It's too soon to tell about cutting back on his concert schedule. He's been doing 40-50 a year (and has said he'd love to do more but there's the family to consider.) Age is not necessarily the deciding factor at this point - health/energy/will are. Dylan's only a couple of years younger and he's booked for almost 50 concerts this year. Heck, Pete Seeger is 84 and will still do a number or two at the right venue (but not a concert, per se - both voice and memory are fading, as he told a sold out crowd at a couple of appearances locally a few months ago.)When you're doing what you love, it's no chore.
An aside here re: age - I find old movies hilarious when they're showing elderly folks who are (GASP!)supposed to be in their fifties - and move like 90. Case in point, "Heaven Can Wait" with Don Ameche and Gene Tierney. Towards the end they're celebrating their silver (25th) anniversary, they have a son who's just our of college. Maybe it's the hokey makeup (Gene Tierney was actually 23, Don Ameche 39) but golly, you'd think they were way up there in age. Charles Coburn (Ameche's father in the film) was actually 66 and for most of the film was sprightlier than the leads in their elder years.
Age is just a number, and it isn't what it was if you take care of yourself. I'm often one of the oldest mothers at school conferences (my younger one is in grade school for a few months more, and I'll be 52 on my next birthday). I put 'not looking my age' down to good genes, clean living and dumb luck.
Which is all a long way of saying 66 doesn't mean roll out the rocking chair.
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