On the road with Bob Dylan and Paul Simon

Paul Simon is one of the great American songwriters out there. This was a union of two of the greatest and also most poetical US songwriters.

“The job of a folk singer in those days was to be Bob Dylan. You had to be a poet. That's what they wanted. And I thought that was a drag.”

Paul Simon

The Bob Dylan/Paul Simon tour in '99 got over shadowed by the Dylan tour in the fall where I saw more shows than any other year because Dylan did a lot of shows within easy driving distance of my house and he was ‘on’ and full of surprises. I went to two Dylan/Simon shows, one where Simon opened and one where Dylan opened - they alternated. The one where Simon opened was at the E-Centre, a huge indoor/outdoor pavilion, built by Sony and Blockbuster in the unlikely city of Camden, N.J. The day started eerily, waking up to the disappearance of JKF Jr’s. plane.