Long line out in front of the John Greene Hall - and it was very close to 8 when we arrived - but they waited for everyone to get inside before starting the show.

I was walking down the aisle looking for my row, when a security person came up to help me out. It was my very good friend Ria!! She escorted us to our seats - which were IN THE 3RD ROW!!! Oh man, I was just in heaven all night long (I still am!). This crowd didn't want to dance all night, like the audience at UNH on Friday. I danced the first song, then noticed that lots of people around me were sitting, so I sat (kinda). But, we were in a direct line of vision to clearly see everything on stage - everything!

Dylan was wearing a white linen jacket, with a couple vertical slits front and back, which when spread open were black inside. Black tight velour-looking pants. Black cowboy boots. White cowboy hat. All the bandmembers wore boots except the drummer, who wore sneakers. Campbell had a long blue coat with black velvet collar. Baxter had a extra long red coat with a sky blue shirt underneath. Garnier wore a light brown suit and a black leather beret. They all looked cooool, very stylish...

Dylan dances to his music all night long - never smiles - but dances. The cowboy boots' toes curve up in front, so when he stands on the front of his shoe it looks like he's standing on his toe, with the heel lifted, like, inches in the back. Knees constantly bending into his playing. Moving around, playing with the other bandmembers, signalling what he's doing with nods and other facial gestures. And sometimes, sometimes fingers just flying up the frets - it was great to be able to watch him play up so close - he plays the melodies, he plays his electric guitar flat picking the melody and finger picking underneath. He sometimes kept the beat with one foot - sort of letting the new drummer know how he wanted a particular song to go - or maybe just dancing to it himself.

Bucky Baxter plays different instruments in accompaniment to the different songs - and I thought I would remember which ones when, last night, but I don't now :-} - predominantly the pedal steel, but sometimes acoustic guitar (John Brown), mandolin (Friend of the Devil, It Ain't Me Babe), lap steel. Tony Garnier played a standup bass for the acoustic set, I believe he used a bow during Friend of the Devil, also played an acoustic bass sometimes. Larry Campbell played fiddle on Friend of the Devil, acoustic guitar sometimes, mostly electric rhythm guitar. Dylan played NO harmonica last night :-( - he is most definately into his guitar playing these days - really really into it!

During Like a Rolling Stone, his guitar was out of tune - he tried to tune it as he was playing! but gave up - signalled offstage - WALKED off stage and put on another one (with a beautiful ornate black strap edged in silver studs), came back into the song with his back to us and then turned around and finished.

Highlights for me:

Watchin the River Flow was done much faster than last year - but still managed to melt me into my seat ;-)

Silvio is hot - and they are really spacing out in the middle of it - the only time I get to dance my favorite spaced out dance! Definately shades of Dear Mr Fantasy in the jam.

Friend of the Devil was BEAUTIFUL. A wonderful tribute as he tries to play with Garcia's style - tries! and does a decent job too. The violin sounds perfect here and as time goes on and Campbell gets more confidence I can tell this is going to be magnificent. Campbell seems pretty unsure of himself - always watching what Dylan is doing and keeping up as best he can - smiling a lot! Both new band members smile alot. This is pretty cool watching the band transform again in front of our eyes.

After the acoustic numbers, I dashed up front. Ria was on the edge of the stage in front of me - but I couldn't have been but 10-15 feet away right in front of him. YOW!!!! I watched his fingers playing, but I mostly watched his eyes. When he's singing he squints his eyes looking off, almost as if he's thinking how he's going to present each and every line. His eyes cast across the audience down front - I caught his gaze a few times - those intense blue eyes looking into mine - oh my!

Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat was funky blues - and it was fun! The only song I saw him really letting out some smiles to.

After his last encore, he came to the front of the stage and pointed at people down front and bowed his head and walked off.

Loooooooong ride home...I sighed all the way :-)...

Debess

Bringin' it all back HOME.