whole article:
https://www.pollstar.com/article/veeps-joel-madden-on-bob-dylans-shadow-kingdom-livestream-were-on-the-edge-of-our-seats-like-everyone-else-148376
Blurb of it:
Joel Madden, the 42-year-old co-founder of Veeps, a livestreaming platform, and frontman of pop-punk band Good Charlotte, is recounting his team’s reaction upon receiving the news that his company would host very possibly the most iconic living artist
on the planet.
“We just laughed. We were like, ‘Holy shit,’” says Madden. “‘If Bob Dylan decides to do a show and we get to present that show, we get to put that show on, that is going to be, for us, a career moment as a platform, and certainly as music
fans, to be a part of.’”
The June 16 announcement of “Shadow Kingdom,” the intriguingly titled Dylan Veeps livestream performance slated for July 18, set the internet ablaze. Like so much of Dylan’s work, it’s raft with possible meanings, especially as the world emerges
from this fraught period of global plagues, political peril, social turmoil, deep anxiety and other matters of existential import. And the livestream news set the hair of “Dylanologists,” the Dylan experts who decipher his every word, on fire.
How the enigmatic Nobel Prize winner intends to perform his “Shadow Kingdom” livestream, his first broadcast performance since his “MTV Unplugged” special in 1994, is still anyone’s guess.
“We're here on the edge of our seats with everybody else,” Madden says. “All I know about it is what everyone else knows: that he's putting together a show. There's renditions of songs that go back into his catalog and from his new album [2020’s
Rough and Rowdy Ways]. As a fan, I'm super excited to see what that means.”
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