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For May 17, explore a featured Bob Dylan concert from the archive, including venue details, tour information, location, and available setlist data, plus other Dylan performances from this same calendar date in history.
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Featured performance
May 17, 1966
Note: Soundcheck: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, One Too Many Mornings, Ballad of a Thin Man. During the end of the May 17, 1966 concert at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, Manchester, Dylan was called "Judas!" by audience member John Cordwell, between the songs "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Like a Rolling Stone". Dylan answered back, and told the man that "I don't believe you . . . you're a liar!", before he shouted to the members of the band to "Play it fuckin' loud!", where they then finished off the set with "Like
- She Belongs to Me
- 4th Time Around
- Visions of Johanna
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Desolation Row
- Just Like a Woman
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Tell Me, Momma
- I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
- Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
- One Too Many Mornings
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- Like a Rolling Stone (last song)
Also played on this date
- May 17, 2015 — Morris Performing Arts Center — South Bend, Indiana, United States
- May 17, 1992 — Pantages Theatre — Los Angeles, California, United States
- May 17, 1964 — Royal Festival Hall — London, England, United Kingdom
- May 17, 1980 — Akron Civic Theatre — Akron, Ohio, United States
- May 17, 2008 — Androscoggin Bank Colisée — Lewiston, Maine, United States
- May 17, 1996 — Nautica Stage — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- May 17, 1995 — Hollywood Palladium — Los Angeles, California, United States
- May 17, 2003 — Jubilee Jam — Jackson, Mississippi, United States
- May 17, 1998 — The Gorge Amphitheatre — George, Washington, United States