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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
^  Oh dear! Sounds like going to a Dylan concert these days is just an act of homage to the good old days. I´ve only seen him a couple of times - the best being at Earl´s Court when Street Legal had just come out.
Any comments on Tempest, Prospero ? I enthused about it here, http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...bob-dylan.html , but oddly enough, haven´t played the album since. |
I've seen Dylan at every stage of his career and I'm partial to the old Dylan. The first time I saw Dylan was in March of 1966, when my father took me to a Dylan concert at Kiel Opera House in St. Louis. My father was a huge Dylan fan and he listened to Dylan when I was still in elementary school.
His voice was much better in 1966 and his concerts were very long. In the Kiel Opera House concert he played about an hour and half of acoustic solo music and then returned with a band (which was actually The Band without Levon Helm playing drums) and played another hour and half of electric music. I didn't know it at the time, but this was the American leg of an international concert tour, where Dylan was notoriously booed in London for playing with a rock and roll band. The previous summer Dylan was also booed at the Newport Folk Festival for playing rock and roll.
In St. Louis there was no booing and the reception for the rock and roll portion of the show was wildly enthusiastic. Maybe St. Louisians were musically unsophisticated and didn't keep up with the latest controversies about folk rock, but I think by that time there was a growing acceptance of Dylan's rock music vision everywhere across the globe.