Expecting Rain

are you sure?

Love that picture! I have saved it in my MK pics folder!

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I needed that Blue Midnight!

Btw look at Stu he looks like he is about to piss his pants... He might be the biggest DORK who was ever allowed on stage with Dylan...

Stu looks concerned. For me he's just a brilliant guitarist who's sound is at the heart of every great live Dylan song from recent years.

Actually he does a pretty good job - he just looks goofy. Maybe he is hired as secret an onstage bouncer as well ?

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and he has a wonderful hug, big bearhug

For what it's worth I'm gonna predict that Sony will record these last three shows, pick the best versions and give us a live album. So yes, if I'm right and Mark's tracks make the cut, he could be on Dylan's next album!

Stu: the albino twin brother of Cee Lo Green.

well actually, everything if by "subjective" you mean what you personally experienced. Which is pretty much what it means. Not that I am disagreeing - frankly I don't care.

that bloke from Brighton, Slim Tim something - he'd be perfect. He doesn't take crap from anyone.

great song. great album. and HAHAHAHA.

If you see it from a recording perspective, someone like David Hidalgo should have joined the tour band then. It were brilliant musicians like him and Larry Campbell that influenced Dylan (and Jack Frost) in a sense of collaboration and gave the albums they contributed to an important twist. I'd love to get a new album 2012 maybe. But Bob seems so perfectly happy with his repertoire during this tour, and "Together through life" adds something really great to it, that I don't know if he'll do another album so soon. I thought about that when I saw the set lists. It's just such a magnificient row, "Love and Theft", Modern Times and Together Through Life, each one being something special. (By the way, mentioning Tom Waits: David Hidalgo also plays some great accordeon and other instruments on Tom Waits' new album!)

But the decision to tour with Knopfler as a guest was from a touring perspective and I really enjoyed the mix! Saw them in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. Knopfler and his folks played a nice set and the music was completely different from Bob's style, without being boring or dull... I liked the virtuoso parts of it, with the unplugged players interacting and getting into dialogue. I even enjoyed the "So far away from me" encore, loved this in the 90s radio! But then, when Bob sang his first line, it just blew me away. I think it's difficult to have a good band to start off your concert, as it might be to much of a similar style or uninteresting... Knopfler was a good pick.
Knopfler and Dylan as recording collaborators, I really don't see that.

I tremendously enjoyed the concert. Got a good place in row three, and I was lucky that one Knopfler fan left after the Knopfler part, thus I got to see Bob's gig from row 1-and-a-half, luckily standing right between keyboard and center mic. Incredible. He was quite in a mood!

Exactly what I would say.

And to all those, who criticised this or that (what they are allowed to do, if I have a similar opinion or not):
I go to his show to listen to Bob singing and barking (and I enjoy it)
I go to his show to see him play guitar (and I enjoy it, if there is a wrong tone or not, his guitar playing lives)
I go to his shows to see him play harp (and I enjoy it, especially on this tour I had the chance to listen to great harp-playing)
I go to his shows and bear his keyboard-playing.
I go to his shows and have no problem with the set-lists.
I go to his shows and have no problem that it is a show with two famous artists (good that they are very different, but as it was said already: only Bob blows you away)

After so many years of touring the Bob-shows are still extremely interesting shows. No one can give us something like that year after year. You can't compare his work with the work of an artist who tours quite seldom. And I don't want it. It would be unfair towards Bob and towards those artists who show up all 2 or 3 years for 10 or twenty shows all over the world.

If Mark Knopfler would play on Bob's next album (hope there will be a new one one day), I will listen to it. I'm sure Bob can integrate Mark into his music and Mark is able to play some nice licks which will please you or me more or less.
And as we saw it on this tour: Although MK plays as he does it year after year: Bob's songs are so strong, that they don't loose their harsh quality by a "nice-playing" guitarist.
If necessary Bob will bark and all will be good.

looks like Inkasso Moskau, sorry

Brilliant stuff from the Universal judge. I had the offer of a front row balcony ticket but turned it down. Not gonna try to polish the turd, Bennyboy!

It might just be my favourite Waits album.
How tracks like that, with so much going on, can be produced so there is still so much seperation is a delight. Album of the year for me, if anyone has recommendations for anything better I'm more than happy to listen.

this will not ever happen

Well, it could, but I'd say doubtful.

Anything can happen