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Set List
- Thunder On The Mountain
- Love Minus Zero/No Limit
- Lonesome Day Blues
- A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
- Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
- Girl From The North Country
- High Water (for Charlie Patton)
- Workingman's Blues #2
- Just Like A Woman
- Tangled Up In Blue
- Love Sick
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Ain't Talkin'
- Summer Days
- Like A Rolling Stone
- All Along The Watchtower
- Blowin' In The Wind
Comments
First Show- Suprised, Happy, Yet Disappointed
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There is a first time for everything, even though I was born into the wrong generation, one must start somewhere. How I came about my ticket is quite lucky. I was unable to become a member for the pre-sale and when I found that the concert was sold out I was devastated. I made a promise to myself that I had to see the legend, no matter what it took. I called the box office and shared my passionate feelings about this event. To my surprise there was a broken seat ticket available, which they are very hesitant to sell. I was in... I did not know what to expect; I was giddy and nervous. The solo drive from Chicago was nerve racking. I did not mind attending this concert alone, it was meant to be. I had second floor tickets, or the balcony area. The Riverside Theater was beautiful with an old fashioned flare.
When the show began and Mr. Dylan came out on stage, I was so excited jumped right out of my seat. I began to dance (how could you not with kick ass rock melodies). It wasn't until a few minutes passed by that I realized no one around me stood up, no one else was dancing (at least on the second floor). Following my realization a security guard came up to me. She told me to sit down. I was astonished; I didn't understand what she was trying to tell me. "What?” I said. She went on to claim that I needed to sit down because no one could see past me, and if I didn't obey I would be removed from the venue. I told her that I never knew that there was no dancing on the second floor at a Dylan show. It should have been in the fine print on the back of the ticket or something. I did not let that stop me from expressing my joy through shaking my hips. I told her, "Well I'm going to the first floor then" She said, "Good luck with that!" I found my way downstairs and waited at the doors to get through, but of course there were guards checking stubs. I rummaged in my purse and I nice guard told me to go through since I could not find my ticket.
I was in... I began to dance the night away with all the other groovin' fans, but I was in the aisle. Next thing I know yet another guard comes up to me "Where's your seat, lets see your stub" I turned around and started walking away to my luck someone grabbed me from a seat and said, "Oh there you are! We've been looking for you" I spent the rest of the concert in a row with this great man. That's the greatness of Dylan, not only is the music soothing to a rock lover's ear but the people who are also so passionate are out to help one another, even if they are complete strangers; the music brings people together. Even though there were a few dilemmas, nothing could have spoiled my time; it couldn't have happened any other way. Thank You Mr. Dylan.
November 6th performance
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This night was my 20th Bob Dylan concert (if my memory serves me well) . The first time I saw him was January 2nd of 1974, the first concert of his first tour in 8 years, with The Band. That concert is still the greatest one of all time for me and I compare all other ones with it. He is still my all time hero and before I go to the next life I'll probably have memorized all of his lyrics. Now I need to figure out why he titles songs like "just like tom thumb blues" and doesn't mention the title in the song:-) It is, I believe, his private joke.
"oh the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools"-dylan
Hot seat merchandise
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Nevermind.....I just received my stuff. Laminated pass and drink coasters.
HOT SEAT/VIP PACKAGE
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Just curious.....
Did anyone order a HOT Seat/VIP Package?
If so, wondering if you received the Hot Seat Merchandise yet?
I ordered the package about 6 weeks ago, and I haven't received any merchandise yet?
Agree on the Sound
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I agree. Part of the problem may have been the sound. I thought the mix was strange. His voice didn't come through real well, and though I normally love the bass, I thought it was way too loud. Anyway, if you just looked at the set list, you would have thought it was a gem. However, if fell a little short of that. I great time and a lot of fun, though.
Master Thief
Nice Review
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Good Review. The Journal-Sentinel kind of panned the show. Though I would not say it is among the best Bob shows I have seen, I certainly thought that review was not an accurate reflection of the show. It was kind of a strange one, though.
Master Thief
MINNESOTA
First of all I have to say, what a beautiful theater! What comfortable seats! And lucky us, in row four!
And once again, Bob did not disappoint; it was a total thrill to be there. It is always fun to try to guess what Bob is playing next and to watch his band pay such close attention to him. We had to smile when he skipped back on stage for the encore. And then, it was over, and I was a bit sad as he left the stage. Our three-night trilogy of Bob concerts had ended. Back to reality. We played Dylan music the entire 7-hour drive back home, and then, the following day, watched "No Direction Home", "Masked And Anonymous", and "Unplugged", needing to linger in Bobland a bit longer, before going back to work to decorate my cubie with my new Bob posters.
...oh! after the concert, we stopped in at the coffeeshop next door and met a couple who had their five-year-old daughter along. The mother showed us how she had written the set list on her arm during the show, as she wanted her daughter to have something to remember it by. I am always amazed how many people bring their young children to a Dylan concert, just to expose them to greatness. My granddaughter is six and a big Dylan fan. We promised her next time he is in the area, we will take her. So, hurry back to Minnesota Bob! And a big THANK YOU for a fun week, we loved all three concerts!
