Like a Rolling Stone - Looking for great live Dylan

Hodu, Eddie and Laura do a nice duet but the song is not a ballad. I prefer the sneer and bitterness of Dylan's version.

Also Eddie needs to learn to lift his fingers off the strings when he slides them up and down the neck. I hate that noise when guitarists don't.

No offense intended. It's just another example of different people liking different music.

I'm not sure great & Dylan are synonymous...

"I'm not sure great & Dylan are synonymous"

You're right, the word "great" doesn't do him justice. Dylan is a living legend!

"... the song is not a ballad."

It's funny to see someone saying this about a Dylan song. It's a ballad if someone wants to perform it as such. It could also be done as a reggae tune, a straight-up rocker, a waltz, a punk song, a country number, a gospel blaster, a disco song ...

There's no one who has messed with his own songs more than has Dylan. Others covering them ought to be afforded that same luxury, don't ya think?

True story: The second time I saw Dylan -- it was, if memory serves, in the early-1980s at the New Haven Coliseum -- a friend of a friend who attended, a guy who'd liked Dylan way back in the day but hadn't kept up, said as we were leaving that he'd enjoyed the show, but that he'd really wanted to hear Bob play "Blowin' in the Wind."

At the same moment, my friend and I both responded: "He did!"

He had, of course, but not on acoustic guitar. He played it with a full band, all rearranged.

You're right Hodu, people can play rockers as ballads. I guess I should have said that I didn't like the song redone as a ballad because it diminishes what makes it one of the all time great rock songs. And yes, Dylan has done a lot of diminishing of his catalog himself.

Eddie still needs to learn to play guitar properly though.