All the songs listed in the Official
Rarities section are cross-referenced by song title in these
alphabetical pages.
A-E
F-J
K-O
P-S
T-Z

From the 2000 DVD release of Don't Look Back. For the original poster and commercial video
releases, see VHS & DVD Part 1.
This first part of the 2000s list collects non-album song performances and interviews by Bob Dylan on VHS video and DVD (and laserdisc where I have information) from 2000-02. I would be grateful for any additional information on these items and other material to place here. Video material included on CD-ROMs or CD Plus discs is still in the main directory in the appropriate part. Unauthorised documentaries or compilations of performance footage are now included in Questionable Video. For 2000-02 films with Dylan album tracks, see VHS & DVD: Films with Dylan Album Tracks 2000s Part 1.
Films are listed by date of original appearance (in theatres or on TV), not when the VHS video or
DVD came out, often some years later. This page does not include songs from regular albums that appear in films or
videos without performance footage, nor do I include music videos
of standard album tracks - for a full Dylan filmography, see "Expecting Rain"
or "TV Talkin'"
.
For informed discussion of all Bob's screen appearances, see C.P. Lee's well-received book "Like A Bullet Of Light ".
Thanks to Jean-Pierre Mercier for laserdisc details and catalogue numbers and Michel Pomarede for scans. Thanks also to Larry Crum for checking these entries against his own collection, "Positively Bob Dylan" by Michael Krogsgaard, "Bob Dylan on Video" (article in "Record Collector" magazine, Sep 1992), and several other sources. All scans that aren't credited are from my own collection or amazon.com
If you have any entries to add to the list or additions/corrections to
existing entries, please let me know!
Please note I cannot value your Dylan rarities -
see the Mission page for reasons why. Contact the
dealers on my Trading page for assistance!
Revised: 01 January, 2012.
Titles in red are not available
on a currently released Bob Dylan CD (for these see bobdylan.com
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Key to symbols used:
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Performances currently available on commercial CD are marked by
(these are the ones that count as obscurities
rather than as rarities)
2000
"Don't Look Back" - Collector's Edition,
DVD: Docurama/NewVideo NVG-9447/VHS: Docurama/NewVideo NVG-9442 (USA), 4 Jan 2000:
Thanks to Harold Lepidus for news that a 2DVD "Deluxe
1965 Tour Edition" was released by Docurama in the USA on 27 Feb 2007 - this
contains the original film, a new hour-long documentary called "Bob Dylan 1965
Revisited" with newly released additional video footage and two books - the first
is a reprint of the original 1960s 168-page
companion book to the film, and the second is the "Subterranean Homesick Blues
Flipbook", a frame-by-frame still photo presentation of the famous card sequence
that starts the film. A single DVD Standard Edition that is a reissue of this
2000 release has also been issued - for more details of the 2007 releases, see
VHS & DVD 2000s Part 4.
![]() Docurama/NewVideo NVG-9447 (USA) - DVD picture from NewVideo |
This DVD Collector's Edition of the classic Don Pennebaker film of Bob's UK tour of 1965 contains five uncut live audio performances in addition to the material listed for the 1967 film (see VHS & DVD 1960s), so warrants a separate entry. See 1981 for songs broadcast in "Retro Rock" radio programmes in 1981 about D.A. Pennebaker. This DVD was often advertised for sale as being Region 1 (USA/Canada only). However it was actually Region 0 (all Regions) and could be played in any DVD player worldwide. Rarities from the original release: R-0666-2 Only
A Pawn In Their Game - recorded live, Civil Rights Rally, Silas Magee's Farm,
Greenwood, MS, 6 Jul 1963 (excerpt) R-0402-3 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - live, City Hall, Newcastle, England, 6 May 1965 (appeared in the 1981 radio broadcast) R-0403-3 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - hotel room, Savoy Hotel, London, England, 8 May 1965 (appeared in the 1981 radio broadcast) R-0404-2 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - live, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, 9 May 1965 R-0405-3 Talking World War III Blues - live, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, 9 May 1965 (appeared in the 1981 radio broadcast)
R-0043-2 Other performances - live footage from the May 1965 England
tour, but only fragments of songs The five new performances are: R-0294 To Ramona - unidentified
performance, misdated as The
Oval, City Hall, Sheffield, England, 30 Apr 1965 (wrongly shown on the DVD
insert as 4 May 1965, there
