Mona Molarsky from the S.F. Examiner's New York City Life Examiner, reviewing the closing show of the latest leg of Bob Dylan's Never-Ending Tour:There was poetry in the setting Dylan chose for the year’s last concert. Opened in 1930 as a vaudeville theater, the over-the-top, gold-filigreed Palace is the church of flamboyant tele-evangelist Reverend Ike, who’s been shaking Harlem’s money tree there for four decades. Dylan’s always had a spot in his heart for snake oil salesmen, so Reverend Ike’s gilded super-church was the pitch perfect venue.
Garbed in a wide-brimmed Panama hat, a black jacket and black pants with a stripe up the side, Dylan took the stage with his five-man-band, looking like a cross between a mariachi and a 19th-century southern planter. Standing center stage with only his harmonica, he opened the set, amidst cheers and flashing cameras, with—what else but—“Gotta Serve Somebody”—the hit gospel song from his 1979 born again Christian album “Slow Train Coming.”
(Audio only; he spits and growls and guts it out and it's &*@#% great!):
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