A Meaningful Life

Bob Dylan Union Palace 20091117

I think that I have seen Him five times. And this show was solidly #2! #1 being in the early 80"s when Tom Petty and the HB's was his band and they opened for the Dead. Despite the heat ant the bad tab of acid, the show was amazing.

Last night, Dylan showed up at times Colonel Custer, mainly because of his flat brimmed hat and blue slacks with red stripes, and other times as Maurice Cheverolet, again the flat brimmed head cocked crooning in this Vaudville venue. He spent a lot of songs dancing behind the mic clutching his harmonica and green bullet harmonica mic.

His song selection was mainly up tempo from the modern catalog. He played some of my contemporary favorites...Tweedly Dee - Tweedly Dumb, Cold Irons Bound and Thunder On The Mountain ( "I wonder where in the world Alicia Keyes could be..".). One mid tempo song from Love and Theft called Po Boy which was never very memorable, may now be my new favorite.

His voice is strong. His pitch is dead on. Sure it's gravely, but to my ear, it's still enviable. His counter melody, though, could use some variation. But overall, Dylan danced like a cat content with the victory of conquest of a mouse... half eaten and the other half batting around boastfully. The audience lucky to be a spectator.

Set List

Cat's In The Well

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Beyond Here Lies Nothin'

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
John Brown

Summer Days

Po' Boy

Cold Irons Bound

If You Ever Go To Houston

Highway 61 Revisited

Ain't Talkin'

Thunder On The Mountain

Ballad Of A Thin Man

Like A Rolling Stone

Jolene

All Along The Watchtower

Betye Saar

Until The Day Is Done

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Poor poor pitiful me

Well I met a girl in West Hollywood
And I ain't namin' names
Well, she really worked me over good
She was just like Jesse James

She really worked me over good
She was a credit to her gender
She put me through some changes, Lord
Sort of like a Waring blender