“What’s going through our mind is ‘What the…?’ And if you see Bob’s face, you could see he’s thinking the same thing”: When Bob Dylan played with an LA punk band to promote the album he made with Mark Knopfler

Bob Dylan performs onstage in Verona, Italy on May 29, 1984 (left), Bob Dylan performs onstage with the Plugz on Late Night with David Letterman on March 22, 1984.

In the mid-1980s, Bob Dylan found himself at a crossroads.

Famous as he was for wild creative left turns, he truly outdid himself with the trio of deeply religious albums that followed his conversion to Christianity.