Righteous to Me Box Set discs from srk, review by gopherstick Campo Sportivo Pisa, Italy 26 June 1993 Disc 1 [78:46] 1. Hard Times [6:12] 2. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again [9:01] 3. All Along The Watchtower [6:40] 4. Just Like A Woman [8:18] 5. Tangled Up In Blue [12:38] 6. Lay Lady Lay [7:56] 7. Watching The River Flow [6:21] 8. Little Moses [6:14] 9. Tomorrow Night [5:58] 10. Gates Of Eden [8:23] Disc 2 [62:44] 1. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [8:40] 2. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 [6:34] 3. I And I [9:18] 4. Simple Twist Of Fate [10:57] 5. Maggie's Farm [8:52] 6. What Good Am I? [7:39] 7. Girl From The North Country [10:40] Concert # 488 of The Never-Ending Tour. Concert # 8 of the 1993 Europe Summer Tour. 1993 concert # 32. Concert # 32 with the 9th Never-Ending Tour Band: Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar), John Jackson (guitar), Tony Garnier (bass), Winston Watson (drums & percussion 1, 8-11, 17 acoustic with the band 5, 9-11, 14, 17 Bob Dylan harmonica 1, 8 Bucky Baxter (accordion). 7 new songs (41%) compared to previous concert. 2 new songs for this tour NOTES: Some track transitions are not entirely seamless D1 T2: [5:44 - 9:01] volume dips (adjusted) D1 T3: [0:23] dropout D2 T7: [10:35 - 10:40] dead runoff SOUND: Good. Everything is a balanced and the vocals are upfront. There is, as usual, a trifle muffled and compressed (or canned might be a better word for it) effect to the works, but it's punchy and has some charge to it, this is nice. COMMENTS: What the hell kind of breakdown is going on in Watchtower? 'Break down' is more like it, that's the same noise my 1970 Nova used to make on really cold mornings. I can't remember the last time I looked at my speakers and told Bob to shut up. Out loud, how mental is that? I did at the end of Tangled, for some reason I couldn't take the yelling and I just snapped. Nice long, long harp, though. Bob is singing okay on this, but he's not exactly killing anything. What's better than having Bob butcher the intro to Lay Lady Lay with awful guitar, only to have it throw off his timing and his vocals make you laugh and shake your head? Not much, that was so bad it was worth sitting through. Nearly seven minutes of the worst guitar you're likely to hear from Bob, my word. Wow, Bob actually thanks the crowd after Little Moses, sad that that's news, but it is Bob, after all. I was listening to Good As I Been To You earlier today and they really caught his voice well on that album. It's no wonder he decided to play a few of those tunes every night here in 1993, and maybe that's a good indicator of whether or not you'll enjoy these acoustic sets: If you like that record, you'll probably love these acoustic sets, simple as that. I spun Gates of Eden twice and both times I lost track of how many verses he sang, he blows harp for so long I ended up losing what went before, that was odd. Bob's timing is off again on Don't Think Twice, it sounds as if his head isn't totally in the game here. He gets behind then yells double-time to try to catch up, not a good formula. I and I suffers the same fate, but all at once Bob calms down and lets a marvelous Simple Twist and What Good Am I? escape. I've said it a bunch and it bears repeating that it's disarming how fast Bob can go from sucking to singing so well, so beautifully, what a trip. I dare you to hunker down and spin What Good Am I? and tell me his vocals suck...consider this an official challenge, from me to you. Ignore his clunky guitar solo and the nearly four minutes of plotless, messy jamming, I'm talking about his vocals. Hey, another scarce Girl From the North Country ending, it's great not to hear It Ain't Me, Babe for a change. And a fairly good version, mellow and well done. BOTTOM LINE: This show is back-loaded with highlights and you have to wade through some average water to get to them, but they're there, and worth hearing. (you can even skip ahead on the cd, I won't say a word, and you won't lose your Hardcore Fan merit badge, I'll see to that) 4e7db4eb9c96079c5049a14db14ed311 *bd930626_d2t07.shn ef7fb9b3f2d2d6ab4ec0ee4ed91c0b73 *bd930626_d1t01.shn 4b8b251112b61841ad6c7a415c20854f *bd930626_d1t02.shn 90cc16ffededeceac6507fde2349ae6f *bd930626_d1t03.shn 3e144ed121ba183f6ee09a20fb65265d *bd930626_d1t04.shn a037ecc5596658c2f57d323068100bf9 *bd930626_d1t05.shn a679af514ff859cd4cf6bd14dfcaca93 *bd930626_d1t06.shn cdb10d78d7fe3ae3ef99cdaf93334566 *bd930626_d1t07.shn c55f1439f1a94f3b7790ccaa33fc7ca2 *bd930626_d1t08.shn 4b124f011cdf2ae58a1d53dbbfac719d *bd930626_d1t09.shn 5e6ee34202441df7790dfa96b25bb938 *bd930626_d1t10.shn a9a2ffef38bc7b7d15dec7d1a290f94e *bd930626_d2t01.shn ca941c8a196f15c6e391dcdb71485c84 *bd930626_d2t02.shn bf9e45bac0f8cfef6a03f86bd36a8824 *bd930626_d2t03.shn 4c8b1151dd54b95a4a1849863b706c50 *bd930626_d2t04.shn 0b635c92b8fd45f53b69eaeb1b965d7a *bd930626_d2t05.shn 3b3d9d5a096ffd5a12692a8b5276cece *bd930626_d2t06.shn