Bob Dylan post-1990 bootleg recommendations?

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Hi, longtime lurker, first time poster.

Anyone around these parts conversant in Dylan bootlegs? I'm listening to one right now- Romantic Facts Of Musketeers from 1995- that I just picked up cheap at the record store. I'm liking it plenty, but I read a review of it that says there are much better shows from the period, however it does not go on to say which those are.

I've heard enough to know that his harder-rocking mid-1990s-to-the-present live performances are the ones I prefer, but I know nothing about specific shows.

I eagerly await your assistance.

And I apologize if this post breaks any rules. (I searched for a long time and could find no other threads on the topic.)

FunkyTonk, Saturday, 17 November 2012 05:33 (twelve years ago)

three from off the top of my head!
supper club soundboards from 94
bethelehem, PA 12/95 - w/ patti smith. totally fun show, and the acoustic sets from this period are pretty amazing.
fall 2001 tour of europe (portsmouth is the one that really got me into neverending tour dylan)

tylerw, Saturday, 17 November 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago)

Got that Portsmouth one- it's great, thanks so much. Will be looking up the others soon.

FunkyTonk, Thursday, 29 November 2012 08:55 (twelve years ago)

I'm not a specialist in modern Dylan boots (I have a couple from Rolling Thunder and some soundboards from the Before The Flood tour), but I really dig the boot of the 2009 Hollywood Palladium residency. It's got MONSTER drums on All Along The Watchtower, for starters, which is cool. Gives it a Tom Waits military stomp.

And there's a Ballad of a Thin Man where Bob sounds like he always wanted to: a broken-down old hobo. I listen to Thin Man from that boot more than any released versions - for some reason it's so cool to me to hear it as a mean old-man blues-rock number. One of the songs where his bar band schtick pays off. I'm not gonna try to argue it's definitive or anything, but it's a song that really suits him as a 70-year-old dude.

Everything You Like Sucks, Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago)

I was there at the Palladium for one of those shows. The best one of the four (I think) of his shows I've seen, but hardly truly classic or anything. Maybe I got the dud of the residency.

FunkyTonk, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago)

There are a few good fanmade comps of varioous tours -- Bathed in a Stream of Pure Heat from 1997 has a really good selection of tunes, including this kind of amazing one-off "Long Black Veil."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgdowk2VFzY

tylerw, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago)

Pathway to the Stars from 2000 is great too, has a bonkers Tambourine Man iirc. The comps do a good job of finding the best performances of the standards + the weirdo rarities.

tylerw, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago)

Oooh, thanks, Bathed in a Stream of Pure Heat sounds fantastic. Now to find it!

FunkyTonk, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago)


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