When it comes to Bob Dylan, I think it’s fair to say that I’m a fan of long standing — my wife still teases me about the time, shortly after we’d moved to Los Angeles, when in her car, radio on, she was surprised to hear me as a call-in contestant to KSCA’s “Lyrically Speaking” correctly identify the author of the verse in question as, “My man, Bob Dylan.”
So you might think that I would be excited to see “Bob Dylan’s American Journey, 1956-66,” opening at the Skirball on Feb. 8.