And more! News Tribune, Nov. 1, 1998

Dylan remembers the King Those who we re hoping to hear Bob Dylan say something anything -- during his Oct. 22 concert in Duluth probably left feeling a little disappointed. Dylan did not publicly acknowledge the fact that he was playing his birthplace for the first time ever, but there is new evidence he knew where he was. According to Dan Russell, executive director of the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center, Dylan uttered only one verifiable thing to anybody other than his own people while he was in town. "The only official correspondence between Dylan and our staff is he asked an engineer when Elvis played in the building," Russell said. And the engineer told him it was in 1977. In fact, Elvis Presley played the DECC twice -- Oct. 16, 1976 and April 29, 1977, less than four months before he died. Speaking of Dylan An Eh? item in Tuesday's column reported that Dylan was spotted outside the DECC the night of the concert. It told the tale of a fan who overheard a young girl talking to "Dylan" when he pulled up in his limousine. He was smoking and the girl told him something about not setting a good example for children, and he responded by snuffing out the smoke. Eh? is a little more skeptical about that story today than earlier in the week. According to DECC officials, Dylan never rode in a limousine that night. His transportation was exclusively supplied by his tour bus, and Dylan's actual whereabouts were as follows: The tour bus was parked inside the DECC's Pioneer Hall for roughly five hours while Dylan sat on board. He then walked off and headed straight for his dressing room. From there, he went on stage, played the concert, left the stage, got back on the bus and left the DECC area. "What concerns me is that we have a Dylan look-alike sitting in limousines smoking and talking to young girls," joked Dan Russell, DECC head honcho.