This Is My New Dylan Shirt

Cool, huh? Little wink-wink to Bob's infamous cycle spill. I dig it.

Anyway, I bought the shirt ($30) last night at the Dylan/Merle Haggard show at the USF Sun Dome in Tampa. It's an XXL, but in retrospect I should have gone with the XXXL. Let's be honest, I'm not getting any smaller.

Anyway, the show was great (here's my review, pounded out before deadline, so don't be too harsh on the tortured poetry). Dylan's set was perhaps the best I've ever seen him do:

1. Maggie's Farm
2. She Belongs To Me
3. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
4. Lay, Lady, Lay
5. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
6. Love Sick
7. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
8. Ballad Of A Thin Man
9. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
10. Cold Irons Bound
11. Girl From the North Country
12. Summer Days
(encore)
13. Like A Rolling Stone
14. All Along The Watchtower

Dylan isn't big on enunciating, of course, but he was pretty darn clear on classic wakeup-call Ballad of a Thin Man. "Something is happening here / But you don't know what it is / Do you, Mister Jones?"

Comments

[Anonymous]

Is it true Dylan wears one of those Medi-Alert beepers on stage just in case he falls and cannot get up. Time for Ol' Bob to hang it up. By the way, did he sell out the Dome - I'd be surprised if he brought in more than 3,500.

[ClayFan]

$30 for a black concert T sounds wacked - I rememeber when the standard ticket was $16, and the T was @ $8. Nowadays, you can't go to a concert and get a shirt without dropping at least a C note. (Coldplay T-shirts at The Amp were selling for $40). Sean - some good advice just 'cause I love you man - when the XXL is too tight, time to go EZ on the twinkies.

[Sean Daly]

Not Twinkies, Funyuns. I'm a sucker for those hydrogenated onion snax. Especially after midnight, when they can totally do their magic.

[chilledbongo]

dijoo buy that shirt, or did the times?too bad dylan left out 'masters of war.' what a song.

[Steve Spears]

I am SO glad I didn't go to the show. (Mainly because they may not have had XXXL shirts). Not like it was really a judgement call. If there was any show I've on the fence with lately, it was They ... Might ... Be .... Giants!And even the Gershmeister said that show was disappointing.Sean, you're totally going to be bummed when you see the lineup of podcasts while you're gone. Airplane and one-hit wonders of 1981. Can you say "Juice Newton"?

[Sean Daly]

I bought the T-shirt; the Times bought me the Porsche I drove to the show in.He'd been doing "Masters of War" lately, but revamped a good chunk of the setlist for the Tampa show.

[Allie]

This is true, seanie boy, you aren't gettin smaller. Considering that you eat the same stuff i do! oy.. seanie. we need to talk about weight loss programs..