Gwinnett.talk

By zeke

September 19, 2007 8:29 PM | Link to this

When he does nothing, keeps silent and leaves! Who can stand to listen to such crap?

By Raised on Dylan

September 19, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this

My favorite memory: As a teenager I listened to Dylan with my father while hearing my Dad relate the “scandalous” moment when Dylan went electric. “Like A Rolling Stone” is the greatest rock song ever. “The Times They Are A’Changin” is the greatest “political” song ever. I am not sure how this happened but for some reason my family listens to Dylan every Christmas Eve. My mother can’t believe I know the words better than she does (I was born in the early seventies). I listen to Dylan all the time on my iPod and my husband is now a big fan but my favorite thing about Dylan is that it reminds me of my Dad which is priceless.

By Greg

September 19, 2007 9:26 PM | Link to this

Favorite part? The end of his songs - just after he finishes “singing”

By Wilson

September 19, 2007 10:36 PM | Link to this

BWAHAHAHA if you paid money to go to that show, you’re as dumb as a bag of hammers. Saw him in Austin, TX on Sunday, and he was spectacularly bad. Literally unintelligible. I tried to look up the setlist to find out what he played (and to be fair, he can still play), but the pretentious jerk hasn’t bothered to provide it. He is a waste of your money!!!

By Brock

September 19, 2007 10:52 PM | Link to this

This will be my 4th time seeing Dylan, and have enjoyed his albums since my teen years in the mid-70’s. My first time seeing him at Chastain in the late 80’s was a terribly lackluster and disappointing show. The next time at Music Midtown in 96, I think, he just blew everybody away with his enthusiasm. Another rebirth for Bob, among many. Last year’s show at Chastain was very good. His voice is gravelly now but it’s still the voice of the man that penned some amazing lyrics. Would not miss it. And his band is top-notch these days. But don’t try to sing along, he likes to mess w/ the audience by changing tempo on you!

By Steve

September 20, 2007 12:35 AM | Link to this

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My Favorite Memory, was when he played David Letterman’s 10th Anniversary Show …

He was so high on Heroin, that he screwed up the entire song …

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By Xavier Harrison

September 20, 2007 6:45 AM | Link to this

MY FAVORITE MEMORY OF DYLAN WASIN 1969, BEFORE HE WAS A STAR PLAYING A A CLUB CALLED THE DUGOUT. IT WAS THE HEIGHT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA AND A HOT TIME TO SEE ANYONE IN NEW YORK’S GREENWHICH VILLAGE. AS HE DID THEN AND NOW HE SANG HONESTLY ABOUT THE TIMES AND ALWAYS FOLLWED HIS MUSIC WITH HIS ACTIONS. DYLAN ROCKED THEN AND HE ROCK’S NOW!!

By Zim R. Mann

September 20, 2007 7:00 AM | Link to this

Saw him in Tuscaloosa, AL around 1990 with my Dad and a high-school friend. He was just beginning to establish his current reputation as a relentless touring machine. After the first encore, the house lights went up, people started filing out, then those famous chords of “All Along the Watchtower” rang out. Apparently he and the band weren’t done playing for the night, and credit Bob’s inimitable sense of style, they tried to pull it off as close to Hendrix’s version as possible, in the process creating the best version I’ve yet heard.

By James Lee Adams

September 20, 2007 7:28 AM | Link to this

About 1964 my roommate at Ga Tech took me over to Emory University—I believe it was at the chapel—to hear a singer that he was passionate about. The memory is somewhat fuzzy but believe the singer arrived on a motorcycle. He played with a guitar and an harmonica and was—is the worst—“singer” I ever heard. However, the lyrics to his songs were great. Remember in particular a song about—again the memory is fuzzy-about a Bear Mountain picnic and someone selling too many tickets to ride on the boat to the picnic and the resulting fiasco. Will always appreciate Larry Kelly dragging me to Dylan’s performance.

By L

September 20, 2007 7:32 AM | Link to this

I saw Dylan in 96 or 97, I can’t remember, at the Fox. He was so-so, but I was still thrilled because I have loved his music since I was a teenager. I haven’t kept up with all of his new music (I still just like the old stuff)so I didn’t know a lot of what he was performing. It was still quite cool to be there, though.

By Lydia Sidwell

September 20, 2007 7:53 AM | Link to this

I saw Dylan the first time on one of my first dates with a high school boyfriend. I didn’t know much about Bob Dylan before then, but grew to love his early albums. The concert was at Emory in 1963 or 64. After that, I went to every concert in Atlanta until went acoustic. I would practice my typing in typing class typing the words to “The Times They Are A’Changin’” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.”

By JT

September 20, 2007 10:21 PM | Link to this

15 years old in 1963. It was with a sense of wonderment…perceived that someone could read my mind and know what I was thinking…and could say the things I was thinking in verse so effectively that it was mesmerizing. That was how I heard “Times They Are A’Changin’”. It was perplexing and when I heard the rest of the album I was hooked. When Bob Dylan found started to create his own circus characters and mythical beings in places like desolation row and Jaurez……. dumbfounded. When he found his mathematical guitar player and his hawks and like an icebreaker cracked the icy fermament of popular culture, I was in awe. When I saw him take down the media with solid satire I was proud. When he refused to bend to the media machine, I was relieved. Bob Dylan, with all his human foibles and frailties and with his powerful verse is truly the ‘song and dance man’ and’trapeze artist’ of our time. Count Bob up there with Bill, Arthur, and Thomas Stearns. The difference is that sometimes what he writes has a beat and you can dance to it.

By Mia

September 21, 2007 8:12 AM | Link to this

As a songwriter and a performer, Bob Dylan was not responsible for the “world views” of members of his audience, although they believed that he should be. In the performance where he went from folk to the electric guitar, a man in the audience took it upon himself to shout “JUDAS”. No greater insult could have been lobbed at a Jewish boy from New Jersey.

Dylan shouted back, “I don’t believe you. You’re a liar.” Dylan belonged to noone and noone belonged to Bob Dylan. Love him or hate him, the thing I value most in Dylan is that he really doesn’t care.

A musical poet and philosopher, Bob Dylan refused to have his artistic growth stunted inside a pigeonhole where the radical left chose to stuff him.

My guy Bob snared me with the songs “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, “All Along the Watchtower” and “Knockin on Heaven’s Door”. His latest CD release “Modern Times” can attest to the fact that he is an artist who truly believes that The Times They Are a Changing. Dylan reserves for himself, the right to do just that…CHANGE.

The intrigue of Bob Dylan is that he answers to no man but himself. Truly, a rebel before rebellion became radically fashionable.

By Jungleland

September 21, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

Favorite Dylan memmory has to be hearing BIOGRAPH (the 3 cd box set) as a teenager and discovering Dylan for the first time (outside of a few hits I’d heard on the oldies station) I ended up going to see him a few times in the late ’80s at Chastain Park (once w/ Steve Earle, once with The Alarm, At The Fox (with Jason & The Scorchers) at The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame (with Bruce Springsteen) and at the UGA Basketball Stadium. His song To Make You Feel My Love was played in my wedding ceremony. I will be there on Saturday ready for whichever Bob shows up…and his XM show is the best thing on radio, he has a bizzare delivery and warped sense of humor.

By joy

September 23, 2007 9:13 PM | Link to this

He is Dylan. The Gwinnett Arena show was about seeing Dylan. Give or take - it was Dylan. For that I am thankful. I saw Dylan. He will live on forever.

By TW

September 27, 2007 7:06 AM | Link to this

I remember all the people that said nice things at his eulogy