BPD member RoyBoy wrote:For years, Dylan has been known to keep to himself during shows, often only speaking between songs in order to introduce his band members. But on this special night, Dylan spoke.
"I was born in 1941," he said in his scratchy voice. "That was the year they bombed Pearl Harbor. I've been living in darkness ever since."
He turned back to his keyboard and led the band in an almost unrecognizable rendition of "Blowin' in the Wind." Dylan opted to keep his voice low and sparse throughout most of his set, as he half-sang, half-coughed the words into the microphone, but at the end of "Blowin' in the Wind" he strained his voice to hit the high register of the original melody and held onto the words in the chorus as long as he could. When his voice couldn't bear any more, he picked up his harmonica and practically skipped to the center of the stage. Dylan was in to it, and it only served to further ignite the fired-up crowd.
As the sold-out audience rose to its feet, Dylan and his bandmates lined up at the front of the stage to take a bow. In his tight tuxedo pants and white wide-brimmed hat, Dylan danced around like a marionette doll, waving his pointer fingers in the air like guns. It was surprisingly charismatic and endearing moment, and it had the whole room roaring.
The set list:
Cat's in the Well
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Summer Days
This Wheel's on Fire
Tangled Up in Blue
Masters of War
Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
John Brown
Beyond the Horizon
Highway 61 Revisited
Shooting Star (with Dylan on guitar -- another rarity)
It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Under the Red Sky
Thunder on the Mountain
Ain't Talkin'
Encore:
Like a Rolling Stone
Blowin' in the Wind
As unbelievable as this will sound, I arrived late and almost didn't get to meet Dylan at all. Am I stupid or what?
I did get to watch the show from backstage and that was a real hoot. Dylan apparently had someplace to be after the show, so I pretty much only got to shake his hand and tell him how much he meant to me before he was whisked away.
That'll have to be good enough for this idiot!
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