing about Bob Dylan is, you never know. That’s sort of his whole deal. When you think he’ll march left, he bolts to the right. When it seems like he’s going up, he slumps down. When it looks like he’s going to zig, he releases a raucous polka-party take on “Must Be Santa.” He likes to keep us on our toes, Mr. Zimmerman does.

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That’s new, right?

What? Where have you been? Dylan has been a chaos-agent wild card ever since he was a Greenwich Village folk singer. Examples of him antagonizing his audience — not just his nebulous audience but the actual, literal audience in front of him — have slipped into legend. Going electric at the Newport Folk Festival. Responding to a disgruntled British folkie’s cry of “Judas!” by directing the Band to “play it [expletive] loud” before launching into the most poisonous version of “Like a Rolling Stone” imaginable. Commemorating his Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award with an incomprehensible “Masters of War” and a rambling, fidgety speech . That sort of thing.

I don’t believe you. You’re a liar.

No, for real, it’s . . . Oh, I see. You’re quoting Dylan’s immediate reply to the “Judas!” thing .

Imagine me winking at you right now.

Nice. OK, respect. But basically, when you’ve made a career of that kind of direct frustration of your audience’s expectations, it makes trying to anticipate what you’ll do at any given performance, if not a fool’s errand then an exercise fraught with potential land mines.

So you know nothing, is what you’re saying in a weirdly roundabout manner.

First of all, rude. Second, not true! First of all, we know the name of the tour.

Wait, I know this! It’s the Never Ending Tour.

No, that’s over.

Of course it is.

Like I said: You never know with this guy. The Never Ending Tour was the (Dy)law of the (Dy)land from 1988 until December 2019 (longer than Johnny Carson was host of “The Tonight Show”). Fittingly enough for a songwriter whose lyrics have squeezed a great deal of mileage out of not just biblical allusions but apocalyptic imagery since “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” in 1963, it took a global plague to finish off the Never Ending Tour. For this post-historical era, Dylan has dubbed his current trek the “Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour,” named after the 2020 release that is, as of this typing, his most recent album of new material. (Again, though, say it with me: You Never Know.)

So what’s the difference, exactly?

Well, there’s that album. Dylan’s been playing substantially the same songs that he played at Milwaukee’s tour kickoff way back in November 2021: the bulk of “Rough and Rowdy Ways” — not including the nearly 17-minute “American Pie”-style JFK-assassination reverie “Murder Most Foul,” which if setlist.fm is to be believed he’s never played even once, the coward — plus a song apiece from albums like “Blonde on Blonde,” “John Wesley Harding,” “Nashville Skyline,” and “Slow Train Coming” alongside a cover or two. If you’ve got tickets, here’s hoping you’re all in on “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” is the point.

Is “Rough and Rowdy Ways” any good?

It’s very good, in fact. A rumpled groan from achy bones rising up to dance one more time. Recommended.

But I want to hear “Tangled Up in Blue.”

“A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall”?

Not likely.

No “Like a Rolling Stone”?

Once upon a time, maybe, but now you’re on your own.

What about . . .

Probably not, but bear in mind that all of this is what we think we know, how this tour has gone in the recent past. As history has taught us time and time again, Dylan lives to confound expectations. We can compare, say, the last time he played Boston — at the Wang Theatre in November 2021 — with, say, the concert he played just this past Monday in Schenectady, N.Y., note that the setlists differed by a mere two songs and consider the case closed. But it’s not that simple. It’s never been that simple.

Because Dylan has, since the day he reinvented himself by adopting a poet’s name and probably well before that, been an artist who has deliberately cultivated opacity. To watch “Dont Look Back” is to see someone working hard to give nothing away, to foreground the myth and obscure the person. And when you’ve done that for six decades and counting, it generates a level of mystique so complex that even when you hew to the utterly mundane — like constructing your live show around your new album and sticking pretty consistently to it — your audience has been trained never to feel like they’re standing on stable ground. They’ve learned not to get used to any one thing, no matter how long that’s been the thing he’s been doing, lest they get too comfortable only to find that things have changed .

Hey, that’s the title of a Dylan song.

It sure is, buddy. It sure is.

Marc Hirsh can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @spacecitymarc.

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Expecting Rain volume one (1988-1994)

In 2011, members of the Bob Dylan Expecting Rain forum conducted a poll to decide on the best 100 live performances of Dylan’s career.

The tracks included on these six volumes are from the Never Ending tour only and include all those that made the final top 100 (56) plus the best tracks from the forum short list. The earlier live recordings (pre-1988) were excluded as two thirds of them

have been officially released.

