[Dottore]

I love His Bobness, and have seen him perhaps 10 or 12 times in my life.

A great poet and voice of his time.

That said I have seen two of his concerts from his so called "never ending tour" and they were both appalling. In one we had seats near the front, and he came onstage, turned his back to the audience, and played virtually the entire set that way. (facing his band with his back to the crowd). Moreover, although I fully understand his thing about playing his tunes differently each night so they don't get old—they were almost all unrecognizable and uniformly awful.

I gave him one more chance last year in Hamburg. It was an open air venue, and although it wasn't quite as bad as the concert just described, it was a lacklustre and tired Bob, with very little left to give.

I'm not sure why he still does this "never ending tour" when he takes so little pleasure in it. Maybe I just caught two bad nights—but I have read a number of similarly bad reviews.

I think "I used to care, but things have changed" —sums the man up pretty well these days. Kinda goes with the Cadillac and Victoria's Secret commercials. He's even playing golf these days for Christ's sake.

I'll always love the old Bob. Not sure I'd see him live again. Rather crank up Blonde on Blonde on the stereo.