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REVIEWS
Bob Links
Basler
Zeitung
Badische
Zeitung
Bund
Volksblatt
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Review by Rex Schenk
The audience on this serene, almost summerish spring evening in Basel is
the dream team of sixties veterans of Southern Germany and Northwestern
Switzerland put together for the occasion. This was predictable but you
avoided the thought. Now you're there and you're strangely amused until
you realize you probably look just like them. There are youngish people of
unknown descriptions, too, and before the show everyone is drinking beer
outside in the sun. If the audience is a Dylan audience in some historical
way, dylanically it's not. Predictably enough, the show starts at 8 p.m.
sharp with something like "Cat's In The Well" - in fact, as it
turns out, with "Cat's In The Well" itself -, but the audience
is not yet there, because they know that rock concerts always start three
hours late. They rush in during "Don't Think Twice, It's All
Right". Looking for their seats. Once they have found them, there is
a constant flux in and out of people carrying plastic beercups. The
multifunctional concrete affair is really a pub with reverberating
background music from the never-ending tour. Eventually, like a dime well
placed in a jukebox, "Like A Rolling Stone" saves worn-out
marriages in Basel. At least one couple's, right there in front of me.
(Bob Links )
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HIGHLIGHTS
Masters of war
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