Got to my excellent seat on the front row. Billie Meyers played
for about half an hour and then they prepared the stage for Mr. Bob. A quarter to nine the
lights go down, the audience starts screaming, clapping and theres the voice:
"Please welcome, Columbia recording artist BOB DYLAN." Yeah!
To Be Alone With You
Great song, great country style version and the voice is there from the very beginning,
strong and powerful. The sound is absolutely magnificent, crystal clear and every little
twist in Bobs voice can be heard.
Man In The Long Black Coat
Pure magic! Bob really goes into this song, carefully pronounce every word, really telling
a story more than just singing a song. The critics that claim that Bob needs 4-5 songs to
work up his voice couldnt be more wrong! Spooky and effective inspired backing by
the band. Great drums by David! Its amazing how much he can put into the words he
sings when hes in the right mood. This song was a definite highlight of the evening
Cold Irons Bound
I never thought that this song could be so powerful. Definitely much better live than on
TOOM. Full throttle powerful singing by Bob throughout.
Born In Time
A great song but the performance tonight was only "good".
Silvio
Great performance and I like the song, but there was nothing extra or unusual.
The Times They Are A-Changin
Sounded much like the unplugged version, the same singing by Dylan and with Bucky on slide
dobro. The drums on the other hand were different and gave the song a nice groove I
havent heard before.
Its All Over Now, Baby Blue
A great version with a short harp solo at the end.
Masters of War
Slow and quietly sung with a lot of feelings shining through in Bobs voice.
Tangled Up In Blue
Bob and the band hit a fantastic groove, terrific singing and again a harp solo at the
end.
She Belongs To Me
Fantastic! The stage rush came right before this song. A marvelous rendition of a
marvelous song. Bob sings it with a warm smooth voice with perfect simple backing by the
band. I like this song very much so this was a highlight as well.
Til I Fell In Love with You
Didnt excite me very much but thats probably because its not one of my
favorite songs.
Make You Feel My Love
Bob walks up to Tony with a big smile. Says something that looks like "shall we give
them one more song?" Tony nods back. This is not one of my favorite songs from TOOM
but this was great. They played 13 songs in the main set instead of the usual 11 to 12.
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob really likes this song and it rocked as hell. The look on his face and how he sings
the phrase: "..let me think for a minute (pause) SON", and then the rhyming
line: "
(pause) DONE" and then a big smile was priceless. This little
moment was easily worth the price of the ticket! This is Bob as a guitar hero,
rockin, bending his knees, sweats pouring down while shaking his head.
It Aint Me Babe
The audience was singing along on this one and Larry and Tony smiled because of that
throughout the song. Some great guitar work by Larry, Bob and Bucky that had lots of fun
playing it. A real crowd-pleaser.
Love Sick
Spooky as always with some strange way of "talking" the last word of every
phrase.
Rainy Day Women
They play this one all the time and it doesnt add anything to the show for a Dylan
freak like me. But it is definitely a good song to close a show with for most of the
people in the audience.
I expected to hear Blowin In the Wind after RDW like in
Stockholm and some other earlier shows but he didnt come back for more. There were
no covers (I must say that even though he makes some good choices on the covers I prefer
to hear Bob singing his own songs.) and we got 16 songs and thats more than usual so
I cant really complain. Bob seemed to be very inspired and was smiling and moving in
odd ways all evening. His singing was passionate and strong through every song. All in all
a very good show with some absolutely brilliant and magic moments.