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Watch the Bob Dylan 1981 concert video extravaganza

1981 was one of Bob Dylan's great tours, in fact I'd put it up there with '66 and '75, I'd even probably rate it higher than the 1978 tour.

Dec 1, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

James Brown: Please Don’t Go

James Brown always stood apart. He was the most flamboyant, the most outrageous, the funkiest, the baddest.

Dec 31, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief and Peter Stone Brown

Watch a superb 1999 Bob Dylan concert: Michigan State University, East Lansing

Watch another new video upgrade. This is peak Bob Dylan with the Larry Campbell/Charlie Sexton band playing some of the best folk, rock n roll and…

Dec 20, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch Bob Dylan's Grand Rapids show from August 5th 1989

A new video upgrade of this rambunctious and boisterous show from early in the Never Ending Tour.

Dec 15, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch Bob Dylan live in Budapest 1991

A new video upgrade of this fantastically filmed show, the image is sharp and clear, the footage slightly wobbly but with some great closeups of the…

Dec 18, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch Bob Dylan's 'Hard To Handle' upgraded to HD and enhanced

Watch a new Joker and the Thief HD video upgrade of this famous 1986 concert video.

Dec 13, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

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The Joker and the Thief — Newsletter

The Joker and the Thief — Newsletter

Writing by Trev Gibb and archived writings of Peter Stone Brown (1951 to 2019) a singer-songwriter, freelance writer, music editor for a Philadelphia alternative weekly, and onetime WXPN DJ as well as articles and Bob Dylan content from Trev Gibb.

Podcasts

Joker & The Thief Podcast

Jokerman Letterman '84 [4K AI restoration]

Bob Dylan

Glasgow Revisited: Download the clean remix of 'Bob Dylan Live in Glasgow' — The Joker Remixes

This is round 2 of the remix wars. The same recording from 17 November 2025 but stripped back and unadulterated other than some audio restoration. I…

Jan 15 • The Joker and the Thief and Trevor Richardson Gibb

Download 'Bob Dylan Live in Glasgow' — The Joker Remixes

This new Joker-remix of the concert from 17 November 2025 in Glasgow uses instrument separation on the source soundboard recorded by 'illegible' and…

Jan 9 • The Joker and the Thief and Trevor Richardson Gibb

Watch Bob Dylan's second full 'Beacon Theater 30 April 2005' set and read a review

Watch a new Joker and the Thief video upgrade of this full 2005 concert, featuring a review by Peter Stone Brown.

Jan 5 • The Joker and the Thief, Peter Stone Brown, and Trevor Richardson Gibb

An annotated deep-dive into Bob Dylan's 'Murder Most Foul'

Use the footnotes and find links, references and allusions in Bob Dylan's late career masterpiece including a kaleidoscopic history of the Kennedy…

Jan 3 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch Bob Dylan in Durham, New Hampshire, November 1999

Watch a newly upscaled and enhanced video of another mighty fine concert from 1999.

Jan 2 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch a superb 1999 Bob Dylan concert: Michigan State University, East Lansing

Watch another new video upgrade. This is peak Bob Dylan with the Larry Campbell/Charlie Sexton band playing some of the best folk, rock n roll and…

Dec 20, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch Bob Dylan live in Budapest 1991

A new video upgrade of this fantastically filmed show, the image is sharp and clear, the footage slightly wobbly but with some great closeups of the…

Dec 18, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch Bob Dylan's Grand Rapids show from August 5th 1989

A new video upgrade of this rambunctious and boisterous show from early in the Never Ending Tour.

Dec 15, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Never Ending Tour

Watch Bob Dylan's second full 'Beacon Theater 30 April 2005' set and read a review

Watch a new Joker and the Thief video upgrade of this full 2005 concert, featuring a review by Peter Stone Brown.

Jan 5 • The Joker and the Thief, Peter Stone Brown, and Trevor Richardson Gibb

Watch Bob Dylan in Durham, New Hampshire, November 1999

Watch a newly upscaled and enhanced video of another mighty fine concert from 1999.

Jan 2 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch a superb 1999 Bob Dylan concert: Michigan State University, East Lansing

Watch another new video upgrade. This is peak Bob Dylan with the Larry Campbell/Charlie Sexton band playing some of the best folk, rock n roll and…

Dec 20, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch Bob Dylan live in Budapest 1991

A new video upgrade of this fantastically filmed show, the image is sharp and clear, the footage slightly wobbly but with some great closeups of the…

Dec 18, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch Bob Dylan's Grand Rapids show from August 5th 1989

A new video upgrade of this rambunctious and boisterous show from early in the Never Ending Tour.

Dec 15, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch 'Roadmaps For The Soul,' Ljubljana, Slovenia: April 28 1999

Watch a new Joker and the Thief HD video upgrade of this 1999 concert DVD.

Dec 12, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Possibly the greatest Never Ending Tour show no one talks about

A tribute to the great Vienna 1999, Rolling Through The Stormy Weather.

Nov 15, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief and Trevor Richardson Gibb

For paid subscribers: Watch Dylan's Woodstock 94 - enhanced and upscaled

"We waited 25 years to hear this, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Bob Dylan"

Aug 28, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch 'Roadmaps For The Soul,' Ljubljana, Slovenia: April 28 1999

Watch a new Joker and the Thief HD video upgrade of this 1999 concert DVD.

Dec 12, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Watch Bob Dylan's full 'Beacon Theater 29 April 2005' set and read a review

Watch a new Joker and the Thief video upgrade of this full 2005 concert and download the footage if you are a paid subscriber. Featuring a review by…

Dec 11, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief, Peter Stone Brown, and Trevor Richardson Gibb

What Merle Haggard really thought of Bob Dylan

Both incomparable artists, one shy and retiring and easily hurt, the other straight talking, dry and maybe a little cruel. But let's be honest, Merle…

Dec 8, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

The last Bob Dylan song I really wanted to play

An old friend of mine once said a good test of whether a new Bob Dylan song is really great is if it gives you the urge to pick up your guitar and sing…

Dec 3, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

Bob Dylan and his love for Ireland and the Lakes of Ponchartrain

Bob Dylan is a true transaltanticist, as a lover of the old Scottish, English and Irish ballads many of which would transform his songwriting.

Nov 25, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief and Trevor Richardson Gibb

The Ballad of Blake Mills

The secret recipe in that fine dessert that is Rough and Rowdy Ways (from the archive)

Jan 10, 2024 • The Joker and the Thief

Possibly the greatest Never Ending Tour show no one talks about

A tribute to the great Vienna 1999, Rolling Through The Stormy Weather.

Nov 15, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief and Trevor Richardson Gibb

Video: Bob Dylan in Leeds 2025, Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour

Tonight’s show in Leeds!

Nov 15, 2025 • The Joker and the Thief

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