Bobtalk

July 3, 1978
Paris, France
Pavillon de Paris
Concert

Merci! This is a new song off our new album. Baby ... Baby, Please Stop Crying.

David Mansfield! On the violin. (after All along the Watchtower)

Thank you! It's now time to introduce the band. I know you know a lot .... wanna know who they are, what you’ve been listening to. On the drums tonight, Ian Wallace. Give him a warm hand. On the bass guitar, a very fine bass guitar player, Jerry Scheff. Thank you. On the keyboards, from Philadelphia, Alan Pasqua. From Mobile, Alabama, on lead guitar, Billy Cross. On the conga drums, from Detroit, Bobbye Hall. All right, on the rhythm guitar, a young man with a great future, for sure, Steve Soles. And on the mandolin and the guitar a young man you met earlier, David Mansfield. On the tenor saxophone, a young man who gave up a career as a airline scientist to play in this band, Steve Douglas. On the background vocals tonight, on the left, my fiancée Carolyn Dennis. All right! Carolyn Dennis! On the right, I also forget my fiancée’s name! On the right, Jo Ann Harris. And in the middle, another woman, a young lady actually, has a great future and a wonderful behind, Helena Springs. All right this is called, it's a song I wrote and recorded in New York City not too long ago. It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding.

Thank you. Thank you very much. We'll play this one right at the very end. [audience chants Une autre! Une autre! Une autre!] It must be somebody's birthday. All right, we'll play this last song, it’s a song I recorded with The Band on an album called Planet Waves. (before Forever Young)

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