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dylan at montreal—the old magic for a momentBy RICK KIDDERDid you ever wonder what the people in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Greenwich Village were doing during the early sixties? While the teenagers in American Graffiti were hanging out at Mel's hamburger stand, groovin' to the tunes of the Big Bopper and the Beach Boys, the beatniks weren't into the Five Satins.They weren't totally into classical music.So they had to have an alternative, and folk music provided that alternative. With folk music came a young Robert Zimmerman.Bob Dylan wasn’t singing about a 427 sitting under his hood or rockin’ away at the class hop.The questions he asked did not concern why fools fall in love,' but more “relevant” material.Anyway, people started to listen to Bob Dylan, and when “Like a Rolling Stone” came out, not only the beatniks (who were turning into hippies) were listening, but even the screaming little girls were deserting the ranks of the British invasion.He wasn't as DODular as the Beatles, or even theBy TIIOMAS TKICHOLZAnd what rough star his hour come round againSlouches towards the Garden to be reborn?Yes. Dylan is back and this time around 650,000 people are going to hear the sage of the sixties. He’s touring with his old back-up group, The Band.Is it 1966 all over again? Not quite.The times they have a changed indeed.Bob Dylan is no longer a cross between a choirboy and a hillbilly.His face has rounded out with time, and so has his musical perspective. Dylan is no longer the spokesman of a generation.He’s just a musician playing what he likes and playing it well.1 was too young for Dylan's coffee house days when he played with Hamblin' Jack Elliot down at Gerdi’s.I was too young for Newport and by the time 1 got into Dylan's early material he was out of it.Until Montreal, I had never seen Dylan in concert, or in person, for that matter I'd seen films of him at Newport and at the Isle of Wight. I saw “Don't Look Back'' three times.I have a collection of underground lanes.
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Thu, Jan 31, 1974
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