Bob Concert or Name That Tune Revisited
My wife and I sat in the balcony. Sounded muddy at first, but it improved as the concert went on. Had pen and paper to write the tune list. Dylan has always been the master of phraseology. However, with his arrangements, the muddy sound and the phrasing, there were songs in which only the lyrics identified the song. Song selection was excellent, I thought. Musicians were very good.
jeffrees review
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truer words were never spoken.. thank you!
Review of Riverside Theater show
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Hey, all. I attended the Riverside Theater show and wrote the following review for a Milwaukee online magazine...
http://www.onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/dylanreview.html
Dylan reworks Dylan at the Riverside
By Jeff Bentoff, Special to OnMilwaukee.com
Published Nov. 7, 2008 at 7:37 a.m.
A Bob Dylan show does not sound like a Bob Dylan greatest hits album. Nor should it.
Yes, he plays mainly songs from his albums, even plays his hits: "Highway 61," "Just Like A Woman," "Like A Rolling Stone," Blowin' In The Wind," "All Along The Watch Tower," "Tangled Up In Blue."
But Dylan makes music, doesn't recreate hits. The songs he wrote, that we all know, are now the skeletons on which he builds new riffs, tempos, beats, shuffles, blues. Think barroom. Dim lights. Sometimes dark. Sometimes eerily uplit. He's not in the spotlight, not even center stage.
He's off to the side, but it's his band. Two guitarists, bass player, drummer, steel player -- they don't face the audience as much as they face Dylan, watching them from off to their left. They watch him carefully, like geese watching the lead bird. Afraid to take their eyes off him. Miss a move, they'll be off course in a flash.
Reviews of Dylan's latest CD, "Tell Tale Signs," note how the songs are alternate takes from his recent past. But reworking his music is what Dylan has been about for years. That's especially what his live shows have long been about.
Like a jazz man, Dylan uses his songs to launch from. Charlie Parker reworked the Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" and created the language of bebop, a genre that continues to be reworked by successive generations. Dylan -- he reworks Dylan. Yes, we recognize the chord changes. We know the lyrics. We can sing the melodies, the original ones. Other musicians, they still play Dylan. For Dylan, Dylan is just foundation for newer creations.
In Dylan's hands at the Riverside Thursday night, we don't always know the song, at first. And that's just fine. Dylan is a student of American music, as fans of his amazing, weekly XM radio show, "Theme Time Radio Hour, With Your Host Bob Dylan," have long known. A surprisingly erudite, wry and snappy DJ, Dylan tells radio listeners short stories about each song he spins, songs representing an amazing depth and breadth across the American music spectrum. You feel his passion for the songs he selects, the songs of America.
So in concert in Milwaukee, when he reworks "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" into something jaunty with a triplet feel, you don't mind missing the old version you've heard on the radio ten thousand times or more. "Highway 61," originally bluesy, is even more so Thursday. His voice more sinister than ever. The melody reduced to just a few notes.
But the notes he sings, or the occasional harmonica he blows, aren't about melody. Perhaps they never were meant to be. Today they're about rythem. Another instrument on stage. The inventor and driver of the vehicle, but one of many hands powering that vehicle.
Dylan and his men tonight aren't folkies, but we have known not to expect folkies after he hit the road so long again with what was to become The Band, touring famously to boos and cries of "Judas" for abandoning the folk orthodoxy he solidified. Tonight his band is dressed in non-identical black leather jackets, black shirts, black leather pants, black hats. Dylan is in black, but in a suit coat, silver buttons, buttoned up, additional silver buttons or amulets on his jacket. A violet shirt. A tie. Pants with a tux-like stripe down each side. And a white, wide-rimmed hat, flat top. Lithe.
Singing into a vintage-style microphone, the kind from old radio shows or the big bands in ancient movies. Standing all night, behind an electronic keyboard that sounds like an organ. No guitar for him tonight. Word has it his hands just can't play one so well any more. But he's swaying now and then as he plays the keyboard. Singing like a jazz man. Leading the band with the slightest movement.
The main who invented modern folk music closed his show with a re-invention of "Blowin' In The Wind." Gone is the solo folkster from 1960's black-and-white photographs, singing, playing acoustic guitar, blowing a harp hanging from his neck. (Oh where have you been my blue-eyed son?) Instead, we hear a swinging, almost gospel version of "Blowin' In The Wind." He's playing organ, a bit like Al Kooper on "Like A Rolling Stone."
We know the song one way. We can sing that version in our sleep. But tonight, a packed Riverside loves it just as much a different way. Some of us maybe more. Because he's making music, not playing greatest hits just the way he played them on some fateful days in recording studios a long long time ago. He's still, as he's been introduced live for a zillion years, by a sonorous voice, theatrically, almost ironically: "Columbia recording artist Bob Dylan."
Key word here: Artist.
The Candy Man Can
Ola amigos!
