Watch Bob Dylan perform ‘Desolation Row’ with tiny wrench
nme.comBob Dylan dusted off his song ‘Desolation Row’, giving it its first live debut since 2018 with the addition of a tiny wrench.On Tuesday (September 17), the legendary musician closed out the final night of the Outlaw Music Festival tour at the Darien Lake Ampitheater in Buffalo, New York.
Dylan played a 15-track set which featured his hits such as ‘All Along The Watchtower’, ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ and ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’ as well as covers including the likes of Chuck Berry‘s ‘Little Queenie’, The Fleetwoods’ ‘Mr.
Blue’, Grateful Dead’s ‘Stella Blue’ and Paul Davis’ ‘Six Days on the Road’.The highlight of the night came when the musician performed ‘Desolation Row’ live for the first time in six years, adding a little flare to it with the help of a tiny wrench.
Fan captured footage shows the moment in which Dylan whips out the small wrench while sitting at the piano and begins to tap his microphone with it.Fans took to X/Twitter to share their reactions to the unexpected moment. “Hello, I can’t come to work today becasue i’m preparing a 10,000 word think piece on why Bob Dylan is smacking a WRENCH against a microphone’,” wrote one fan while another shared: “Oh my God it was a WRENCH!
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