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These are shows of bands that I like that took place in Israel. Lots of other Israel shows have taken place over the years - go find the ones you like! They're not so hard to find. Join the Yahoo Group of any specific band and you can find them. They often show up on the torrent sites if you're patient and visit the good ones. Enjoy!

Paul Simon - Live in Caesarea

Paul Simon in Israel!! May 7, 1978 at the amphitheatre in Caesarea. He plays many of his best songs - if you're a Paul Simon fan, you know the set list. The Jessy Dixon Singers joined Paul in Israel - they add that gospel feel that many of his 70's songs had to them. Most of the 2 cd show is soundboard quality. I know that Simon and Garfunkel also played in Israel on September 26, 1983 and another unknown date. Anyone have it? I'm a big Simon & Garfunkel and Paul Simon fan. I like listening to Simon & Garfunkel shows from the sixties - they toured universities and colleges and these shows are classics. And they're not hard to find.




Bob Dylan in Israel

 The Master in the Holy Land. Bob Dylan played at least 5 shows in Israel. Below are setlists for each show. The best song? That's easy - it doesn't get much better than Bob Dylan singing, "Let my people go!" I've found lots of artwork for these shows - they're so special to me that I print each one that I find.

The bottom cd is a bootleg titled Semi-Precious Memories Volume 5. Its a bootleg box set that is a compilation of live songs. Go Down Moses from the September 5, 1987 show is a part of this bootleg. It sounds better here than on the show itself - whoever put this together did a great job at improving the sound.

In November 2005, I finally got my hands on a silver disc ("original bootleg" as opposed to cdr) of Visit To Israel (or Visit To Islael as it says!) from a Japanese dealer. 
Hayarkon Park / Tel-Aviv, Israel / September 5, 1987:
Maggie's Farm / I'll Be Your Baby Tonight / Senor (Tales Of Yankee
Power) / Highway 61 Revisited / I And I / Watching The River Flow / Simple
Twist Of Fate / Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again / In The
Garden / Joey / Dead Man, Dead Man / I'll Remember You / Tangled Up In Blue /
All Along The Watchtower / Knockin' On Heaven's Door / Blowin' In The Wind / Go
Down, Moses

Sultan's Pool / Jerusalem, Israel / September 7, 1987:
The Times They Are A-Changin' / Man Of Peace / Like A Rolling Stone /
Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 / Emotionally Yours / Shot Of Love / Ballad Of A
Thin Man / You're A Big Girl Now / John Brown / License To Kill / It's All
Over Now, Baby Blue / Gotta Serve Somebody / Slow Train

Tel Aviv, Israel / 17 June 1993
Hard Times (acoustic w band) Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis
Blues Again All Along The Watchtower / Just Like A Woman / Tangled Up
In Blue You're A Big Girl Now / Watching The River Flow Jim Jones
(acoustic w band) / Tomorrow Night (acoustic w band) Mr. Tambourine
Man (acoustic w band) Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (acoustic w
band) / Everything Is Broken I And I / Simple Twist Of Fate /
Maggie's Farm / Ballad Of A Thin Man Highway 61 Revisited / Blowin'
In The Wind (acoustic w band)

Beersheva, Israel / 19 June 1993
Hard Times (acoustic w band) Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis
Blues Again All Along The Watchtower / Just Like A Woman / Tangled Up
In Blue You're A Big Girl Now / Watching The River Flow Jim Jones
(acoustic w band) / Tomorrow Night (acoustic w band) Mr. Tambourine
Man (acoustic w band) Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (acoustic w
band) Knockin' On Heaven's Door (acoustic->electric) / Cat's In The
Well / I And I Simple Twist Of Fate / Maggie's Farm / What Good Am I?
Highway 61 Revisited / It Ain't Me, Babe (acoustic w band)

Haifa, Israel / 20 June 1993
Hard Times (acoustic w band) Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis
Blues Again All Along The Watchtower / Just Like A Woman / Tangled Up
In Blue Shelter From The Storm / Watching The River Flow Little Moses
(acoustic w band) / Tomorrow Night (acoustic w band) It's All Over
Now, Baby Blue (acoustic w band) Mr. Tambourine Man (acoustic w
band) / Cat's In The Well / I And I Positively 4th Street / Maggie's
Farm / Man In The Long Black Coat Everything Is Broken / It Ain't Me,
Babe (acoustic w band)


Neil Young & Pearl Jam - Jerusalem and Caesaria

 Neil Young and Pearl Jam visited Israel in 1995. They played twice - August 22, 1995 in Jerusalem and August 23, 1995 in Caesarea. Both shows are 2 cds. Neil Young played at Woodstock. He plays one song that he played at Woodstock - Mr. Soul. Rockin' in the Free World, live from Jerusalem!

The bottom pictures are from Thin Air Issue 6 - Mirrorball Live. Its a Neil Young and Pearl Jam compilation - all of the songs are from the same 1995 tour. Act of Love and Mr. Soul from the August 23rd Caesaria show are included.

U2 - Shalom Israel

 U2 performed in Tel Aviv on September 30, 1997 (actually at the Ramat Gan Stadium). A kickass show - of all the Israel shows here, this is the easiest to find. There are at least three different versions of the cd artwork out there.

Jethro Tull in Israel

 There are three Jethro Tull shows out there that took place in Israel - June 30, 1986, November 11, 2000 and November 12, 2000. None are hard to find. Two of them were recorded from a radio broadcast, so the quality is soundboard. These are some of my favorite Israel shows. Jethro Tull did a bunch of shows in Israel over the years. They're around long enough to have played at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival - the last major 60's-style rock festival that has Jethro Tull sharing the bill with The Doors, Hendrix, The Who and others. We're lucky that such a cool band found its way to our little country!

