“Bob-ay!”
Bob Dylan. What can I say? The experience was like you would expect - only less shit. Sure, Vanessa and I almost fell asleep half way into his set. Sure, some idiot behind us yelled out “Maggie’s Farm” as a request even though everyone should know you don’t tell Bob Dylan what to play. Sure, our seats were almost touching the heavens. Sure, Mr Dylan sounded like he had swallowed a lit packet of cigarettes and his gruffy voice made it hard to decipher lyrics but man, we just saw Bob Dylan.
Before the show, vanessa and I had decided to get a drink because you really need to be drinking at a Bob Dylan gig. Only the thing is, when you go to the Burswood Dome for a gig you should know that it is impossible to get drunk there. It is because you are waiting for so long to get a drink and by the time you get to the front of the line, they don’t have what you want and it’s usually warm. So when we got some red wine, we had no idea that it was going to taste like absolute ass. I would say that I was disappointed, because you always think that you have it safe when you are just going be choosing the standard drink of red wine. I am not an expert, but I assume that all red wine tastes pretty much the same. And not like ass. What a shame that was.
Some dude started talking to us and asked us why we were at Bob Dylan, just the two of us. I guess it would come as a shock that yeah - vanessa and i are god damn hippies. only we are from THE NOW. I was also a bit shocked to see some dude eating a fucking ice cream but i guess you can buy anything when you go to a concert at the burswood dome.
So Bob Dylan, what can i say? It was not the top 10 gigs I have ever been to. I would be lieing if i said it was. but being that i had seen bob dylan made the whole night very special. even if the songs were unrecognisable because they had been reworked. i guess that is what you do when you have been singing the same song for almost 40 years or more. It would get old. Someone said to me the other day “man, the Chili Peppers must get so sick of playing ‘give it away’ since it’s from 1991?. I think, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones must be pretty fucking bored of their songs by now!
After the gig, Vanessa and I had a mini freak out which included saying “man” and “dude” about a thousand times. On walking back to the train, some dude came up to me and asked if bob dylan was still playing. I looked at him, i knew he was trying to be funny but he tried too hard and became a fucking idiot. So I said “um, guess” and walked away. People are fucking pathetic like that.
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