By: Robert M. Zoschke

Robert M. Zoschke — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:28:25 +0000

First time I saw Dylan…1989/90…McGaw Hall, Northwestern University, Chi Town North Shore…half of the basketball gymnasium seats were closed off, with the band/stage fronting that side, half the court and the stands on the other side were the general seating…three and a half hours, electric set, acoustic set, electric set, acoustic encore with band, dylan solo encore, third encore was electric with band “Ballad of a Thin Man”…in the top 10 of all concerts I ever saw…first musician singer/songwriter i ever poured over album sleeve lyrics of, all the while saying “this is poetry” to myself…tried taking a hot tight ass blonde chick from the advertising dept. I worked in at the time to the show, she blew me off at the last minute (I didn’t realize the mink coat she wore to the Chinese Buffet Happy Hour Lunch Joint on Jackson Boulevard I took her to for lunch frequently had been given to her by a Senior Executive keeping her as his girl on the side in a Lake Shore Drive Condo). So I gave the extra ticket to a girl on the street and she didn’t bang me either. But the show was stellar-awesome….and I heard the chorus of …”How does it feel? To be on your OOOWWWWN” barreling through my thinking ears as I dealt with the cruel North Shore winter wind on the walk to the car in the parking lot after the show. This was the Oh Mercy tour, the first time Dylan worked with Daniel Lanois on an album, and that album was in my top three of that year…finest Dylan record I heard to my taste until Time Out of Mind, which stands to me as his finest work in decades, simply the most poetically written and poetically heartfelt to the listening ear record one could pick up in the last ten years, made by anyone anywhere…

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By: Robert M. Zoschke