Bob and the boys cruised onstage, locked and loaded on a rainy November night to pull the trigger on "Thunder on the Mountain" as their opening song. The stage lights came up first on Tony Garnier, his back to the crowd, putting down electric bass lines and then on Bob, who, years later, is still looking for Alicia Keys. For the sake of the song, let's hope he never finds her.
The Riverside Theater's a great venue of only 2,500 seats. It's a treat to just look around at the place before the show. It's even better when Bob Dylan's in the house.
The sound mix wasn't very good at the start. Bob's vocals were too low and the kick drum was knocking a new hole in my body. After a few more numbers, the audio engineer must have tweaked a knob or slid a slider, as the sound improved when the band twiddled with Tweedle Dee, coming up with a performance that outdid the Love & Theft recording.
Bob stepped away from his keyboard from time to time throughout the night to saunter toward the retro mic, positioned center stage, or just a little closer to his bandmates, while he shrugged his shoulders in imitation of a dance. Something about Bob these days reminds me of Sammy Davis, Jr. but I don't know the reason.
Larry Adler once said, "If I were dictator of the world my first act would be to forbid Bob Dylan from playing the mouth organ", but I dunno, I kinda love Dylan's spiky, squeaky harp. From his first bleat on this November night, the crowd went nuts.
During Workingman's Blues #2, I thought I heard a distant horn section, but my ears must have been playing tricks on me. It was a great trick, though.
My ears failed to hear Don Herron all night, whether he was playing pedal steel, banjo, or fiddle. I waited in vain for the audio crew to turn up the sound on Don. Maybe next time.
Near the end of the show, one guy in the back of the theater repeatedly cried out his song request for "Joey!". If you could convince Bob to play one tune in his repertoire, would you choose "Joey"? C'mon!
(Maybe I'm mistaken and a small kangaroo had escaped into the hall, and this guy just wanted to warn us.)
After the show, I walked along the east side of the theater, alongside the Milwaukee River, toward a parking garage. I passed by a city block's worth of equipment cases, stacked on top of each other, too, and passed by some roadies, loading up cases at a service entrance. Bob's bus was long gone, headed toward Kalamazoo.
Nearby, leaning with his back to a fence, a young man in a red sweatshirt bleated softly into cupped hands, saying goodnight with his harmonica, and playing for no one but the city lights, the river, and the night.
Until next time,
Senor Juan
Kalamazoo 2
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I am super stoked on the show as well!!!!! And no matter what songs he sings it'll be a rad night!!!!
kalamazoo
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sandune
I am looking forward to the wings stadium concert tonight.ive been hopeing bob would play hucks tune green mountain or red river shore .They are great dylan tunes and i wonder why hes not useing them to wow his fans.The set list for election night was the best so far.So many good songs to choose from i hope we get lucky tonight.
Rockin' The Riverside
I was up front for this show. I am glad to see some Folks sre finding a few words to say about this one, because I am pretty much speechless. To me, it was Pure Magic!!!
Thunder Minus Zero #2 (or something like that)
OK, I was going to rate this a three because I thought it was good, not great. All of us go because we love it, so it's relative in a way, and I can't say this was among the best of the shows I've seen, but because it was so unique, I relented and went four.
First, of all the times I've gone, I think it's the first time I heard one of my all-timers, Love Minus Zero. Second, I usually could do without Tweedle Dee, but when they did a version of it that I actually liked, there had to be something going on. Guitars all on one side, more electric and more solos for Stu, more keyboard during the jams. A lot of things were different.
Bob went center state at least twice to sing into the mic without an instrument, including on Workingman's, which is such a great song. He also let the audience sing the refrain to Just Like a Woman on the first couple verses, which was another first.
It was kind of Bizarro World Bob at times. Swing arrangements or something like it on many of the songs. Hwy 61 still blistered, though. The singing against the music crescendos on Hard Rain stuck out. I would say that though you can never go wrong with Tangled, I preferred some of the previous versions.
But it was a lot of fun, and looking back at the set list, wow!
Master Thief
Of Course!
It was great to see Bob so energetic and obviously having fun. The Riverside venue in Milwaukee was awesome! This is the first (of 9) times I have seen him in an acoustically friendly theater. The instruments each came through clearly, especially the stand up base. I took my fiancee, fresh from China. She enjoyed it, but complained that no one was dancing, and she couldn't understand the lyrics. We did have a geriatric audience, so I understand the no dancing, but I agree with her on the clarity. True, she was probably the only one in attendance that did not have every Bob song memorized, but one thing could be done to make it easier on all of us. LOSE THE HAT! or at least downsize. From the upper balcony, even with binoculars, the face in invisible.
Unbelievable.
I had been carefully watching the set lists from all the shows of this tour in great anticipation for this Milwaukee show, trying to get some idea what songs he would play. I am convinced that we received the greatest lineup of songs thus far on the tour. Tweedle Dee, Working Man's Blues, and Summer Days were great choices, and it was an incredible treat to hear Girl From The North Country, Tangled Up In Blue, and Blowing In The Wind. It could not have gotten any better.