tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7538710136825122268.post4447705014956101676..comments2024-01-27T17:48:17.457-08:00Comments on gorgeous curiosity: Bob Dylan at the PalladiumVanessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09464422287668486010noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7538710136825122268.post-16949771280069578692009-11-20T06:15:09.739-08:002009-11-20T06:15:09.739-08:00Can we say Milano? Angliciser an italian city hurt...Can we say Milano? Angliciser an italian city hurts. <br /><br />Dylan brings northern Italians closer to AMERICA!Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747164445773865995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7538710136825122268.post-57354759469293108472009-10-27T08:35:11.902-07:002009-10-27T08:35:11.902-07:00wow, what does it mean that European Dylan shows a...wow, what does it mean that European Dylan shows are packed with kids? Ours here was packed with older people. Course, we're more agist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7538710136825122268.post-11864225867548839392009-10-27T08:10:53.057-07:002009-10-27T08:10:53.057-07:00Something Dylan has known for a long time (always?...Something Dylan has known for a long time (always?) is that giving people an "enjoyable" concert experience is completely secondary to confronting them, asking of them, getting into dirty dark truths of the them, himself and the world. I love great, contradictory and difficult artists for exposing so quickly who is merely a fan and who understands. So of course they leave during Ballad of a Thin man; he's talking to the audience, accusing them directly. That must hurt, though I doubt it hurts enough. I'm left wanting to explore WHY so many people go see Dylan. Is it just for that Rolling Stone? Someone I read pointed out that only a bare few Dylan songs (Rolling Stone and Mississippi are two) have ascending bass lines that lift us up, and it's counterpoint to the lyrics in both examples. Course the lyrics don't matter much to the crowd who sees Dylan these days I think, more so since your Hollywood crowd seems to have had the same reactions as the Milan crowd (maybe Milan listened better, though). For the Milan kids, and it mostly was my age (24) or younger, dressed up in a variety of every Dylan era, it looked like a bizarre rite of passage. Dylan is out there, he's something you've got to go do in life. I loved what they did, because the scene resembled a version of Riddle from I'm Not There, different incarnations and ideas of what Dylan is/means floating around during and outside the show, on the packed to exploding mad bus ride to the metro, all the way home.Vertigo Crossinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17101600591405531413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7538710136825122268.post-60595283619580608792009-10-21T09:43:01.424-07:002009-10-21T09:43:01.424-07:00Dylan in L.A. is an interesting sociological pheno...Dylan in L.A. is an interesting sociological phenomenon. He likes to tease them by playing mostly new songs, cuz he knows there are industry slaves who came here to hear "Blowin' in the Wind". Then there's the most popular song, "Like a Rolling Stone", which basically explains to the crowd what they'll be like after 5 years in L.A. <br />I like when you write about great wordslingers because then you and your subject are in a friendly duel!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com