Dylan played 'Masters of War' on election night

[rockydem]

"Last November 2nd, on election night, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Bob Dylan played 'Masters of War,' his 1963 protest song against arms merchants. It sounded obvious, self-righteous and strident even when Dylan was first performing it; why, this night, was the song so frightening, the singer's delivery so deliberate, to the point that on the last phrases Dylan made his voice shake? Why is the song still so alive?"

http://www.rollingstone.com/poydylanbob?rnd=1103329236690&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.687

I'd love to hear that performance.

[ET Awful]

1. Self-righteous?

WTF were they smoking?

[greendog]

2. Dylan's set list that night...

Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Kolf Arena
November 2, 2004

1.Absolutely Sweet Marie
2.It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
3.Lonesome Day Blues
4.Positively 4th Street
5.It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
6.Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
7.Girl Of The North Country
8.Cold Irons Bound
9.Ring Them Bells
10.Highway 61 Revisited
11.This Wheel's On Fire
12.Honest With Me
13.Masters Of War
14.Summer Days

encore
15.Like A Rolling Stone
16.All Along The Watchtower

Other interesting songs he played that week:

Boots Of Spanish Leather
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Po' Boy
Every Grain Of Sand
Mr. Tambourine Man

[rockydem]

3. fascinating

any unusual additions in that list? most of those look like songs he's played fairly often in the recent years. But I'd like to see the *way* he did MOW that night.

[greendog]

4. Actually, what's interesting...

...is the way, since his last album (which was VERY political) he's worked his early political/spiritual songs back into his set list.

Love Minus Zero/No Limit...
isn't a song about a woman, it's a song about Dylan's concept of God (My Love she speaks like silence / without ideals or violence)

Boots Of Spanish Leather...
...seems to be a song about the crusades. A soldier sails off to Spain, asks his lover (God) if he could please her with gold or silver. She says no, just come back to me unspoiled.

At the end of the song he disregards her wishes and decides to give her the gift of "Spanish Boots".

"Spanish Boots" were a torture device used by the Christians during the crusades. They'd use them to extract a confession of non-belief, then they'd burn the "non-believer" at the stake and make off with their wealth.