Bob Dylan 2002.01.31 in Orlando, Florida
There was quite a discussion about the name of the new drummer: Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan Subject: A Report from Orlando From: Michael G Smith mikeygsmith@hotmail.com Date: 1 Feb 2002 12:37:12 -0800 Here is an excerpt from an e-mail sent to me by my brother, Drew, who was at the show last night: "the venue was the worst i've ever been to. we were on the back of the floor and couldn't get close at all. we didnt' see anything about anybody filming anything so i have no idea what that's all about. dylan was in GREAT form last night. very expressive and very animated. although i couldn't tell cause he had a huge cowboy hat on and we were so far away we couldn't see his face at all. the band however, was definitely off. i attribut this entirely to george. i hope he gets better, but last night you could tell was his first concert if you know what i mean. he did a lot better on the faster songs and definitely got better as the show progressed, so it'll be interesting ot see if he gets better over the next three shows. tell mike he's more like winston than dave. he used the brushes on some of the acoustic songs but he didn't have that "subtelty and taste". right now i definitely think dave is a lot better, but we'll see. the best songs of the night were, just like a woman, lonesome day blues, tangled, drifters escape, rainy day women and all the encores were good. the worst song of the night was sugar baby (george's fault - he played too hard). tony was coaching george all night. the harp solos were great, and obviously very different. each one began the song and he played it for a verse and then didn't play it again on all eight songs. in short, the show was really good, but not as good as the last tour. bob was wonderful and the band needed to get it together."
Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan Subject: Re: A Report from Orlando From: Abe Rondina arondina@midway.uchicago.edu Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 15:05:57 -0600 hmmm...this post, from one who was there, seems to suggest that the new drummer is in fact, a man named george (presumably as the poster is referring to him as george as that's what he heard during band intros). an anonymous email to me, condemning my prediction of j. vitale, suggested that his name in fact is george vissaly...however, when i googled and yahooed that name, nothing came up. could it be that this guy is completely unknown to the music public??
Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan Subject: Re: A Report from Orlando From: Peter Stone Brown psb51@earthlink.net Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 00:39:45 GMT Actually the new drummer's name is George.
