Three Dylan Tickets & Their Stories

Ed Newman
6 min readFeb 1, 2019

“Gonna change my way of thinking, make myself a different set of rules.”

Bob Dylan, 1979. Courtesy William Pagel Archives.

Every picture tells a story, they say, but not the full story. For that, you usually have to dig a little deeper. Here are pictures of tickets to three Dylan concerts from the past eight years. The tickets are cool, how does one learn what the band played, how the shows went?

That’s where sites like ExpectingRain.com and BobLinks.com come in handy. The former site scrapes together all Bob stories and serves them up daily, a mashup of each day’s Dylan-related news and information. The latter provides concert information including where the concerts took place, setlists and reviews by people who were there. You can also see where Bob Dylan and his band will be in the months ahead.

Both sites are much more than that, though. Well worth a deeper dive for any avid fan. Dig it.

Each concert is an event. Every day in the Never Ending Tour is a story. Check out the price of the Beijing ticket. How cool is that?

Bob Dylan in Sydney 2014

Photo by the author. Ticket courtesy the William Pagel Archives.

State Theatre

Address: 49 Market StreetShowtime: 8:00 PM
Ticket prices: $199, $159, $99 (Australian Dollars)

Setlist

1. Things Have Changed
2.She Belongs To Me
3.Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
4.Workingman’s Blues #2
5.Waiting For You
6.Duquesne Whistle
7.Pay In Blood8.Tangled Up In Blue
9.Love Sick(Intermission)
10.High Water (For Charley Patton)
11.Simple Twist Of Fate
12.Early Roman Kings
13.Forgetful Heart
14.Spirit On The Water
15.Scarlet Town
16.Soon After Midnight
17.Long And Wasted Years

(encore)
18.All Along The Watchtower
19.Blowin’ In The Wind

Ed Newman

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