Graeme Thomson

What a remarkably bad electric guitar player Bob Dylan is

I have rarely known anyone – certainly not anyone charging on the door – play with such careless conviction

Bob Dylan in 2009. Photo: Harry Scott / Redferns  
issue 23 November 2024

Finally, a taste of the authentic Bob Dylan live experience. On the two previous occasions that I’ve seen Dylan, in the early 2000s and again two years ago, he was disappointingly well-behaved for a man with a reputation for operating a scorched-earth policy towards his catalogue.

Once upon a time, seeing Dylan live was a high-wire activity.

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