Talk:Bob Dylan World Tour 1966

Olof Bjorner and Concert Dates
I've compared the article's concert date tables with Olof's Still on the Road and Skeleton Keys, which is a complete listing. Following are dates missing from the article's tables as compared to Olof, with other sources indicated:


 * Feb 20 Montreal, Place des Arts - Montreal Gazette articles
 * Mar 13 Denver, no venue - all major bios, from Scaduto to Sounes
 * Mar 24 Tacoma, no venue - no other source
 * Apr 19 Melbourne, Festival Hall - DylanStubs newspaper advert
 * May 6 Belfast (not Dublin), ABC Cinema - Shelton's No Direction Home

Olof cites May 2 for the Dublin concert and doesn't have May 5, which is in the table. Also, Olof doesn't have the Mar 24 Portland concert at the Paramount Theatre, which is confirmed by a DylanStubs ticket stub. Also, Olof indicates the possibility of other concerts (the subject is worthy of a footnote), but is uncertain regarding specific dates.

I am inclined to add the five concerts noted above, including May 6 Belfast. The discrepancies over the Dublin dates need to be worked out. Small points aside, the tables lend much to our understanding of the scope of the tour and its grueling schedule. Allreet (talk) 19:37, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Pre '66 Tour
Should anything be added to this article about the concerts Dylan gave in late 1965, after his electric conversion at Newport? Can these be considered as part of the same tour? There is information about these concerts in this article; it seems appropriate that these dates should be added to the "Dates" section. BootleggerWill (talk) 20:35, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Cancelled show on 27 March
The Spokesman-Review for March 28, 1966 (p.6) has "Money was refunded to an estimated 2,000 Bob Dylan enthusiasts Sunday, ticket agents said. A truck carrying instuments and sound equipment had broken down en route, forcing cancellation of the show slated for 4pm in the Coliseum." Heylin (1996) has a Tacoma show listed on this date (literally just the date and city); I had added it to the list but have now removed it. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 17:56, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Tour dates
This might be seen as a very late reply to 's question above.

I think that based on the balance of sources I've looked at, the "World Tour" really started in April 1966. Possible changes would be either taking out the US dates to another article, or renaming the article to something that could incorporate dates before April 66, either from 1965 or the 1966 US dates. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:01, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

What I've looked at (based pretty much on looking for the phrase "world tour"):

1965-66?
 * Shelton, No Direction Home, "After Dylan’s exhausting 1965-66 world tour, "(p.17) "; "on his world tour of 1965-66" (p.315)
 * Sounes, Down the Highway, "their 1965-66 world tour" (p.275)

Started February 1966?
 * Sanders, That Thin Wild Mercury Sound, "Dylan returned to the studio on January 21, 1966 ... Dylan embarked on his 1966 World Tour a few weeks later"(Ch.4)

Started April 1966? BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:01, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Heylin, Behind the Shades - "in April 1966 ... just before he embarked on that famour world tour". (p.184)
 * Wilentz, Bob Dylan in America, "the record was mixed in Los Angeles in April ... Dylan helped oversee the mixing of Blonde on Blonde in Los Angeles, then departed on his famous, furious world tour with the Hawks"
 * Marqusee, Wicked messenger : Bob Dylan and the 1960s, "After recording Blonde on Blonde, Dylan embarked on a 'world tour' —Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Britain, Ireland, and France"
 * Williamson, The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan, "With Blonde on Blonde completed ... Dylan and the Band headed off on a World Tour" (2010 ed, p.57)
 * Nogowski, Bob Dylan: A Descriptive, Critical Discography and Filmography, 1961-2022 "... recorded in various locations on the US tour, February 5, 6 and 26, and the world tour April 13 to May 27, 1966" (p.329)
 * Atkinsom Gord; "Beatles make a hole in the iron curtain", The Ottawa Citizen', April 15 1966, Page 33: "Bob Dylan has embarked on a world tour that will take him to Australia, Sweden, Denmark, France and Britain"
 * Wood, Bob; "Woody on Wax", The Leader-Post, April 21, 1966, page 18: "Bob Dylan will soon embark on a two-month world tour to Australia, Sweden, Denmark, France and the British Isles"


 * Agree: April 1966. Shelton and Sounes are the only major sources I could find that refer to the "1965-66 world tour". Bjorner, like Scaduto and Heylin, separates the two years, but includes the February-March dates even though they're clearly an extension of the tour that began the previous fall. Michael Gray does something similar, but more accurately refers to the 1966 dates as the "so-called World Tour". Meanwhile, BennyOnTheLoose provides a slew of sources that limit the tour's start to April. Thus, I believe the article - and particularly its lede - needs to be re-written to reflect these differences in opinion and fact. Allreet (talk) 23:50, 8 December 2022 (UTC)


 * I would like to suggest the 1966 World Tour commenced in the U.S. on February 4 in Louisville, Ky, and ended in London on May 27, 1966. The tour is unified for 3 months (March, April, May) by the same musicians (with the exception of Konikoff being replaced by Jones) and the same set list is played every night after March 5. I congratulate whoever supplied the Courier-Journal, Louisville, review as a cite since that concert doesn’t appear in Bjorner’s website listing of the 1966 tour or in Heylin's 1996 book, A Life in Stolen Moments, and it makes this WP article impressively comprehensive. Mick gold (talk) 12:46, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Another source: "His album in the can, Dylan was ready to embark on his first world tour as a rock 'n' roll musician in April 1966." (Richie Unterberger, Turn! turn! turn! : the '60s folk-rock revolution, p.258). BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 01:54, 20 January 2023 (UTC)