September 2, 2010
My son and I went to see Bob Dylan last night. I've always
admired him as a songwriter from my first picking up a guitar.
Unfortunately, his voice seemed pretty shot last night, and he
did more speaking his songs than singing them, reminding me of Rod
McKuen back in the day. He mostly played keyboards, but he also
played harmonica last night, but seemed to mostly play very simple
riffs, one solo consisting of 3 notes repeated... The first part
of the concert was John Mellencamp, who had a much tighter band and
performance, and was in good vocal form as well. People started
trickling out after about half of Dylan's set. I made a mental
note to check out what musicians sound like today before going to one
of their concerts. I will say that I was surprised to see a half
dozen people I knew in the area we sat, including a neighbor from
Spirit Lake and some people who had Sondahl and Hawkins play for a
party at their house this spring. The weather is doing a slight reprise of summer before returning to cool fall...
We went down to the woods to get 10 teepee poles for the Labor Day
celebration in the park, for a teepee as part of the historical
reenactors. Getting the poles was the limit of our involvement.
