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FOR HOME OWNERS, HOME BUYERS, HOME DREAMERS, AND THE BUSINESSES THAT SUPPORT AND SERVE THEM | JULY 2019 REAL ESTATE MAGAZINE MENDOCINO COAST PROPERTY | LIFESTYLE | COMMUNITY Come for the LISTINGS. Stay for the STORY. Ten Years of Unmitigated Mad Musical Mesmerism Take one genius singer/songwriter with over 750 songs under his belt, add one accidental impresario who didn't know what he was getting himself into, don't hold back on the spicy mélange of monster local talent—musicians, singers, technicians, jokers, and experts—add a stage-full of equipment, an adoring audience, local cuisine, a bar, and a bit of dance floor mayhem—shake well and serve: BOBFEST! Every summer for the last ten years, event producer Bob Markel has served up this most delicious treat. Bobfest has turned into the biggest standalone musical event in the county, bringing together—over two incendiary days—the best of the very best, to collaborate, celebrate, and raise the roof in homage to the phenomenon of Bob Dylan's brilliant body of work. Volume 33 • Number 1 • Issue 723 33 • Number 1 Volume realestatemendocino.com | Find Real Events – Calendar on page 15 Page 2 Real Estate Magazine June 28, 2019 TEN YEARS OF UNMITIGATED MAD MUSICAL MESMERISM BOBFEST Story by Bob Markel the crazy impresario dance. Besides getting the actual music and musicians together, there TEN YEARS AND COUNTING was an endless list of other crucial things to handle at the same time: sound, lighting, stage This August will mark the tenth anniversary of Bobfest – A Celebration of the Music of Bob Dylan. construction, ticketing. There was print advertising to arrange, radio blurbs to do. In a fit of It would have been the eleventh but that first year just could not come together. I had the idea of practicality, I cancelled the show and started planning for the next year. doing an ambitious concert with twelve to fifteen musicians performing their own arrangements For that next year I continued bartending at Hill House and started booking some bands. I met a lot of the songs of Bob Dylan. My friend, Pattie DeMatteo, who has decades of experience organizing of musicians and learned how to work with them. I studied the methods of legendary impresario and promoting events, jumped aboard to help this rookie impresario get his feet under him, introducing me to musicians and sound engineers and showing me the ropes. I rashly set a date ON OUR COVER: Bob Dylan artwork designed by Martha Bouquin. Images from last year's Bobfest, left to right: Singer Sally Wells; Singer/Guitarist Steven Bates; Singer/Songwriter/Producer/Musician two months ahead of time…then I learned what it was like to herd cats. Bill Bottrell; Singer/Guitarist Jamie Gilliam; Pianist, Ira Rosenberg; Impresario, Bob Markel. Photos I spent the first three weeks trying just to schedule musicians to commit to the same date. My provided. ABOVE: On the Crown Hall stage, most of the show's fifteen musicians, including the Bobettes, precious time for promotion and rehearsal dwindled rapidly as I attempted to learn-while-doing with event director Bob Markel, center, during the grand finale number. Photo by Jeffrey Walsh. Bobfest—Continued on Page 3 Lake County & Mendocino County MORTGAGE CONSTRUCTION HOME EQUITY We are here to make your homeownership dreams a reality! 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We were absolutely floating in the aftermath, yet it occurred to me that it was a good thing I hadn’t known everything that went into a show this size or I would never have started in the first place. For the second year we added a second show on Friday to accommodate demand and sold out both nights. We got some new musicians involved and developed some more complex arrangements. For our third year we moved to Crown Hall to accommodate the even larger crowds, still doing both a Friday and Saturday show. THE BOBFEST PHILOSOPHY (yes, there is one) After that first show, I started quantifying the Bobfest Philosophy. Most important was that we were not a band that bashed out Bob Dylan songs. Each song was to have its own discrete identity, with unique arrangement, vocals, and instrumentation. A lead singer would not do two songs in a row. This required a great deal of stage choreography to move the artists around. Nobody else does it this way because it’s too difficult, ABOVE: The Impresario speaks: Bob but the songs that Bob writes deserve the individual Markel. Photo provided. attention. Dylan writes stories with a beginning, middle, and end. It is our job to illuminate these tales and bring meaning to the forefront through the artists’ own interpretations. We never do straight covers. In 1992, there was a concert featuring an incredible number of the world’s best musicians in celebration of Dylan’s thirty years of recording with Columbia Records. It wasn’t called Bobfest then, but part way through the show Neil Young drawled, “Welcome to Bobfest.” If you’re going to steal from someone, Neil Young is a good source. Every year produces new challenges for Bobfest to be fresh, innovative, and to somehow improve upon the last show. About a third new songs are introduced every year and we rework some previous standards. Over the years we have performed 132 different Dylan tunes. Fortunately he has written 750 songs to this point so we have plenty of room to expand. This year we will be layering in more instrumentation, backup vocals, and multi-part harmonies. And we will have some surprise guest artists. Bobfest—Continued from Page 2 COUNTDOWN TO BOBFEST Bill Graham. Up to that point most local shows consisted of the band showing up at some vague Four to five months before the show we start planning. First is to pick out some dates. Over the time, setting up, and then playing, while in contrast, I started scheduling load-in [the time during years we have shifted months but we now are pretty much committed to August. We have an ever which musicians start carrying all of their gear into a club or venue for a show. It is a prearranged increasing audience that travels from out of town to attend and summer is the best time for them. time that usually starts an hour or so before the sound check.] and I required a sound check. I I get one or two dates blocked that don’t conflict with any other major event, which is difficult, particularly wanted to control the volume, noting that at other concerts bands were too loud and as busy as the coast gets with things to do.