From Bo:
Brescia, Italy, Piazza Duomo, July 10, 2001 show
During Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again Bob introduced the band:
He said something like that:
“I would like to introduce the band:
On the guitarت – Larry Cambell,
On the other guitar – Charlie Sexton,
David Kemper on the drums, and
on the bass – I’m not going to tell you !!! ”
From: “Donald Winters” winte030 qwest.net
When I saw Dylan perform at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in the
early sixties, he responded to a heckler in the audience with:
“Hey man, I think there’s a phone call for you.”
From: “Bill McGirr” billmcgirr hotmail.com
Saturday night in San Francisco (Oct. 13, 2001)
During the band intros Bob introduced David Kemper as
“one of the few drummers around better than no drummer at all”
Syracuse, NY Tuesday Nov 13, 2001:
“I want to introduce my band. The best band in the land,”
Dylan said.
Veteran guitarist Sexton, he proclaimed, is “the meanest man
in the band. When we played the Middle East, Charlie killed
the Dead Sea,” Dylan said.
All this historic music and a joke from the deadpan man,
too!
From wvjon charter.net
Morgantown Nov 15, 2001:
“On the drums, the meanest drummer in the world. When we played in the
Middle East, he killed the Dead Sea. David Kemper!”
From Leah Warshah
Detroit:
“You might be wondering what’s written on his shoes;
those are foot notes! David Kemper!”
From Kevin Thomson Kevtf1 btinternet.com
A 2000 show:
“On drums, David Kemper, he once swallowed a roll of film,
we’ll see what develops.”
From Pamela Zilavy
During the band introductions at the Greek in Berkeley in October (’02),
Tony stepped up to Bob and said something or other. Then Bob turns and tells
us that “Tony says he actually went school here at UC Berkeley.” Then, after
that Bob grins and says, Well, he must be in graduate school now.”
…
From timebandit15 hotmail.com
after that he said, “I don’t know what he majored in though… maybe gourmet cooking…”
From Tim Tankard, Kansas City
When Dylan played in Kansas City at the Sandstone Amphitheatre in the summer of 2001,
he said this joke about his drummer: “We went golfing this afternoon, and he wore two shirts.
In case he got a hole in one.”
Posted to rec.music.dylan by Debra Lind
At Jackson (July 15, 2003 and at Costa Mesa July 27) he told this joke on Larry:
Larry bought a pig the other day. I asked Larry where he was gonna keep
his pig, he said, under his bed. I said, what about the smell? Larry
said, He’ll just have to get used to it.
And about George:
George is the… probably the best drummer…on the stage..
From: Matt Wilson, Nov 13 2003
In Wallingford, CT Bob introduced his drummer as “George Recile from
Hartford, CT.” When no one in the audience seemed to care that his drummer
was from Hartford Bob pointed at George and repeated “George Recile from
Hartford, CT.” When no one still seemed to care Bob looked at George with a
big grin on his face and said “You’re from Hartford, right?”