TRIBUTE TO BOB WEIR
by Uncle John
can be viewed at
https:SpecialPermission.com
Uncle John is not a musician.
He is a writer, poet and storyteller.
To listen to genuine GRATEFUL DEAD songs
follow Bobby Weir´s Homecoming
and the mindblowing performance of
“RIPPLE” by John Mayer
Songs by BOB DYLAN
CITY
OF GOLD > Tangled Up in Blue
City of Gold
Sweetwater, Mill Valley, California
October 16, 2001
Recorded by Uncle John
Tangled Up in Blue
Saratoga Springs, New York, July, 1989
With Lena Spencer in the audience
Art Work by JERRY GARCIA
Live, SanFrancisco Bob Dylan, 1980
Uncle John Reviews
Bob Dylan´s Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour
MultiMedia Review
to be published
Uncle John Review excerpts
Bob Dylan´s Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour
"It's darkest 'fore the dawn (oh, Lord)"
--Bob Dylan from Rough and Rowdy Ways
Seen through
Grateful Dead lyrics & poetryedited by Uncle John
The grateful dead are the Largest and bob dylan the grandest.
When I think of the Grateful Dead I think of Bob Dylan.
He is like Planet X, hidden but really there.
Walt Whitman´s Leaves Of Grass is in Bob Dylan´s playbook.
By definition, Bob Dylan has a complex and apparently paradoxical nature, to be inconsistent,
especially in a way that is ultimately noble or admirable.
I first heard "I Contain Multitudes" live, @ The Sweetwater Music Hall
when Blonde On The Tracks star Emma Swift covered Dylan.
Emma says, “Like many of the great Bob Dylan songs,
‘I Contain Multitudes’ is a magnet, a fly’s eye view of the cultural wilderness in which we wander. It’s magnificent and heartbreaking, a love letter to words and art and music, to all that has been lost and all that might be redeemed. To me this song has become an obsession, a mantra, a prayer. I can’t hope to eclipse it, all I hope to do is allow more people to hear it, to feel comforted by it, and to love it the way I do.”
MOST LIKELY YOU GO YOUR WAY & I´LL GO MINE
Bob Dylan´s audience is anything but rough and rowdy. Not that they are not capable, many will find their way into a rowdy bar later. Rough and Rowdy Ways is not about the audience but it is for them. It is a communication in spirit. This audience, at the Fox Theater in Oakland, all 2800 sitting in their seats, are well behaved, a gentle folk, focused and attentive when the music begins. They are a quiet crowd who listen rather than talk in distraction. This concert does not allow pictures taken or video recordings. Not a cell phone is lit in the place. Everyone is wearing a mask, indicative of the sensitive times we live in on a world bugged by viruses. Everyone I see leaving the show has a satisfied look. The crowd is upbeat and the conversation is not about Rough and Rowdy Ways. The buzz on the street capturing the attention of everyone walking by is a question posed to them: "What is your favorite song that Bob Dylan didn´t play tonight?" The answer given most
"Tangled Up In Blue"
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"
"Things Have Changed".
WATCHING THE RIVER FLOW
FALSE PROPHET
Photo:Herb Greene
DEAD & COMPANY
