Nicely assembled pictures to go with the audio
here. Hearing him - and it is barely decipherable - it sounds to me not cynical at all. Fond but ruminative perhaps, maybe expressing muted hope while recognising that it's a cause for widespread jubilation. And as a friend has pointed out to me this morning, the remarks he felt prompted to make were stepping into the political arena to a much greater extent than usual for Dylan. Which says something in itself.
I was at the Minneapolis show. There was no cynicism on stage that night. Bob spent a few moments pumping his fists in the air and jumping for joy. He was animated and the crowd was jubilant . . . if anything, Bob was caught up in the moment. We all were to one degree or another. After all . . . we had just found out how many roads one black man had to walk down before we called him a man. The answer was blowing in the warm Minnesota wind that night.
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