THE BOB CATS NEWSLETTER MARCH 30, 2018. CELEBRATING THE ART AND THE MANY LIVES OF • NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE SONG & DANCE MAN. INSPIRED BY THEME TIME RADIO HOUR AND THE SPIRIT IN WHICH IT WAS MADE. ESTABLISHED 2006 BY PETER HOLST • 11 YEARS AND RUNNING. HTTPS://THEBOBCATSNEWSLETTER.WORDPRESS.COM

Welcome to another edition of the Bob Cats Newsletter. It's night time in the big city and the Easter Parade slowly moves down along Main Street, dancers in multicoloured feathers and rags, The Salvation Army Brass Band in drag blowing Alexander’s Rag Time Band to splinters, as swinging citizen of every colour and form, with swagger and style shows off to the hundreds of bystanders anf tv- crews. Last in the parade, Franz Xavier Krappus, deacon of Saint John, dressed down to nothing but diapers from Proctor & Gamble, high on holy spirit and weed, whips his back bloody with a cat-o’-nine- tails, staggering on bare feet, sole flagellator of the show on Good Friday moaning Mercy and God between gritted teeth. Meanwhile back at The Black Swan, Cornwell, cracked actor and rake emeritus inbibes a shot of Henry de Querville 1957 calvados with a Cohiba in the breast pocket of his 1999 Zenga suit. In the Louis XIV suite of The Saint James Hotel, the duke of Beauville with entourage are getting ready for pagan mass at the Voodoo Lounge at midnight. A street car named Calvary goes by with a pilgrims face in every window. The last poets on the corner in sweet harmony Swing Low Sweet Chariot, adding stanzas of experience from the Lower East Side. ••• BOB ON TOUR • EUROPE • SPRING 2018 VIDEO: • MADRID SPAIN • MARCH 28, 2018. http://alldylan.com/watch-bob-dylan-performing-a-great-ballad-of-a-thin-man-in-madrid-march-28-2018/ VIDEO: • BOB & AUDIENCE CLAPPING • MADRID SPAIN • MARCH 28, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrL6Xi1I-FU&feature=youtu.be https://www.needsomefun.net/march-262728-2018-bob-dylan-madrid-spain-concert-videos/ PHOTOS: MADRID SPAIN • MARCH 28, 2018. https://www.needsomefun.net/march-28-2018-bob-dylan-madrid-spain-new-photographs/ PHOTOS: MADRID SPAIN • MARCH 26, 27 & 28, 2018. https://www.needsomefun.net/bob-dylan-at-madrid-262728-march-photographs/ VIDEO: 5 CONCERT VIDEOS • SALAMANCA SPAIN • MARCH 24, 2018. https://www.needsomefun.net/24-march-2018-bob-dylan-salamanca-spain-concert-videos/ PHOTOS: SALAMANCA SPAIN • MARCH 24, 2018. https://www.needsomefun.net/bob-dylan-24-march-2018-salamanca-spain-photographs/ VIDEO: 6 CONCERT VIDEOS • LISBON PORTUGAL • MARCH 22, 2018. https://www.needsomefun.net/bob-dylan-lisbon-portugal-22-march-6-live-concert-videos/ AUDIO: • LISBON PORTUGAL • MARCH 22, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cceouq0pTfs&list=TLGG0LI7Gwi0ltIyMzAzMjAxOA&index=3 AUDIO: • LISBON PORTUGAL • MARCH 22, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pf1TVLyd_4&list=TLGG0LI7Gwi0ltIyMzAzMjAxOA&index=1 AUDIO: • LISBON PORTUGAL • MARCH 22, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i4NO9LHXys&index=2&list=TLGG0LI7Gwi0ltIyMzAzMjAxOA ••• NEWS FLASHES REVISITED JENNIFER HUDSON'S POWERFUL BOB DYLAN COVER AT MARCH FOR OUR LIVES RALLY. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-jennifer-hudson-cover-bob-dylan-at-march-for-our-lives-w518352 ••• TROUBLE NO MORE TROUBLE NO MORE: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 13 1979-1981. https://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/bob-dylans-religious-period-explored-new-documentary-trouble-no •••

