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I couldn’t understand a word he sang around 2016 at Thalia Mara.

He'll be almost 85 years old when he comes here, and yet still touring. Wow.

He puts on a terrible show—like, truly awful—but it’s still a chance to say you’ve seen Bob Dylan. So get out of the house and go.

I’ll rebut @10:57, but only partially. You truly never know what you’re going to get at a Dylan show. Saw him in one of the single-best concerts I’ve ever attended at Mud Island back in ‘95, then saw him in one of the single-worst not long after at Jubilee Jam. Was great around 20 years ago at the Coliseum, then made me suffer through two hours of songs I had never heard a note of before in Meridian a few years ago.

I’ll go because he’s still Bob Dylan (highly recommend the Dylan museum in Tulsa), but it’s an absolute crapshoot as to what show you’ll attend.

He's probably got "handlers" all around him (like Joe Biden) to prop him in order to keep making money on the cachet of his name only....regardless of how bad the show is. Can't imagine that there are enough fans of the guy in Mississippi to justify a "show".

Hard pass.

I saw him in Dallas last year. He only played the piano and not one single song I recognized. I was not impressed. That said, however, it is Bob Dylan and you never know what he is going to play. I’m going with the hopes that he plays some of his more recognizable tunes.

One of the most overrated “entertainers” in history. Throughout history, the “industry” has promoted lousy acts like Bob Dylan, Liev Schreiber, Steven Segal, and Steve Gutenberg. I never understood the appeal. It always seems forced.

I saw him at Thalia Mara in 1992 and even back then the audience was shocked to hear how different his voice was from all the recorded music we had ever heard, and he would have only been 51 then. I was pissed because he did not play Like a Rolling Stone.

The scheduled warmup act that night for whatever reason was a last minute no-show, so the concert organizers got a guy who was supposed to be playing at The Dock that night. He showed up barefoot and giddy as hell to be opening for Dylan. He was damn good and I recently saw where he went on to having a pretty good career before passing recently - Todd Snider.

What a ringing endorsement in which to gamble your money with.

Uhg, I didn't like him in his prime. I'd rather watch a Pauly Shore movie.

Don’t film him with your phone. Pro tip.

Went to the Merle Haggard - Bob Dylan concert at the Jackson Coliseum some years back. Thank God Merle performed first. When Dylan followed, we left four minutes into his, ah...performance.

7:05, you are miserable troll. Why not just say you hate Jewish celebrities? Like him or not, to say Bob Dylan is overrated is just showing the rest of us you don’t know shit about music. I’ll take my overrated Stones, Zeppelin, Beatles, Floyd, annd Dylan over your Bieber, Little Wayne, and Eminem any day.

With Willie Nelson, he’s so old that the wife won’t allow him to smoke weed on the day of a gig because it makes him forget the lyrics. With Dylan, it doesn’t matter because nobody can understand what he’s singing anyway.

He's still alive?

What's with all of these old as dirt 60s 70s and 80s has-beens still touring? Is it not time to retire and sing for your grandkids at your mansion every night? Recently heard Alabama and Tracy Lawrence live... way way way overdue for retirement. Is there some sort of clause in their contracts they make with the devil that say they must perform until their last breath or are they all just super money hungry and desperate to cling to relevance?

Couldn't stand him as a young man so I'm sure the same animus would be there today as an old man.

On the other hand, I saw Tony Bennett at Saenger nearly ten years ago and at age 90, he still had some chops.

Bob Dylan is worse than Springsteen, if that says anything.

On another note, great that Thalia Mara is reopening! Thanks Mayor Horhn!

I would rather hear John Denver singing Taylor Swift songs while Kamala Harris explains her polices and Nancy Pelosi dancing in a two piece bikini in the corner than to hear Bob sing.

7:05, interesting that you characterize Dylan as entertainment, perhaps in the same kind of thing as Taylor Swift. It wasn’t that way back in the day. Like others of the time, he wrote lyrics to be listened to and thought about. But agree that he, Willie Nelson and others are hanging on way past their prime. I saw Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Review in Mobile in about ‘75 or so. Was a great concert,

@9:40 there was absolutely nothing profound about Bob Dylan’s nonsensical lyric's. He tried hard to convince boomers that he was some sort of musical activist. But it was all about selling records.

9:23 "I would rather hear John Denver singing Taylor Swift songs while Kamala Harris explains her polices and Nancy Pelosi dancing in a two piece bikini in the corner than to hear Bob sing."

Nancy P in a bikini? Has anyone ever told you that you are one really kinky dude?

Steven Segal? ROFLMAO And you want to be taken seriously?

Sir, would you by chance have worked in a certain three letter surveillance agency doing advanced enhanced interrogation? What you're describing is cruel, and unusual punishment.

I saw him in the late 80d or early 90s at Ole Miss. EASILY the worst performance of ANY kind I’ve ever seen. I suspected things were going to be bad when he came on stage with his face looking like he had dunked it into a bag of flour (or coke.) Completely white on the front. No, I’ll have to go with 9:23’s recommendation on this one. He’s dead on!

I agree with 9:40 that the Rolling Thunder Revue was peak Dylan. I first saw Dylan in SF in 1964 when he was still all acoustic, and got to hear "Bringing It All Back Home" before the album was released. Baez was there and all the magic of that part of his career. But nothing compares to the RTR concert at Reed Green in Hattiesburg, May 1, 1976. I've since seen him three or four times, including that godawful Thalia Mara show, and I have to be honest that I am not going to be able to spend the money to see him again. I've got "Blood On the Tracks" on my phone and that alone was enough to merit the Nobel Prize. Now, when will the prize be given to Paul Simon?

No matter how bad it is, it’s gonna be great. And I’m goin’.

I first saw Dylan at USM in 76. It was one of my first concert experiences, and it was great. It featured Scarlet Rivera on the violin. Warmup act Kinky Friedman sang "I'm Proud to be an Asshole from El Paso." I was also at the terrible show at Thalia Mara, which was the absolute worst concert experience of all time. In between, I saw a couple of other shows, in which Dylan was ok.

So, what do you do? Following him for over fifty years, analyzing the lyrics, watching the recent movie, I'm convinced of two things: Dylan is a genius and Dylan is a complete asshole.

But as the late great Todd Snider said that night, "it's Bob f Dylan." So, I guess I'll give it another try. And as a friend said, "it's gonna be terrible; it's gonna be great."

Folk and Rock legend.

Love Dylan or hate him, 9:23's post is the winner. That is a funny post.

I like Dylan but his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature is a joke. The Nobel committees are racing to destroy the Nobel brand.

Hey, Steven Segal delivered the world the line: “I’m going to take you to the bank Senator, the Blood bank”. If you don’t like that dialogue, something is wrong with you.

I think seeing that would damage a generation of men.

Echoing the comments from others, the last Dylan show at Thalia Mara was terrible. He never acknowledged the audience a single time, maybe he didn’t even know where he was. His vocals are an acquired taste even on a good night but you couldn’t understand a word he said and he changed up the arrangements on his most popular songs so bad you couldn’t recognize them. You can spend your money to see him if only for being a legend but don’t go expecting to be entertained.