Dylan in Concert
(I hadn’t intended to make this a Bob Dylan blog, but it seems that’s what it’s becoming)
Bob Dylan - Sioux Falls Stadium, Sioux Falls SD 9/8/06
Yakko came along with me, and was generally positive about the experience. There was a little complaining and the usual 8.4 questions per minute for first half hour or so of Dylan’s set, but by the end “Highway 61″ and “Summer Days” had him dancing and forgetting how cold it was.
Having trouble putting coherent sentences together, so here are random thoughts on the show:
I was very impressed with the band. Dylan said in the Rolling Stone interview that it was the best he’d had, and it would be hard to argue.
Bob’s voice was in pretty good form, and he generally refrained from spitting out three lines of lyrics at a time as he sometimes does.
There’s always a temptation to dwell on the omissions. I always have a mental list of a few songs I would love to hear when I walk in, and in almost every case at least some of them get skipped. It’s not fair, but it still happens. Tonight, no “Tangled Up In Blue,” no “Things Have Changed,” and nothing from “Oh Mercy.” Ah me.
The definite high points of the night for me were the violin-laced arrangement of “It’s Alright Ma” and a scorching stomp through “Love Sick.”
“Watching The River Flow” and “Desolation Row” were dead on. “My Back Pages” would have benefitted from being a little slower, but it was still a good take.
Jimmy Vaughn, gods bless him, is in retirement mode. His second guitarist took half the solos, he had a female vocalist take half the singing duties, and he just pretty much phoned it in. He did do an admirable job channelling his late brother on “Texas Flood.”
It’s interesting (to me, anyway) that the arrangements of “Stuck Inside Of Mobile” and “Lay Lady Lay”–which had morphed so much over the years–have now morphed right back to sounding a great deal like their original album takes.
His sunburst finish guitar was placed on stage but was never played. Ironically, at his first Sioux Falls show in 1990 there was a piano on stage that he never played.
September 8th, 2006 - Posted in Music, Parentgeekness | | 0 Comments
For sale 3 kids
For sale 3 kids! I will accept an all expense paid one week vacation for 2 to anywhere in the world. In exchange you will get 3 wonderful, exuberant, smart, inquisitive children.
(I’m not responsible if they do not: listen, clean, take baths, use the toilet correctly (or at all), fight, cry or refuse to go to sleep, leave their toys in the direct path from your bed to the bathroom where you will step on the sharpest point in the middle of the night, pour sand in each other’s hair, splatter the walls floor to ceiling with some unkowen brown substance “from the bathroom” after you spent the whole day cleaning, argue with you over every small detail, scream at the top of their lungs for fun, not eat the food you cook even if you cook them each a seprate meal, leave smelly milk sippie cups in places you will never find them or expect you to buy them whatever they want when they want it.)
August 27th, 2006 - Posted in Parentgeekness | | 0 Comments
Happy Dance time!
“Fall TV, Falll TV! I Love my Fall Tv” Sing it with me now—”FallTV…..” I’m so excited. The season premier of Prison Break was on tonight. That is a brillaint show. I admit it is frastrauting at times. But I love hanging on the edge waiting to see what will happen next. I think this will be a great season.
Soon Veronica Mars will be starting too. My other shows will be coming too. It’s just so wonderfull to start having all my old friends back.
On the subject of TV. I reccomend to everyone to watch Meerkat Manor on the Animal Planet Channel. We started that this weekend. The whole family loves it. It has everything, romance, comedy, suspense, it is just great entertainment. It’s a half hour show taken from three years of scientific footage that followed a clan of meerkats around out in the wild. It’s amazing the social infrastructure that makes up this meerkat clan. I have heard of ants dividing up jobs and everyone working together but the meerkats are just amazing. The family dynamics of the clan are so engaging. It is as interesting as watching a prime time tv show, reality or fiction. Everyone should check it out. Check your local listings for times. The new shows air Friday night at 8pm on Animal Planet. You’ll love it. I promise.
August 21st, 2006 - Posted in Homelife, Parentgeekness, TV | | 0 Comments
My life in Dylan concerts
Got my ticket in the mail from TicketMaster the other day. It’s official: I get to see Dylan again. Because it’s right here in town I get to take Yakko, which will be great. Three opening acts, including Junior Brown and the girl who used to sing for Hot Club Of Cowtown. Unfortunately, because I love my son and because I know that 15 Dylan songs will be test enough of his attention span, I plan to go late, hopefully just as The Poet takes the stage. I haven’t heard any of the 2006 shows yet, but i’ll try to grab one and listen to it beforehand.
For those interested, click the link to read about the Dylan shows I’ve been to. (more…)
August 17th, 2006 - Posted in Music, Parentgeekness | | 0 Comments
Football
Yakko started football last night. He was one of the smallest on the team last year, but he’s bulked up into the middle of the pack. I had to sling pizzas so I couldn’t be there, but I’m told he did well.
It’s got me itching for both fantasy and actual football to start.
August 8th, 2006 - Posted in Parentgeekness | | 0 Comments
