Bob Dylan
Toad's Place
New Haven, Connecticut
12 January 1990
CD-r's rec'd in trade -> flac

1.    Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Joe South)
2.    One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
3.    Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
4.    Trouble No More (McKinley Morganfield)
5.    I've Been All Around This World (trad.)
6.    Political World
7.    Where Teardrops Fall
8.    Tears Of Rage (Bob Dylan & Richard Manuel)
9.    I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
10.   It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
11.   Everybody's Movin' (Glen Trout)
12.   Watching The River Flow
13.   What Was It You Wanted?
14.   Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie (Elizabeth Cotton)

15.   Lenny Bruce
16.   I Believe In You
17.   Man Of Peace
18.   Across The Borderline (Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson)
19.   Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
20.   All Along The Watchtower           
21.   Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
22.   Political World
23.   What Good Am I?
24.   Wiggle Wiggle
25.   Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
26.   Pay The Price (Moon Martin)
27.   Help Me Make It Through The Night (Kris Kristofferson)
28.   Man In The Long Black Coat

29.   Congratulations
30.   Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen)
31.   Lonesome Whistle Blues (Hank Williams-Jimmy Davies)
32.   Confidential (Dolinda Morgan)
33.   In The Garden
34.   Everything Is Broken
35.   So Long, Good Luck And Goodbye (Weldon Rogers)
36.   Where Teardrops Fall
37.   Political World
38.   Pretty Peggy-O (trad. arr. Bob Dylan)
39.   I'll Remember You
40.   Key To The Highway (Charles Segar/Willie Broonzy)
41.   Joey (Bob Dylan & Jacques Levy)

42.   Lay Lady Lay
43.   I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
44.   When Did You Leave Heaven? (W. Bullock/R. Whiting)
45.   Maggie's Farm
46.   I've Been All Around This World (trad.)
47.   In The Pines (Huddie "Leadbelly" Leadbetter)
48.   Highway 61 Revisited
49.   Precious Memories (arr. by Bob Dylan)
50.   Like A Rolling Stone

Concert # 171 of The Never-Ending Tour.  First concert of the 1990 Fastbreak Tour. 1990 concert # 1.

Concert # 93 with the second Never-Ending Tour band: Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), G. E. Smith (guitar), Tony Garnier (bass), Christopher Parker (drums).

2, 23  Bob Dylan harmonica.
35, 47  G.E. Smith (back-up vocal).
47, 48  G.E. Smith (electric slide guitar).

OLOF'S NOTES:

"Toad's Place, New Haven, Connecticut.  4 hours.  Many covers, first time songs, requests taken with a smile. This is really a long public rehearsal and no acoustic set is included."

The show had four sets:

Set   songs  time

I     1-11   55

II    12-20  40

III   21-34  65

IV    35-50  80

1, 4-7, 14, 21, 30, 40  are all live debuts.

BobTalk:

Like I said, we're just working on the endings tonight, that's all we're doing. (before Political World).

Here's a request for ????. Every once in a while we do requests. (before Lenny Bruce).

People say this is one of my religious songs. I'm not really sure that's what it is though. We're gonna play it anyway. It's called "Sometimes Satan Comes as A Man of Peace".

All right, we're gonna take a request now. (before In The Garden).

OK, we're working on the song endings tonight. We're gonna do this song just to see if we can end it right. We're living in a political world everybody knows that. If you don't know that WHAT ARE YOU?

What song do you want to hear? A ballad song? I'll think of one ... Joey? Joey? Ha! Joey! OK, it'll take all night. You sing it You sing it! We'll play for you if you sing it. Joey... OK, Joey. Here's a song about ... sort of a hero story. God knows there's so few heroes left. We'll give it a bash and see if we can...

This is one of my few romantic songs. Romance does not really play that big a part in my life, but it used to. (before Lay Lady Lay)

Thank You! You've been very kind, 'cause we're just working on the song endings. You were very sympathetic! (before Like A Rolling Stone).

Stereo audience recording, 240 minutes.


MY NOTES: This show is memorable for a couple reasons: 50 songs. The one and only live performance by Dylan of a Traveling Wilbury's song ("Congratulations.") The (one and only?) rehearsal-cum-concert open to the general public. One of the last "club" appearances (Toad's Place holds a few hundred, if that.) Live debuts of "Political World," "Where Teardrops Fall," "Tight Connection to My Heart," as well as many covers. Not to mention the first concert of the 1990s and the Fastbreak Tour. 

That being said, this IS a rehearsal and there is a real loose feel to it, almost as wild as the audience that just cannot believe their luck in getting to be at this show. Your first listen is always the most appealing because it's just so different and joyous; after that, it's kinda one for the vaults.

Sound: B/B- audience
Show: B/B+ for the performance; A for the setlist.
Artwork: http://www.bobsboots.com/CDs/cd-t30.html