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The Never Ending Tour is the popular name for Bob Dylan's endless touring schedule since June 7, 1988. During the course of the tour, musicians have come and gone and the band has continued to evolve. They have amassed a huge fan base; some fans have traveled around the world to attend as many Dylan shows as possible. According to the count maintained by Olof Björner's Dylan website ''Still On The Road'', Dylan played his 2,000th show of the Never Ending Tour on October 16, 2007, in Dayton, Ohio. Dylan has attributed much of the versatility of his live shows to the talent of his backing band, with whom he recorded the albums ''Love and Theft'' (2001), ''Modern Times'' (2006), ''Together Through Life'' (2009), ''Christmas in the Heart'' (2009), ''Tempest'' (2012) and ''Shadows in the Night'' (2015). ==Name== The tour's name was cemented when journalist Adrian Deevoy published his interview with Dylan in Q Magazine no.39, December 1989. The critic Michael Gray listened to Deevoy's interview tape, and points out in ''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia'' that though Deevoy's article put the phrase into Dylan's mouth, in fact the label came from Deevoy in the following exchange: *AD: 'Tell me about this live thing. You've gone straight into this tour again — one tour virtually straight into the next one.' *BD: 'Oh, it's all the same tour.' *AD: 'It's the Never Ending Tour?' *BD: (unenthusiastically) 'Yeah, yeah'.〔Gray, ''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia'', 2006, pp. 173–174〕 Dylan has been dismissive of the Never Ending Tour tag. In the sleeve notes to his album ''World Gone Wrong'' (1993), Dylan wrote: :"Don't be bewildered by the Never Ending Tour chatter. There was a Never Ending Tour but it ended in 1991 with the departure of guitarist G. E. Smith. That one's long gone but there have been many others since then: 'The Money Never Runs Out Tour' (Fall of 1991) 'Southern Sympathizer Tour' (Early 1992) 'Why Do You Look At Me So Strangely Tour' (European Tour 1992) 'The One Sad Cry Of Pity Tour' (Australia & West Coast American Tour 1992) 'Outburst Of Consciousness Tour' (1992) 'Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Tour' (1993) and others, too many to mention each with their own character & design." In a 2009 interview with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, Dylan queried the validity of the term Never Ending Tour, saying: "Critics should know there is no such thing as forever. Does anybody call Henry Ford a Never Ending Car Builder? Anybody ever say that Duke Ellington was on a Never Ending Bandstand Tour? These days, people are lucky to have a job. Any job. So critics might be uncomfortable with my working so much. Anybody with a trade can work as long as they want. A carpenter, an electrician. They don't necessarily need to retire." The tour was interrupted in 1997 when Dylan was forced to cancel dates after suffering a serious medical issue in May. CBS Records announced he was being hospitalized for a potentially fatal chest infection, histoplasmosis. Since the tour began in 1988, the resulting three-month break, from May 3 to August 3, 1997, has been his longest time away from touring. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Never Ending Tour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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