Author: c-ville-weekly

William Cocke: “In a lot of ways it was a typical U-Hall show. The acoustics aren’t that good in there, the acoustics were never that great.

“I’m probably the only one, but I liked ‘Joey.’ I’ve always liked that song. It’s about a mobster who gets whacked at a Clam Bar. It was off of Desire, the album that came out in ’76, the one that had ‘Hurricane’ on it. It’s sort of like the flip side of ‘Hurricane’…

“Oh yeah, ‘Gotta Serve Somebody.’ I don’t think he does that much anymore…[A] lot of the stuff [that he performed] is stuff he’s still doing: ‘Queen Jane,’ ‘Thin Man,’ ‘Masterpiece,’ ‘Maggie’s Farm,’ so, you know, it was a good, solid show.”

Valeria L’Herrou: “His attitude was actively hostile at the ’91 show…[T]hese are people who, you know, you admire and feel some kind of emotional connection [towards], so it was kind of a slap in the face, I guess. I think that when he did his acoustic set at the end his attitude seemed to change a little bit…

“Somebody told me…that he had spit or something, and I don’t remember that. I just remember that he wasn’t relating to the audience at all.

[On whether she’ll attend the JPJ show]: “No, I don’t think so. I didn’t get tickets and you know I have seen him twice. I did buy his most recent CD, which I think is excellent.”

Kevin Kellam: “In ’91 it was a fantastic show…I was trepidatious about it because of the horrible one before [at U-Hall in ’88].

“I remember the highlight of the show being that he closed with ‘Rainy Day Women’ and a very extended harmonica solo—really involved, really animated…[E]verybody wants to sing ‘Everybody must get stoned’ or whatever. But that was a really, really good performance of that song.

“[H]e changes structure and composition of his songs live from their known structure and composition. He changes the arrangements all up. And so if his voice is not good…sometimes you can’t tell what the song is. And I remember everything being clear enough at this concert.”

Robert Nowicki: “With G.E. Smith leading the band!…[W]ith that ugly old robotic head of his. [G.E. Smith] was a weird looking dude.

“I knew it was going to be Dylan, which means it’s going to be some eccentric, not necessarily enjoyable performance, but what the heck?… [T]he band was really good, but Dylan was in usual incoherent, atonal [self], changing the tempo of the verses around, so you had no idea what he was playing, I mean none. And I know Bob Dylan’s music well.

“The band was really good and G.E. Smith is a heck of a guitarist, so he burned right through that lead on ‘Highway 61 Revisited,’ that I do remember well.

“Yeah, it was a real big crowd; it was everybody from students who just went to see the legendary dude to old folks who wanted to see the legend and everybody in between…

“God, ’91. That’s 16 years ago! …[A]t that point, there was no venue for big acts like [Dylan] so it’s one of the reasons I went—because, you know, it was a rarity for someone of that ilk to play in Charlottesville.”

Setlist

“To Be Alone With You”
“Joey”
“All Along the Watchtower”
“I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight”
“Confidential”
“Gotta Serve Somebody”
“When I Paint My
Masterpiece”
“Maggie’s Farm”
“Trail of the Buffalo”
“Mr. Tambourine Man”
“Don’t Think Twice,
It’s All Right”
“It Ain’t Me, Babe”
“Everything is Broken”
“Queen Jane
Approximately”
“Ballad of a Thin Man”
“Highway 61 Revisited”
“Man in the Long
Black Coat”
“Rainy Day Women
#12 & 35”

We’re not the only ones that are excited that Dylan is coming to town. We asked some local musicians to tell us their favorite Dylan lyrics, and here’s what they said. See if you can match the musicians with the lines that they chose.

1. Timothy Summers (co-director of the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival)

2. Terri Allard

3. Rogan Brothers

4. Laura Thomas (director of the CHS Orchestra)

5. Sarah White

6. Stephen Barling (of B.C.)

7. Andrew Ewell (of American Dumpster)

8. Jamie Dyer (of the Hogwaller Ramblers)

a. Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from.
(“Not Dark Yet”)

b. The man standin’ next to me, his head was exploding,
Well, I was prayin’ the pieces wouldn’t fall on me.
(“Day of the Locusts”)

c. Been shooting in the dark too long
When somethin’s not right it’s wrong
You’re gonna make me lonesome when you go.
(“You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go”)

d. The pump don’t work
’Cause the vandals took the handles.
(“Subterranean Homesick Blues”)

e. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free.
(“Mr. Tambourine Man”)

f. An’ here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice.
(“Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”)

g. I can still see them playin’ with their pails in the sand,
They run to the water their buckets to fill.
I can still see the shells fallin’ out of their hands
As they follow each other back up the hill.
(“Sara”)

h. You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on
Don’t think twice, it’s all right.
(“Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”)

Answers: 1.) d 2.) c 3.) h 4.) b 5.) g 6.) e 7.) a 8.) f

Who’s been on the C-VILLE 20 list?

