The T3sk3y Defenestrator

I got to experience some of the strangest concert experiences last week. It was apparently “Take Mark to a concert week”. As far as I’m concerned – that could be every week!

It started on Tuesday with the Willie Nelson / Bob Dylan show at Midway stadium. A little background – I’m easily the world’s smallest Bob Dylan fan. Here’s what music consists of:

• Rhythm
• Pitch
• Tone

As long as you have at least two of those, you’ve got a reasonable chance of being a musician. So, lets evaluate Bob Dylan by those criteria:

Rhythm? Nope.
Pitch? Big Nope.
Tone? Nope.

As you can see, his popularity is lost on me. Regardless, the goal was to see Willie – not Bob. Dad was very excited about seeing a legend like Willie while he’s still alive – and not in jail.

I think the local paper said it best – Willie’s set fit like a pair of old sandals. Very comfortable, very familiar. It’s amazing how many songs you know that you didn’t know you knew. He’s also a pretty good guitar player – He did a lot of pickin’ on his heavily reverb’ed acoustic guitar. I was pleasantly surprised that Willie had real chops!
I think he ripped through about 25 songs in his hour or so set – pausing only to wave or to acknowledge the woman holding up the “I’d smoke pot with Willie” shirt.

Bob was, well – Bob. We stayed for about half the set, when dad announced “This does nothing for me – let’s go”.

All in all – it was a very fun night. Thanks, Dad!

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