BOB DYLAN : GOTHENBURG 2019

 

Disc One (51:35)

  1. Things Have Changed
  2. It Ain't Me, Babe
  3. Highway 61 Revisited
  4. Simple Twist Of Fate
  5. Can't Wait
  6. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  7. Honest With Me
  8. Tryin' To Get To Heaven
  9. Scarlet Town
  10. Make You Feel My Love

Disc Two (54:45)

  1. Pay In Blood
  2. Like A Rolling Stone
  3. Early Roman Kings
  4. Girl From The North Country
  5. Love Sick
  6. Thunder On The Mountain
  7. Soon After Midnight
  8. Gotta Serve Somebody
  9. Blowin' In The Wind
  10. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

Label : no label

Venue : Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden

Recording Date : June 28, 2019

Quality : Audience recording (A+)

Review : Extremely good audience recording of Bob's 2019 show at the Scandinavium in Sweden.

Concert review (Boblinks) : Quite mixed feelings about the concert. So much positive and a few complaints that unfortunately took so much away from the overall experience. On the positive note, there where refreshing returns of songs, almost all with new arrangements. Many with subtle lyric changes here and there, over to eq. "Gotta Serve Somebody" with all new verses. Great that Bob still find the enthusiasm for changing things up. Melody arrangements have had an overhaul too. Again hats off to Bob for daring changing "Like a rolling stone" and many others but still keeping them great and refreshed. Bob was leading several song on his piano, like the into to "It ain't me babe" and a beautiful short and sweet "Girl from the north country". "Can't wait" was really good and "To make you feel my love" was done well too. However there was some sound problems. In my opinion, they prevented *all* the song from shining as much as they should have had. Charlie's guitar sound didn't come through. The sound from his guitars was barely audible only here and there could his sound be recognised. He was, for the first third of the concert, walking towards the wings to figure out the problem together with a sound engineer. But little did it help. A combination of Bobs phrasing and the audio/sound mixing made his vocal unnecessary blurry. A real pity since it made all the effort with changed lyrics so hard to hear, even for a trained "Bob listening" ear. This combined with the overall sound level at the venue was not loud enough. The low volume didn't serve the experience well at all. The lack of volume prevented otherwise groove songs to shine, like "Highway 61" and "Honest with me" were shadows of themselves and "Pay in blood" could have been so much more too. However the arrangement musically for many songs were really great. He introduced a couple of funky pauses one time that gave extra punch when the song kicked back in. Really cool. A sudden drum solo from George surprised me as well - where did that come from? Bob played some beautiful mouth harp, especially on "Simple twist of fate". "Thunder of the mountain" and "It takes a train.." became highlights too.