BOB DYLAN : STOCKHOLM 2002

 

Disc One (62:35)

  1. Intro

  2. Humming Bird

  3. The Times they are a-changin'

  4. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 

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

  6. Man Of Constant Sorrow

  7. Lay, Lady, Lay

  8. Solid Rock 

  9. Positively 4th Street 

  10. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

  11. Make You Feel My Love 

  12. Maggie's Farm 

Disc Two (72:54)

  1. Summer Days

  2. Sugar Baby 

  3. Drifter's Escape 

  4. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 

  5. Things Have Changed 

  6. Like A Rolling Stone 

  7. Forever Young 

  8. Honest With Me 

  9. Blowin' In The Wind 

Label : Crystal Cat Records

Venue : The Globe Arena, Stockholm, Sweden

Date : April 5, 2002
Quality : Audience recording (A+)

Review (Bob's Boots) : Four of the new 2002 CC's are released. Here is yet another incredible package of another incredible performance. The packages this year will include the venue poster on the front covers, incredible concert photos, and standard aesthetics. The generic, silk screened discs have the same look as previous years.

Concert Review (BobLinks) : There are some of us who would like to see all of his concerts or most of them or many of them. For practico-economical reasons we do not. We only see him about once a year. Our expectations each time are so high that we cannot possibly be disappointed. The highlight of the concert is when he and his band enter the stage. This highlight lasts for two and a half hours, and gradually fades into new and even higher expectations of seeing him next year. Last year I saw him was in Bergen, where I live. The sun was shining, in a rainy place. It was an unbeatable event. Yet, from a vocal and musical point of view, he beat it in Oslo Spektrum, a horrible room, but irresistible on certain nights. The quality of this concert is difficult to describe. That wild mercury sound? A reviewer of the Forum concert in Copenhagen the day after (M. Davidsson, see below) comes close with his scenario of pots of gold and diamonds behind every tree where the rainbow ends. He and his band managed to turn even All along the watchtower into a high carat performance, with an unforgettable first verse repetition at the end of the song, end of concert. Note. The reviews I saw (Dagbladet, VG, Puls) were enthusiastic, but Norwegian critics would do better if they translated some select American or Danish reviews into Norwegian (with the necessary changes), instead of writing their own. It is for instance not true that Dylan needed a long time to warm up - the journalist perhaps did. Judging from these reports a Dylan concert is like a rolling stones concert, where the journalist sleeps himself through the many real highlights until he wakes up at the sound of jumpin jack flash or similar, and then 'really enjoys it' while the stones are going through the motions before the highlight of the journalist's evening: the fireworks. Now, a Dylan-concert is nothing like that, and should't be in professional ears (Journalists are professional, it is their profession). It may be true that he sometimes has his ups and downs, from a musical point of view (forgetting about the microphone and things like that), in the course of a concert. But this concert was nothing like anything. It was fireworks all the way. An unbeatable event.