NateW wrote:
[quote="marker"]I know for certain that in 1981, Bob and Co. professionally recorded this show but it's never surfaced.
That said, this incredible concert has always circulated in high quality but my point in that is that I really
think this would be a perfect candidate for a Bootleg Series entry.
Interspersing his older material with brilliantly solid selections from his three Gospel albums, it would be a perfect
re-assessment of this underrated period.
Just listen to this fiery deliverance of this song which opened the concert!! Bob is on fire here and the band is super tight
with the Queens just tearing it up!!!
It's a brilliant opening to a powerhouse evening that may be my favorite of that phenomenal year....
London England
June 28 1981
https://www.sendspace.com/file/byhaekThanks for sharing that. Loved it. Not sure if this was common in his live performances at the time, but I think it's really interesting that he dropped "hafta" from the chorus. Rather than an air of forced subservience, it now strikes me as a more basic statement about how things are. Every action, every choice serves a specific end that you desire. To live and act at all is to take steps in one direction or another. It's up to us to choose whether that is towards love, or hate, good or evil, and the labels that we apply to ourselves or that are applied to us by others, have nothing to do with it.
Interesting.