Grand Style For Dylan

Bob Dylan is and has always been a mediocre artist. He can't sing to save his life. His guitar and harp playing are worse, going off on tangents and alienating his audience.

He needs to hang it up.

Dan Barry wrote:

Bob Dylan is and has always been a mediocre artist. He can't sing to save his life. His guitar and harp playing are worse, going off on tangents and alienating his audience.
He needs to hang it up.

Saw him years ago at Lake Compounce - so bad I left after less than 15 minutes and got my money back. Sounds like he has marbles in his mouth. All I hear was mwah mwahh wahh wahh

Felt like i was listening to the teacher from Charlie Brown

That is the beauty of Dylan, every show is different

Well, he isn't that great live anymore. When I saw him I wanted to believe he still had what it took to deliver a great show, but his voice was completely shot and he was just plodding along to boring old twelve bar blues stuff. Watching Neil Young's 'No Hidden Path' last night from Madrid. Now there's one of the old guys who's still giving it his all. Dylan fans tend to ridiculously over hype everything Dylan does to the point where it's really scary. I mean, these people are really blind. He'll go out and do a show and if any other artist did it they'd get booed off the stage. But because Dylan is Dylan he gets away with a lot. But he's not the messiah, and his days as a truly great live performer are over. He still might have a few good moments on stage, but its real rare these days.

You either get it, or you don't.

I saw Bob last night in Hamilton Ontario..only canadian venue for his 2008 tour..I am so thrilled to have lived long enuf to see the MASTER remaster his MASTERY..i totally agree with Zimmer One..you either get it,,or you dont..Bob doesnt serve up pablum for babies..His train has always been so far down the tracks..most people can only see the caboose..

He is a pure genius. Dan Barry and his Advocate writings show he doesn't know anything about music.

Dylan was a genius, but hasn't shown much genius music wise lately. He just mumbles and croaks incoherently. Chronicles Vol 1 was great though, so maybe he should just stick to writing and retire from doing his awful shows.

Didn't realize he sounded so awful during recent concerts. Still, a master of songwriting!

Hoping he get saway from the keyboard and goes back to the guitar

oh, dan and mel......stick to the brittany spears shows......i am sure we will miss ya.... some people just never seem to know what they are listening to.......

Dylan is a genius but this concert on the 15th was awful. I was in the mezzanine and you could not even understand the introduction. I know all the Dylan tunes but found it hard to pick them out. I thought it was the building acoustics, until the woman next to me said "I can't understand a word." I was ready to leave it was that bad. I wrote the MGM and the guy actually responded saying many people were complaining. The band explianed that they blew out a set of speakers. The guy was nice enough to offer free tickets to another show. That sound was awful. Actually i could hear a little of the keyboard which i never heard before.

I agree too many cut Dylan too much slack and say he can do no wrong. Just like Springsteen, except Dylan is a genius and Bruce is a total fraud.

Henry Porter's got the right attitude. I saw Bob in 2001 and it wasn't very good. But because I was such a big fan I went and saw him again in 2007 and it was just as bad, if not worse. I left the building and one guy said,'What the hell was he saying?' I was thinking the same thing. But despite those bad shows I can listen to Bob's great live work on the Bootleg Series and know that he once had a great ability to make almost every song he sang work. The phrasing was unique, if not conventional, but he still made the words stand out. Now you have to really strain to hear what he's saying, when on the earlier work it was crystal clear and lively.

God Bless Bob Dylan, one of the greatest songwriters of all time! But I much prefer his Basement Tapes over his Casino Sell-Out. What kind of rock concert doesn't allow dancing? More like a geriatric ward cocktail party, with tickets over $100. Luckily one needn't pay for such a travesty, usually a ticket can be had in exchange for some bootleg CD's of his concerts of more sincere and inspired times, like his Gospel Era, which was as earnest and honest and deeply-tradition-rooted-yet-co ntemporary as anything he did in the 60's or afterwards. Those 1979 shows were HOT, as Bobby told the crowd clamoring him to play some rock & roll, he told them his heartfelt truth which was "go to a Kiss concert if you want the road the hell!"

God Bless you Bobby Dylan, even if your venues suck ass! Go back to those baseball field summer tours with Willie Nelson, that was much friendlier to your audiences than the usher-state you've sold out to lately, old friend!

I is the venues more than Dylan as to the poor sound quality