

Bob Dylan at Copps Coliseum posted Aug 21 2008 by Bathsheba

Here is Jeff Mahoney from The Hamilton Spectator
and his review, I liked it a lot :)
http://www.thespec.com/Entertainment/article/422518
Dylan strolls onstage, gets on with it
August 21, 2008
Bob Dylan played it pretty straight at Copps Coliseum last night, before a respectably sized crowd in the concert bowl (there were a few patches of empty seats).
As straight as a guy can play it by his standards. He didn’t say a word to the crowd all night.
Not hello.
Not a thank you for the applause.
It was like we were married.
But that’s Dylan. You don’t expect him to come on like Regis Philbin. He’s paid to be obscure, inscrutable.
Dylan’s the kind of performer that you half expect, at any given moment, to walk off the stage and not come back.
It appeared early as though it might be that Dylan who would show up at Copps last night. During the day of the concert he sent word out that there was to be no media at the show. No photographer. No free review ticket.
I had to buy mine at the last minute. I got one five rows from the front. So did the three other people I was sitting beside. None of us could quite believe we snagged such good seats so close to show time. As I said, it was not sold out. But then, does Dylan care?
The set opened with a lively, rocking rendition of Cats In The Wild. Dylan’s voice was especially hoarse and croaky, sounding like a two-stroke engine on a cold morning at times, perhaps a function of age — he is 67 — or a sore throat.
To Dylan’s credit, he never flagged. He kept singing all out and either I got used to the gravel in his voice or he smoothed it out some, because by the third or fourth song, there was real strength in it. Not that he ever did or will sing “normally” — he’s known almost as much for the quirkiness of his phrasing as for his odd behaviour — but he can hit the notes, and with some force.
Dylan came out dressed in a black suit with yellow piping down the pants and a white hat. He played the keyboard the whole night, not picking up his trademark Telecaster. All in all, it was Dylan. Part frustrating. Part compelling. Part weird. Part worth it all.
jmahoney@thespec.com
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