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I don't really understand how this works, but "pre-ordering" tickets let me buy tickets for Bob Dylan on election night for his first ever concert on the U of MN campus (he was briefly a student there back in the day). Tickets to students go on sale today and to the general public next Friday. Through Dylan's website, i was able to "pre-order" tickets earlier this week. The Mrs and I are in the back of the center row of an auditorium that only seats 4850. I can't wait for this show!

I saw him a few years ago and it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.

I'm incredibly jealous!

docellis wrote:I saw him a few years ago and it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.

no you didn't

The show was Tues night and it kind of sucked - at least not worth the money. He played for pretty much exactly 2 hours, including encore, so it was a little short. He played a lot of his classics (great!), and he altered the way they were played for a fresh sound (usually great!), but he changed them enough such that they were familiar but we often couldn't quite figure out what they were from the instrumentation alone. So we were depending on catching a few lyrics to fill in the gaps. Well, he was pretty much impossible to understand, so he was often half way (or more) through a song before we figured out what it was. Towards the end, he talked to introduce the band and say something about times they are a changin', but that was it. Given that he grew up in Minnesota and was a student on the campus where he was playing (U of Minn), I was expecting at least some sort of acknowledgment that he had a connection to the location.

However, during the encore (about 10 to 10:15), I noticed a few people around us checking their phones and whispering. I thought was too early for the race to have been called, but I still wondered if that's what it was. We were towards the back of the venue, so we were one of the first into the lobby area outside the auditorium. One of the workers stopped my wife and pointed to the big screen TV to point out that the race had been called for Obama and my wife let out one of the first WOO-HOOs. As people poured into the lobby, there was a steady stream of cheers and screams, and the atmosphere became way more exciting than it had been in the auditorium. outside, there were a few people playing bongos (surprise surprise) and instantly there was a large group of people dancing and chanting O-BA-MA! It was a very exciting scene.

So, overall, it was a very fun experience, even if the concert was disappointing.

lukethedrifter wrote:

docellis wrote:I saw him a few years ago and it was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.

no you didn't

yes i did