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Bob Dylan owes me £200...

what i awas amazed by was after the film 'once', glen hansard of the frames was invited personally by dylan, to tour with him in america, so over glen went and toured, during this tour he only saw him once, as in only in the same room as him once, and that was by chance.!
 
lostexpectation said:
what i awas amazed by was after the film 'once', glen hansard of the frames was invited personally by dylan, to tour with him in america, so over glen went and toured, during this tour he only saw him once, as in only in the same room as him once, and that was by chance.!
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Watched Once recently, really good film imo
 
og ogilby said:
I'm going to see him play in Liverpool on friday night.

I've seen him enough times to know what to expect.:cool:
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Listen. I don't think you understand. This was not within Dylan's usual hit-and-miss range; it quite spectacularly plumbed new depths. I thought I knew what to expect, but it far exceeded even my most pessimistic predictions. For fuck's sake, I didn't turn up expecting him to play the whole of Blood on The Tracks acoustically, and blow me away with the quality of his voice. I did expect something other than the ridiculous parody I was 'treated' to. hardened Dylan fans were leaving the arena, and some of those who stayed were laughing. I even saw one crying!
 
One of the most important, influential, and talented artists of all time...but agree...stick to the studio Bob. It just ain't working.
 
ouchmonkey said:
you know what?
I don't really care much BUT.......
Dylan has no financial need to tour, he can do what he damn well pleases.
he does care, it's an audience of mojo reading tossers who deify him for the 'goes electric' business who can't stand the fact he doesn't just play his old hits as they sound on the records....... they deserve fleecing useless baby boomer wankers poisoning our culture.
and so on
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You've made a lot of comments on something you say you don't really care much about.. :D
 
Athos said:
hardened Dylan fans were leaving the arena, and some of those who stayed were laughing. I even saw one crying!
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I saw hardened fans leaving the arena.

Some of those who stayed their faces were laughing


I saw one fans face who couldn't stop crying


But it's tough. It's tough. it's tough. It's a tough


It's a tough shit, because he was fucking ace tonight in Liverpool.:p
 
Hes been shit live for about 25 years.

My Gf went to see him in sheffield the other week and he was exactly as the OP discribes (she was pretty much expeecting that but her mum was keen to go)

He clearly doesn't give a fuck about the audience and cant be arsed to do anything other then half-arsed mumbling through his back catolouge.

Fuck knows why he bothers. I guess he'll keep going as long as people are foolish enough to pay money to see him.

And you'd think he would have learnt to play the harmoncia by now ...
 
I've got a mate who is what you might call a tier one Dylan booglegger. From what I can work out, even to this day Dylan does about one absolutely ace show in say 20. Unfortunately there's no way to predict which show that'll be.
 
He was good in Brum, better than Sheffield almost ten years ago which was the first time I'd seen him.

He even did a little dance at the end.
 
I saw him in Dublin in about 1990 and he was great. From what I remember anyway, I was off my face.:D Then years later I dragged my husband to see him at Glasto and he was embarrassingly shit. Par for the course with Dylan though, as others have ponted out.:)
 
A friend of mine is a huge Dylan fan although he'd never seen him play live until the other night when he went to Sheffield. I said to him before he went that as much as i love Dylan i wouldn't tarnish my view of him by turning up to listen to a guy who in his late 60's is past his best singing wise, and can't play the guitar due to his apparent arthritis. I've heard some of his live bits on YouTube and it pains me to say it, but some of them are awful. I love what he does with songs and the way he changes them - the alternate versions of Idiot Wind are a great example, but some of his recent stuff is just awful. Indeed if it wasn;t Dylan there would be no argument about how awful they actually are.

Dylan said in a recent interview that he doesn't want to perform songs the way they were, but i can't help thinking that even if he wanted to, he could pull them off. Indeed it seems like a tidy excuse not to.

Anyhow, my mate went to Sheffield and raved about him.

*shrugs*
 
My hairdresser mentioned Dylan did a gig in Sheffield t'other night and there was some kind of trouble(he went to the girls aloud concert the following night) anybody know what happened?
 
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