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The Stones' 1971 tour shows are now reviewed, with just a short essay to go for that year.

To cleanse the palette, I have started on the 1984 Bob Dylan European Tour shows. They are always engaging to listen to -- performances of many of the greatest compositions of all time with Dylan's enigmatic live singing of them.

There are a lot of songs and a lot of minutes of music, so it is a bit daunting to think of going through all of them in order in one stretch of time, but I think it makes for better comparative analysis.

Then it will be in to the Rolling Stones shows of 1972 and 1973, many of which I already know by heart (which poses a different problem to overcome in reviewing them).

Lots of behind the scenes technical work has been done to bolster the new server for what I hope will be a long and unchanging run.

One new feature we have turned on is "Bookmarks." If you are logged in, you can bookmark any post you are reading by clicking Bookmark at the top of the post. It will then be preserved in your own archive on GimmeMT.com.

You can access your bookmarks when logged in by selecting the Bookmarks link from the listings on the left margin of all pages (except the homepage), and from the horizontal listings at the top of the homepage next to the black "Start a Discussion" button. You must be logged in to see the link to retrieve/review your bookmarked posts.

You can un-bookmark a post by clicking the Bookmark indicator to deselect it, either from your list of bookmarked items or from the actual post on the site.

Feels like 2 days ago, not 2 weeks ago, I wrote the prior update. Time is flying. Holidays arriving.

Quickly, the addendum essay for the 1971 tour of69-74 Rolling Stones is done, as is the84 Dylan essay as I delve into those 27 shows of about two hours each. I have been slowed down by replaying many songs, sometimes over and over. Really enjoying refreshing my Dylan fandom in a systematic manner.

What is unique about Mick Taylor playing with Bob Dylan is that, unlike most of the other gigs where he supported other artists, the material is not only very well known, it is stellar across the board.

The usual hurdle of getting used to another artist's repertoire and approach doesn't exist with84 Dylan -- it's just plug and play, or here, it's plug and listen.

Slowly reviewing these relatively long84 Dylan shows, enjoying and replaying them before writing. The biggest progress has been in building out the collection of covers for the various show recordings, and especially in incorporating the series of all 27 tour recordings by "Fendert" with his show notes and text files included with some of the alternate recordings.

Dylan attracts many obsessive tapers, collectors and analysts, so it is a well-documented Mick Taylor tour as a result. The depth of information collection and analysis by the Dylan fan community is humbling to someone who is primarily a Stones fan first and foremost. Well done, folks.

The holidays are upon us and 2025 beckons.

A quick status update.

review is now completed for 6 of the84 Dylan shows. There are 590 shows withcollect information for collectors and over 1700 cover images integrated into the show threads for these recordings.

Streaming video or audio (complete or partial)media has been located and linked for 327 of the shows.

It's a Mick Taylor fan's (or scholar's) dream (I hope).

The 27 1984 Dylan Tour shows (and 2 rehearsal collections) are now reviewed.

review Reviewed Shows are at 333.

collect Collectors' Information (about recordings) is posted for 592 shows.

media Streaming Media (audio or video) embeds/links are now posted for 331 different shows, and many shows now have multiple links.

By arrangement with the former MickTaylor.com website (which launched in 1995 and ran through 2002), we have thus far identified and posted on GimmeMT.com 70 fan postings containing "Eyewitness Reports" of Mick Taylor shows.

The reviews are placed in their appropriate show threads to become part of the comprehensive historical and musical record we are building.

They are really fun to read -- contemporaneously written perspectives from a wide variety of Mick Taylor fans about what they had witnessed. These Eyewitness Reports not only provide fascinating information that cannot be gleaned from audio recordings alone, they vividly bring back memories of what it was like to attend live music in those venues, in those years.

Most of these can be found for shows in the years 1999-2001. A quick way to find all of these Eyewitness Reports is to click on the Posts link for user orig-mt-site

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We are thrilled to save them from being permanently lost into the ether, and we will continue to discover and preserve this type of information from the former MickTaylor.com site as well as any other Mick Taylor or Rolling Stones-related websites that wish to contribute material.

I am happy to report that we now have almost 150 reviews or eyewitness accounts of shows added. We have identified and added postings made to sw5 (The Mick Taylor mailing list), which was spun out as an addition to the former MickTaylor.com web site. sw5 continued to operate until 2017, ten years after its parent ceased activity, providing additional scope of these historical fan contributions.

All of the eyewitness accounts added were selected for adding something to our collective memory about the performances. On one extreme, they are very detailed song by song reviews, and on the other may merely be a reliable confirmation that a show actually happened (helpful, for example, where a recording or setlist has never surfaced).

So far, over 50,000 words of these eyewitness accounts have been identified and added.