SirKit and I saw him live in Hattiesburg MS, in 1976, when he was touring with the Rolling Thunder Revue. Apart from his performance, he spoke two words to the audience the entire night. At the end of his last song, he leaned into the mike and said "Thank You". It was a great show, though!
Well he has been positively verbose when I have seen him then. We got a “thank ya friends.” haha.
A lot of people seem to walk away unhappy because even when he is doing songs closing in on 50 years old it isn’t a rote playing of the song. Everyone wants to hear the song they way they remember it from the radio. Bob is way too restless for something like that. In fact, I don’t think he has ever left Tangled Up In Blue alone. It has new lyrics added almost from the beginning.