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To: Lost1 who wrote (822)	10/17/2001 6:45:19 PM
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Dylan leaves chit-chat for others Friday, October 12, 2001 1:10 PM MST By Jim Harrington - STAFF WRITER Like just about everything else in this crazy world, pop concerts haven't been the same since the mind-numbing terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. In some cases, the concerts have been even more poignant than usual as people seek communal healing through the music. PJ Harvey's show last month at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco comes to mind immediately. Other times, the music has seemed maybe a bit too frivolous for the times. Think of Weezer's breezy pop show at Oakland's Henry J. Kaiser that came just a day after the tragedies. Almost every major pop star who has played the Bay Area over the last month has felt compelled to talk about the horrific events from the stage. From Janet Jackson to Slipknot, and from Melissa Etheridge to Chicago, the performers have spoken of how these hard times call out for the healing power of music. Some just like to talk. Others just like to deliver. Besides introducing his loyal band, Bob Dylan never spoke a word to the capacity crowd at the lovely Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento on Wednesday night. It's not his style to comfort, to preach or tochat. He lets the music do the talking.The result was a powerful evening of superbly crafted songs that did more for the healing process than any singer's sermon ever could. Dylan allowed us to lose ourselves in his deep catalog of memories and music. The uncertainty of the real world felt much further away than just outside the auditorium's walls. The healing continues tonight when the singer plays the Compaq Center in San Jose. The doctor checks into the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on Saturday. At 60, the man born as Robert Allen Zimmerman truly seems inspired and he's doing some of his best work on and off the stage. Building upon the excellent ``Time Out of Mind," which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1998, Dylan recently released his second straight gem with ``Love and Theft." Many critics are already calling it the best album of 2001. Dylan and his fantastic four-piece band were clearly up for the new songs. There was a fire that burned through songs such as ``Sugar Baby" and ``Summer Days" that simply couldn't be matched even during the best-known hits like ``Like a Rolling Stone" and ``I Want You." That's not a knock on the classics. It's a huge compliment to the ``Love and Theft"material. Leaving the pain and uncertainty found on the Daniel Lanois-produced ``Time Out of Mind" far behind, Dylan seemed almost giddy as he led his loyal band of lovers and thieves through a balanced mix of gritty acoustic numbers and jumpy electric tunes. A consummate pro, Dylan delivered 15 songs in almost exactly 90 minutes. Then he took a short break. And he was back to dish out a 30-minute, five-song encore. Pushed by fellow six-stringers Charlie Sexton and Larry Campbell, Dylan pleaded and picked his way through a variety of American musical styles. He rambled through the tall blue grass for ``Wait for the Light to Shine" and found the gospel for the harmony-rich ``Searching for a Soldier's Grave." ``Summer Days," from the new album, was a swing number that moved as fast as half-priced martinis mixed during happy hour. Kudos to Dylan for trying new arrangements on old favorites. Balancing on Campbell's pedal steelwork and some mouth-harp action from Big Bob himself,``I Want You" was purposefully languid and delightfully bittersweet as a kind of western waltz. More dramatically, ``Blowin' in the Wind," which closed the show, was barely recognizable at first. Dylan completely changed the tune's melodic structure so that the only thing this achingly slow version really shared in common with the original recording was the lyrics. As blasphemous as it may sound, this new version may actually be better than the classic one. For that matter, the same might be said of the songwriter. buzz.insidebayarea.com