Wednesday, Nov 21, 2001
Bob Dylan
- Date
- Wednesday, Nov 21, 2001
- Venue
- Verizon Wireless Arena
- City
- Manchester, NH
- Went with
- Mickey
- Seating
- Lower Section 107
- Face value
- $36.00
- Promoter
- MassConcerts Presents
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
Billed as "Bob Dylan and His Band." The room is now SNHU Arena — Southern New Hampshire University bought the naming rights in 2016. It had opened only six days before this show, on November 15, 2001, so John was in a brand-new building. Lower Section 107, $36, MassConcerts.
What they played
- Hallelujah I'm Ready [traditional] cover Acoustic, Larry on mandolin
- The Times They Are A-Changin' Acoustic, Bob on harp
- It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Acoustic
- Searching for a Soldier's Grave The Anglin Twins (Jack and Jim) cover Acoustic, Larry on mandolin
- Gotta Serve Somebody
- Positively 4th Street
- Floater (Too Much to Ask)
- Cry a While Larry on slide guitar
- Mr. Tambourine Man Acoustic, Bob on harp
- Tangled Up in Blue Acoustic
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Acoustic
- Summer Days Tony on stand-up bass
- Mississippi
- Cold Irons Bound
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Larry on steel guitar
Encore
- Things Have Changed
- Like a Rolling Stone
- If Dogs Run Free Acoustic, Larry and Charlie on electric guitars
- Honest With Me Larry on slide guitar
- Blowin' in the Wind Acoustic
- All Along the Watchtower
21 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
The moment
Love and Theft came out on September 11, 2001 — the reviews calling it his best record in decades shared newsprint with the towers falling. Two months later Dylan was carrying that album through a fall arena tour critics were treating as a late-career peak: sixty years old, the Never Ending Tour band at full strength, playing to a country that had just changed. Manchester's arena had been open six days. John and Mickey watched Dylan christen a brand-new building from the middle of his great third act.
From the time
- Love and Theft
“Released the morning of September 11, 2001, and hailed as Dylan's strongest album since the seventies — the record this tour was built on.”