Bob Dylan is playing for free in Brooklyn.

I’ll be there.

Prospect Park Bandshell, Tuesday night at eight.

This will be my fourth Dylan live experience – after 1978 in the New Haven Coliseum, 1992 in a bullring in northern Spain, and 1999 at Madison Square Garden (double bill with Joni Mitchell).

He’s playing, but as best I can tell it’s not free. Tickets are $55-100. I’d like to be corrected though.

I’ve seen him live, and I have to warn you: even if the show is free, it’s overpriced. He should pay YOU to listen.

I say this NOT as a Dylan hater who just doesn’t “get” him. I say this as a longtime fan who thinks that, while Dylan was never a great singer in any conventional sense, he was usually the best interpreter of his own material.

He always has a top-notch band. He still has delightfully eclectic set lists. If he could sing just a LITTLE, he’d still be well worth going to see.

He can’t sing even a little.

I don’t believe you. You’re a LIAR!

I hate to say it, but I agree with Astorian. Check the recent threads on Dylan, and there is general agreement on the crapfest that is a Bob Dylan concert. I’ll never see him again.

I’ve seen him several times over the last twenty plus years and it’s been hit or miss. Some shows have been amazing, others awful. I’m a huge fan. He’s playing in town in September at the SB Bowl and I have 13th row seats! I guess I won’t be getting a beer with Darryl beforehand this time.

I have never heard a single positive review of a live Dylan show in recent years. From everything I have heard and read, you’re basically watching a reanimated corpse drunkenly croak out some inaudible noise, for the cost of a nice meal and a pack of Trojans.

Hajario, when was the last time you saw him? I saw him a couple years ago at the Mid-state fair. I certainly hope your experience is better than mine.

I saw Dylan on the 17th of August last year in Melbourne Australia. He was absolutely superb and sang far better than he did out here a few years back. In fact I preferred that show to his Budokan vintage tour here in the 70s. I was talking to the guy sitting in front of me who had seen Dylan over 20 times in Australia, the US and Europe since the late 60s. He thought it was the second best Dylan show he had ever attended.

There are reviews and set lists for all his shows here, they will indicate that it can be hit or miss but by no means a lost cause.

Last year at the Greek in L.A. It wasn’t one of the good ones.

My experience over about the same length of time is that every second time I see him is dreadful. I haven’t been in 3 years, so the ratio might have changed. A friend was at the Virgin mobile festival this weekend, so I can get his review tomorrow. If it was a bad show here I think you’ll be safe. If he was good here well, I hope there are free seats for you.

Seen him twice.

First time was a while back at the Wembley Arena - it was terrible. Truly awful and I vowed never to waste money on him again.

Then a mate bought tickets to the 2005 Brixton Academy gig. It was stunning. Just amazing. Absolutely fantastic. Best concert I’ve ever been to.

So, yeah, hit and miss.

He’s playing the Prospect Park Bandshell. They can charge for seating, but unless they drop a Cone of Silence over the entire thing, it’s a free concert. I don’t need to make eye contact or anything.

I saw him once in the 80’s at the zoo amphitheatre in OKC.

I liked it.
I’d go again Tuesday if I wasn’t busy.

I saw him in July this year. It wasn’t great but it was in one of those huge arenas so the sound was horrible. I first saw him in 1984 at an open air gig and that was fantastic. It was a traditional Bob concert where he stood at the front with an acoustic guitar and harmonica playing songs old and new (Infidels, at the time).

Nowadays he sits at the piano all the time. I do kinda wish he’d ditch the piano and go back to playing the guitar.

Irrelevant. I would pay the admission price just to be in the same room as the holy Dylan and breathe the same air. If he’s going to sing as well, that’s just an added bonus.

Excellent point. I’ll probably head over.

Also, if you have any suggestions for standing points Ukulele Ike, I’m all ears – almost quite literally. I’m looking to head over with my little sister, the Dylan freak.

Apparently he can’t - arthritis.