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October 20, 2007


75 greatest Dylan shows.

On this recent tour The Dylan has passed the 2000th show mark of the Endless Tour, at least the part that began in 1987. Of course there were at least a thousand or two before that. Here via the expecting.rain community is a list of the fans' most highly rated shows. Most of these are available for download somewhere on the web, many at expectingrain. Also try bobboots.com for info on bootlegs.

The Final List: The Top 75 Dylan Concerts

November 4, 1961 – Carnegie Chapter Hall, New York, NY
July 2, 1962 – Finjan Club, Montreal, Quebec
October, 1962 – Gaslight Café, New York, NY
April 12, 1963 – Town Hall, New York, NY
October 26, 1963 – Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
May 7, 1965 – Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England
July 25, 1965 – Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI
September 3, 1965 – Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
December 4, 1965 – Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, CA
April 12, 1966 – Sydney Stadium, Sydney, Australia
May 16, 1966 – Gaumont Theatre, Sheffield, England
May 17, 1966 – Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England
January 20, 1968 – Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert, New York, NY
August 31, 1969 – Isle of Wight, England
February 14, 1974 (afternoon) – The Forum, Los Angeles, CA
October 31, 1975 – War Memorial Auditorium, Plymouth, MA
November 11, 1975 – Palace Theater, Waterbury, CT
November 21, 1975 (evening) – Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA
December 1, 1975 – Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
December 8, 1975 – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
May 3,1976 - The Warehouse New Orleans, Louisiana
May 16, 1976 – Tarrant County Convention Center Arena, Fort Worth, TX
May 23, 1976 – Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
July 6, 1978 – Pavillon de Paris, Paris, France
December 10, 1978 – Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC
November 16, 1979 – Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA
April 20, 1980 – Massey Hall, Toronto, CA
November 15, 1980 – Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA
June 29, 1981 – Earls Court, London, England
July 25, 1981 – Palace des Sports, Avignon, France
November 10, 1981 – Saenger Performing Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
November 12, 1981 – The Summit, Houston, TX
June 28, 1984 – Minestadio, Barcelona, Spain
February 24, 1986 – Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia
September 12, 1987 – Autodroma, Modena, Italy
June 10, 1988 – The Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA
June 30, 1988 – Jones Beach Music Theater, Wantaugh, PA
October 19, 1988 – Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
February 8, 1990 – Hammersmith Odeon, London, England
May 9, 1992 – State University, San Jose, CA
September 12, 1993 – Greet Woods Performing Arts Center, Mansfield, MA
November 16, 1993 (both) – The Supper Club, New York, NY
November 17, 1993 (both) – The Supper Club, New York, NY
August 14, 1994 – Woodstock ’94, West Saugerties, NY
October 8, 1994 – Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA
March 11, 1995 – Congress Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
March 30, 1995 – Brixton Academy, London, England
March 31, 1995 – Brixton Academy, London, England
June 17, 1996 – Tempodrome, Berlin, Germany
December 8, 1997 – Irving Plaza, New York, NY
December 19, 1997 – El Rey Theater, Los Angeles, CA
May 19, 1998 – San Jose Arena, San Jose, CA
June 9, 1998 – Globe Arena, Stockholm, Sweden
April 28, 1999 – Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana, Slovenia
June 14, 1999 – University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
November 14, 1999 – Centrum Arena, Worcester, MA
March 10, 2000 (late) – Sun Theatre, Anaheim, CA
March 15, 2000 – Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA
March 16, 2000 – Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA
September 24, 2000 – Guildhall, Portsmouth, England
September 25, 2000 – Guildhall, Portsmouth, England
October 1, 2000 – Halle Muensterland, Muenster, Germany
October 6, 2000 – Wembley Arena, London, England
October 5, 2001 – Spokane Arena, Spokane, WA
February 9, 2002 – Phillips Arena, Atlanta, GA
October 7, 2002 – Tehama County Fairgrounds, Red Bluff, CA
November 13, 2002 – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
November 23, 2003 – Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England
November 24, 2003 – Hammersmith Apollo, London, England
November 25, 2003 – Brixton Academy, London, England
July 10, 2004 – Estadia Municipal Escribano Castilla, Motril, Spain
November 13, 2004 – Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
November 27, 2005 – The Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
November 12, 2006 – Agganis Arena, Boston, MA
November 20, 2006 – New York City Center, New York, NY





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LINKS / BLOGROLL


THE BLOGOSPHERE

Group blogs and centers

Wood s Lot. Maybe the most consistently interesting weblog out there. Superb selections on all sorts of topics, especially art and literature. Tons of links too.

