Bob Dylan and the Band 1974 Tour
| Tour by Bob Dylan | |
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| Start date | January 3, 1974 |
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| End date | February 14, 1974 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 40 |
| Bob Dylan concert chronology | |
The Bob Dylan and the Band 1974 Tour – often referred to as Tour '74 – was a two-month concert tour in early 1974 that featured Bob Dylan, in his first real tour in eight years, performing with the Band. As the Hawks, the then little-known group had backed him on his previous tour, the exhaustive 1966 world tour, between the releases of Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.
The 30-date, 21 city tour began on January 3, 1974 and ended on February 14, 1974. The show reunited Dylan with the Band on stage after the release of Dylan's Band-backed Planet Waves album. This was a high-profile comeback for both acts. While virtually all the songs here were familiar and might be considered "hits", few of them sound similar to their original versions; Dylan's songs in particular are re-arranged and sung with a ferocity not found on the originals, while Garth Hudson's experiments with the Lowery String Symphonizer (an early synthesizer embedded in the Lowrey H25-3 organ that was adapted from the Freeman string symphonizer) greatly enriched the Band's timbral palette. A live double album, Before the Flood, was recorded during the tour.
The first show took place at Chicago Stadium in Chicago, and it was witnessed by a capacity audience of 18,500. The first song performed was "Hero Blues", a previously unreleased song that Dylan recorded back in 1962. Over the course of two hours, Dylan and the Band performed alternating sets broken down into three categories: Dylan performing his own songs backed by the Band, Dylan's solo acoustic set, and the Band's performances of their own songs. Although Dylan played harmonica during a cover of Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Share Your Love with Me" sung by Richard Manuel, the Band elected not to include Dylan in their subsequent group performances in a meeting after the show.
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