was no concert on that day) R-0295 The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll - misdated as Royal Albert Hall, London, England, 10 May 1965, now believed to be 9 May 1965 R-0296 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - misdated as Royal Albert Hall, London, England, 10 May 1965, now believed to be 9 May 1965, same as BDC61 (see Online Performances (bobdylan.com) ) R-0297 Love Minus Zero/No Limit - The
Oval, City Hall, Sheffield, England, 30 Apr 1965, misdated as City Hall,
Newcastle, England, 6 May 1965 (wrongly shown on
the DVD insert as 9
May 1965, which was the date of the first Royal Albert Hall show in
London). R-0298 It Ain't Me, Babe - dated correctly as Royal Albert Hall, London, England, 9 May 1965 The Collector's Edition was also released on VHS in the same digital quality, although these five audio performances were not included. Information and photographs kindly provided by NewVideo, thanks to Alison Bulman and Brian Carmody. Thanks also to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for the scans of his copy of the US DVD. A UK release was planned for 6 Sep 2004, but was cancelled. Comments on the audio dating: Thanks to Paul Loeber, Bob Stacy and Simon Shoefield for checking the DVD performances against the circulating 1965 recordings and other material. To Ramona - This performance is definitely not the one known by Dylan collectors to be from Sheffield (from an audience tape containing six songs which could only have been recorded at Sheffield)! So where is it from? The preface to the book "Do You Mr. Jones - Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors" edited by Neil Corcoran may supply the answer! In this preface Professor Corcoran recalls his first Dylan concert, in Newcastle on 6 May 1965. (Mine was the night after at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 7 May 1965). He tells of a microphone breakdown: "In Newcastle, after recovering briefly, the mike went dead once or twice again. Dylan seemed entirely patient and relaxed, sitting on the edge of the stage and talking to the immediate audience." Neil is confused because the "Don't Look Back" book says the microphone breakdown happened in Sheffield! Now maybe the microphone did break down as noticeably in Sheffield as well as Newcastle, but I'd submit it's unlikely. My feeling therefore is that the Dylan camp have mixed the tapes, and the tape they call "Sheffield" is Newcastle, and vice-versa. They must have taken the performance of To Ramona from the tape with the microphone breakdown. This would then date it as City Hall, Newcastle, England, 6 May 1965. Any comments? Bob Stacy feels this isn't positive proof, and this recording may still come from one of the other shows that don't circulate, such as Leicester, Liverpool or Royal Albert Hall 10 May 1965, but I still think Newcastle is the most likely. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - this is not Newcastle as listed but definitely from Sheffield, 30 Apr 1965, the spoken introduction and conclusion are the same as on the Sheffield audience tape. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll/It's All Over Now, Baby Blue/It Ain't Me, Babe - an audience tape exists of one of the Royal Albert Hall concerts, which was originally dated as 9 May 1965, but which has now through new evidence been dated as 10 May 1965. The three audio performances on the DVD are not the same as the ones on the tape. Therefore these three performances on the Don't Look Back DVD can be dated as 9 May 1965, and not 10 May 1965 as listed. Thanks to Bob Stacy, Paul Loeber and Derek Barker for information. |
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Docurama/NewVideo NVG-9447 (USA) - DVD booklet unfolded (my copy) |
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Docurama/NewVideo NVG-9447 (USA) - DVD first release (my copy) |
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"Wonder Boys" - feature film Jan 2000, DVD releases: Paramount Home Video
33261 (USA)/Universal
0784682 (UK), 13 Mar 2001/Magna Pacific DVD09600 (Australia) (date?);
VHS releases: 4 Front Video 9063673 (UK), Jun 2002/Magna Pacific MOD 09560-1 (Australia)
(date?):
This film directed by Curtis Hanson
stars Michael Douglas.
For the Feb 2000 Columbia Wonder Boys soundtrack album, see
International Album
Releases (Various Artist Compilations) 2000s Part 1. It has been moved from
the 2001 page since the full version of Things Have
Changed ceased to be a rarity after being included in The Essential
Bob Dylan. For Lucky You, the 2007 film directed by
Curtis Hanson which also contains a Dylan rarity, see
VHS & DVD 2000s Part 4.
R-0320 Shooting Star
- Oh Mercy version remastered
No longer a rarity since the release of the remastered version of the album in
2003.
