Onto some important stuff…like the actual show!
I don’t know much Bob Dylan songs…just the hits really. We all were pretty worried about the set as we had heard he tends to mumble and doesn’t have much stage presence at all.
After navigating the gauntlet which was the crowd of lawn chairs, we ended up losing the entire crew and Karilee and I made our way through the crowd. This required some ingenuity on our part – her leading the pack as I had my giant backpack with me and when I got to a point where people wouldn’t let me go by, I would just point her out and said that she was my girlfriend. A little fib here and there brings me a long way through a crowd.
On my way there, there was a taller fellow who had stopped in front of me and we were trying to figure out how to get a little further.
Lady with her lawn chair (to the tall guy): Hey! I’ve been here 5 hours and now you’re blocking my perfectly good view!
Tall Guy: Sorry! We’ll be on our way.
Because there was a holdup of people in front of us, we couldn’t walk ahead yet…
Lady with the lawn chair: Hey, come on! I paid good money for these tickets! Get the hell out of my view!
Tall Guy (who was trying to be polite and finally lost it): Hey lady! Guess what? You’ve been here 5 hours but I showed up 30 minutes ago and look who has the better view!
I had a good laugh at this and at that point the crowd got moving again so we could go on our merry way.
We ended in the middle of the crowd after 45 minutes of navigating through the crowd. It was a nice spot we found – one with some room to move around in (surprisingly).
I was impressed with the show. Whoever said anything bad about Bob Dylan was wrong. He sang clearly but there wasn’t much stage banter going on. I recognized the classics – Like a Rolling Stone, Masters of War (!!!) and All Along the Watchtower as the closing track.
Setlist: (taken from this site):
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Watching The River Flow
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Girl of the North Country
Rollin’ and Tumblin’
When The Deal Goes Down
Honest With Me
Spirit on the Water
Tangled Up in Blue
Masters of War
Highway 61 Revisited
Like a Rolling Stone
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Thunder on the Mountain
All Along The Watchtower
