WHAT GOOD AM I?


WHAT GOOD AM I?
	PERFORMANCES SINCE 2010 03/06/10, SOFIA, BULGARIA 12/06/10, LINZ, AUSTRIA 22/06/10, NICE, FRANCE 01/07/10, NANTES, FRANCE 05/04/13, BUFFALO, NEW YORK 06/04/13, AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS 08/04/13, KINGSTON, RHODE ISLAND 09/04/13, LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS 10/04/13, LEWISTON, MAINE 12/04/13, NEWARK, DELAWARE 13/04/13, CALIFORNIA, PENNSYLVANIA 14/04/13, ITHACA, NEW YORK 16/04/13, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 18/04/13, BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA 19/04/13, AKRON, OHIO 20/04/13, KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN 21/04/13, BOWLING GREEN, OHIO 23/04/13, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 24/04/13, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI 25/04/13, CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS 27/04/13, MURRAY, KENTUCKY 28/04/13, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 30/04/13, ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA 01/05/13, CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA 02/05/13, RALEIGH, SOUTH CAROLINA 04/05/13, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 05/05/13, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA 10/10/13, OSLO, NORWAY 12/10/13, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 13/10/13, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 15/10/13, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK 16/10/13, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK 18/10/13, HANNOVER, GERMANY 19/10/13, HAMBURG, GERMANY 20/10/13, HAMBURG, GERMANY 22/10/13, DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY 24/10/13, BERLIN, GERMANY 25/10/13, BERLIN, GERMANY 26/10/13, BERLIN, GERMANY 28/10/13, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND 30/10/13, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS 31/10/13, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS 02/11/13, MILANO, ITALY 03/11/13, MILANO, ITALY 04/11/13, MILANO, ITALY 08/11/13, PADOVA, ITALY 10/11/13, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM 12/11/13, PARIS, FRANCE 13/11/13, PARIS, FRANCE 14/11/13, PARIS, FRANCE 16/11/13, ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE, LUXEMBOURG 18/11/13, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND 19/11/13, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND 20/11/13, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND 22/11/13, BLACKPOOL, ENGLAND 23/11/13, BLACKPOOL, ENGLAND 24/11/13, BLACKPOOL, ENGLAND 26/11/13, LONDON, ENGLAND 27/11/13, LONDON, ENGLAND 28/11/13, LONDON, ENGLAND 31/03/14, TOKYO, JAPAN 01/04/14, TOKYO, JAPAN 03/04/14, TOKYO, JAPAN 05/04/14, TOKYO, JAPAN 07/04/14, TOKYO, JAPAN 09/04/14, TOKYO, JAPAN 10/04/14, TOKYO, JAPAN 13/04/14, SAPPORO, JAPAN 14/04/14, SAPPORO, JAPAN 14/04/17, NAGOYA, JAPAN 14/04/18, NAGOYA, JAPAN 14/04/19, FUKUOKA, JAPAN 14/04/22, OSAKA, JAPAN 14/04/23, OSAKA, JAPAN 14/04/26, MAUI, HAWAII 14/04/29, HONOLULU, HAWAII 14/06/16, CORK, IRELAND 14/06/17, DUBLIN, IRELAND 14/06/20, ISTANBUL, TURKEY 14/06/25, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA 14/06/27, KOSICE, SLOVAKIA 14/06/28, VIENNA, AUSTRIA 14/06/29, KLAM, AUSTRIA 14/08/09, HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND
	What good am I If I’m like all the rest If I just turn away When I see how you’re dressed If I shut myself off So I can’t hear you cry What good am I? What good am I If I know and don’t do If I see and don’t say If I look right through you If I turn a deaf ear To the thunderin’ sky What good am I? What good am I While you softly weep And I hear in my head What you say in your sleep And I freeze in the moment Like the rest who don’t try What good am I? What good am I then To others and me If I’ve had every chance And yet still fail to see If my hands are tied Must I not wonder within Who tied them and why And where must I have been? What good am I If I say foolish things And I laugh in the face of What sorrow brings And I just turn my back While you silently die What good am I?
From 1989 to 1999 “WHAT GOOD AM I?” had 158 stage appearances. I had seen Bob perform it twice during that decade, in Bad Mergentheim 1991, and in Mannheim 1996. For more than ten and a half years “WHAT GOOD AM I?” had not been performed at all by Bob Dylan, when during the fourth show of his European tour of 2010, he pulled it out in Sofia, Bulgaria. Nine days later “WHAT GOOD AM I?” appeared again during a very fine set in Linz, Austria. Ten days after that “WHAT GOOD AM I?” was performed in Nice, France, and nine days after that once more in France, in Nantes. Almost three years later, during the US spring tour of April and May 2013, Bob Dylan decided to treat all 23 of his audiences with some absolutely stunning versions of “WHAT GOOD AM I?”, playing his grand piano while delivering them. The next 33 amazing performances of “WHAT GOOD AM I?” were during the fine European autumn tour in October and November 2013, where Dylan chose to perform this gem as the fourth song during all shows except the two "mix up" concerts in Rome. The second and the third appearance of this brilliant song that fall I witnessed in Stockholm, as well as the seventh and the eighth in Hamburg, and finally the ninth in Düsseldorf. During the spring tour of 2014 “WHAT GOOD AM I?” was performed in fourteen of the seventeen concerts in Japan, and during both shows in Hawaii; and during the European summer tour “WHAT GOOD AM I?” appeared during seven concerts in June, the first two of which I had the pleasure to be a part of the audience. During the down under tour of 2014, “WHAT GOOD AM I?” was performed only once, during the opening show in Hamilton, New Zealand. video - What Good Am I? - Stockholm 2013-10-13 (on piano) video - What Good Am I? - Hamburg 2013-10-19 (on piano) video - What Good Am I? - Dublin 2014-06-17 (center stage) ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ LINZ, AUSTRIA ~ JUNE 12, 2010 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ NICE, FRANCE ~ JUNE 22, 2010 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ OSLO, NORWAY ~ OCTOBER 10, 2013 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN ~ OCTOBER 13, 2013 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ HAMBURG, GERMANY ~ OCTOBER 19, 2013 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ HAMBURG, GERMANY ~ OCTOBER 20, 2013 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY ~ OCTOBER 22, 2013 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ CORK, IRELAND ~ JUNE 16, 2014 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ DUBLIN, IRELAND ~ JUNE 17, 2014 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ KOSICE, SLOVAKIA ~ JUNE 27, 2014 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ KLAM, AUSTRIA ~ JUNE 29, 2014 ~ ~ MP3 ~ WHAT GOOD AM I? ~ HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND ~ AUGUST 9, 2014 ~ Biblical references: ~ James 4 ~ Whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. ~ Romans 7 ~ I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!