No cameras allowed!

  Before I say anything else, I have to admit, the ticket given to me for last nights Bob Dylan concert was about the best concert ticket I have ever had. The concert was in an outside stadium, with regular seating. But there were 2 rows on seats on the floor, right in front of the stage. We were in the 2nd row. Security told us when the concert started we could go up to the barrier in front of the stage and stand there if we wanted (DUH! yeah, we wanted!) And our seats would still be there for us as nobody else was going to be allowed down on the floor. That part was great. I have only made it to the stage barrier at one other concert in my life, years ago when I was much younger. And I had to fight during half the concert to get there, and when I did, I was not going anywhere as the masses were keeping me right there.
  We were told upon entering that no cameras were allowed. Fine, I didn't have my camera, but I did have my phone!
Once down there we heard the security guys talking about people with phones. They said they could not do much about the audiance itself but they could watch those of us on the floor. That is fine too because my phone does not flash when it takes a picture. It took me a while to get brave enough to try it but when I did, I got 2 good pictures. I was glad I stopped when I did because some big guy came flying down there and jumped all over a gal that had her phone out. I know the she got PO'd because she was getting the pictures for her better half, another gal whom she spent the entire concert hanging all over right there in the middle of the floor. YUCK!
  When they were done playing and left the stage, we knew that they would come back out at least once. But before they did, security let all of the wild, drunk, old hippies come down to the floor area right along with us. Ok, so no big deal really, but I wish they would have told us. So Ol' Bob comes back out and they go wild! and out comes the cell phones. Then I got the rest of my pictures. I never did see what the big deal was in the first place, esp if they were going to do that at the end. But I was good as I did not want to get kicked out after my girlfriend spent 200$ on our 2 tickets.
   Now my review of Ol' Bob. (and I say that in all seriousness) Does anyone know just how old that man is? I am not sure either, but I don't think that he has a whole lot of concerts left in him.
  Now I have been to a lot of concerts of all kinds in my 47 years, but I have to admit that this one was not like any one I have ever seen. Bob and the band played for 2 hours and in that 2 hours, not one word was said to the crowd. (Most of the time you at least get a "Hi Evansville, are you ready to rock?" or something similar) Even more strange, not Bob, nor any of his band members ever even looked at the crowd. His keyboard was turned so that it faced the left hand side of the stage, and the band members all stared at him through out every song.
  Don't get me wrong, we had a great time, but we had just as much fun critiquing (sp?) it afterwards also.
We could not figure it out. They watched him like hawks. We could not decide if they were in awe of him or just keeping a close eye on him. He has had some great songs over the years. If he sang them last night, neither of us knew. He was very hard to understand. When they came out for their encore, they were half way through their first song when we looked at each other and realized "hey" we know that song! (but that was because all of the drunk, hippies behind us were singing it, and we could understand them) When it was over, Karen told me that she did not really recognize anything that he sang. I looked at her and said," I know but think about it, hell, we might have known all of them and just didn't kow it"
  Ok the man is a legend all his own and the fact that we got to see him was awesome. It would have just been a little more awesome if we had seen him when he was a little younger. But we were lucky enough to be close enough to that legend to watch the sweat drip off his nose!

  I downloaded a few pictures but as I had to take them on my phone, they are not real clear. But knowing they were taken with a phone will give you an idea just how close we were.