Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler at the Fox Theater, November 13, 2012
Bob Dylan and his band. Last night I saw Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler play at Detroit's Fox Theater. The concert had originally been planned for the Palace of Auburn Hills, but was moved to the Fox -- a much smaller venue that's also a far superior concert hall. For Dylan to go on stage with a 2nd act of equal or near-equal fan popularity is nothing new; on previous tours we've seen Merle Haggard open for him, and one time out Bob himself played the opening act for Santana . I blogged two of his previous local concerts; in 2006 at the Palace, and in 2007 at Freedom Hill. But I hadn't seen Dylan since a 2009 show at the Fox that was most memorable to me not for what happened on stage, but rather to the would-be groupie sitting next to us; she turned on, lit up, and got kicked out, all within about 3 minutes, and that kind of lent an ironic twist to Highway 61 Revisited that evening. Mark Knopfler Mark Knopfler and hi...