Bob Dylan
Jäähalli
Helsinki, Finland
30 May 1989

SOURCE : AUD recording of unknown generation  
LINEAGE : CDR>EAC>WAV>MKW>SHN 
NOTES : very good+ sound, hard edit between t8-9 followed by tracks perhaps from another source(?),
track break between t9-10 

TRACKLIST [1:17:42]
1.  Subterranean Homesick Blues
2.  Confidential (Dolinda Morgan)
3.  Ballad Of Hollis Brown
4.  Just Like A Woman
5.  Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
6.  All Along The Watchtower
7.  To Ramona
8.  Mr. Tambourine Man
9.  Eileen Aroon (trad., arr. Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem)
10. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
11. Silvio (Bob Dylan & Robert Hunter)
12. In The Garden
13. Like A Rolling Stone
14. The Times They Are A-Changin'
15. Maggie's Farm
 
Concert # 74 of The Never-Ending Tour.  Third concert of the 1989 Tour Of Europe.

Concert # 74 with the first Never-Ending Tour Band: Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), G. E. Smith (guitar), Kenny Aaronson (bass), Christopher Parker (drums).

First performance of Confidential.  

http://www.bjorner.com/DSN09850%20-%201989%20Europe%20Summer%20Tour.htm#DSN09870


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Excerpts from "Performing Artist, 1986*1990 & beyond" by Paul Williams, p. 215 - 218 --

The third show, however, in Helsinki, Finland, May 30, sounds terrific.  Dylan's vocals and his
harmonica playing are exemplary, and his rapport with the band, and with co-guitarist Smith on 
the acoustic songs, seems much improved over many of the 1988 shows.  Helsinki is a tape worth 
pursuing (imagine a version of "All Along the Watchtower"" noteworthy just for the excellence
and inventiveness of the harmonica parts) and, along with Athens (the last show of the 
European leg, June 28), a solid example of the spring '89 tour at its best.  The Never Ending 
Tour was starting to do what it would do well for at least another thirteen years: provide 
accidental art able to please and to speak to listeners miles and years away from the space-
time location of the original performance.  (p. 215)

...

Even though Dylan could barely be seen by the Helsinki crowd under his big hood on the darkened
stage in May 1989, he presumably could see and hear them - and listening to the tape of this 
show you can feel him responding to their presence (and to his ideas about their ability and
willingness to react spontaneously) as he expresses himself very freely through his band and his 
voice and his harmonica playing... (p. 218)