Bob Dylan thanks art and music lovers on stage

Singer-songwriter legend Bob Dylan likes to remain silent apart from his songs, and on the tour to his last album “Rough and Rowdy Ways” (2020) he mostly lets the music speak for itself. But he still had a few words for the fans at the last concerts. He dedicated the song “When I Paint My Masterpiece” to the assembled art and music lovers at two concerts in London.

On October 19th and 20th, Dylan performed back-to-back concerts at London’s Palladium Theatre. “Thank you, art lovers,” he told fans at Wednesday, October 19’s concert after performing “When I Paint My Masterpiece.” “Thank you, music lovers,” he said on Thursday in the same place. Dylan also pointed out to the audience at the second concert that Lucina Tait, widow of The Clash singer Joe Strummer, who died in 2002, was in the audience. Dylan asked Tait to stand up so the audience could applaud her.

“When I Paint My Masterpiece” never appeared on a regular Dylan album, only on the best-of “Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II” (1971). An alternative version released in the same year The Band, the formation of Dylan’s backing musicians at the time. Dylan seems to have found a renewed interest in the track in recent years and regularly performs it live.

On the current tour, the track was one of the few older songs. On the other hand, Dylan plays his last album “Rough and Rowdy Ways” almost completely, only skipping the 17-minute “Murder Most Foul”. After two more nights at the Palladium, Dylan will continue touring throughout the UK and Ireland in October and November.

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