Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour - Oakland, Fox Theater, June 11, 2022
As usual I splatter my thoughts in no particular order: The whole darn show, recorded from within someone’s phone lock bag: https://youtu.be/nwK8kAVNrrI Better recording here: https://youtu.be/wrrPZU_-jjA (this one appears to have been removed) A recording of the previous night: https://youtu.be/P-yNR855s3g I loved the show. My attention was fixed the whole time. Oh my God they ended with a cover of Grateful Dead's "Friend of the Devil" which was amazing. (Better recording: https://youtu.be/YZj3pjskjPU Bootleg recording, from same source as above: https://youtu.be/TmNBhpQtqz8 ) From my post on Expecting Rain : Oh My God, they closed with "Friend of the Devil" on the June 11th Oakland show! Crowd went berserk! The version was absolutely beautiful, one of the best sounding songs of the evening. I was stunned. I was expecting "Every Grain of Sand" (and now I want to hear that live), because I'd read the set lists and I knew...
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I remember old Hawaiian Punch commercials that were similar: "How 'bout a nice Hawaiian Punch?" "Sure," answers the foil, after which he gets it in the nose. I think nowadays people would be protesting like mad about how dangerous the commercials were for children.
Who knows? Maybe that's what happened in the '50s, and why we never heard of Wilkins Coffee before now!