April 2, 2009
Review by Andreas Grosser
Last Thursday evening Bob Dylan stood on the stage of the Messehalle
Erfurt again. Already 2005 (November) he made a stop here. And if I
remember right, at the time it was a wonderful sunny day as well as this
weeks Thursday: now one of the first sunny and warm days after the long
and very cold winter. (In the concert I heard say somebody, that 'Mr.
Dylan always has good weather here, already in Gotha, open air, some/many
years ago').
Two days before I heard his concert in Hannover with, except 4 titles, a
quite different setlist, that included 'Chimes Of Freedom','Shooting Star'
and 'Dignity' as highlights. Also in Hannover 'Masters Of War', during
that the musician (a painter self) perhaps thought of the painters Franz
Marc and August Macke (who both died young in World War I) and their
pictures in the great present exhibition only few hundred meters far from
the hall in Hannover.
In Erfurt he gave 13 other songs, mostly with a very clear voice and with
a special carefulness and genuine expressiveness, that astonished in
really every song. And again, like 2005, the rarely played 'A Hard Rain's
A-Gonna Fall', that he played with his band here 2005 in a memorable, in a
indescribable brilliantly version. This time not so hypnotic dark and
majestic deep, but very moving in another kind: slowly to my impression,
more quiet. Wonderful 'Ain't Talking' with this fascinating music, that
drags in a special/existential sense and feeling.
A great concert in Erfurt with an almost-guitar-action by Bob Dylan (at
the start of one of the first songs many coultn't believe their eyes) and
an audience majority in an age from 40 upwards, only few younger people.
Andreas Grosser
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