Friday, Jul 23, 1999

Bob Dylan

With Paul Simon

Date
Friday, Jul 23, 1999
Venue
Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
City
Mansfield, MA

A Dylan and Simon co-headline, not a support slot — they traded closing spots and sang together mid-set. Night two of a two-night stand; the July 22 show reportedly ran past curfew and both artists were fined. No stub or email survives; John placed the show and picked the night, and the date is documented on setlist.fm.

What they played

  1. Somebody Touched Me Ruth Brown cover Acoustic
  2. Mr. Tambourine Man Acoustic, with harp
  3. Desolation Row Acoustic
  4. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Acoustic
  5. Tangled Up in Blue Acoustic, with harp
  6. All Along the Watchtower Charlie on acoustic guitar
  7. Lay Lady Lay Larry on pedal steel guitar
  8. Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again Charlie on acoustic guitar
  9. Not Dark Yet
  10. Highway 61 Revisited

Encore

  1. Like a Rolling Stone
  2. Blowin' in the Wind Acoustic
  3. Not Fade Away The Crickets cover

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

What Paul Simon played

  1. Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel cover
  2. Can't Run But
  3. The Boy in the Bubble
  4. The Coast
  5. Trailways Bus
  6. Mrs. Robinson Simon & Garfunkel cover
  7. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
  8. Further to Fly
  9. Graceland
  10. The Cool, Cool River
  11. Slip Slidin' Away
  12. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
  13. You Can Call Me Al
  14. Late in the Evening
  15. Still Crazy After All These Years
  16. The Sound of Silence Simon & Garfunkel cover
  17. I Walk the Line / Blue Moon of Kentucky
  18. Knockin' on Heaven's Door Bob Dylan cover

18 songs, from setlist.fm.

The moment

The summer 1999 Dylan/Simon tour was the first time the two ever shared a stage — forty years of parallel careers, the two songwriters who split the sixties between them, finally alternating headline sets and duetting nightly on 'The Sound of Silence' or 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door.' Dylan, two years into his late renaissance, was widely reported to be playing the sharper set. The second of John's five archived Dylans, and the only one with a co-headliner of equal weight.

From the time

The stub

No physical stub on file — this show was reconstructed from the confirmation email. Drop a photo in public/stubs/ and add "stubImage" to this show's record to attach one.

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