* 1995 Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame: "All Along The Watchtower." A sizzling guitar jam with Dylan and JJ Jackson on lead, and Bucky Baxter on slide. Just stunning the way the band builds the melody to a crescendo, then walks it back down, then builds it up again. Staggering.

* 1998 Tribute to Johnny Cash: "Train of Love." Even better if you can find a posting with Dylan's intro to JC.

* 1983 David Letterman Show: "Don't Start Me Talkin' (I'll Tell Everything I Know")." A punked up rendition of an old blues number (by, I think buy may be wrong, Blind Lemon Jefferson). Wicked energy.

* 1974 Tribute to John Hammond, Sr. "Hurricane" and "Simple Twist of Fate." Dylan singing is super, and it's as good a look at Scarlett Rivera with Bob as you're going to find.

* 1980 Toronoto, Canada: "What Can I Do For You?". An achingly heartfelt performance of one of his gospel standards, with, IMHO, the most memorizing harmonica solo in music history. You can feel Dylan's passion in each note, and it tears at the soul. Just nothing like it.

* 1995 MTV Unplugged: "John Brown." The best version I could find of Dylan doing this little-known anti-war ballad from his folk days. His signing is terrific, and the band (also with JJ Jackson) is in top notch form. Lot has been made of Dylan's 80s/90s lack of production, but his live stuff in the 90s was, arguably, his peak as a performing artist.

Finally:

* 1969/70 (not sure): in the studio with Johnny Cash: "One Too Many Mornings." From a 2-3 say session with the great Cash that one hopes is cleaned up some day and released. The bootlegs themselves are priceless (Dylan singing "Ring of Fire"? Believe it.), and this video of them hamming it up in the studio will someday be looked at in awe. It should have in 1970. A shame they didn't do a full album together of original stuff.