Like a Rolling Stone - Looking for great live Dylan


Hoping a Dylan fan can recommend a great live version of LARS. Just heard Karl Wallinger's version (live) from Arkeology. It's got great energy. He really owns the song. Want to hear the master do it live. Leaning towards Bootleg Series Volume 4. If there's something better, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
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Hodu, Eddie and Laura do a nice duet but the song is not a ballad. I prefer the sneer and bitterness of Dylan's version.

Also Eddie needs to learn to lift his fingers off the strings when he slides them up and down the neck. I hate that noise when guitarists don't.

No offense intended. It's just another example of different people liking different music.
You're right Hodu, people can play rockers as ballads. I guess I should have said that I didn't like the song redone as a ballad because it diminishes what makes it one of the all time great rock songs. And yes, Dylan has done a lot of diminishing of his catalog himself.

Eddie still needs to learn to play guitar properly though.
Ghosthouse, Dylan was not and is not a normal person, as I'm sure you know. I'd guess that he was responding to the Judas shout. I doubt that he would care about or argue with someone who didn't want to listen to his albums any more. Being called Judas is something that he would be more likely to respond to, something philosophical or theatrical, not practical.

I sent you an email backchannel, let me know if you're interested.