Bob Dylan: The Forum, Los Angeles
Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 9 December 1978
THE 18,000 people who presumably didn't pitch tent early enough to make Dylan's sold-out summer date in L. A. but packed into the Forum this evening (after being heavily frisked by a man in a toga) for An Evening With the same didn't get Dylan the Showman, as evidenced on his superb Vegas-style summer show.
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