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...musician known for his capacity to stray from audience expectations, the concert can be called nothing short of an intensely pleasurable retrospective of Dylan??s greatest hits and most captivating recent pieces. The 14 song set, plus unforgettable encores of “All Along the Watchtower” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” combined a perfect balance of old and new Dylan, including five from the most recent album Love and Theft (2001), as well as recognizable classics such as “Forever Young?...
Dylan opened, at a punctual starting time of 8:15, with the favorite of many a college-aged fan, “Rainy Day Women #12 &35.” Despite Dylan??s command that “everybody must get stoned,” the audience remained subdued and only under the influence of Dylan??s fantastic band...
Whether you waited in line to buy a ticket for Bob Dylan??s concert last week, or you sat in your dorm room lamenting the fact that this generation lacks a poet of its own, it is nearly impossible to argue that the Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) don’t deserve kudos for their accomplishment. True, some concert-goers complained about Dylan??s lackluster vocal abilities and less than enthused presence, but in the most important ways, this concert was a satisfying success—demonstrating without a doubt that...
...true that the council and the HCC made back much of its money from selling a great number of tickets to the general public at significantly higher prices, and that Dylan??s appeal with older members of the community had something to do with piquing outside interest, but this practice is by no means necessarily bad. The bottom line is selling more expensive tickets to non-Harvard concert-goers means cheaper tickets for undergraduates, and as long as the practice does not come at the cost of undermining the student-centric, community-building nature of the show...
...while some students left the concert disappointed, other diehard fans said Dylan??s raspy voice did not get in they way of a good time. “I can’t understand a thing, but Dylan is Dylan. This is a pilgrimage,” said Sergio from New York...