Bob Dylan praises Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds after attending Paris concert
Bob Dylan has shared love for Nick Cave after the folk legend went to the Bad Seeds show in Paris on November 17th. In a beautiful moment of kinship between the two musicians, Dylan has now shared his thoughts on the concert.
Currently, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are making their way across the UK and Europe on a tour celebrating the release of their 18th album, Wild God. With a career-spanning setlist that also sees many of these new album tracks getting their live debut, Far Out called it a ‘tour-de-force”, writing, “Every era, every chapter, every version of the man on his evolution from then to now – it’s all on stage in this tour.”
It appears that Dylan thought the same as he shared his praise for the Cave and his band. Taking to his own social media to share a rare personal statement, Dylan said, “Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings ‘We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.’ I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.”
Picking out the track ‘Joy’ as a key favourite in the set, it’s clear that Dylan is a fan of the new album as he shared one of its central lyrics with his fans.
In the simple final statement of “yeah that’s about right”, Cave just received perhaps the highest praise he could hope to get from Dylan.
The relationship between Nick Cave and Bob Dylan
No doubt, somewhere in Europe, Cave himself is currently freaking out about the positive feedback from Dylan. Cave has never been shy about his deep love for the iconic singer-songwriter.
On one occasion, Cave wrote about the first time he met Dylan as if he was meeting God himself, rehashing their first introduction more like a bible quote than any typical anecdote. “There was a crack of thunder, I looked up and saw a man in a hooded windcheater rowing a tiny boat across the enclosure toward me. The water is now up to my knees. The man pulls the boat in and extends a hand that has a long thumbnail. His hand in mine feels smooth and cold, but giving,” he began, remembering this moment at Glastonbury in 1998.
He continued, “The man, who is Bob Dylan, says something like, ‘I like your stuff’, and before I can reply, he turns the boat around and rows back to his trailer.”
Clearly, it was a moment that meant a lot to Cave, who had been a lifelong Dylan fan, with this new praise likely making him feel the same.
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