For years after introducing my daughter to Al’s music I’ve been trying to tell her he’s not a musician but a comedian/satirist.
Apparently I’m wrong.
With Dylan in concert it can be hard to recognize his familiar songs. He tends to re-interpret wildly.
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There is a great need for a coalition of mainstream artists to come together, and parody the originals he’s planning to perform for this tour.
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I go to TMBG shows and ask for “Cage and Aquarium”. A lot.
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If you play him at 45 he sounds like Tom Petty, and vice versa.
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Well, I was going to submit 45 to grindcore, but ok…
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Pffft. I can get there with one Adrian Belew guitar solo! 
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Eh, he could do just about anything and still fill a venue easily, I expect.
And of course you know at least a fifth of ticket purchasers are going to go online after this one and complain bitterly about the absence of parodies and costumes.
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word crimes
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Should have stuff from UHF maybe then?
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that would be a nice supplies
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Me, every time someone mentions shopping for a new television:
“Oh, a TV that’s 60 inches? You think that’s big? Funny thing, Weird Al had a song about a 2000 inch TV.”
He’s the real deal, in fact there’s a lot going on with the instrumentation part alone. During his last tour i was casually talking with his bassist i think and he was saying that they reverse engineer all the songs they parody. They don’t get sheet music, or play recorded backing music or anything like that. They spend a lot of time and effort trying to nail the sound of whatever artist they are parodying, and some artists are more challenging than others.
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In the immortal words of Jules Winnfield, “Ah, man. I’m goin’ that’s all there is to it.”
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