Remarkably, this time, Dylan’s voice is clear and comprehensible. I can pretty much make out every word unlike last time, which was muddy and too loud and the music is on key. It is by far one of the best Dylan performances that I've seen in a while – or at least just as good as his earlier performances that we see in Don’t Look Back or Eat the Document. Yes, a different time and place and era, but it’s still Dylan and he still holds us in the palm of his hand with his talent and charm.

So far, everything has been flowing smoothly with the minor exception of Evander and Phil’s tardiness, which as I said, was really not entirely their fault and which was easily forgotten and forgiven (I couldn’t stay annoyed at either since both were sweet). But why is it that there must always be at least one idiot (who is always right behind me, no matter where I sit) and who feels the need to announce his presence in a rude and loud manner? This particular time, it’s some guy on a cell-phone trying to locate one of his friends who is apparently on the field. He shouts loudly into his phone. “Stella, I’m HERE… I’m WAVING MY ARMS!!!!” He stands, waving his arms wildly like some mouthing idiot before shouting at a screeching and ear-drum popping pitch, “STELLLLLLLAAAAAAA!!!!!!”

Whether or not they find each other is irrelevant to anyone about them. We all just want him to shut the fuck up before Dylan comes back on. To my great relief, he shuts up. I guess he found Stella.

I’m so glad.

Stella aside, the thousands present are incredibly well-behaved and respectful and quiet during Dylan’s performance. Speaking of Dylan’s performance, here is the set-list from the August 24, 2006 show at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island:

• Cat’s in the Well
• You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
• Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
• Just Like a Woman
• Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
• Masters of War
• Highway 61 Revisited
• Shelter From The Storm
• I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
• Tangled Up In Blue
• A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall
• Summer Days

(Encore)

• Like A Rolling Stone
• All Along The Watchtower

A good mix of songs, I thought. When he played "Highway 61 Revisited", we all looked to Mark, since he just finished a book on the album for the series 33 1/3, forthcoming from Continuum and where cousin Evander just happens to work as an editor (though not on that series, which is run by another editor who was not present at this show – no nepotism here.)

That Dylan belted out "Highway 61" was a nice coincidence. Even stranger and more coincidental, the ringtone on my cell has been set to "Highway 61 Revisited" for whenever Mark calls and "Like a Rolling Stone" (the first encore) is set so that when Evander calls I always know it is him, which makes it so that I always know when either calls - not that I had my cell phone on, it just struck me at the moment as rather amusing. I should note too, that no doubt, the crowd was full of Dylan fans and as I scanned, I wondered if any of them were as hardcore Dylanites as us four. For example, I run a Dylan site and review him often, Mark wrote the book Highway 61 Revisited and has one of the most extensive Dylan collections I’ve ever seen, Evander is our Dylanologist-in-Chief, and Phil, too, is a hardcore Dylan fan with his hands in all things Dylan.