Bob Dylan to play one night at Spark
As expected, everyone it seems wants a piece of the incomparable Bob Dylan.
So we’re offering up a second chance to win a double pass for you to witness first-hand the enchantment, the entertainment and the enigma that is Bob Dylan when he plays Auckland’s Spark Arena on Sunday, August 26.
In a career spanning six decades, Bob Dylan’s impact on popular music and culture is immeasurable.
He is responsible for some of the most influential albums of all time, including The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan , Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, and his socially and politically charged singles Blowin’ In The Wind and The Times They Are A-Changin’ are widely considered among the most important songs in modern music. The ‘voice of a generation’ boasts an unparalleled repertoire, including timeless classics, Like A Rolling Stone, Tangled Up In Blue, Knockin’ On Heavens Door, Girl From The North Country and
Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right.
Much has been said about Dylan’s current performances – a fan Lyndon (middle name James not Baines) Johnson who has seen Dylan a dozen times, put it like this: He continues to reinvent himself and present the same lyrics in a different manner.
You just feel you’re standing in front of greatness. I want to be there as long as I can. Absolutely seize every opportunity you can get — he said, noting that Dylan’s best years were about a halfcentury ago.
I’m sure that the Dylan of 1966 is different than the Dylan of 2017, but the core is still there.
Reviewers have noted that like other veteran musicians, Dylan has turned to the standards.
“It sounded more like he was wrestling “Stormy Weather” than singing it, but when he ended the pre-encore portion of the night with “Autumn Leaves” he set a cool, mysterious (albeit slightly creepy) mood.
Dylan’s crooning standards isn’t quite Sid Vicious singing “My Way,” but it’s in the ballpark — Brent Hallenbeck.
He added — Dylan and the band came out for the encore with a slow, contemplative take on perhaps his best-known song, Blowin’ in the Wind. Much as Leonard Cohen did in his later years, Dylan is essentially covering his own songs, giving them a spin that reflects who he is now, not who he was then.
That’s just what Lyndon Johnson – the man named for the president in office during Dylan’s prime years of the 1960s – was talking about: Dylan is going to keep doing his songs the way he wants to. He was the freewheelin’ Bob Dylan in 1963. He’s the freewheelin’ Bob Dylan now.
Don’t miss out on what promises be a performance for the ages. Tickets from Ticketmaster.
You can enter by text (write TAC Bob Dylan tix, plus your name and address, and text it to 021 241 4568) or mail (address to The Bob Dylan Double Pass Competition and include your name, address and daytime phone number). Deadline is 5pm Friday.
This competition is provided by ‘Fill The House Tickets Project’, proudly supporting families of children with cancer.