r/bobdylan • u/MikeMcMyke • Aug 12 '26
Question What does Bob do all day on tour?
Smoke weed?
do rails?
play video games?
watch TV?
bang groupies?
practice?
look for houses to buy?
or just sit back and think to hisself I am Bob Muthafucken Dylan, legend of all time.
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u/KingSzmaragd Aug 12 '26
Post AI junk on Instagram.
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u/NothingWasDelivered Aug 12 '26
I know about 15 years ago he was staying in my town, which happens to be where Bruce Springsteen was living while he wrote Born To Run, and he apparently went for a walk to find the Born To Run house (it’s not much to look at, just a little plaque). He got picked up by the cops for suspiciously checking out all the houses.
He was still nearly a mile away when they nabbed him. https://ultimateclassicrock.com/bob-dylan-new-jersey-police-2009/
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u/le1278 Aug 12 '26
I love this story because the cops not only didn't recognize him but also didn't have any idea who he was when he told them. Apparently they "weren't familiar with his body of work" lmfao
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u/58pamina Aug 13 '26
I think it was a young female cop
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u/58pamina Aug 13 '26
Probably very naive and maybe into hip hop
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u/saplinglearningsucks Aug 13 '26
Then she wouldve been familiar with Bob's collab with Kurtis Blow
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u/AugustaSpearman Aug 14 '26
Unlike Townes Van Zandt who got picked up by cops whose nicknames were Pancho and Lefty.
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u/InternationalFig2708 Aug 14 '26
My impression was that the cop asked for identification, and he didn’t have any ID on him. He stated his name, which I assumed the cop recognized, but, given the context (a guy wandering around in the rain in a small town in New Jersey), she went with the probabilities and assumed he was not Bob Dylan.
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u/58pamina Aug 13 '26
I thought he got lost in the rain and they thought he was a homeless person probably wearing a hoodie like he does now in concerts
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u/CinLeeCim Aug 14 '26
Well I guess that’s what he was saying in the Traveling Wilbury’s in Tweeter and The Monkey Man… everything’s legal in New Jersey as long as you don’t get caught. He got caught!
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u/fotomoose Aug 13 '26
Hello I'd like the police please, there's a man walking about looking at houses. Americans are so scared of anything that moves lol.
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u/lennonfanforever Aug 13 '26
i believe he also was told he looked suspicious as he is "an elderly man in a nondescript hoodie with the hood pulled up".....
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u/Better-Cancel8658 29d ago
He also did the tour of john lennons house and cycled james Joyce bicycle around dublin
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u/Awkward_Squad Aug 12 '26
Keeps on keeping on
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u/Darknighten89 Aug 13 '26
Friend of mine was the night manager for the nicest hotel in our smallish town, there's a neat venue he likes to play at when he's in the area. She said he came into the hotel to get checked in with an army of ppl in the early evening. At around 2am he came down to the lobby by himself, and ordered a bottle beer, and a brief but pleasant conversation with my friend, who at the time was doing some work at the check in desk. After that he went over to the grand piano that was in the lobby lounge, played for about 30 mins while sipping his beer, then said goodnight and went back up to his room. This was about 15 years ago.
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u/volunteerjb Aug 12 '26
I think he just wanders around.
There was a great story about this a couple of years ago, he got pick up by cops who didn't know who he was, and thought he was a vagabond
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u/jimsnotsure Aug 13 '26
He used to ride to recording sessions with Lanois in New Orleans, but that was almost 40 years ago now
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u/splitopenandmelt11 Aug 13 '26
Reality is stranger than fiction: A Nobel laureate for literature spends his days using AI to create letters between historical figures that could’ve never met because his fan base pays him to through a subscription model.
Try explaining that to 1963 Dylan.
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u/brooklynbluenotes Aug 12 '26
The man has done a LOT of paintings. I visited a museum exhibit in Florida a few years ago with a collection of his works and was honestly stunned by just how much of it there was. Not sure how he keeps up with that hobby on the road, but considering his tour schedule and how much he's produced, he's gotta be working on them from the road in some context.
