Janis Joplin Gets Arrested, Patti Smith Breaks Her Neck, and Bob Dylan Prepares for Prime Time 1976-04-21, Curtis Hixon Convention Center, Tampa, FL

Night three of Rolling Thunder 1976 hits a seemingly cursed venue

Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup - God's Away On Business YouTube video by cookiewaits

This must have taken an insane amount of time to create. And it was worth it.

Oh man my mom had so many of his cookbooks

The archives told me it doesn’t exist. The desk where the sound guy recorded all the other shows had been sent home before the final show. They were on borrowed equipment that didn’t have the recording capability

The Bob and Joan kids debate story is worth the price of a paid subscription to @raypadgett.bsky.social newsletter all by itself.

No

This is a new one. Someone subscribed to the newsletter using their work email address. Now their dumb AI assistant is replying to the emails like this. What a world we live in.

"These Dylan people have a big goon at every corner" 1976-04-20, Bayfront Civic Center Auditorium, St. Petersburg, FL

Night two of Rolling Thunder 1976, in which Bob Dylan and Joan Baez's kids debate which of their parents is more famous—and Joan rings Bob's hotel room to get his answer.

(with bonus appearances from Ratso, Dr. Spock's wife, and Dylan's hairy-handed security goons)

William S. Burroughs on Patti L. Smith

poster displayed outside the venue

post show stage takedown

Bob Dylan taking in the applause

View of the balconies

Stumbled on these pictures we took at the 3-night Bob Dylan Philadelphia residency in 2014.

The Bob Dylan Concert for Just One Person An interview with Fredrik Wikingsson, the subject of 'Experiment Ensam'

What, you mean you didn't get any photos from the FOURTH show he did there?

A comment on my Rolling Thunder 1976 series kickoff post yesterday. Note the highlighted part.

Rolling Thunder '76 Show-By-Show Opening night: 1976-04-18, Civic Center, Lakeland, FL

Rolling Thunder 1976 started 50 years ago today! So I’m going to be writing about every show, from opening night in Florida today through Hard Rain and the illusive Salt Lake City, with stopovers like Bobby Charles’ alligator bbq and Willie Nelson getting subpoenaed backstage. Follow along!

Took dad rock to a new level just now singing I Am Trying to Wipe Your Butt to the tune of I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

Might try this at the next Rough and Rowdy show

Rolling Thunder '76 Show-By-Show Opening night: 1976-04-18, Civic Center, Lakeland, FL

Rolling Thunder 1976 started 50 years ago today! So I’m going to be writing about every show, from opening night in Florida today through Hard Rain and the illusive Salt Lake City, with stopovers like Bobby Charles’ alligator bbq and Willie Nelson getting subpoenaed backstage. Follow along!

Review: Bob Dylan in Chattanooga 2026 2026-04-17, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium, Chattanooga, TN

Last night in Chattanooga, asking the important questions like: Is Bob lifting guitar riffs from The Magic School Bus?

There was more song than dance last night but we’ll see how tonight goes

The delicate people of Waukegan couldn’t handle this energy level

Review: Bob Dylan in Bowling Green 2026 2026-04-16, SKYPAC, Bowling Green, KY

The hardest-rocking, highest-tempo Rough and Rowdy Ways show I've ever seen (and all on acoustic guitars, no less!), last night in Bowling Green.

Yes! Best Rubicon I've ever seen easily

Boston. Tickets during the presale were terrible. Much better today. (I'm doing that and Gilford)

Writing my review of last night's Bob Dylan show while in the Ticketmaster queue to get tickets to a summer Bob Dylan show. Life is good.

Where is that?? I need to go

Hey @alyankovic.bsky.social time for a sequel called The Biggest Fork in the Road in Southern Kentucky

‪I should perhaps note I have a newsletter called Every Tom Waits Song, writing about them all in alphabetical order. Mostly on ice but if Tom’s coming back I may need to too. everytomwaits.substack.com‬

Don’t tempt me

Second new Tom Waits song coming too, and it’s the very best kind of Tom Waits song: A song about bugs!