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  1. What makes Bob’s live performances exciting to you? If you have attended a live show please describe a favorite moment; if you haven’t, please describe a moment in a show you’ve heard.
  2. How are Bob’s live performances important to his legacy (as opposed to his achievements as a songwriter or recording artist?)
  3. Bob is known for rearranging his songs often, sometimes multiple times within a tour.  Share with us a time when Bob’s rearrangement of a song really made it shine.
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What makes Bob’s live performances exciting to you?

 

Jeffrey Beck, NJ

“I first saw Bob live in 1971 a the Concert for Bangladesh and have been enthralled by the many live performances I have witnessed thereafter, in excess of 100. I love the feeling of recognizing a song from its introduction…I am never an observer at a Dylan show, I am always a participant…I cannot help but sing with him, they feel like my songs, I know them so well.”


Derek Caldwell

“High Water (for Charley Patton) is one of his new songs that has already changed live. It sounded like an apocalyptic blues song on ‘Love and Theft.’ But last time I heard it live, you could DANCE to it. It had this tempo that made you stomp your feet like you were in the south swamps…’Don’t Think Twice’ was a pretty folk ballad, but last time I heard it it was electrified, but still very pretty. And then, toward the end, it turned into this rowdy whorehouse romp that brought the house down. Bob got front and center with his harmonica, grooving to the music.”


Barnaby Nelson, Australia
“Dylan can connect with people on quite a profound personal level – when this happens with a group of individuals all together it can take on an almost spiritual quality. Favorite moment – after end of a great concert in Tamworth , Australia 2001, Dylan had almost finished walking off stage, stopped, turned to the front row of audience, covered his face with his hands and started playing peek-a-boo with the audience. Very funny moment that captured something of the ‘masked and anonymous’ theme in Dylan’s work and public identity.”