Let me retract something I wrote a half-hour ago:

As was well documented in the film "Don't Look Back," Bob's fans in the UK were much harsher in their disapproval of his "new direction" back in the mid-60s than were most Americans. Looks like little has changed in the interim.

That wasn't what I meant to say ~ obviously, the overwhelming majority of the messages posted here have been positive, all from folks in Britain and attending the shows there. Plenty has changed, indeed.

The reaction of the lone dissenter, "xfan" just struck me as reminiscent of the reactions recorded by the Pennebakers in that film so long ago, and ~ fairly or unfairly ~ seemed somehow characteristically British to me. I just don't think that an American would be nearly so likely to spend money on a ticket, and to devote an evening of their time, to attend the concert of an artist of whose current direction they disapprove.

Well, at least xfan left ~ he could have stayed and booed, as so many did 40+ years ago.