{"id":2443005,"date":"2019-04-16T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=822755"},"modified":"2019-04-16T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:05:27","slug":"flashback-bob-dylan-stumbles-his-way-through-dancing-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/flashback-bob-dylan-stumbles-his-way-through-dancing-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Bob Dylan Stumbles His Way Through \u2018Dancing in the Dark\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bruce Springsteen<\/a> has been covering Bob Dylan<\/a> songs in concert since the early Seventies when his pre-fame group the Bruce Springsteen Band would play \u201cIt\u2019s All Over Now, Baby Blue\u201d as part of their club show. And even when Columbia burdened him with the \u201cNew Dylan\u201d moniker after signing him in 1972, he continued to honor his songwriting hero by playing \u201cI Want You,\u201d \u201cChimes of Freedom,\u201d \u201cHighway 61 Revisited\u201d and several others in concert.<\/p>\n

But there was only one brief moment in history when Bob Dylan returned the favor and covered a Bruce Springsteen song. It took place on January 12th, 1990, at Toad\u2019s Place in New Haven, Connecticut. The 700-seat club was booked at the last minute so Dylan could prepare for his upcoming South American tour. The lucky few that managed to grab tickets had little idea they\u2019d see one of the strangest Dylan shows in history where he\u2019d play 50 different songs throughout the course of four sets, dragging out covers like Joe South\u2019s \u201cWalk a Mile on My Shoes,\u201d Kris Kristofferson\u2019s \u201cHelp Me Make It Through the Night\u201d and Hank Williams\u2019 \u201cLonesome Whistle Blues.\u201d He also avoided many of his biggest hits in favor of obscurities like \u201cMan of Peace,\u201d \u201cLenny Bruce\u201d and \u201cI Believe in You.\u201d<\/p>\n

Near the end of the third set, the band kicked into Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cDancing in the Dark.\u201d As can you can hear from this somewhat lackluster audience tape, the fact that Dylan only knew about 20 percent of the words, at best, did little to stop him from giving it his all. The audience didn\u2019t even seem to recognize what he was singing until he got to the chorus, even if he did manage to get occasional lines like \u201cI ain\u2019t nothing but tired\u201d and \u201cshake this world off my shoulder\u201d right. He basically made up the rest of the song as he went along.<\/p>\n

This was Dylan\u2019s first concert of the Nineties and a very strange way to kick off the decade. Five years later, Dylan and Springsteen would perform \u201cForever Young\u201d at the Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was as polished as Dylan\u2019s \u201cDancing in the Dark\u201d was ragged, and unsurprisingly, Bruce had done his homework and got every lyric exactly right.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bruce Springsteen has been covering Bob Dylan songs in concert since the early Seventies when his pre-fame group the Bruce Springsteen Band would play \u201cIt\u2019s All Over Now, Baby Blue\u201d as part of their club show. And even when Columbia burdened him with the \u201cNew Dylan\u201d moniker after signing him in 1972, he continued to […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 09:28:24","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}