Bob Dylan on Da Vinci, Van Gogh and the camera obscura

In 1974 I played the first of many shows with The Bandmaybe in eight years. We were in a hockey arena in Chicago. There were maybe 18,000 people there. The Band and I hadnt played publicly together since 1966 where our shows caused a lot of disruption and turmoila lot of anger. Now we were in Chicago starting up again. There was no way to predict what was going to happen. At the end of the concert we had played over 25 or 30 songs and we were standing on the stage looking out. The audience was