Nice first show Mannheim, West Germany 18 July 1981 1.Saved (Bob Dylan/Tim Drummond) 2.I Believe In You 3.Like A Rolling Stone 4. Till I Get It Right (Red Lane/Larry Henley) 5. Man Gave Names To All The Animals 6. Maggie's Farm 7. Girl From The North Country 8. Ballad Of A Thin Man 9. We Just Disagree (Jim Krueger) 10. Shot Of Love 11. Forever Young Carolyn Dennis: Walk Around Heaven All Day (Cassietta George) 12. The Times They Are A-Changin' 13. Let's Begin (Jim Webb) 14. Lenny Bruce 15. Slow Train 16. Mr. Tambourine Man 17. What Can I Do For You? 18. Solid Rock 19. Just Like A Woman 20. Saved By The Grace Of Your Love (Willie Smith/David Palmer) 21. Watered-Down Love 22. When You Gonna Wake Up 23. Heart Of Mine 24. In The Garden - 25. Blowin' In The Wind 26. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 27. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Thanks for telling the story, Caroline - and Matt. Love hearing how people discover Bob Dylan.

The only time I ever saw Bob Dylan was in 1976 when I was 13: the Rolling Thunder Review with Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez. My parents took me. I heard Dylan all throughout my childhood. Caroline saw him in 1981? Wasn't that his Saved or Slow Train Coming tour, where he only sang and played overtly Christian songs and none of his hits? My best friend from HS saw that tour. He said it was horrible and that half the audience left the stadium before the concert was over. I love so many of his songs (and entire albums -- like "Highway 61 Revisited" and" Blood on the Tracks"), but I never had the slightest desire to see him in concert a second time. Caroline said she knows a lot of people who hate Dylan's voice but she loves it, and so do I. No artist has ever matched his voice so perfectly to his own material than has Dylan. No one sings "Mr. Tambourine Man" or "Desolation Row" better than he does. He had a beautiful, sad, gothic voice that made you feel like it was 4 AM on a rainy Tuesday morning in October. Listening to him I used to be transported "through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, the haunted frightened trees, out to the windy beach, far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow." Unfortunately, his voice has been totally shot for 30 years, but once upon a time it was beautiful. Also, I think he was totally deserving of his Nobel Prize for literature.

Thanks a lot Caroline my first two shows were in Paris July 78 it was overwhelming and i managed to be in the front rows and for the second concert i was just at Bob's feet and he sang Changing of the guards i m thinking too of Tangled up in Blue and i will stop now , i told friends i was sure he would publish something special linked to 78 and i m right 🥰 if you want to exchange more you are welcome