North American tour announced with Bob.

[twm]

That group of shows in mid-California is clearly a very attractive prospect for those who attend multiple shows. And the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, with a 7000 capacity, makes it even more attractive.

[arabia]

I was disappointed when I saw all the dates as it meant they'd be no Knopfler dates in the UK in 2012. I was hoping to see Mark by himself for the first time after catching a couple of the shows with Dylan last fall.

I wonder if after breaking through the 'duet barrier' on the last night at Hammersmith if Mark and Bob might share the mic or encore together once in a while on the US tour.
I hope for those at the early gigs that the two don't wait a few weeks before even sharing the stage as they did in the UK.

Looking forward to some new live recordings...

[theTwinWithin]

As the main part of the tour is known, with perhaps some extra shows, some other questions remain.

I'm not into MK that deep, but I understand he put a tour band together for the Europe 2011 tour. Will he have the same line-up for 2012?
Another point is what our two buddies learned from Europe. Will they start playing together from the beginning of the tour? Will Mark's part be adding guitar to some of the first tunes again or will there be more duetting?
And, as we have seen with the Bob Dylan/Paul Simon combination, will Bob at last join in with Mark as well?

Anyway, all the links to setlists and recordings will be provided at www.watchingtheriverflow.org where you also find more updated info than on my blog http://thetwinwithin.blogspot.com/2011/10/sundown-on-euro-tour-til-greed-got-in.html. In time the Dylan/Knopfler story will be continued on my blog.

[Jules]

The band hasnt been announced, but we guess that the MK band will be the same.

[dmg]

You raise a couple of interesting points tTW.

First of all I wish MK would join in with BD again but in a far more elaborate way as he did with EC in "the day."  There is no point in doing an under rehearsed, half arsed job of it like last time where MK just stands there for decoration.  He's too good for that and completely wasted.

The other point of BD joining MK on his set is interesting but I really can't think of any songs he could enhance.  Perhaps So Far Away!

[Jules]

I hope they do this time the way is meant to be, rehearse a bunch of songs and play them well... Many of the songs from last tour sounded quite bad, with MK trying to fit in the songs instead of playing along with the band.

About BD, he can play with MK, but please, switch off his mic, his guitar and specially his harmonica and his organ. If he destroy his own songs, I cant imagine the damage he can make to MK

[Jules]

Quite strange that being today the presale, there is NOTHING yet in mk.com site...

Good Old Canadians...

[Jules]

http://www.ticketmaster.ca/Bob-Dylan-tickets/artist/734972?tm_link=edp_Artist_Name

The presales are there...

I dont know if MK.com will sale them too, their links points to a mk.com site where is nothing, Dylan site points to ticketmaster.

[dmg]

Quite strange that being today the presale, there is NOTHING yet in mk.com site...

Good Old Canadians...

Remember sale starts 10:00 local time which is 5 hours behind GMT.

[Jules]

Quite strange that being today the presale, there is NOTHING yet in mk.com site...

Good Old Canadians...

Remember sale starts 10:00 local time.

So

Are they gonna put the details of the different type of tickets availables at the very same moment?

I saw that ticketmaster is offering the presales, maybe they (mk.com) forget that detail, maybe they are gonna do it at the same time, but MK.com has nothing yet, Ticketmaster does.

One of them are proffesionals, guess which one 

[daveyray70]

Well, this good old Canadian got tickets through MK.com at precisely 10:00 MDT. 

[Love Expresso]

Hi Daveyray70 and welcome, "Newbie" that you are, you know of course that we are eagerly awaiting any review from a fan's point of view!!  (I see from your posts that you are seem to be more into Mark than Dylan)

LE

[daveyray70]

Thanks for the welcome! Yes, I'm certainly more of a MK fan than BD. Although, I do love a lot of BD's music; just a little concerned about the quality of his performances these days. It seems like his voice has been shot for over 25 years now! I will gladly post a review when the time comes. Cheers

[Pottel]

can only say i still love the recordings of his past 5 shows (BD that is) but that topic (Bob's performances) has been discussed to death last tour, let's not  go down that road..
this new tour offers so effing many mindblowing possibilities....omg..

[sweetsurrender]

The tickets for CA went on sale a little after 10 am this morning.  I got my tickets for both nights in San Francisco pretty fast within the first few minutes I would say.  However, it took almost 20 minutes before I could get 2 tickets for Berkeley.  They weren't even the best seats I think. Because soon after the best seats were sold out.  I wasn't too happy about that.  The price for SF shows was $70 each , whereas the price for the show in Berkeley was a whopping $149 each.  I think I probably wold enjoy SF more for the mere fact that the venue in SF is standing room only general admission and I got the floor tickets.  It will suit me better.

Thought I'd like to share today's excitement with everyone.