{"id":491696,"date":"2019-10-29T10:34:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T16:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=905174"},"modified":"2019-10-29T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T16:34:27","slug":"flashback-bob-dylan-and-tom-petty-perform-lenny-bruce-in-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-bob-dylan-and-tom-petty-perform-lenny-bruce-in-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Bob Dylan and Tom Petty Perform \u2018Lenny Bruce\u2019 in 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pettydylan.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-dylan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-dylan\" data-tag=\"bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan<\/a> made some pretty significant changes to his live show earlier this month when he added drummer Matt Chamberlain and guitarist Bob Britt into to the mix. Gone from the band is drummer George Recile, who played continuously for Dylan (onstage and in the studio) since he joined in 2001. No drummer in history has played even close to that many shows with Dylan. Chamberlain \u2014 best known for his work with Tori Amos, Pearl Jam, and the <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> band \u2014 has never played with Dylan before, but Britt did contribute to the <em>Time out of Mind<\/em> sessions in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The set list was also reworked in some small, but significant ways. \u201cBeyond Here Lies Nothin&#8217;\u201d sometimes takes the place of \u201cThings Have Changed\u201d as the opener and he\u2019s brought \u201cNot Dark Yet\u201d and \u201cLenny Bruce\u201d into the regular set. The latter song was recorded for 1981\u2019s <em>Shot of Love<\/em> and was a regular part of his show in the 1980s. Here\u2019s a video of him singing it with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tom-petty\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-petty\" data-tag=\"tom-petty\">Tom Petty<\/a> and the Heartbreakers on their 1986 co-headlining tour.<\/p>\n<p>Much like \u201cGeorge Jackson,\u201d \u201cHurricane,\u201d and \u201cJoey,\u201d the song is a straight-forward tribute to a man that Dylan greatly admired. \u201cI saw [Lenny Bruce] perform in the early Sixties, around 1963, before he got caught up in all that legal stuff,\u201d Dylan said in 1986. \u201cHe\u2019s someone who\u2019s never really been attributed the respect he deserves for what he did and the influences he had on so many people. Guys like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy, they owe such a huge debt to him, but no one makes the same fuss about him as they do about all those other guys that died before they should have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this month, Dylan hadn\u2019t played the song live since 2008. It\u2019s likely to stay in the show as the tour continues during the next six weeks, wrapping up December 8th at the Anthem in Washington, D.C. Dylan then takes a break before heading over to Japan in April 2020 for 10 shows in Tokyo and three in Osaka. He\u2019ll be pretty close to his 79th birthday by that point, but at this point it\u2019s easy to imagine him touring long into his 80s. Unlike Lenny Bruce, he\u2019s been fortunate to have an extremely long career.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bob-dylan-tom-petty-lenny-bruce-905174\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan made some pretty significant changes to his live show earlier this month when he added drummer Matt Chamberlain and guitarist Bob Britt into to the mix. Gone from the band is drummer George Recile, who played continuously for Dylan (onstage and in the studio) since he joined in 2001. No drummer in history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 04:44:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}