Gore a "buddy" of Dylan's ...I think not!
At a concert on 8/3/2002 Gore showed up at Newport Rhode Island. Teh gossip columns had been reporting how Gore had been crashing or attempting to crash in on other performers shows like Springsteens. Apparently the promoters of the concert allowed Gore on the side of the stage. When Dylan came out to take the stage Al Gore stepped in front of his path so that Dylan had to acknowledged him in some way. In pure Dylan style he looked up at Gore and pointed at him and exclaimed "Hey I've seen you on TeeeVeee!" and passed by Gore without a hand shake or another word.
Wrong person, wrong venue. This conversation happened at MSG in New York, not between Dylan and Gore, but Dylan and Conan O'Brien. You must be confused, Gore was at the same concert.