BOB DYLAN : FAREWELL BLOOMFIELD 

 

Disc One (49:19)

  1. Gotta Serve Somebody
  2. I Believe In You
  3. Like A Rolling Stone
  4. Man Gave Names To All The Animals
  5. Simple Twist Of Fate
  6. Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody
  7. Girl Of The North Country
  8. Slow Train Coming
  9. Abraham Martin And John
  10. Let's Keep It Between Us

Disc Two (43:05)

  1. Mary From The Wild Moor
  2. Covenant Woman
  3. Solid Rock
  4. Just Like A Woman
  5. The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar
  6. When You Gonna Wake Up
  7. In The Garden
  8. Blowin' In The Wind
  9. City Of Gold

Label : Cuttlefish 

Venue : Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, California, USA

Date : November 15, 1980

Quality : Soundboard Recording (A-)

Review (Bob's Boots) : A good (not great) quality soundboard recording of practically the entire show. The most notable mention of this show is that Mike Bloomfield played guitar on two songs. This was his last concert. Three months later to the day, he was found in his car ... dead of a drug overdose. This disc is quiet enjoyable, albeit a little muffled, and containing some tape hiss. The historical value makes it indispensable.

Review (AllMusic) : On November 15, 1980, guitar legend Mike Bloomfield joined longtime friend and sometimes collaborator Bob Dylan on-stage during Dylan's performance at San Francisco's Fox Warfield Theater. It would prove Bloomfield's final live performance when three months later to the day he was found dead in his car of a drug overdose. The two-disc bootleg set Farewell Bloomfield captures the Fox Warfield set in its entirety, and the undeniable highlight is a blistering rendition of the landmark "Like a Rolling Stone," which Dylan and Bloomfield first recorded in 1965. Bloomfield also appears on the scorching "Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar," a classic B-side evoking Dylan's mid-'60s apex. The remainder of the set focuses largely on the gospel-inspired material written following Dylan's conversion to Christianity, with a handful of warhorses like "Simple Twist of Fate" and "Just Like a Woman" sprinkled in for good measure. It's a good if not great show most noteworthy for its tragic historical resonance, with so-so sound quality to boot.