Bob Dylan - Changing Of The Guards - Blackbushe 1978 Concert

Bob Dylan - Changing Of The Guards - (Song Lyrics at the end of description)    • Blinken will be soon be unemployed  
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From Roland Ray Blackbushe 1978 Master Tapes -
I had a hunch this concert was going to be amazing so I decided to go by train from London and record it. I bought a new JVC CD-1635 Mk II portable cassette recorder that cost an arm and a leg and 3 Fuji C90 cassettes, ended up with a stiff arm holding a heavy microphone above the sea of heads for a very long set of great music, but it was worth it. Harvey Goldsmith had not skimped on the PA system. The sound in the area I had picked was powerful and clear. Despite no windshield occasional gusts did not affect the recording quality.

Bob Dylan - Rhythm Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
Billy Cross - Lead Guitar
Ian Wallace - Drums
Alan Pasqua - Keyboards
Rob Stoner - Bass Guitar, Background Vocals
Steven Soles - Acoustic Rhythm Guitar, Background Vocals
David Mansfield - Pedal Steel, Violin, Mandolin, Dobro, Guitar
Steve Douglas - Saxophone, Flute, Recorder
Bobbye Hall - Percussion
Helena Springs - Background Vocals
Jo Ann Harris - Background Vocals
Debi Dye - Background Vocals

Concert Track List:

· My Back Pages (Instrumental)
· Love Her With A Feeling
· Baby Stop Crying
· Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
· Shelter From The Storm
· It's All Over Now Baby Blue
· Girl Of The North Country
· Ballad Of A Thin Man
· Maggie's Farm
· Simple Twist Of Fate
· Like A Rolling Stone
· I Shall Be Released
· Is Your Love In Vain?
· Where Are You Tonight?
· A Change Is Gonna Come
· Mr. Tambourine Man
· The Long And Winding Road
· Laissez Faire
· Gates Of Eden
· True Love Tends To Forget
· One More Cup Of Coffee
· Blowin' In The Wind
· I Want You
· Señor
· Masters Of War
· Just Like A Woman
· To Ramona
· Don't Think Twice It's Alright
· All Along The Watchtower
· All I Really Want To Do
· Band Introductions
· It's Alright Ma
· Forever Young
· Changing Of The Guards
· The Times The Are Changing

Bob Dylan - Changing Of The Guards
Lyrics:
Sixteen years
Sixteen banners united over the field
Where the good shepherd grieves
Desperate men, desperate women divided
Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves
Fortune calls
I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born
On midsummer's eve, near the tower
The cold-blooded moon
The captain waits above the celebration
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid
They shaved her head
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil
I stumbled to my feet
I rode past destruction in the ditches
With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you
The palace of mirrors
Where dog soldiers are reflected
The endless road and the wailing of chimes
The empty rooms where her memory is protected
Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times
She wakes him up
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks
She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks
Gentlemen, he said
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning, either getting ready for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
Peace will come
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
Between the King and the Queen of Swords