Bob Dylan

This weekend was my second gig as a stagehand. This one took place at the Maryhill Winery in Goldendale, WA. This place is technically closer to Seattle than the Gorge, but because there is no direct way to get there, it does take 4 hours through the middle of nowhere to get there.
Maryhill is a small windery and vinyard that happens to have an ampitheatre on site that can house 4000 people. They put on 4-5 concerts a year and this year they started out with Bob Dylan.
Now Bob Dylan is not someone I'd pay money for, but in thi scase I got paid to be there so all was gravy! He does mumble horribly and I didn't know any of the songs they performed (his mumblings actually all pretty much sounded the same, no matter which song the band was playing) but is was a pretty ok show.
Since there was about a 6 hour gap between us unloading and setting up and the show, we had nothing to do during the day. Some of the people left to go check out the national park that is in the area, I on the other hand hung out under the stage in the shade (it was 105 degrees) and several of us hung up hammocks that we had brought and just lay there napping until the show. Hanging in a hammock underneath the stage is a very interesting place to witness a soundcheck!
I do have to say though, that I wasn't too impressed with Dylan himself. He never came out of his tourbus (not even for soundcheck) until a couple of minutes before the show, even his band walked around backstage, checking out the scenery, getting something to eat and chatting with people. Then, after their encore, then band rushed to the tourbusses and peeled out of there with a police escort, leaving the fans shouting for more and by the time the houselights were turned up, the band was long gone. One of the guys backstage commented that that was the fastest he had ever seen a band leave after a show.