Bob Dylan owes me £200...

[og ogilby]

A fan jumped on the stage the other night at Liverpool and ran towards Bob, who was playing the piano.

Dylan didn't miss a note and just kept on playing, even though the fan managed to get right up to him and hug him before he was dragged off by security.


As for all those who are saying Dylan is shit live. You lot just keep on thinking that. Makes the tickets easier for me to get hold of.

 

[Geri]

Just heard that he is no 1 in the UK album charts for the first time in 40 years!

 

[Paul Russell]

I've only seen him once, a few years ago.

I agree with what other people have says -- he doesn't have to tour -- I think he almost feels it's a duty. And I do think he does give a toss -- there were many years when he didn't, turning up pissed on stage.

Problem is now that he cares again, he has very little voice left. So he just semi-talks the songs, or rushes the words together in an odd way so all the songs sound the same. I'm glad I saw him but wouldn't want to see him every night.

 

[belboid]

damn, narked now. I was meant to have a ticket for the Sheffield show, but the bugger supposedly organising it failed to do so, and it sounds a pretty good show - even if he did start off with Under the Red Sky's Cat's in the Well, a poor track of an execrable album. Half the songs were 'performed pretty close to the recorded versions.'!!

 

[Kaka Tim]

damn, narked now. I was meant to have a ticket for the Sheffield show, but the bugger supposedly organising it failed to do so, and it sounds a pretty good show - even if he did start off with Under the Red Sky's Cat's in the Well, a poor track of an execrable album. Half the songs were 'performed pretty close to the recorded versions.'!!

my gf went to the sheffield gig and said he was absolutely dire - thank your mate and spend the money on something more worthwhile.

I think people give the jaded old fart a far too easy ride -
i challenge anyone to post up a link of Dyaln live from the last 20 years where he's anyhting other than shite to medicore - and where he looks like he gives a shit.

 

[belboid]

well, i've got a recording of it, so i'll be able to see for meself now

 

[Greenfish]

STill easily the most literate and talented popular musician of all time - in my opinion, of course.

He will still be talked about, read, listened to in a thousand years' time; much the same as Wordsworth, Shakespeare etc will be.

 

[EddyBlack]

STill easily the most literate and talented popular musician of all time - in my opinion, of course.

He will still be talked about, read, listened to in a thousand years' time; much the same as Wordsworth, Shakespeare etc will be.

 

[Roadkill]

I think people give the jaded old fart a far too easy ride -

Oddly enough, I think it's fashionable for some folk to slag him off, even now...

 

[EddyBlack]

 

[EddyBlack]

the full version of the same. what was he there 19?

 

[rorymac]

Oddly enough, I think it's fashionable for some folk to slag him off, even now...

hardened Dylan fans were leaving the arena, and some of those who stayed were laughing. I even saw one crying!

:0.

 

[rorymac]

Oddly enough, I think it's fashionable for some folk to slag him off, even now...

hardened Dylan fans were leaving the arena, and some of those who stayed were laughing. I even saw one crying!

!


:0.

 

[EddyBlack]

He made good songs but probably ripped off a few in his old age as well as in his younger days. Bob Dylan made great music in his time...


Days of 49

 

[Kaka Tim]

Dylan had a sustained purple patch of something like genius back in the 60s.

This does not give him the excuse to consistantly treat his audience with utter contempt.

 

[Paul Russell]

This does not give him the excuse to consistantly treat his audience with utter contempt.

The one time I saw him, around the time of Love and Theft, he blew us kisses at the end of the show. Must have been in a good mood that day.

 

[sim667]

I went to the O2 last night, and now Bob Dylan owes me £200...

£47.50 x2 for tickets, plus £5 booking fee; £20 parking; £20 diesel; £20 I wouldn't have spent on a crap meal; and £40 compo for having to sit through the most dire performance I've ever had the misfortune to witness.

I know he always had an 'interesting' singing style, but this was terrible - he abslutely murdered some great songs. He's a genius writer, of both lyrics and music, but not even that could make up for this performance.

The band we're individually very good, and really tight as a unit, so christ knows what they must have thought of Dylan's sorry effort.

If you're not up to it, just knock it on the head; you've had a good run you greedy bastard.

At first I felt sorry for him, like watching re-runs of Ali being beaten by bums, but he was so lazy and contemptuous of the audience that I started to fell pissed off.

Wanker!

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