R-0321 Buckets Of Rain
- Blood On The Tracks version remastered
No longer a rarity since the release of the remastered version of the album in
2003.
Thanks to Fred Muller for making the distinction between the two versions of Things Have Changed in the film. I have therefore allocated a later R- number to the shortened version, which consists of the first verse only, and is unique to the film.
Note in the UK and Australian releases a different picture of Katie Holmes replaces Tobey Maguire in the top row next to Michael Douglas! The other stars pictured are Robert Downey Jr. and Frances McDormand.
Both the US Region 1 DVD and the UK Region 2 DVD also contain a full-length promotional video for Things Have Changed, not the shorter video that promoted the radio edit of the song in 2000. A previous report that the UK DVD didn't have any extras was incorrect. The UK release has an insert card printed on one side only.
Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for the information that Wonder Boys was released in South America under the title Fin De Semana De Locos [Crazy Weekend], and for the scan. This uses the US picture layout.
Thanks to Artur Jarosinski for scans of two DVD releases of "Wonder Boys" in Poland, retitled "Cudowni Chłopcy". The first is the regular release in a DVD case with a folded insert, the second is in a card sleeve and was given away free with an issue of the Polish magazine "Dom & Wnetrze". Thanks to Stanislav Tomik for scans of the 2005 DVD release of "Wonder Boys" in the Czech Republic/Slovakia, retitled "Skvělí Chlapi". This is an official release. Thanks to Stuart Moore for scans of the Australian DVD and VHS releases.
"The Source" - documentary film, DVD & VHS: Fox Lorber FLV
5225 (USA), 2000:
This DVD release is region-free, so can be played worldwide.
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This documentary film by Chuck Workman about the American Beat writers
from the 1940s to the 1960s was released in conjunction with "The Rolling
Stone Book of the Beats" and features performance footage by Bob. Larry Crum
has provided the details: 1) An excerpt from "Don't Look Back" (see VHS & DVD 1960s) with Dylan strumming his guitar and responding to the questions "What is your attitude towards life? When you meet someone what is your attitude towards them?" with "I don't like them". 2) Knocking on Heaven's Door from "Renaldo & Clara" - the film is listed in the credits at the end of "The Source" (see VHS & DVD 1970s) . About 2:30 of the audio of the song is used as background for interviews but only a few seconds of the video of the performance is actually shown. (This is the 20 Nov 1975 performance included in The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975.) 3) Dylan and Ginsberg at Kerouac's grave. Dylan says "I wanna be in an unmarked grave." (from "Renaldo and Clara" also). There are also dramatised sections in which Johnny Depp, John Turturro, and Dennis Hopper portray Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs respectively. Information from Freddy Ordoñez Araque, Larry Crum and Hans Seegers. |
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott plus Guests - "The Ballad Of Ramblin' Jack" - feature film shown Aug 2000, DVD/VHS: Winstar Home Video (catalogue numbers?) (USA), 8 May 2001:
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Appearances by Bob in the film include:
As far as I know this film has not been released commercially in the UK, although it has been shown on the BBC Knowledge cable channel. |
![]() US DVD release - picture from Freddy Ordoñez Araque |
"Bob Dylan: The American Troubadour" - VHS: A&E Home Video AAE-17988
(USA), Oct 2000/DVD: A&E Home Video
AAE-70729 (USA), Dec 2002/A&E Home Video
AAE-72795 (USA), 2005:
This 100 min show was originally broadcast in the "Biography"
series on the A&E Television Network.
R-0483 Excerpts from released and unreleased Bob Dylan tracks, including an early song from the 1950s with a lyric that sounds like "Betty Lou" and a fragment of Gene Vincent's Be-Bop-A-Lula, both from the John Bucklen tape
Thanks to David Pollock and Rob Carson for drawing this to my attention. Larry Crum adds "Also includes excerpts of live performances of Only A Pawn In Their Game (R-0024, see 1964), Hurricane (R-0132, see 1975-76 Hurricane Singles, Maggie's Farm with Tom Petty and Willie Nelson at Farm Aid, and Seeing The Real You At Last with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers from Buffalo, NY, 4 Jul 1986."
This unprecedented BIOGRAPHY® presents a portrait of a man whose life and music have been a weathervane for his times."
This set was released on DVD in Dec 2002 - however the disc was a DVD+R, which would not play on all DVD players. Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for information about the DVD and to Ted Harrington for the scan. It was released in 2005 as a regular DVD, thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque and Jack from Canada for the information and scans.
