Saturday, May 23, 1998

Bob Dylan

With Joni Mitchell , Van Morrison

Date
Saturday, May 23, 1998
Show time
7:30 PM
Venue
Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim
City
Anaheim, CA
Seating
211
Face value
$85.00
Sold by
Ticketmaster

Triple bill: Bob Dylan / Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison. Limited view seat.

What they played

  1. Absolutely Sweet Marie
  2. Lay Lady Lay
  3. Cold Irons Bound
  4. I'm Not Supposed to Care Gordon Lightfoot cover
  5. Silvio
  6. Cocaine Blues [traditional] cover Acoustic
  7. The Times They Are A-Changin' Acoustic
  8. Tangled Up in Blue Acoustic
  9. Make You Feel My Love
  10. Highway 61 Revisited

Encore

  1. Forever Young Acoustic
  2. Love Sick
  3. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

13 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.

What Joni Mitchell played

  1. Night Ride Home
  2. The Crazy Cries of Love
  3. Harry's House
  4. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
  5. Just Like This Train
  6. Black Crow
  7. Amelia
  8. Hejira
  9. Big Yellow Taxi
  10. Face Lift
  11. Sex Kills
  12. The Magdalene Laundries
  13. Woodstock

13 songs, from setlist.fm.

What Van Morrison played

  1. Domino
  2. Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)
  3. Satisfied
  4. In the Afternoon "A Town Called Paradise / Ancient Highway / Joe Turner Sings" snippets
  5. Cleaning Windows
  6. Sometimes We Cry
  7. Raincheck
  8. Beautiful Vision
  9. Days Like This
  10. This Weight
  11. Tupelo Honey / Why Must I Always Explain?
  12. In the Garden
  13. Real Real Gone
  14. Have I Told You Lately
  15. Cyprus Avenue
  16. The Healing Game

16 songs, from setlist.fm.

The moment

Three months after Time Out of Mind won Album of the Year — the record made in the shadow of the heart infection that nearly killed him — Dylan toured the West Coast on a triple bill with Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison: three of the four or five greatest songwriters alive, alternating sets in a hockey arena, eighty-five dollars, limited view. Nobody has assembled a bill like it since. John's first of five Dylans in the archive, and the one with the most history per square foot of stage.

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