The night Bob Dylan ‘talked’
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Bob Dylan, who reportedly has Minnesota ties of some sort, doesn't speak to fans at his concerts, but that policy changed momentarily on Tuesday evening, Rolling Stone reports.
Blame people and their smartphones.
Dylan doesn't allow pictures to be taken during his concerts but the smartphones were out at a concert in Vienna and so Dylan stopped singing Blowin' in the Wind and let the crowd have it.
“Take pictures or don’t take pictures,” he barked. “We can either play or we can pose. Okay?”
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The crowd chanted "play!"
Rolling Stone says he "then stepped backwards in an angry huff, tripped over a guitar monitor and nearly hit the floor."
Of course, there's video. Watch it before it disappears.
He left the stage one song later.
"I have never seen him so angry," composer Hermann Rechberger, who shot the video, wrote.
[Update: It's still on Instagram]