THE CONCERTS & REHEARSALS AUDIO: CIVIC CENTER ARENA • PEORIA ILLINOIS • JULY 1, 1989. https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/172379460217/bob-dylan-civic-center-arena-peoria-illinois AUDIO: ISTANBUL TURKEY • JUNE 24, 1989 • 1:32:34. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj51baMFecs&feature=youtu.be AUDIO: NEW YORK CITY N.Y. • OCTOBER 16, 1988 • 1:28:11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjJb9Yz7mKI&feature=youtu.be AUDIO: UPPER DARBY PENNSYLVANIA • OCTOBER 13 & 14, 1988 • 3:27:32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXg-t_cpKFk&feature=youtu.be AUDIO: BINGHAMTON NEW YORK • SEPTEMBER 8, 1988 • 1:17:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0glTHK0WQBA&feature=youtu.be AUDIO: EDMUNTON CANADA • AUGUST 24, 1988 • 1:22:08. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LGZLmjxXHw AUDIO: VANCOUVER CANADA • AUGUST 21, 1988 • 1:22:07. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtaWIo9sYHs&feature=youtu.be ••• THE SONGS • IN THE STUDIOS THE FRENCH GIRL • WITH GRATEFUL DEAD • 1988-89. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odaw8-bE1NA ANGELINA. http://alldylan.com/bob-dylans-best-songs-angelina-80/ BORROWED TIME • OUTTAKE • 1981. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHFkjTSWJRU • 7 VERSIONS. https://www.needsomefun.net/bob-dylan-if-not-for-you-2/ https://www.needsomefun.net/bob-dylan-restless-farewell-some-of-bobs-young-ladies/ ••• THE SONGS • ON STAGE DIGNITY • 6 VERSIONS. http://alldylan.com/bob-dylan-5-great-live-versions-of-dignity/ • CARDIFF WALES • MARCH 27, 1995. http://alldylan.com/march-27-bob-dylan-just-like-a-woman-in-cardiff-1995/ • CARDIFF WALES • MARCH 27, 1995. http://alldylan.com/march-27-bob-dylan-all-along-the-watchtower-in-cardiff-1995/ IT AIN’T ME BABE • LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA • JUNE 5, 1978. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmHxe1Mn_6w&feature=share ••• THE LYRICS IT’S ALRIGHT MA, I’M ONLY BLEEDING. https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.se/2018/03/its-alright-ma-dylans-scathing-look-at.html BORROWED TIME: DYLAN’S METHOD OF COMPOSITION IN THE STUDIO. http://bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/6883 . https://lbjsbathroomreadersite.com/2018/03/09/50-greatest-songs-of-bob-dylan-50-like-a-rolling-stone/ BOB DYLAN AND JOHN CROWE RANSOM. http://bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/6914 ••• THE ALBUMS BOB DYLAN’S GREATEST HITS • MARCH 27, 1967. https://www.needsomefun.net/march-27-1967-bob-dylans-greatest-hits-released/ ••• THE RADIO DEFINITELY DYLAN • MARCH 25, 2018. https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/definitely-dylan-25th-march-2018/ DEFINITELY DYLAN • ALL SHOWS 2018. https://www.mixcloud.com/definitelydylan/stream/ ••• THE MUSICAL GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music-theatre/2018/03/inspired-ode-bob-dylan-girl-north-country-turns-pop-work- art •••

THE ARCHIVES THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA • INSTITUTE FOR BOB DYLAN STUDIES. https://dylan.utulsa.edu/dylan-classroom-2018/ THE THEME TIME RADIO HOUR. http://www.themetimeradio.com http://expectingrain.com/discussions/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=87014 http://hhhhappy.com/listen-to-all-104-episodes-of-theme-time-radio-hour-hosted-by-bob-dylan/ . http://www.notdarkyet.org THE BOB DYLAN ARCHIVE. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-the-bob-dylan-archive/ http://gtrnews.com/greater-tulsa-reporter/14825/bob-dylan-archive-now-open PHOTO OPPORTUNITY

FLASHES FROM THE PAST What can I tell you, we’re living on borrowed time When you’re defeated at the end of the road After the letter failed to explode When you’ve been defeated at the end of the line What can I tell you, we’re living on borrowed time ••• HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIC CLAPTON. http://borntolisten.com/2018/03/30/march-30-happy-birthday-eric-clapton/ NICK LOWE. http://borntolisten.com/2018/03/24/march-24-happy-birthday-nick-lowe/ GOOD BYE, FARE THE WELL JERRY WILLIAMS A.K.A. SVEN ERIK FERNSTRÖM (1942-2018). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OxwhClCx0o https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDoMXsPMTlfXuGrTtobkXOw MIKE HARRISON (1946-2018) http://dmme.net/mike-harrison-of-spooky-tooth-passed-away/ GOOD NIGHT My day begins as your night ends. You’re in the Highgate, I’m a wit’s end. We meet in hallways, stepping down. We cut corners, narrow escapes Hey baby, get it straight. Hey baby, get it right Shape up, it’s getting late Shape up, you’re such a sore site When your upside’s down and your head’s not When you get a black tooth, walking around screwd on right with no shoes, no strings attached You’d better board the train to the promised You’d better watch out for the big bad , it’s land if it’s still in sight gonna get your back. ••• HTTPS://THEBOBCATSNEWSLETTER.WORDPRESS.COM The Bob Cats Newsletter is inspired by Theme Time Radio Hour and the spirit in which it is made. All words by Peter Holst unless otherwise indicated, ’Flashes from the past’ by Bob Dylan. If you do not wish to recieve this newsletter, let me know and you’re off the hook. ©peterholst2018. •••