I agree. Can I also suggest that we adopt a 'standard' format for posting suggestions as it then makes it easier to compile the list eg :-

YYYY-MM-DD,Title,City or venue,Country,Version

0, not applicable or not known can be used as appropriate eg

1985-00-00,Wembley Night,London,UK,Crystal Cat

Let's go with Mando's suggestion. We have to use a standard.

Here are some suggestions to add to the master list:

Instead of "Pre 1975" I think it should be pre Born to Run. So the 1975-02/05 - Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA should be here and not the Born to Run tour.

Born to Run:
This tour ran until May 1976 so 1976-04-04 East Lansing (Rise like the Rain (Ev2) belongs here and not the Chicken Scratch.
1975/11/24 - Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK Shit Hot and Rockin'

Darkness: I think we may need more than 5 shows for this tour. I suggest making this and the River tour ten shows.
1978/07/07 - Roxy, Los Angeles, CA (No Private Parties)
1978/089/09 - Agora, Cleveland, OH (Agora Night)
1978/09/03 - Civic Centre, Saginaw, MI
1978/09/30 - Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia (Same Old Played Out Scenes)
1978/12/15 - Winterland, San Francisco, CA (Walking in a Springsteen Wonderland - Hojo Version)
1978/12/19 - Paramount Theatre, Portland, OR (Paramount Night)

River:
1981//08/20 - Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA (As Dreams Don't Mean Nothin’) - This has to be on the final list
1981/08/28 - Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA (Scattered Like Dry Leaves)

More suggestions to come . . .

Thanks, LB!

First time I'm into this thread, and I really want to nominate:
2006-05-20 Oslo Spektrum, Oslo, Norway, Bull recording.

The sound is just wonderful, and the performance is fantastic.

So you consider this superior to the CC version and the PS 25th Ann remaster? Well, for me, it is very hard to tell a difference, but I recently settled for keeping CC on my CD shelf and store the Hojo Flacs on a DVD...

That doesn't make any sense. Why scatter bootleg info?

It's YYYY-MM-DD, Location, Title (label)

I knew people would mention this show. As a boot, it is a very good recording. But, as a performance, so-so.

My $.02-there should be sub-headings, i.e. sound quality, performance and historical value.

Some might fit all three-4 of the 1978 radio broadcasts come to mind. Subjective, yes; but then "essential" is subjective also. There are at least 5 boots mentioned that don't fit.

This is a veiled attempt by tD to get the lurkers out of the closet.

I hope Flynn's head isn't damaged too badly after banging it against the wall multiple times.

Whatever, the importnat thing is that there is an agreed standard.

Must be donation time again.

I suggest we put TD in charge and he set the rules on formatting, etc. otherwise, total chaos.

Just name your boots, and stop fussing with the formatting.

As for Count Basie, I have yet to hear a decent boot (are there more than two?) and given the newer and better boots of the most recent play throughs, although not played on some night, would put those in place of COunt Basie.

I am sure Flynn can "compile" two of those show portions into one, to replace Count Basie

And an absolute crime that Tempe was professional filmed and has yet to see the light of day. Top Ten overall.

Someone needs to pay for this. Someone, I say.

And here is the link to the old Top 55 list from way back, as food for thought. Original link is dead, but BTX had reproduced it.

http://www.backstreets.com/btx/viewtopic.php?t=3801

I can see what you're saying. Ev2's version is listenable, and for historical value it's important. I think it should be included for that alone (even if the GS #4 and Philly #2 versions of the albums were better).

I just listened to 1981/05/07 'Warm Welcome in Stockholm' and 1981/05/08 'Teardrops on the City Revisited' head to head, and I really don't think WWiS sounds better. And since the second night was an even better show to begin with, my recommendation is to put that one on this list. One of the classic vinyl boots, and an absolutely mindblowing show.

Shea Last Dance needs to be on the list. Plus we have a decent DVD of that as well.

I'd put that in Eugene's Essentials category because of the whole final Rising show/Dylan/concert length duration rather than being one of the defitive boots from the Tour. Night #2 is a vastly better show, IMO.

I would not consider that one a Top 5 show for the River tour as I prefer the 1980's setlists, but definitely a "must have", if we expand the list to 10 per tour, and it would certainly make the Top 100. This show is a good example for the need to track down the best version of each show once the list is complete. Most of Ev2s releases are definitely an upgrade; for some shows, however, I think the original source or an alternative version is better than Ev2's, don't know about this one, though

Yes, I prefer the Hojo. The PS doesn't include the intro to Rosalita, which is a travesty. Between the Hojo and the CC it's a tossup, but the Hojo captures the atmosphere of the show better. I figure there will be lots of these sort of discussions about this list and I don't expect agreement, but that's part of the fun.