01. Lakes Of Pontchartrain - Wantagh 30-Jun-88                02. Hallelujah - Montreal 8-Jul-88        03. Barbara Allen - New York City 19-Oct-88    04. Disease Of Conceit - London 8-Feb-90        05. That Lucky Old Sun - Madison 5-Nov-91        06. Most Of The Time - San Jose 9-May-92            07. Tight Connection To My Heart - New York City 17-Nov-93     08. Blood In My Eyes - New York City 17-Nov-93     09. Delia - New York City 17-Nov-93     LB-6207    10. A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall - Nara 22-May-94        11. Ring Them Bells - Nara 22-May-94        12. Mama, You Been On My Mind - Warsaw 19-Jul-94         13. Two Soldiers - Boston 9-Oct-94        14. I Want You - Unplugged 17-Nov-94

Expecting Rain volume two (1994-95)

01. Desolation Row - Unplugged 18-Nov-94    02. Dignity - Unplugged 18-Nov-94     03. Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Unplugged 18-Nov-94     04. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue - Prague 11-Mar-95 05. Shelter From The Storm - Prague 11-Mar-95 06. Mr. Tambourine Man - Prague 11-Mar-95 07. In The Long Black Coat - Prague 11-Mar-95 08. Born In Time - Berkeley 26-May-95    09. Gates Of Eden - Berkeley 26-May-95     10. Restless Farewell - Sinatra 80th 19-Nov-95    11. Dark Eyes - Philadelphia 17-Dec-95

Expecting Rain volume three (1996-2000)

01. My Back Pages - Berlin 17-Jun-96     02. Friend Of The Devil - Berlin 17-Jun-96     03. Lovesick - NYC 25-Feb-98          04. This Wheel’s On Fire - Stockholm 9-Jun-98         05. I And I - Dijon 1-Jul-98         06. The Times We’ve Known - New York City 1-Nov-98       07. Train Of Love - J. Cash Tribute 6-Apr-99    08. Tryin’ To Get To Heaven - Lisbon 7-Apr-99            09. Not Dark Yet - New York City 30 Jul-99            10. Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) - Ithaca 15-Nov-99 11. Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Ithaca 15-Nov-99 12. Blowin’ In The Wind - Santa Cruz 16-Mar-00 13. Song To Woody - Santa Cruz 16-Mar-00   

Expecting Rain volume four (2000-2002)

01. Highlands - Santa Cruz 16-Mar-00 02. Delia - Newcastle 19-Sep-00                    03. The Ballad Of Frankie Lee & Judas Priest - Portsmouth 25-Sep-00 04. Things Have Changed - Portsmouth 25-Sep-00        05. Standing In The Doorway - Paris 3 Oct-00            06. If Dogs Run Free - Asheville 1-May-01                        07. Sugar Baby - Spokane 5-Oct-01                 08. I’ll Remember You - M&A 18-Jul-02            09. Cold Irons Bound - M&A 18-Jul-02                    10. Mutineer - Fairfax 22-Nov-02 11. Accidentally Like A Martyr - Fairfax 22-Nov-02 12. Summer Days - Fairfax 22-Nov-02

Expecting Rain volume five (2003-2005)

01. Dignity - Niagara Falls 23-Aug-03 02. Highwater (for Charley Patton) - Niagara Falls 23-Aug-03                 03. Desolation Row - Berlin 20-Oct-03                    04. The Mighty Quinn - London 23-Nov-03                     05. Jokerman - London 24-Nov-03 06. Romance In Durango - London 24-Nov-03 07. Million Miles - London 24-Nov-03 08. Dear Landlord - London 24-Nov-03 09. Blind Willie McTell - London 25-Nov-03                 10. A Change Is Gonna Come - NYC 28-Mar-04             11. Million Dollar Bash - London 21-Nov-05            12. ‘Til I Fell In Love With You - Dublin 27-Nov-05

Expecting Rain volume six (2005-2010)

01. Boots Of Spanish Leather - Dublin 27-Nov-05 02. Visions Of Johanna - Dublin 27-Nov-05               03. Ain’t Talkin’ - New York City 20-Nov-06            04. Nettie Moore - Santa Monica 3-Sep-08          05. Billy - Stockholm 22-Mar-09          06. Forgetful Heart Tokyo 23-Mar-10    07. The Times They Are A Changin’ - Whitehouse 9-Feb-10        08. Shelter From The Storm - Osaka 13-Mar-10            09. What Good Am I - Linz 12-Jun-10            10. Love Sick - Tampa 7-Oct-10  

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