Thursday, August 24, 2006
My Boyfriend Bob
The first time I missed a Bob Dylan concert was in 1997. I was a D.J. at WEGL in Auburn, AL while they were hosting a Dylan concert ticket give-away. While I was studying and listening to the radio, WEGL announced that the next caller would receive Dylan tickets. Since I was an employee and disqualified, I immediately called Lord Haggis so he could win the tickets instead (and, of course invite me along). WEGL usually only had about two listeners at any give time, so Lord Haggis easily won. Like a fool, though, I decided to make some extra cash working my minimum wage job and skipped the concert. Since then, I’ve missed at least a half a dozen opportunities to see my one true love perform live. Most recently, Ramona invited me to see him perform in Savannah. Neither of us attended, and we were horrified to find out that we’d also missed out on seeing Luke Wilson who had been at the concert. Luke Wilson! This is truly sad, because, even though I’ve seen many mediocre artists in concert including Billy Joel and George Michael, I’ve consistently missed seeing a true music legend. This weekend, I’ll finally see Bob Dylan perform live. Let’s hope I don’t come up with any lame excuses to miss the concert, like having to shelve books at the library.
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I had forgotten about that first missed Bob Dylan concert! Who ended up going with Lord Haggis?
We also had Pink Floyd tickets while at Auburn. I gave mine up to stay home and study for a chemisty test - that I ended up failing anyway. I could have at least had an decent excuse had I gone to the concert. You know, rather than just being crap at chemistry.
I saw Bob Dylan at Chastain Park Ampitheater, a wonderful venue in Atlanta.
The tickets were free, which is the only reason I cannot say the Bob Dylan owes me money. He came onstage, tucked down onto his guitar, every line he tossed out sounded like "come to me I'll give you Shelter from the Storm". For 50 minutes, the same thing over and over, "come to me I'll give you Shelter from the Storm".
I didn't get it.
I have though enjoyed the documentaries of the artist as an angry young man.
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