Ukulele Ike
07-01-2002, 03:48 PM
Last night I was listening to the very nice CD of the October 16, 1992 concert at Madison Square Garden, celebrating Bobbo's 30 years of recording.
Good, if mixed, roster of talent...and you can always skip over the John Mellencamp and Eddie Vedder and Tracy Chapman and Tom Petty tracks in order to get to the likes of Lou Reed, Willie Nelson, the Clancy Bros., Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, the O' Jays, and the Band.
As I was listening to the wonderful version of "My Back Pages," near the end of the show, which has Dylan trading verses (and guitar solos) with Roger McGuinn, George Harrison, Young, and Clapton, I found myself wishing that Jerry Garcia had been participating on the cut.
Dylan and Garcia have always been big on each others' work...the Dead have been covering Dylan songs since 1965. They all toured together in the late '80s. Dylan included Garcia's signature cover song "Jackaroe" on his acoustic 1994 disc World Gone Wrong. Dylan spoke at Jerry's FUNERAL, for god's sake.
Where the heck WERE the Dead that night? I can't believe they'd miss a chance to honor Bob, not to mention join in with a great talent line-up, because they had to play a regular gig in Rapid City...
Good, if mixed, roster of talent...and you can always skip over the John Mellencamp and Eddie Vedder and Tracy Chapman and Tom Petty tracks in order to get to the likes of Lou Reed, Willie Nelson, the Clancy Bros., Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, the O' Jays, and the Band.
As I was listening to the wonderful version of "My Back Pages," near the end of the show, which has Dylan trading verses (and guitar solos) with Roger McGuinn, George Harrison, Young, and Clapton, I found myself wishing that Jerry Garcia had been participating on the cut.
Dylan and Garcia have always been big on each others' work...the Dead have been covering Dylan songs since 1965. They all toured together in the late '80s. Dylan included Garcia's signature cover song "Jackaroe" on his acoustic 1994 disc World Gone Wrong. Dylan spoke at Jerry's FUNERAL, for god's sake.
Where the heck WERE the Dead that night? I can't believe they'd miss a chance to honor Bob, not to mention join in with a great talent line-up, because they had to play a regular gig in Rapid City...