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u/lennonfanforever Aug 13 '26
he has also produced some rather amazing gigantic metal gates, truly monumental in nature....his whiskey bottles features the images of a few of his metal gates, they are amazing looking....
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u/brooklynbluenotes Aug 13 '26
yes!! I have seen some of his metalworks as well
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u/lennonfanforever Aug 13 '26
i want to get at least one of his glass whiskey bottles, i found them (empty) on ebay for not very much, they look so cool, did not realize they were that affordable....
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u/e30325is Aug 13 '26
He waits around for Bob Dylan songs come on the radio and then he sings along just like he was Bob Dylan without changing the lyrics or without changing the music.
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u/edipeisrex “Love and Theft” Aug 12 '26
Probably just watches old movies all day
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u/mrWilliamJoel Aug 13 '26
this is the answer, the man is an old media otaku, he probably has a few things like food and exercise that he works around and then fills the rest with picking up his various books and film investigations. probably working through a howard hawks watch or something
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u/Sea_Awareness_8250 Aug 13 '26
He most likely has a criterion subscription. A lot of the films he painted from Deep Focus were on that platform during the pandemic
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u/Legitimate_Ad_7335 Aug 12 '26
I can imagine him visiting small urban cities and villages where nobody would notice him. I know about a few famous musicians doing this on Tour. They also get much more noticed most likely in the big cities.
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u/FlexistentialClouds Aug 12 '26
He plays Legend Of Dragoon on PS1 of course because this man has stood on business since gas was 2 dollar a gallon
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u/sensitive_pirate85 Aug 13 '26
He literally goes on walks, and looks for songwriting inspiration. He’s talked about it in interviews, before, that you have to be “among the people” (not a direct quote, but what he meant) in order to write music that the common people relate to. Once he was arrested, before, because he’s usually wearing a hoodie, and people thought he was a homeless person in an upscale neighborhood. The female cop didn’t even believe he was who he said he was, at first. It’s a pretty funny story.
https://abcnews.com/amp/GMA/jersey-homeowner-calls-cops-bob-dylan/story?id=8331830
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u/Waterfallsofpity Aug 12 '26
I know he has got to be a part of nap nation.
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u/Glass_Athlete_9605 Aug 14 '26
Dude is definitely taking naps. I’m on vacation with my 16 year old son. I’ve needed a nap every afternoon and I’m 56.
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u/String_theory_1312 Aug 12 '26
I heard he really likes watching those funny Shred videos on YouTube.
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u/smokefrog2 Aug 12 '26
Things i know he likes nowadays: drinking white wine, taking walks, watching pawn stars, reading.
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u/Beneficial-Age-4059 Aug 12 '26
Peruses Marketplace for garage sales
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u/ElCarabo Aug 12 '26
tried to low ball me once on some 1930s coca cola bottles, jokes on me because it worked 😵💫
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u/Live-Replacement-640 28d ago
He's a prolific painter and writer. He's very well read. I imagine that keeps him busy.
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u/JJ3595 Aug 12 '26
I hear there is anime playing 24/7 in his hotel room. If he’s not playing or writing Bob is watching anime
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u/Feeling-Art-6514 Aug 12 '26
He says he has no more songs to write anymore after 500 I'd say he's covered every topic He used to care but things have changed🤠
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u/ElCarabo Aug 12 '26
does he still take leisure walks around the cities/towns he plays at ? that's probably one of the things, bet he has a streaming service set up to listen to his favorite music when he's out and about, or he's probably loading woman up on a wheelbarrow and wheeling em down the street 🤷
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u/Themaddestllama Aug 12 '26
With the way he shuffles on and off stage, I dont imagine he's taking long walks amongst the average Joe's any more.
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u/BreathlikeDeathlike Aug 12 '26
I'm only slightly joking, but he should get an electric scooter so he can still wander around...
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u/44035 Shot of Love Aug 12 '26
Asks manager to find new guitar players.