i tagged Bob on the instagram post about this so maybe he’ll put in a good word 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 i’m sure he’ll be a huge fan of a piece where i call him odd and funny-looking in approximately seven hundred different ways
What’s amazing and perfect about this was that my spouse went to a show on this tour, and to save money I didn’t attend. I was thinking ‘am I missing something incredible and life changing?’ I have seen Bob Dylan exactly once when he toured with Tom Petty and I completely do not remember anything about that so I doubted.
Now I realize that I sort of did (though my spouse assured me I did not) but I think reading this I got everything I would have gotten had I attended. And this was FREE.
two things: first, i’m hearing that i should be charging bob dylan a fee for all the free promotion im doing!!
second, i have now seen both tom petty live and bob dylan live, and im quite certain those two could only be friends via massive amounts of cocaine... or possibly downers for tom and uppers for bob
I’d have slit my wrists 10 minutes in. Not into Dylan and not into mumbling dystopian nonsense. Music should uplift and make me feel good- I have the same issue with depressing movies- life is short, so enjoy and feel good if you can.
upon conferring with the editor on this one we have theorized that this is possibly a generational take, as we both listen to unfathomable amounts of depressing music......... or, we’re just downers 🤔
at least 1 that i have seen isn’t so much a “documentary” as it is just clips of bob dylan existing... i need the fans to please be normal and demand better
No one is a bigger Bob Dylan fan than me, Katie. But I refuse to go see the man in concert. I prefer to stick with recorded Bob, where one can expect some degree of quality control.
My wife offered to get us tickets and make the sacrifice of going with me, but I said I couldn’t inflict that kind of punishment on her. I had already dragged her to the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa last year (which she declared to be ‘more interesting than expected’), so I do not care to stress test our marriage further than that. Now that I’ve read your excellent review, I know that I made the right choice.
you and the editor share this sentiment... it was his (extremely reluctant) fourth time seeing Bob, and my first. suffice to say, i had a far better time than he did bc i could blissfully lull into it with zero expectations... i think it might have been pure torture for The Biggest Fans
Oh, sure, your brain works good. I’ll believe that when I see it.
I always wondered if Bob needed to use Fishermen’s Friend throat lozenges, and maybe a humidifier next to his bed at night. I need to check if they make Fisherperson’s Friends yet.
Well-written, honest, transparent, hilarious snark review. You make your point. Thank you. Yours is a parallel track to the way I've described Dylan's concerts of the past 30 years: the small venue concerts put me into a timeless warp, like entering a Catholic church to sit and pray, or wandering around a museum in total silence. It's a settled, knot-untying sense. My motto is often, "Just show up, and be ready.," but a Dylan concert is "Shut up, be still, absorb--it will stay with you."
So it's not athletic greens or cold plunges or yerba mate, but a Bob Dylan concert that makes you the super human that you need to be?
All hail the new wellness guru. 🙏
great news is that bob dylan concerts taste better than all those alternatives (don’t ask me how i know)
“Now my brain works good” 🤣
me no get joke!
This article should be in Rolling Stone. 😂
i tagged Bob on the instagram post about this so maybe he’ll put in a good word 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 i’m sure he’ll be a huge fan of a piece where i call him odd and funny-looking in approximately seven hundred different ways
Or, he might come at you with his elderly fists
😂
What’s amazing and perfect about this was that my spouse went to a show on this tour, and to save money I didn’t attend. I was thinking ‘am I missing something incredible and life changing?’ I have seen Bob Dylan exactly once when he toured with Tom Petty and I completely do not remember anything about that so I doubted.
Now I realize that I sort of did (though my spouse assured me I did not) but I think reading this I got everything I would have gotten had I attended. And this was FREE.
two things: first, i’m hearing that i should be charging bob dylan a fee for all the free promotion im doing!!
second, i have now seen both tom petty live and bob dylan live, and im quite certain those two could only be friends via massive amounts of cocaine... or possibly downers for tom and uppers for bob
I’d have slit my wrists 10 minutes in. Not into Dylan and not into mumbling dystopian nonsense. Music should uplift and make me feel good- I have the same issue with depressing movies- life is short, so enjoy and feel good if you can.
upon conferring with the editor on this one we have theorized that this is possibly a generational take, as we both listen to unfathomable amounts of depressing music......... or, we’re just downers 🤔
I want to try the human-improver gun!! blast me
unfortunately the gun did not work on u bc there is nothing to improve ✨
Booooo
Unfortunately I'm certain I will continue to criticize things I don't understand. As well as things I do understand. I will criticize everything.
we can share an ice cold glass of haterade together 🫡
The editor is a Dylan fan? 🆒‼️
enormously so! consequently, i’ve sat (slept) through more bob dylan documentaries than i can count!
I think I’ve seen them all, back in the red envelope Netflix days.
at least 1 that i have seen isn’t so much a “documentary” as it is just clips of bob dylan existing... i need the fans to please be normal and demand better
No one is a bigger Bob Dylan fan than me, Katie. But I refuse to go see the man in concert. I prefer to stick with recorded Bob, where one can expect some degree of quality control.
My wife offered to get us tickets and make the sacrifice of going with me, but I said I couldn’t inflict that kind of punishment on her. I had already dragged her to the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa last year (which she declared to be ‘more interesting than expected’), so I do not care to stress test our marriage further than that. Now that I’ve read your excellent review, I know that I made the right choice.
you and the editor share this sentiment... it was his (extremely reluctant) fourth time seeing Bob, and my first. suffice to say, i had a far better time than he did bc i could blissfully lull into it with zero expectations... i think it might have been pure torture for The Biggest Fans
Oh, sure, your brain works good. I’ll believe that when I see it.
I always wondered if Bob needed to use Fishermen’s Friend throat lozenges, and maybe a humidifier next to his bed at night. I need to check if they make Fisherperson’s Friends yet.
bob clearly needs Fishergod’s Strongest Soldiers i feel phlegmy just thinking about it... or maybe that’s just another piece of brain escaping
Maybe he has TB or snot lung. You shouldn’t make fun of stuff like that.
SNOT LUNG DYLAN 🗣️ SNOT LUNG DYLAN 🗣️
Why do I always end up hanging out with the fixer upper friends?
either low self esteem or a god complex, no in between
Or quite possibly, I span the spectrum to include poor self esteem AND a god-complex. Embrace the liberating power of AND.
So great! A Dylan concert review not from a hard-core fan and yet not the story of bewilderment and complaint. A funny and wise tale.
Well-written, honest, transparent, hilarious snark review. You make your point. Thank you. Yours is a parallel track to the way I've described Dylan's concerts of the past 30 years: the small venue concerts put me into a timeless warp, like entering a Catholic church to sit and pray, or wandering around a museum in total silence. It's a settled, knot-untying sense. My motto is often, "Just show up, and be ready.," but a Dylan concert is "Shut up, be still, absorb--it will stay with you."