Bob Dylan Concert Reviews: Hilton Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ 9 May 2003

On this tour, Dylan has perhaps the weirdest stage setup ever. He's all the way over the left of the stage instead of being in the center.

It was kind of this miserable raining and not raining and raining again day in Philly, the kind of rain that wets the roads just enough to make them slippery and traffic everywhere was crawling. I'm pretty sure this was Dylan's fifth time in Atlantic City, not counting the times he did two shows in one night. It was also his first time at the Hilton. I'd been the Hilton a few times before to see the Everly Brothers and Dion and maybe somebody else somewhere along the way. Usually they have tables, though they don't serve drinks which makes the table kind of useless anyway. The Waifs were already on by the time we actually got into the theater (shows run on time in Atlantic City) and we took our seats about midway from the stage to end up behind what appeared to be the only true drunken moron in the place who didn't shut up once during the Waifs and had a mullet besides. The Waifs are actually pretty good, playing some sort of Australian/American roots rock. Good player singers, good s…