Commentary Bobtalk
Bob Dylan's spoken words at concerts.
February 11,
1986
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
Sydney Entertainment Centre
Concert
1. Train Of Pain (Bob Dylan?)
Thank you!
Thank you. The name of that song, of course, was Trust Yourself. If you hadn’t guessed.
6. That Lucky Old Sun (Haven Gillespie, Beasley Smith)
All right, thank you all. I wanna introduce to you right now, one of America’s last great rock ‘n’ roll bands, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
Thank you! You know what that song is about, don't you? It's about the Philippines. I wrote that over 20 years ago. You see and it's all happening right now. Maybe it was written before it's time. A lot of songs you're going to hear tonight, too, they were written way before their time. Except for this one. This one is right on time.
9. Girl From The North Country
10. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
We played that already, you missed it, you got here late. We got a song that we wanna play for you, ‘cause it’s kind of like the music we were raised on. We have no idea where all this music nowadays comes from. Of course the song like, "It’s Alright, Ma", that one came out of Nashville, anyway 'cause that's all they ever say in that state, "It's alright, ma." (Strums guitar.) Whoa, ha! Tom Petty's coming back out, give a hand for him.
11. I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know (Cecil A. Null)
We had to do that song ‘cause… Heh. we both sing about the same person. (Audience shouts) Told you man, you missed it.
13. House Of The Risin' Sun (Traditional)
All right, thank you. That was called "House Of The Risin’ Sun." You’ll find it in New Orleans if you ever take a trip down there.
14. When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
Thank you!
15. Seeing The Real You At Last
How are you all doing out there? Play it all. You know we can't play it all. We just have to pick out certain ones, you know. Got any individuals in the crowd tonight? Anybody out there who thinks for themselves? Aw, I see. Well, don't let anybody take that away now. Oh, it's thing, isn't it? When put trips on you that they don’t understand. Ain't that the truth? Anybody out there that's misunderstood in any kind of way? Hmm, you’re a lucky bunch of people. Me, I'm misunderstood all the time. Just about everything I do is misunderstood. It gets hard you know. Sometimes even your best friends don't understand. Has that ever happened to anybody out there? Hmm, maybe once in a while, right? Well, let me tell you it's OK to be misunderstood. All anybody can do is kill you, right? All you can do is die, ain't that right? That's not such a bad thing. There's a lot of things worse than death. Is that right or not? Hmm. I don't know, maybe it's not. I guess if nobody agrees with me, maybe it's not right. I'd hate to fall out of agreement with anybody. I guess this world is run on people who are always in agreement with everybody, ain't that right? People just do what they wanna do anyway. Anyway, this is a song about somebody who's of, sort of, misunderstood some of the time. For all those people out there I wanna sing this song.
OK. All right. Uncle Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers are gonna play a few more songs for you.
18. Across The Borderline (Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Jim Dickinson)
19. I And I
Thank you! Well now... It's about that time of the evening again, when we have to bid each other adieu. But before I get out of here I gotta sing you all this one song. This is a song about my hero. Everybody got heroes, right? For lots of people Mohamed Ali's a hero, right? Yeah. And Albert Einstein, he was sure was a hero. I guess you could say even Clark Gable was a hero. Michael Jackson, he's a hero, right? Bruce Springsteen. I care nothing about them people though. None of those people are my heroes, they don't mean nothing to me. I'm sorry but that's the truth. I wanna sing a song about my hero.
21. In The Garden
23. Baby (Around And Around) (Bob Dylan?)
Anybody out there…anybody out there know how to tune a guitar? I don't. I forgot how to tune a guitar a long time ago. Anybody out there know how to tune this guitar? Low string. Well, that's good enough for folk music, right. This is a song I wanna play for you now called Money Money Money It's So Hard To Get, Money Money Money It's Faster Spent, Roll 'Em Over Baby And Rock 'Em Dead.
24. Rock 'Em Dead
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