hammerstein night 2
Peter Stone Brown
guest excitement of the first night, but was a good show
none-the-less.
Starting off with "Tombstone Blues," Dylan's voice was clear and
strong and the band rocking hard. "If You See Her" featured another
great harp solo. The evening's first surprise setlist wise was "You
Ain't Goin' Nowhere," but if ever a song was written for more voices
on the chorus this was it. Even if the other guy's in the band can't
sing, why isn't Larry joining Bob on the chorus? Other than that it
was okay and included anopther good harp solo, though Freddie didn't
seem sure if he wanted his guitar solo to be rock or country and it
ended up neither.
This was followed by "Things Have Changed" and the band seemed to be
trying to match the excitement of the previous night, and they kept it
up with a not bad "Most Likely You Go Your Way" that was superior the
one a few nights before in Jersey.
Then came on of the true highlights of the night, "It's Alright Ma"
with Dylan strong on every line, though ultimately the current
piano-based arrangement doesn't come close to the original and tends
to plod.
"Highway 61" as usual was rocking time and Koella used every solo to
show that he really can rock and hard. Then the guitarists switched
to acoustics for a "Desolation Row" where again Dylan was making sure
to give every line meaning and punch, and interestingly Tommy was
providing cool electric guitar fills.
After a typical "Drifter's Escape," came a pretty damned good "Every
Grain of Sand" that came close to celestial. "Honest With Me" was
also cool, but with three nights in the same city, why not "Lonesome
Day Blues" instead?
Then came an acoustic based "Don't Think Twice" that was okay but not
spectacular and the harp solo was tame, especially compared to other
recent NYC versions of this song.
From then on the show was typical but very well performed with Freddie
stepping out on "Like A Rolling Stone."
By any standard it was an excellent concert. If the electricity of
the night before hadn't happened, it might have been an amazing one.
Zoe
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> Bob Dylan's 2nd night at the Hammerstein Ballroom lacked the special
> guest excitement of the first night, but was a good show
> none-the-less.
Could it ever on earth have been different?
(^_^)
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Ciao
Beppe
JOHN LETTIERE
BTW: How'd you like the NYC without lights?
You get power yet?
I had a miserable night. Lights didn't come on here till 4:30 am, over 12
hours with no fucking
power.
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