Bob Dylan: Give the Anarchist a Cigarette

2002 Dylan/Hawks bootleg on the Wild Wolf label. Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, and Richard Manuel appear on tracks 4 through 16.

Collection of (mostly) electric tracks taken from two of the final three 1965 shows to feature Dylan backed by all five members of The Band -- Boston on October 29th and Hartford on the 30th. (After a return show in Boston on the 31st, Levon packed it in.) Sound isn't really any better than that on Long Distance Operator, recorded December 4th in Berkeley with Bobby Gregg on drums, which means rough going -- an almost 40-year-old audience recording with plenty of dropouts and muffled audience conversation. But, hey, it's the sound of history. Give the Anarchist... includes a version of "Maggie's Farm," which wasn't performed in Berkeley. The final three tracks are lifted from Long Distance Operator. --"Bumbles", Ausust 2002

Tracks

1. She Belongs to Me
2. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
3. Mr. Tambourine Man
4. Tombstone Blues
5. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
6. Maggie's Farm
7. It Ain't Me, Babe
8. Positively Fourth Street
9. Like a Rolling Stone (Bushnell Memorial Auditorium, Hartford, CT, 30 October 1965)
10. Tombstone Blues
11. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
12. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
13. Ballad of a Thin Man (Back Bay Theater, Boston, MA, 29 October 1965)
14. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
15. Long Distance Operator
16. It Ain't Me Babe (Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA, 4 December 1965).

Bob Dylan - Give the Anarchist a Cigarette - 2002 - 78:59 - Wild Wolf 65