Bob Dylan in Paso Robles

I love seeing Bob Dylan in an open air venue instead of the indoor venue. I can't tell you why, I just love it.

Summer days are just beginning in Paso Robles. We had 98 degree in the county fair ground but the temperature dropped below 60 after the sunset. I was thinking about going Costa Mesa or Paso Robles to see Dylan and I picked Paso Robles. Costa Mesa was close but due to luck of transportation, the ticket price was high, avoid ticketmaster, good seats were already gone and almost sold out, so Paso Robles was the only chance to see Bob this summer and I made a right decision. The show was very enjoyable, everybody was standing and dancing all night. Thanks to someone sold to me the ticket below the cost because his wife could not make it due to her Mom was sick or something. Hope everything is fine with them.

The opening act was okay. She just looked like Sheryl Crow to me. Bob showed up around 8:35PM. Bob played three new tunes for me which were Lay Lady Lay, Cry a While, The Levee's Gonna Break. Cry a While, I have never chance to hear it until now. It was kinda different than the CD version but loved it. Bob screwed up the Lyrics on It's All Right Ma and he sang the president naked lines twice. Just Like A Woman was always welcome with beutiful harp solo at the end. The show ended with Masters of War and it was really something. Unlike other shows, the security was nice and they did nothing about taking picture of Bob unless you were in the front rows. Even you had a bad seat, you could easily go up to the front section. Beginning of the encore, I made it to the third row and Bob was so UP-CLOSE. If I were in the Costa Mesa show, that's called "Mission Impossible".

Oh, Btw, I met Tony Garnier at the front of Starbucks. He was on the black motorcycle. We spoke a little bit and asked him "how's the show last night?" , "Does Bob planing to going back to Japan?" or something like that.

Here's some video from the night.