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[whisty]

Maybe there is already a thread about this but just in case - BD is Headlining the Hop Farm 2nd July. Is there a big enough slot left for him at the 40th!!

[NeilVJ]

Heard of the Search tool?
If you had used that you would find a thread on Bob Dylan !!!!!

[ramragon]

whisty, on Mar 31 2010, 07:46 AM, said:

Maybe there is already a thread about this but just in case - BD is Headlining the Hop Farm 2nd July. Is there a big enough slot left for him at the 40th!!

would like to see it happen, dont mind his stuff although his past performances havent gone down too well with the people on here

[Macca3031]

From reading internet rumours and no solid facts I'm going to stick my neck out and say 98% no he won't. Not sure where he'd fit in maybe 1 of the slots between Ray and Stevie but I think we'd have heard something by now. I think hop farm is all the old man will do this summer.

No big loss to me as he was pretty average at the o2 last year and you're not a fan so we're sorted.  

[judyblue110]

No, he wont be there.

However, Ray Davies/Bob Dylan at the Hop Farm is pretty great in my opinion.

[srvman]

Bob Dylan should have stopped touring about 10 years ago, i love his music, but it would kill me to watch him live at the min, his voice his terrible( i know he was never renowned for it, but it is super shot). To continue is just ruining his legend, which he undoubtably is, many people would pay a ticket for him to wave to the audience for 30 minutes, but he needs to stop

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

While I agree his voice isn't what it was his latest bluesy type album suits his gravel like voice and I actually quite like it once you get over the mental shift for his voice. I think a few have given up on Bob but I would advise to give his current album a couple of listens.

He could do a great cover of born under a wanderin star though!  

[The Nal]

http://www.efestival...p...49&hl=dylan

[judyblue110]

I like Modern Times Bob better than ye olde Bob nowadays to be honest. Much rather hear something new as opposed to a CD of outtakes/live album from the 60s/70s or something, as many of his fellow musicians seem to be doing.

The man puts on a music show like no other can these days.

[Bza]

judyblue110, on Mar 31 2010, 09:45 AM, said:

The man puts on a music show like no other can these days.

just curious but which gigs?

having seen him a couple of years ago i can easily say it was one of the worst gigs ive been too, and im a huge fan

[tonyblair]

judyblue110, on Mar 31 2010, 09:45 AM, said:

I like Modern Times Bob better than ye olde Bob nowadays to be honest. Much rather hear something new as opposed to a CD of outtakes/live album from the 60s/70s or something, as many of his fellow musicians seem to be doing.

The man puts on a music show like no other can these days.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone put on less of a 'show'

[judyblue110]

Tea Boy, on Mar 31 2010, 09:23 AM, said:

just curious but which gigs?

having seen him a couple of years ago i can easily say it was one of the worst gigs ive been too, and im a huge fan

Number one: I've been to shows in the SECC & Barrowlands in Glasgow, and the Playhouse in Edinburgh.

Number two: I never said he put on the best shows. What I said is that he puts on a music show like no other these days. To me, the "Bob Dylan" show is completely about the music, there's no glitz or glitter, this is old school, loud, blues/rock music in the stylings of the bands that Bob Dylan once overtook (I don't want to say replaced because there's an awful lot of whiny people on here that will disagree) back in the 60s. Re-working songs on a nightly basis, shifting the setlist around so each new town gets a new one, starting & ending promptly... The tell tale signs are all there, ya just got to see them.

In my opinion, as long as you don't go getting hyped up about the fact that he is Bob Dylan (yeah, that Bob Dylan... y'know, the one everyone cites as an influence, the one everyone wants to/has seen live just so they can say to people "Oh hey, I'm going to see Bob Dylan."), you shouldn't leave disappointed. I haven't any of the times I've been that's for sure.

I've loved seeing Bob Dylan live thus far, my only wish is that the people who didn't enjoy it the last time they went (and the time before that... and the time before that...) just stop going and making the same complaints every time.

[judyblue110]

tonyblair, on Mar 31 2010, 09:46 AM, said:

I don't think I've ever seen anyone put on less of a 'show'

music show does not equal show, I'm afraid.

I'm not talking watching, I'm talking listening my friend. He ain't no Lady Gaga

[tonyblair]

judyblue110, on Mar 31 2010, 10:48 AM, said:

music show does not equal show, I'm afraid.

I'm not talking watching, I'm talking listening my friend. He ain't no Lady Gaga

the simplest of acknowledgments that we (the audience) were there would have nice...

I'm not talking Barry Manilow type cheese, just "hi"

[tonyblair]

judyblue110, on Mar 31 2010, 10:46 AM, said:

Number one: I've been to shows in the SECC & Barrowlands in Glasgow, and the Playhouse in Edinburgh.

Number two: I never said he put on the best shows. What I said is that he puts on a music show like no other these days. To me, the "Bob Dylan" show is completely about the music, there's no glitz or glitter, this is old school, loud, blues/rock music in the stylings of the bands that Bob Dylan once overtook (I don't want to say replaced because there's an awful lot of whiny people on here that will disagree) back in the 60s. Re-working songs on a nightly basis, shifting the setlist around so each new town gets a new one, starting & ending promptly... The tell tale signs are all there, ya just got to see them.

In my opinion, as long as you don't go getting hyped up about the fact that he is Bob Dylan (yeah, that Bob Dylan... y'know, the one everyone cites as an influence, the one everyone wants to/has seen live just so they can say to people "Oh hey, I'm going to see Bob Dylan."), you shouldn't leave disappointed. I haven't any of the times I've been that's for sure.

I've loved seeing Bob Dylan live thus far, my only wish is that the people who didn't enjoy it the last time they went (and the time before that... and the time before that...) just stop going and making the same complaints every time.

there are plenty of great live music acts who don't put on a 'show' like you imply (Wilco for example)... but some communication, perleeeeze
otherwise, for me, what's the point?
all this, "but it's Bob Dylan, he's, you know... BOB DYLAN!.. he doesn't do 'shows'"  


omg... for the first time in god knows how long, Wilco are on the radio !!

[Bza]

i didnt mind him 'reinterpreting' his own work but to play every song in the same tired 12 bar, pub rock style was quite appalling.

to see a man shit all over his back catalogue is never fun, even more so when the said back catalogue should be shit-proof

[judyblue110]

tonyblair, on Mar 31 2010, 10:11 AM, said:

there are plenty of great live music acts who don't put on a 'show' like you imply (Wilco for example)... but some communication, perleeeeze
otherwise, for me, what's the point?
all this, "but it's Bob Dylan, he's, you know... BOB DYLAN!.. he doesn't do 'shows'"  

The music does the talking!!!

Nah, I understand what you mean though, "he don't talk much, does he?" (Forest Gump moment...). Although in Barrowlands he told us something along the lines of "Well we musta sung that song a thousand times, and noone's ever sung along like that..." (about Like A Rolling Stone.)

However, for me personally, the point of going to live shows isn't the "Hiya! How ya doin' there, sport?", it's the music.

Tea Boy, on Mar 31 2010, 10:15 AM, said:

i didnt mind him 'reinterpreting' his own work but to play every song in the same tired 12 bar, pub rock style was quite appalling.

to see a man shit all over his back catalogue is never fun, even more so when the said back catalogue should be shit-proof

I enjoy people "shitting over their back catalogue". Sure beats listening to a note-for-note interpretation. I could do that at home, for free.