The show description says: "He was a skinny nineteen-year-old with a battered guitar and a dream of meeting Woody Guthrie. In just a few short years, he took his place alongside his idol as one of the most important musicians of the 20th century.
Bob Dylan didn't just transform music--he embodied an era. But unlike other performers who are reluctant to change in case their appeal fades, he has never shied from challenging his fans and himself. BIOGRAPHY® follows the influential singer from his boyhood days in Minnesota to superstardom and beyond in this feature-length special. Rare photos from his arrival in New York City show the boy who would soon become a legend, and period recordings capture the brilliance that set the folk world afire. Fellow musicians Dave Van Ronk and Happy Traum reflect on his shocking electric set at the Newport Folk Festival, the first of his many, highly-publicized re-inventions. And we'll get an up-close look at Dylan today, an aging superstar who remains a musical force, even if his days as a cultural icon are past.
"Hendrix" - US TV movie first shown in 2000, DVD release: MGM 1001534 (USA), 2001:
For the complete 1965 Los Angeles interview, R-0608, see Interviews with Bob. Excepts from this interview (all listed as R-0506) were used in these video documentaries:
2001
Various Artists - "42nd Grammy Awards" - DVD: Sony Home Video (catalogue number?) (USA), Mar 2001:
"Love And Theft" - TVC and Video Compilation #8 on writeable DVD, Sony (Australia), 18 Sep 2001:
Various Artists - "American Roots Music" - DVD & VHS release of PBS documentary TV series, Palm Pictures/Manga Video 3039-2 (USA), Oct 2001:
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Details of Bob's involvement in this documentary series from Larry Crum
(all excerpts of track, not complete versions):
Episode Three: A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (LP version), The Times They Are A-Changin' (from Don't Look Back, see VHS & DVD 1960s), Maggie's Farm (LP version), and It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (LP version). The LP tracks are played over still photographs of Dylan. It was reported on the Internet that Episode Three "ends with Dylan's electric set and its impact at the Newport Folk Festival." - this was not true. If it had been included, it would almost certainly have been an excerpt from Murray Lerner's 1966 film Festival, see VHS & DVD 1960s. Episode Four: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (also from Don't Look Back) There is also a 4CD soundtrack album (which won a Grammy in Feb 2002) and which contains the album version of The Times They Are A-Changin' as well as performances of several other songs associated with Bob. The same track is also on a single Highlights CD, for both see International Album Releases (Various Artists Compilations) 2001. |
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2002
The Band plus Guests - "The Last Waltz - Special Edition" - DVD release: MGM Home Video 1003426 (USA), 7 May 2002; MGM Home Video 1007451 (USA) [in boxed set "The Martin Scorsese Film Collection"], 8 Feb 2005; Blu-ray release: MGM/20 Century Fox M-100134 (USA), 2008
This DVD Special Edition of the classic Martin Scorsese film of The Band's last concert at Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 25 Nov 1976, contains extra material in addition to that listed for the 1978 film (see VHS & DVD 1970s), so warrants a separate entry. For the 4CD Rhino Records boxed set including an extra audio track, Hazel from Planet Waves, see 2002. The US copy shown here is packaged as a "Limited Edition" in a slipcase. There is an 8-page stapled booklet.
R-0142-5 Forever Young
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R-0143-6 Baby Let Me Follow You Down ((Rev Gary Davies, arr. Eric von Schmidt)
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Thanks to Larry Crum for pointing out that the video performance of this
track has more of the intro riffs than the edit on the audio releases (see
1978 for the 3LP set and 2002
for the 4CD boxed set). This was also true of
the original VHS release, see VHS & DVD
1970s.
R-0144-6 I Shall Be Released
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R-0142/R-0143 - Bob Dylan with The Band; R-0144 - Bob Dylan with The Band and ensemble.
R-0140 ( Baby Let Me Follow You Down) and R-0141 ( I Don't Believe You) from the 1978 soundtrack album are missing from the film itself as is R-0540 (Hazel) - apparently on Bob's instructions, his performance was only filmed from R-0142 onwards. Thanks to Fred Muller from New Zealand for pointing this out.
