ERIC CLAPTON 1992 - Part 2Bobfest |
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On October 16, 1992, an impressionable and eclectic group of artists gathered at Madison Square Garden in New York City for the purpose of celebrating the music of Bob Dylan on the occasion of his 30th anniversary of recording.
...the four-hour show celebrated a truely remarkable lifetime of songs in front of a sold-out audience of over 18,000. Warmly dubbed the Bobfest by participant Neil Young, the show was broadcast around the world and featured a cast of musical notables performing carefully chosen and often surprising selections from the incomparable Dylan songbook. At evening's end, the man of honor himself appeared on stage and gracefully brought it all back home again. In a world where all-star celebrity gatherings have become common- place, the Bob Dylan celebration stood out as, first and foremost, a legitimately memorable musical event.
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The traditionally show-stopping Eric Clapton, who performed a duet with Dylan in "Sign Language" from his No Reason To Cry album in 1976, came through with a startling and moving performance at the celebration. The highlights of his set - which also included a luminous "Live Minus Zero, No Limit" - was a truely revelatory rendition of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, that Clapton and Booker T. Jones radically rearranged into a seductive new bluesy masterpiece, complete with some incendiary soloing from the guitar master himself.
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A fellow Traveling Wilbury and longtime friend, George Harrison goes way back with Dylan. Before their prominent Wilbury collaboration, Dylan and the then newly former Beatle co-wrote "I'd Have You Anytime" for Harrison's All Things MustPass, the 1970 album for which Harrison also recorded a version of Dylan's "If Not For You." For the celebration, Harrison returned to Madison Square Garden, site of the 1971 Concert for Bangla Desh, and utterly charmed the crowd by delivering an exquisite, clearly loving rendition of "Absolutely Sweet Marie" from Blonde On Blonde.
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As for the man of honor himself, Dylan began his own set with "Song To Woody," a moving composition from his debut album that remains a gracious salute to Dylan's own early influence, Woody Guthrie. Unfortunately, technical problems prevent the song's inclusion here. Dylan followed with a wonderfully intense rendition of "It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" from Bringing It All Back Home, that served as a vivid reminder of his incomparable acoustic power. "My Back Pages," originally from 1964's Another Side Of Bob Dylan, became a history-making group effort, with McGuinn, Petty, Young, Clapton, Dylan and Harrison all trading off the classic verses. Then "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" - the elegiac standard from the Pat Garret And Billy The Kid soundtrack recently covered by Guns N' Roses - brought all the evening's players out for a memorable ensemble encore.
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