Bob dylan biography concert toronto
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List of Bob Dylan concert tours
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The first Bob Dylan concert that I ever attended took place on June 11, at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton (a large hockey arena built by the city to attract an NHL hockey team that the Toronto Maple Leafs made certain would never be placed there; its now known as the FirstOntario Centre). Copps was a fairly new building at the time (opened in ), and I recall that its acoustics were superior to those of Maple Leaf Gardens, the venue that Dylan had been regularly playing in Toronto in the s.
I remember that I went with five friends from high school, which had just ended for me a few weeks before. One of those five was the girlfriend who had broken up with me on my eighteenth birthday three weeks earlier, so that was fun. I guess that’s the problem with buying tickets in advance. I know that one of the others was my friend Marc, who was very interested and knowledgeable about music, but not at all a Dylan fan. For some reason I can’t actively remember who the other people there were. Probably friends of the ex-girlfriend. I know that none of them were particularly Dylan fans. I kind of remember that they all thought the show was lousy, but they were happy to see The Jam, who opened the show.
This was a relatively early show on what is now known as the Never-Ending Tour, which
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Bob Dylan's triumphant resurface to Massey Hall
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