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2025
27 February 2025
- Meeting 243
Apparently, somewhere in the night sky high above The Red Bull,
seven planets were perfectly aligned tonight in a very rare event
known as a ‘planetary parade’. No one down below at the pub noticed
this spectacle at all because we were too busy enjoying another
night of Bobchat. The happy Dylan folks gathered in the upstairs
room were Steve, Carrie, Tim, Sue, Barry, Dawn, Bill, Richard,
Andrew, Craig, Nancy, Ally, Effric, Jill, Ben, Kitty, Rhonda,
Armando, Allen and John. After Carrie had superbly got everyone’s
attention with her leopard-skin pillbox bell, the evening got
underway with a look back at 2024 followed by Allen overviewing the
‘Drawn Blank’ book. The Deep Dive covered the year 1970 (including
New Morning) before Steve, the lone False Prophet tonight, performed
a great set including a blistering version of the Bob co-written
song ‘Waggon Wheel’. Armando introduced a fully researched
presentation on the movie ‘A Complete Unknown’ including how it has
influenced trends and activities with much discussion about the
film. Richard took us on another magical mystery tour of mentalism,
there was a Video Nasty, a tribute to the late Garth Hudson and we
invoked the Set List Fairy in readiness for the new tour. Sounds mad
doesn’t it? Not really, just another great night of Bobchat at The
Red Bull! JRS
24 April 2025
- Meeting 244
Although Bob had closed
the curtains on the first leg of his 2025 World Wide Tour just forty
eight hours ago, the doors of the Red Bull were definitely open wide
tonight to greet another meeting of The Cambridge Bob Dylan Society.
The Bobchatters in attendance were Carrie, Steve, Jonathan, Barry,
Dawn, Tim, Sue, Chris, John N, Richard, Rhonda, Armando, Allen and
John S. After Carrie had called us to attention with some perfect
percussion we had a reminder of how the year had proceeded so far in
a Rough & Rowdy Way with video being shown on the big screen.
Jonathan delighted us with a reading of poetry from Bob’s
collaboration with the photographer Barry Feinstein under the guise
of ‘the lost manuscript’ and our ‘Deep Dive’ concentrated on the
year 1971 with film from Bangladesh and a focus on the songs from
Greatest Hits Volume 2 together with Dylan’s protest song ‘George
Jackson’. The False Prophets performed the first of their sets,
including a superb rendition of ‘Just Like A Woman’ and after the
break the ‘video nasty’ had Bob doing a walk through to the song
‘Duquesne Whistle’. Richard’s magic was quite unpredictably
unpredictable and in their second set Jonathan played mandolin to
Steve’s guitar for a perfect ‘When I Paint My Masterpiece’.
Armando’s feature was very eclectically quirky and took us down many
avenues including to the street where Syd Barrett of the band ‘Pink
Floyd’ once lived, which caused quite a debate relating to the
psychedelic age of the 60s and beyond. Tonight saw the return of the
old TCBDS favourite ‘the raffle’ which was won, for the second time
in a row by Barry (he can't help it if he’s lucky) and after some
more Bobchat, including whether or not that tribute to The Pope was
actually written by Bob or AI (probably the latter) the evening
concluded with ‘Series of Dreams’. All in all a proper Dylan do at
The Red Bull! JRS
Next meeting
Thursday July 3, The Red Bull, Newnham
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