Blog Sisters, a group blog, with a-z links to individuals. More by the ladies at Blogs by Women.

Good community blogs at Boing Boing, Metafilter and Kuro5hin.

The Wibsite, wiblog.com. British bloggers.

Fairvue Central hosts the Bloggies, awards for best weblogs in different categories from all over the world. See the nominees for 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (in progress).



Iraqi blogs

Today in Iraq.

A Family in Baghdad.

Baghdad Burning.

Healing Iraq.

Salam Pax.

G in Baghdad.

Ishtar talking.

The Mesopotamian.

Iraq at a glance.

Hammorabi.

Nabil's blog.

Baghdadee.

Fayrouz.

Iraq the model.

Iraq and Iraqis.

Road of a nation.

Ihath - Losing myself.

Sun of Iraq.

Back to Iraq.



Individual blogs

Robert Hunter's journal.

Follow Me Here.

Caterina.net.

Avram's journal.

Rebecca's Pocket.

Alas, a Blog.

Weblog Wannabe.

The Rittenhouse Review.

Margaret Cho Blog.

The Oregon Blog.

Angry Bear.

Brad DeLong.

Dohiyi Mir.

Eschaton.

Hullabaloo.

Nathan Newman.

Orcinus.

Steve Gilliard's News Blog.

Tapped.

Tbogg.



Blogging communities

Lists of bloggers in these areas.

Austin, Texas.

Beltway Bloggers, Washington, DC.

Boston, Massachusetts.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Chicago, Illinois.

Dallas Ft. Worth, Texas.

London, United Kingdom.

New York, New York.

San Diego, California.

Seattle, Washington.

St. Louis, Missouri.

Washington, DC.



GENERAL LINKS, NOT BLOGS

News, magazines, reference

The sites where I do my usual news browsing, and get most of my articles and links.

Common Dreams.

Refdesk, info on absolutely everything. A comprehensive newspaper page, listed by US states and countries, and an encyclopedia.

BBC News, BBCi Home, BBC Radio, categories, history topics.

The World News Network, wn.com, gathers news sites from all over the world, country by country.

Wikipedia, online encyclopedia.



The Asian Times.

The Scotsman.

The Moscow Times. Russian perspectives and news. The Russia Post is a World News site with links to other Russian sites.

The Black Commentator.

Aljazeera Net in English.

Outlook India.



GENERAL INTEREST

History, literature, philosophy and other subjects, mostly related to the works in the Galileo Library.

Online Clarity. An I Ching community. Newsletter, readings, etc.

Sacred Books of the East. A 19th century project of eastern literature.

Bartleby.com. Great books online.

Bibliomania. Free online literature and study guides. Lots of classics and reading resources.



THE ARTS

Vincent van Gogh Gallery. Complete paintings and writings, and a nice arts links page. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Bob Dylan, live performances.

Grateful Dead, GD Radio.

David Byrne, radio station.

New Pages. Book and reading related center, lots of alternative publishing links and weblog.

Reading Rat. Reading center with lots of links.

Avid reader web ring.

The Louvre. Other Parisian museums.

The Web Museum, index of artists. Extremely high quality images.

August Rodin web org.

Mark Harden's Artchive.

Emile Kren's Web Gallery of Art.

Artcyclopedia. A fine art search engine. Historical and current, with a nice museum list.

Plagiarist.com poetry archive. Classic and modern plus news, articles, forums, etc. View a random poem.

Rotten Tomatoes. Film center, with collected reviews, ratings and forums.

Aint It Cool News. Movie reviews and previews from a fan's perspective.

Roger Ebert's film reviews.

Scott McCloud. The latest in the world of cartoonists.

YouTube. Video center.



MILD EROTICA

Domai.com. Eolake Stobblehouse's extraordinary, and extremely tasteful, paean to pretty girls, updated daily. Nudity yes, sex definitely not. Nice general purpose links too.

Simple nudes. Lots of links.

Vintage nudes. Pin-ups and other classics.


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