Yet More Tours Announced

Bad Company and Lynyrd Skynyrd have teamed up for a 12-city co-headline tour beginning in June. With special guest Black Stone Cherry on the bill, here are the stops:

June 20 – Auburn, Wash., White River Amphitheatre
June 21 – Ridgefield, Wash., Sleep Country Amphitheater
June 23 – Mountain View, Calif., Shoreline Amphitheatre
July 11 – The Woodlands, Texas, The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
July 13 – Charlotte, N.C., Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 14 – Bristow, Va., Jiffy Lube Live
July 17 – Camden, N.J., Susquehanna Bank Center
July 19 – Burgettstown (Pittsburgh), Pa., First Niagara Pavilion
July 20 – Noblesville, Ind., Klipsch Music Center
July 23 – Clarkston (Detroit), Mich., DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 24 – Cincinnati, Ohio, Riverbend Music Center
July 26 – Gilford, N.H., Meadowbrook
July 27 – Bethel, N.Y., Bethel Woods Center For The Arts

Bob Dylan has loaded up his April calendar with more than a dozen U.S. gigs featuring support from Dawes. The tour stops in:

April 5 – Buffalo, N.Y., SUNY Buffalo Alumni Arena    
April 6 – Amherst, Mass., Mullins Center    
April 8 – Kingston, R.I., Ryan Center    
April 9 – Lowell, Mass., Tsongas Center At UMass Lowell    
April 10 – Lewiston, Maine, Androscoggin Bank Colisee    
April 12 – Newark, Del., Bob Carpenter Center    
April 13 – California, Pa., California University    
April 14 – Ithaca, N.Y., Barton Hall    
April 16 – Richmond, Va., Landmark Theater    
April 18 – Bethlehem, Pa., Stabler Arena    
April 19 – Akron, Ohio, E.J. Thomas Hall    
April 20 – Kalamazoo, Mich., Wings Stadium    
April 21 – Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University

With a new album scheduled for a summer release, MGMT’s first string of 2013 dates has the band traveling in a somewhat westward direction stopping in:

April 26 – State College, Pa., Pennsylvania State University
April 28 – Geneseo, N.Y., SUNY / Geneseo
April 30 – Portland, Maine, State Theatre
May 1 – Providence, R.I., Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
May 4 – Cleveland, Ohio, Masonic Auditorium
May 6 – Grand Rapids, Mich., Hoogenboom Center
May 14 – Spokane, Wash., Knitting Factory Concert House
May 15 – Seattle, Wash., Showbox SoDo
May 16 – Portland, Ore., McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
May 18 – Palo Alto, Calif., Frost Amphitheatre

MGMT will also play Cincinnati’s Bunbury Music Festival July 13, the Firefly Music Festival scheduled for June 21-23 in Dover, Del., and Kanrocksas in Kansas City June 28-29.

Another Huge Fall Show

Another huge show lined up for the Fall features Bob Dylan + Mark Knopfler. The two artists stormed Europe last fall on a very successful tour that sold out nearly every stop.

Here are the US dates:

Oct. 13 – Seattle, Wash., KeyArena At Seattle Center
Oct. 15 – Portland, Ore., Rose Garden Arena
Oct. 17 – San Francisco, Calif., Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Oct. 18 – San Francisco, Calif., Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Oct. 19 – Berkeley, Calif., Greek Theatre
Oct. 20 – Sacramento, Calif., Power Balance Pavilion
Oct. 22 – Santa Barbara, Calif., Santa Barbara Bowl
Oct. 24 – San Diego, Calif., Valley View Casino Center
Oct. 26 – Los Angeles, Calif., Hollywood Bowl
Oct. 29 – Broomfield, Colo., 1stBank Center
Oct. 30 – Broomfield, Colo., 1stBank Center
Nov. 1 – Grand Prairie, Texas, Verizon Theatre At Grand Prairie
Nov. 2 – Tulsa, Okla., BOK Center
Nov. 3 – Omaha, Neb., CenturyLink Center Omaha
Nov. 5 – Madison, Wisc., Alliant Energy Center Mem. Coliseum
Nov. 7 – Saint Paul, Minn., Xcel Energy Center
Nov. 8 – Milwaukee, Wisc., BMO Harris Bradley Center
Nov. 9 – Chicago, Ill., United Center
Nov. 12 – Grand Rapids, Mich., Van Andel Arena
Nov. 13 – Auburn Hills, Mich., The Palace Of Auburn Hills
Nov. 19 – Boston, Mass., TD Garden
Nov. 20 – Washington, D.C., Verizon Center
Nov. 21 – Brooklyn, N.Y., Barclays Center

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Member Review: Bob Dylan

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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