Bob Dylan in Chocolate Town, U.S.A.
I caught the Dylan concert last night in Hershey, Pennsylvania (unfortunately, I got there just a half hour or so before the show started, so I couldn't make the trip to Chocolate World). All in all, it was a good show. I could've done without seeing Jimmie Vaughn open for the third time in less than a year (not that he was bad, I'd just dig seeing someone different for a change -- hearing "Natural Born Lover" twice before was enough for me).
For those interested, setlist can be found here. I enjoyed the slight general changes made to the setlist since I saw Dylan last year. "Cat's In The Well" was a fairly rockin' opener, and it was nice to see him on guitar. I dug the melodic arrangement to "It Ain't Me, Babe." Gone from last year was the heavy riff-driven arrangement of "It's Alright, Ma" in favor of a more rollicking sound, which didn't have the "oomph" of 2006 but was interesting nevertheless. As for the newer stuff, the violin sounded good on "Nettie Moore" and the band got rolling pretty well with "Summer Days" and "Thunder on the Mountain." I like the move of "Like A Rolling Stone" to the finale of the main set (rather than the first encore song) -- usually it's not one of my favorites live, but for whatever reason last night's version was right up my alley, perhaps because there was almost an air of forlorness about it, but maybe that was just me.
Anyway, it was worth the $70 to me.
I have a feeling that Emerson would've dug the hairy chicken eyeball logo thingy.
