Flagging Down the Double E's

Flagging Down the Double E's

The Last Show Before Dylan Recorded "Visions of Johanna"

1966-02-12, Municipal Auditorium, Norfolk, VA

Ray Padgett
Feb 12, 2023
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Today’s show in Norfolk, Virginia marks the final show of our little early-1966 miniseries. After today, Dylan would take a break from the road to head to a Nashville recording studio for a historic occasion. We’ll get there.

This Norfolk show is, alas, yet another with no recording. I don’t have much in the way of reviews either. Just this one, which spends too much of its extremely short word count bitching that they couldn’t interview Bob:

But I found someone who was there to tell me about it! I stumbled upon an old tweet by Gary Wolfe aka @GaryWol53724471 mentioning he was at the show. When I messaged him, he shared some more info. I’ve pasted Gary’s memories below. 

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