2006 [20 for the moment]

• Sean Singletary, UVA basketball player
• John Grisham, novelist
• Bill Crutchfield, founder and CEO of Crutchfield
• Brian Bills, Charlottesville High School student and political activist
• Johnny St. Ours, filmmaker
• Kate Collier and Eric Gertner, owners of Feast!
• Abby Bellows, UVA student and activist for the “living wage” campaign
• John Burruss, Deputy Chief of Special Operations at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad
• Sean Tubbs, radio producer and creator of www.cvillepodcast.com
• Jay and Barbara Kessler, co-chairs of Piedmont Virginia Community College’s capital campaign
• Steven Blaine, attorney representing Biscuit Run developers
• Debbie Wyatt, defense attorney
• Richelle Claiborne, Live Arts performer
• Lloyd Burruss, personal trainer at ACAC
• JacLynn Dunkle, owner of Fellini’s #9
• Paul Brant, minister at the Church of the Incarnation
• Daniel Bluestone, UVA professor of architectural history and preservationist
• Greg Slater, top realtor
• Shannon Worrell, founding director of Light House, a youth media education center
• Coran Capshaw, manager of Dave Matthews Band and local developer

2005 [C-VILLE 20]

• Boyd Tinsley, violinist for Dave Matthews and local philanthropist
• Andrew Vaughan, restaurateur behind Java Hut, Orbit Billiards, Rapture, R2, and Atomic Burrito
• Mitch Van Yahres, retiree from General Assembly
• Sissy Spacek, celebrity resident active in community causes
• The Belmont Neighborhood Association, active neighborhood group
• Chris Friedman, owner of yoga/dance Studio 206
• The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which bought and preserved Brown’s Mountain near Monticello
• Charlottesville Downtown Foundation, founded Fridays After 5
• David and Elizabeth Breeden, artists who owned Biscuit Run Studios and Forest Lodge and put their 1,000-acre estate up for sale
• Jill Hartz and Richard Herskowitz, directors of UVA Art Museum and Virginia Film Festival respectively
• Gray Television, communications company that owns several local stations
• The Boombox, WNRN hip hop show
• Susan Payne and Lisa Ross, owners and operators of Payne Ross & Associates advertising firm
• Dave Leitao, new UVA men’s basketball coach
• Erika Viccellio, executive director of the Charlottesville Free Clinic
• Michael Gaffney, owner of Gaffney Homes builders, past president of the National Homebuilders Association, chairman of Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority, major investor in Sonabank
• Claire Kaplan, gay-rights activist
• M. Rick Turner, UVA Dean of African-American Affairs and head of local NAACP branch
• Gabriele Rausse, grafted wine-friendly European vines with roots of disease-tolerant native grapes for area wineries
• Jessica Nagle and Reid Nagle, owners of SNL Financial

2004 [Charlottesville 20 2004]

• Pastor Bruce A. Beard, helped Police Chief Timothy J. Longo foster a dialogue with the offended local African-American community
• Fred Boyce, banjo player and director of The Prism Coffeehouse
• John Conover, campaign manager for local Democrats
• Carol Pederson, director of Live Arts’ drama education program, dramaturge/teacher at UVA and Piedmont Virginia Community College
• Holly Hatcher, organizing director for Planned Parenthood
•  Jim Haden, president and CEO of Martha Jefferson Hospital
• Rick Jones, runs Management Services Corporation (MSC Rentals), helped rewrite Charlottesville’s zoning code from 2000-2003, serves on City’s Housing Task Force, serves on Charlottesville’s Redevelopment and Housing Authority Board
• Rudy Padilla, owner of four successful Mexican restaurants
• Ted Norris, bartender at Zocalo
• Bob Gibson, reporter and editor for The Daily Progress
• Wendell Wood, developer and owner of United Land Corporation
• The McGuffey Artists, whose studios fill McGuffey Art Center
• Nancy Eismann, bike patrol officer for the Charlottesville Police Department who works the Downtown Mall and City Council meetings
• Patricia Kluge, local vineyard owner and restaurateur behind Fuel Co.
• Mark and Cynthia Lorenzoni, owners of Ragged Mountain Running Shop
• Bushman Dreyfus Architects, designers of modern buildings like the C3A building (City Center for Contemporary Arts)
• Dave Matthews Band, musicians and philanthropists
• John Lancaster and Laurel Hausler, founders of Nature Visionary Art (self-taught, outsider and Southern folk art)
• Philip Zelikow, UVA history professor and director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs
• Mark Giles, entrepreneur who helped launch Virginia National Bank

2003 [C-VILLE 20]

• Brad Eure, local owner of radio stations WINA, 3WV, and WQMZ
• Rev. Alvin Edwards, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church
• Amy Gardner, owner of Scarpa and Rock, Paper, Scissors
• Satyendra Huja, City Planner who proposed the Downtown Mall
• John Grisham, novelist and philanthropist
• Leah Stoddard, director of Second Street Gallery
• Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, peace activist organization
• William Lewis, owner of Duplex, Inc. copy shop, small-business counselor, TV co-producer and mentor to seven at-risk kids
• Aaron Hawkins, owner of Energy & Rhythm skate shop
• Daphne Latham, hair and makeup artist involved in Live Arts productions
• Coran Capshaw, Dave Matthews Band manager and local developer
• Dragana Katalina-Sun and Sun Da, proprietors of Marco & Luca dumpling shop
• Craig Littlepage, UVA Athletic Director
• Susan Donovan, regional director of the International Rescue Committee
• David Toscano, who’s overseeing development of the transfer station at the Downtown Mall’s east end
• Margie Shepherd, 8th-grade civics teacher and pro-teacher activist
• Sonia Cabell, 10th and Page neighborhood activist
• Pamela Peterson, owner of Sammy Snacks
• Charlottesville Downtown Foundation, which began charging $3 for Fridays After 5 concerts