I Went Into The City, Went Into The Town .… Bob Dylan and The Band kicked off the show like a basketball team on a fast-break. Opening their concert at the Omni with “Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine),” Dylan was, in a sense, establishing his game plan for that evening in Atlanta, just as he had in other cities on his heralded comeback tour. Dylan and The Band had the ball in their court, so to speak. The 16,000 at the Omni on that January night in ’74 cheered to what was all at once a greatest hits show and a display of what’d be seen from Dylan in the years and decades to come: dazzling and intriguing performances with fiery independence and changes in presentation. Familiar songs performed quite differently than on the recorded versions. Early in the show, when Dylan and The Band bounded through a hard-driving version of “Lay Lady Lay,” some in the crowd grew restless. A young woman seated close to the stage was seriously bothered, saying, “He has a nerve, ruining his song like that.”
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