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kevins_concertsThe legendary Bob Dylan at the Eagles Ballroom. I went with my dad and stepmom. I was surprised that they had set up seating in the ballroom. I'd never seen that before, or since. Very old wooden seats. Must have been original to the club.
Never having seen Dylan live, I didn't know what to expect, but it was still different than I'd have imagined. The music was all kinda run together, and you couldn't really understand his vocals. It often took a while to recognize the songs they were playing. Other than that, the music was good. Dylan wore black, with a low, wide-brimmed hat, and always seemed to be hunched over his keyboard. I kept thinking his silhouette was that of Georgia O'Keeffe, but maybe she didn't hunch like that.
Dylan played keyboards all night. No guitar.
There was this thing going on with the kids in the row in front of us. They wanted to dance. My dad, the girl next to us (about my age) and her mother, didn't want to stand. My dad was a little mad and complained about them, but the mother to us was getting angry and vocal about it. She kept asking them to sit down. She complained to the ushers/security. The kids weren't complete jerks about it, though. Sometimes they refused to sit, but other times they did sit. At some point, a couple of them got permission to dance in the aisle or to go someplace else. During the encore, however, when asked to sit down, they flat-out refused. One turned, and shook his head "no," with a smile.
I wouldn't have minded standing through much of the show, but most of it wasn't really a dancing kind of show. By the end of the show I was getting pretty fed up with the anger. I wanted to say, "just deal with it. You're not so old you can't stand up for some of the show. And the show isn't going to be ruined for you if you can't see the band in every single song. You're going away from here with just a few snapshots in your memories, anyway. Instead of remembering the show for the assholes in front of you who wouldn't sit down, wouldn't you rather remember it for the music you heard and sometimes saw?"
Setlist from www.boblinks.com
1. Maggie´s farm
2. Man in the Long Black Coat
3. Cold Irons Bound
4. You Ain´t Goin´ Nowhere
5. Can´t Wait
6. Silvio
7. Cocaine (acoustic)
8. One Too Many Mornings (a)
9. Tangled Up in Blue (a)
10. ´Til I Fell in Love With You
11. Blind Willie McTell
12. Highway 61 Revisited
13. Like a Rolling Stone
14. Don´t Think Twice, it´s All Right (a)
15. Love Sick
16. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Never having seen Dylan live, I didn't know what to expect, but it was still different than I'd have imagined. The music was all kinda run together, and you couldn't really understand his vocals. It often took a while to recognize the songs they were playing. Other than that, the music was good. Dylan wore black, with a low, wide-brimmed hat, and always seemed to be hunched over his keyboard. I kept thinking his silhouette was that of Georgia O'Keeffe, but maybe she didn't hunch like that.
Dylan played keyboards all night. No guitar.
There was this thing going on with the kids in the row in front of us. They wanted to dance. My dad, the girl next to us (about my age) and her mother, didn't want to stand. My dad was a little mad and complained about them, but the mother to us was getting angry and vocal about it. She kept asking them to sit down. She complained to the ushers/security. The kids weren't complete jerks about it, though. Sometimes they refused to sit, but other times they did sit. At some point, a couple of them got permission to dance in the aisle or to go someplace else. During the encore, however, when asked to sit down, they flat-out refused. One turned, and shook his head "no," with a smile.
I wouldn't have minded standing through much of the show, but most of it wasn't really a dancing kind of show. By the end of the show I was getting pretty fed up with the anger. I wanted to say, "just deal with it. You're not so old you can't stand up for some of the show. And the show isn't going to be ruined for you if you can't see the band in every single song. You're going away from here with just a few snapshots in your memories, anyway. Instead of remembering the show for the assholes in front of you who wouldn't sit down, wouldn't you rather remember it for the music you heard and sometimes saw?"
Setlist from www.boblinks.com
1. Maggie´s farm
2. Man in the Long Black Coat
3. Cold Irons Bound
4. You Ain´t Goin´ Nowhere
5. Can´t Wait
6. Silvio
7. Cocaine (acoustic)
8. One Too Many Mornings (a)
9. Tangled Up in Blue (a)
10. ´Til I Fell in Love With You
11. Blind Willie McTell
12. Highway 61 Revisited
13. Like a Rolling Stone
14. Don´t Think Twice, it´s All Right (a)
15. Love Sick
16. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35