[Closed] (PIC) Wallpaper of the day: Dylan

Great poet/songwriter, but...

I went to see the Dead/Dylan/Petty tour in the mid-80's & wish I could've gotten my money back.

The Grateful Dead were as good as they usually were (I'd seen them maybe a dozen times by then). I'd never seen Tom Petty or Bob Dylan, but my expectations were high.

Tom Petty delivered exactly as I thought he would. But Bob Dylan stunk up the joint. Most of the songs he played had been rearranged such that it was a struggle to figure out what the song was, but ZERO songs were recognizable by their lyrics as Dylan simply refused to "sing" anything that couldn't be better done by Helen Keller! Or maybe we was singing in Vulcan, or Romulan or some other galactic language!

Thank God he was last in the lineup - I didn't feel so bad walking out & not at least getting some sort of value from the show!

Terence... I had the same experience at the Austin City Limits Music Festival a few years back.
Betty and I attended the festival for 7 straight years and we attended all three days each year so we had 6 stages and as many as 150 groups to choose from.
Dylan was the main attraction one year and I couldn't wait to hear him. He was the last performance of the festival and all 75,000 folks were his audience.
I must say that after 3 songs, we left!
He had oatmeal in his mouth!
I was disappointed and wanted to leave but my better half said to hang and he might get better.
My hard-headedness convinced her to leave so we did.

The reviews the next day were what I saw.
He was horrible the first 4-5 sets, but he found his voice and he performed very well to the delight of the remaining 74,998.

Great poster Ken.

Yeah! "oatmeal in his mouth"...that's exactly how he sounded then.

Great poster. One of my grandsons was named after him, thanks