Thanks to Jack from Canada for scans of his US copy, which comes as part of the boxed set "The Martin Scorsese Film Collection" with "New York, New York", "Raging Bull" and "Boxcar Bertha" (but not "Taxi Driver"). The catalogue number is the same but the rear design is completely different from my copy, as is the disc design. Thanks also to Jack from Canada for information about the high definition 2006 US Blu-ray release (this will not play in a standard DVD player, and needs a special Blu-ray player that is not compatible with discs with the rival HD-DVD system). Thanks to Hans Seegers for details of a Warner Bros promo CD called The Last Waltz: Press Kit Photography CD. This is actually a CD-ROM and has a video excerpt from R-0143, more details are in 2002.
The Band plus Guests - "The Last Waltz - Collector's Edition" - DVD release: MGM Home Entertainment 17337DVD (UK), Oct 2002:
The Band plus Guests - "The Last Waltz - Special Edition" - DVD release: MGM Home Entertainment GXBA-17337 (Japan), 2002:

MGM Home Entertainment GXBA-17337 (Japan) - obi unfolded, scan
by Wil Gielen
The Band plus Guests - "The Last Waltz - Special Edition" - DVD release: MGM Home Video 17337SD (Australia), 2002:
The Band plus Guests - "The Last Waltz - Special Edition" - DVD release: MGM Home Video 17233748 (France), Aug 2003:
"Hollywood Rocks The Movies" - American Movie Classics TV series shown weekend of 4 Jul 2002 (USA):
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Thanks to Rob Cole for information about this series hosted by Ringo
Starr: Part 1, Hollywood Rocks The Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970),
features two clips from Don't Look Back (see above and
VHS & DVD 1960s). Apparently all
that is included is a short excerpt of a concert performance and footage of
a reporter calling in a story. Part 2, Hollywood Rocks The Movies: The 1970s, includes a clip from The Last Waltz (see above and VHS & DVD 1970s). Bob isn't mentioned as a guest, but can be seen in a shot of the stage during the finale. For more information, see here. |
"The Sopranos - The Complete Third Season" - boxed set (4 Region 1 DVDs: HBO 99234 (USA), 27 Aug 2002; 5 NTSC VHS tapes, HBO (catalogue number?) (USA), 27 Aug 2002; 4 Region 2 DVDs: Warner Home Video (catalogue number?) (UK), 21 Oct 2002:
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R-0585 Return To Me [Ritorna A Me]
(Danny Di Minno/Carmen Lombardo) - soundtrack version from episode "Amour Fou
[Mad Love]", Season 3, episode
38, different from album version (R-0464, see 2001) Keith Venturoni informs me: "The version of Return to Me used on the show was different and longer than the CD version. It also did not have the verse sung in Italian. It may just be an edit job, as it is hard to tell because there was dialog over the song in many parts." |
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The set has also been released in the USA in six multi-season DVD sets: The Sopranos Complete First Three Seasons, The Sopranos Complete First Four Seasons, The Sopranos Complete First Five Seasons, The Sopranos Seasons One to Season 6 Part 1 plus two versions of the complete series including Seasons 6.1 and 6.2.
(Seasons 1 to 5 were 13 episodes each, but Season 6 had 21 episodes shown in two parts: 12 in Season 6.1 in 2006 and 9 in Season 6.2 in 2007.) Episode 24 of Season 2 and Episode 86 of Season 6.2 also had Dylan album tracks, see VHS & DVD: Films with Dylan Album Tracks 2000s.
Thanks to Jack from Canada for scans of the US DVD release, other pictures from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk.
"Divine
Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood" - DVD/VHS releases, Warner Home Video(USA), 5 Nov 2002/Warner
Home Video Z1 23308 (UK), 24 Mar 2003/Warner Home Video 22827 (Australia), 2003:
For details of the May 2002 film soundtrack album, see 2002.
The US DVD was re-released in Mar 2003 in "full screen" (4:3) and "widescreen" versions in card "clip front" sleeves - thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for information about these releases. (The biplane stayed on the right!) The UK DVD release (in 2.35:1 widescreen only) is also in a card "clip front" sleeve, but features a revised cover picture with a still from the film replacing the sunflower head, which is relegated to the back. The UK VHS release (not shown) has the same picture. The US theatrical release poster has the film title in the centre of the sunflower head instead of below the cast pictures.
Thanks to Jack from Canada for the US DVD disc scan and to
Stuart Moore for scans of the Australian widescreen DVD release.

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