Bobtalk

October 12, 1978
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Maple Leaf Gardens
Concert

Thank you! All right! Hope it sounds better down here than it does up here!  (after Is Your Love in Vain?)

Thank you, that was Alan Pasqua on the organ! Steve Douglas on the tenor saxophone! (after Tangled up in Blue)

Thank you! I first played this song at the Newport Folk Festival, and they booed me right out of town. But I keep playing it anyway, I hope that you like it. It's called I ain't gonna work on Maggie's Farm no more.

Thank you! thank you! We're gonna take a short break right here. You what? This is a song.... Which one you want me to do? Ok, we're gonna do this song, it's a song I recorded with The Band. Remember The Band ? Anyway we did an album awhile back called Planet Waves. Sold about 12 copies. Anyway ha ha, ... anyway we'll see you in a short while. (before Going, Going, Gone)

Thank you. This is a new song I wrote a while ago, called Am I Your Stepchild ?

Thank you! Thank you! I want say hello to my good friend Billy Eckstine who's here tonight. Turn the spotlight on Billy Eckstine. Anyway, Bill I hope you're feeling all right. (before Girl From The North Country)

Thank you. I'm sure there's a message there somewhere. Here's one, straight out of the book of Genesis. (plays All Along The Watchtower) That was All Along The Watchtower, David Mansfield on the violin. I wanna say hello to Ronnie Hawkins if he's still here. If he's still around I want him to know he's a great artist.

Thank you! I know you wanna know who's playing the drums tonight. Well I'm gonna tell you folks, that's right. On the drums tonight, ladies and gentlemen give him a warm hand please, Ian Wallace. On the bass guitar, Mr. Jerry Scheff. On the keyboards, the one and only Alan Pasqua. On the lead guitar, brilliant guitar player, lead guitar, plays it all, Mr. Billy Cross. On the rhythm guitar, a man who doesn't speak a word of English, ladies and gentlemen, from Tombstone, Arizona, one of the founders of outlaw music, give him a warm hand please, Mr. Steven Soles. On the violin and the mandolin, sometimes lead electric guitar, a young man who's been with me for five years now. He's fifteen years old. Has a great future, doesn't smoke dope, drink whiskey or go out with women. He's a very pure boy! Well, he's pure in his musical mind. Anyway, give him a warm hand, David Mansfield. On the tenor saxophone, the phenomenal Steve Douglas. All right, on the backup vocals tonight. On the right my cousin, Jo Ann Harris. On the other side, my current girlfriend, Carolyn Dennis. And in the middle, my fiancée, Helena Springs. On the conga drums from Detroit the most amazing Miss Bobbye Hall. All right, this is called It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding.

Thank you! We're gonna go now. Anyway, here's another song I recorded with The Band on an album called Planet Waves. Anyway, I wrote it for one of my babies. (before Forever Young)

I Was Young When I Left Home. Golden Stars GZCD 2004

All right. This is a love ballad I wrote a few years ago. About ..., tt's a love ballad about three people in love. (before Tangled Up In Love)

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