On the Road

Tours

He has been performing in public since 1961 and touring more or less continuously since 1988. This is the shape of it.

Tour dates change. For anything current, the official list at bobdylan.com/on-tour is the only reliable source.

The Never Ending Tour, by the numbers

7 June 1988

The first night, in Concord, California, with a three-piece band led by G. E. Smith.

~100 shows a year

Through most of the 1990s. 1999 alone ran to 117 concerts.

3,000+

Concerts played since 1988 โ€” more than the rest of his career combined, several times over.

Tony Garnier

On bass since 1989, and the longest-serving musician in Dylan's entire history.

The name was coined by a journalist from an offhand remark, and Dylan has resented it ever since โ€” most entertainingly in the liner notes to World Gone Wrong, where he insists the Never Ending Tour ended in 1991 and lists a series of invented successors instead.