Farm Aid, Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN, 9-20-2025, Part 10: Bob Dylan
It seems Dylan has become increasingly reclusive as he gets older, for instance wearing hoodies at all his concerts. He's gotten particularly annoyed at people taking pictures with their cell phones, and generally being so focused on their phones that they don't pay much attention to the actual concert. In his own concerts, he has security carefully enforce a policy of not using cell phones. In an appearance at the Outlaw Music Festival earlier in the year, where he couldn't control cell phone use, he all but made himself invisible, hiding behind a piano and other equipment, and shining lights in a way so that he basically couldn't be seen.
Here's an article about his appearance at the Farm Aid concert by Rolling Stone Magazine:
Watch Pro-Shot Footage of Bob Dylan's Masterful Farm Aid Set
The article says: "He wound up wearing the hoodie, though not pulled as tightly around his face as it has been at recent shows, and he agreed to both the projection screens and the livestream. There weren’t closeups, the stage was pretty dark, and much of the stadium audience had a hard time seeing him clearly, but these were major concessions given his history. Very few Never Ending Tour shows have been professionally filmed like this, let alone broadcast on the Internet."
In terms of his performance, I was a bit disappointed that it was rather short, shorter than all the other major acts. And his song selection was pretty conservative, all 1960s classics plus "I Can Tell," a cover of a Bo Diddley song. Still, some Dylan is better than no Dylan, and the sound quality is excellent.
This album is 23 minutes long.
01 talk by John Mellencamp (Bob Dylan)
02 All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
03 I Can Tell (Bob Dylan)
04 To Ramona (Bob Dylan)
05 Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
06 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob Dylan)
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