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NEWS : STORIES
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11.13.1997 8:23 PM EST
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News Flash: Dylan And Son May Share A Stage
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Folk-rock legend Bob Dylan will do a show with his alt.-rock son Jakob and his Wallflowers in San Jose Friday (Nov. 14), the San Jose Mercury News reported Thursday.
The collaboration marks the first live
performance featuring Dylan and his boy on the same stage. The Mercury News reported that the '60s gravelly-voiced icon will be playing the show with the Wallflowers, who are currently touring in support of their critically acclaimed album Bringing Down The Horse, at the San Jose Arena.
Bay Area Dylan fans shouldn't get their hopes up for tickets, however, according to the Mercury News.
The concert was organized as a reward for 7,000 employees of Applied Materials, a supplier of semiconductor wafer processing systems and services. According to the article, all 14,000 tickets for the event were won by employees last week in a series of lotteries, with all but the most connected insider not knowing whom they were winning tickets to see.
Will there be a family reunion on stage or will they play separate sets? "That's the $64,000 question," said Chris Nolan, the San Jose Mercury News columnist who broke the story. "Nobody seems to know." Interscope Records, the Wallflowers' label, couldn't confirm or deny anything about the show and Andrew Slater, the Wallflowers' manager, couldn't be reached for comment.
Renee Pfeffer, a tour publicist for Columbia Records, Dylan's label, simply said: "I also read that in the paper."
No one at Columbia, Applied Materials, Interscope or the San Jose Arena would confirm or deny that the elder Dylan would be playing with his band or with the Wallflowers.
Dylan is currently on the road with a full band in support of his critically acclaimed Time Out Of Mind and played with them on Wednesday in Milwaukee. His album has been his most well-received in nearly two decades. -- Randy Reiss [Thurs., Nov. 13, 1997, 5:30 p.m. PDT]
 
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