Bob Dylan is missing. In a cloud of smoke. And also his band, all young, all with masks. And the public, from the hairstyles you would have said the 30s, chicago, a blub. Instead it happened the other day. The first streaming of the great Bob Dylan. A real concert, but to be followed on your computer or mobile phone. Ticket price 25 dollars, like a real concert, but it was absolutely true. It’s beautiful.
All in black and white, in a continuous play of shadows, to sing his early songs, pure folk. Like a time machine returning to day zero, but making you live it today. The platform is called Veeps, founded in 2017 by Joel and Benji Madden (Joel is also one of the founders of the pop punk band Good Charlotte). I have not found the explanation of the name around, but in English veep is used to identify the vice and I guess that veep means that livestreaming is the vice compared to the live concert. It supports it, it replaces it in an emergency. Like a pandemic.
When she arrived, the concerts stopped and those who organized them too. It was the time of the deputies: and so on January 19, 2021 Live Nation, which organizes the concerts, took the majority of Veeps to offer its artists a way to continue performing and earning. Obviously so far no one as big as Dylan, whose concert remained online from 22 to 25 July: then he disappeared, he lives in the memory of those who saw him, like real concerts. It must be no coincidence that this happened exactly 56 years after Bob Dylan’s first electric performance; whistled, but opened a new genre, folk rock. Yesterday with digital, he set the clock back, taking us back into the future.
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