00.07.09 Deer Creek Music Center
Bob Dylan:
This was my first night at Deer Creek of a night run of shows. This was the Summer of 00' and one hell of a Summer. After a brief stop home for a day or two following a 10 show run we hit Pittsburgh, then immdeiately headed to Alpine Valley in Wisconson, and again immediately on the road again to Deer Creek. Some of this travel kind of "rode the bar" but for the most part it's remembered with quite a bit of fondness. The Pick-up was a 1993 Chevy 1500 extended cab. Inside for this run were Rob and Danielle both in the front for the duration, Paul, Dan and myself in the back.
We set up camp a little late so Paul and I (we were the only two who went to this show) had to run to make the opener which I thought for sure would be Phil Lesh but they were taking turns opening and closing on that tour and it was Bob's day to open. We hustled to our 3rd row seats and began to enjoy the evening.
Setlist:
07/09/00 (Sun) Deer Creek Music Center - Noblesville, IN
Set 1: Duncan And Brady*, Song To Woody*, Desolation Row*, It's All Over Now Baby Blue*, Tangled Up In Blue*, Searching For A Soldier's Grave*, Country Pie, Positively 4th Street, Maggie's Farm, I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met), Drifter's Escape, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, E: Things Have Changed, Like A Rolling Stone, Girl Of The North Country*, Highway 61 Revisited
Comment: *Acoustic
Source: Bill Pagel via rec.music.dylan.
(setlist.com accessed March 28, 2007)
Paul 7.10.2007 (7 years ago!! Wow!)
I will always remember the sprint... To the best of our knowledge, Phil was playing first and Dylan was closing. That's how it was when I saw them in November '99, and that's how this Summer 2000 tour had started off. Sometime along the way, they began to alternate. We'd been on the road for so long, and therefore pretty much out of touch, we didn't know.
So we get out of the truck after a ten hour trek through the night from Wisconsin, begin to eat and unpack a little, and suddenly Dylan's unmistakable voice distortedly begins to echo from the amphitheater. Steve and I look at each other, and without even a word to each other, or a good bye to our other three friends, begin to sprint. Really, there are only three things I remember about that mad dash: 1) how long it was; 2) Dylan's voice getting louder and louder, yet not at all easier to understand; 3) How great our seats were!! We just kept getting closer, and closer!
A great show right smack in the middle of a crazy, crazy summer. 2000 was a great year of live music for both Steve and myself. Deer Creek is considered one of those legendary places to see concerts by those in the know. Bob Dylan and Phil Lesh and Friends made for a perfect first show there!
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