What better way to celebrate Bob Dylan at 70, a rather fraile troubador after years of perpetual tour, than listen to the quintessential Dylan song: Like a Rolling Stone. This iconic tune was an unlikely #1 hit on the Billboard charts. An eight minute song was unheard of I prefer the recording from a 1966 concert in Manchester, England to the studio version from Highway 61 Revisited. The live version captures the iconic Dylan turning his back on the topical "protest songs" that made him famous and the audience that came to hear him sing the familiar ballads accompanied by acoustic guitar.
As Dylan comes out for the second set with a Fender Stratocaster accompanied by The Band, the crowd turns on him. Someone shouts Judas admist the catcalls. Dylan responds by cranking up the volume and turns the refrain "how does it feel.." into a snear.