David Bowie - Holy Unorthodox

David Bowie has performed in Israel a few times. The only one I've found so far is from 1996. Holy Unorthodox is compilation of parts of three shows - June 18, 1996 in Moscow, July 3, 1996 in Tel Aviv, and July 20, 1996 in Balingen, Germany.

Sting - An Englishman In Jerusalem

Sting played two shows in Israel in 1994. September 18, 1994 - Jerusalem and September 20, 1994 - Rishon L'Tzion. First to Jerusalem. This show is circulating among Sting collectors as of early 2003. I named it and did quick artwork for it. The schmuck who taped it decided to sing along with the first few songs! The finale, Fragile, in which the crowd sings along with Sting, makes it worth it. Why didn't he play Mad About You (which mentions Jerusalem!)? I bet by the time these great performers are done dealing with Israeli promoters, they lose lots of their idealism for our wonderful Israel. Ha. I saw Sting in Miami when I was in high school. Took a while to find that show. I got September 20, 1994 in May 2005. It was obviously recorded by the same people who recorded the Jerusalem show. The last song, Fragile, is touching. I know of a September 19, 1994 show in Tiberius that I'm working on getting.












Eric Clapton in Jerusalem

Even the great Eric Clapton has played here! Three shows - February 6, 1984 and July 13, 1989 (the artwork for one of them has different dates) at Sultan's Pool in Jerusalem. The third show, The Lost Israel Tapes, is from October 29, 1979. This bootleg was originally on LP and showed up in 2007 on DimeaDozen. Great sounding for an audience recordings from the 70's.

James Taylor - Israel Radio Broadcast, Live 1987

This show took place in Rishon Letzion in 1987. This is the radio broadcast from Galei Tzahal - the Israel Defence Force's radio station.

Deep Purple - Live in Tel Aviv

Deep Purple in Israel! The show took place on September 28, 1991. Its the full show - two cds worth.


Leonard Cohen in Israel

Leonard Cohen's November 24, 1980 performance in Tel Aviv isn't hard to find - I was surprised at how many of Cohen's shows are out there. There's no artwork for it. 2 discs. During the show he talks about what he did during the Yom Kippur War - he flew to Israel and tried to join the Israel Defense Forces. He ended up spending a few months playing his unique music-poetry for soldiers. How Jewish, poetic and humble. Like Jethro Tull, Leonard Cohen also played at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival - he's on the cd and video. In 2005, a soundboard of Cohen's April 19, 1972 concert in Tel Aviv showed up on Dimeadozen.org. This artwork above is from this show.

Frank Sinatra - The Jerusalem Concert

Frank Sinatra played a one hour show in Jerusalem on November 27, 1975. He toured Israel and Iran and donated the proceeds to a Jewish-Arab charity. He says nice things in between the songs and I recognized almost all of the songs. My favorite? A cover of a Beatles song, "Something".

Lou Reed - Tel Aviv Cinerama

Lou Reed in Israel on American Independence Day! July 4, 2000. 2 cds and an average-sounding audience recording.

On November 7, 2005, Phil Collins did a show in Tel Aviv. Part of the show (10 songs) was broadcast on Israeli radio and it was seeded immediately on Bootcity.org.

Dire Straits 1985 Israel Documentary

Dire Straits was in Israel in 1985 and this excellent documentary found its way to the Internet. You are treated to 29 minutes of Dire Straits in Jerusalem - playing music and poignant interviews. The audio and video quality couldn't be better. I didn't know Mark Knopfler was such a fan of our little country. Considering how so many musicians go off the deep end with their political views, its nice to see a band that knows how to act like travelers on the road. They play So Far Away, Walk of Life, Brothers in Arms and Ride Across The River. The first time I saw this was with a friend who appreciated it as much as I did!

In May 2008, I downloaded an upgrade from HungerCity.org. It has as extra 4 minutes of the documentary - the first missing four minutes. Band members are shown on the airplane and landing in Israel. This one doesn't have the Live USA material. Reminded me what a great dvd this is!


Roger Waters in Israel

On June 22, 2006, Roger Waters performed in Neve Shalom, Israel. Neve Shalom is just outside of Jerusalem. The show was broadcast live on Israel's 88FM so those of us who didn't make it got to hear it live. I listened to the show at home and loved it! Glad a member of Pink Floyd visited and performed in Israel. I have a cd (lossless) and mp3 version of the show. As mp3's miss those high frequencies, the mp3 version is ironically better sounding as its without all the high-pitched crackles. I hope a fresh sounding version shows up one day.



Mick Taylor - Dead Sea Blues Festival

Mick Taylor, who was in The Rolling Stones in the 70's, played at The Dead Sea Blues Festival on April 12, 1990. Its an FM soundboard recording. I found this on DimeaDozen in April 2008.

John McLaughlin - The Free Spirits - Live in Israel 1995

John McLaughlin and his band play a sharp 27 minute set on Israel TV. The video is grainy black and white but it sounds good.

That makes it 29 Israel shows!! When I started this, I assumed it would hit 10 or so and end there. At this rate, its likely I'll have 30 Israel shows this summer. I'm still looking for Simon & Garfunkel, Santana and Richie Havens shows that took place in Israel. Enjoy the music.

Kenny Sahr