1992 Bob Dylan Anniversary Concert -- Howcum no Grateful Dead?

Cafe Society
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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…

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He was definitely ill in the Autumn/Fall of 1992 and the tour planned for then was cancelled due to his physical “exhaustion”.

As we know, he had various health problems (on and off) for a long time: diabetes, smoking-related stuff. Being over-weight didn’t help.

This mentions the 1992 thing about half way down the page:

http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Fenario/Jerry/News.html

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Yeah, or the heroin either.

Damn. You’d think they could wheel the friggin’ hospital bed onto the MSG stage, wouldn’t you?

Jeez, Jer…didn’t you KNOW you wouldn’t make it till Bob’s 40th anniversary?

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Shouldn’t this be in Cafe Society?

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Hang on, I’ll just move it. Jeez, some posters…

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I love that CD! I actually like the Eddie Veder song… but “My Back Pages” is the show-stopper.

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Yes . . . yes it should. I’ll move it for you, Ike. :wink:

Cajun Man - SDMB Moderator

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Ukulele Ike,

Please read the Forum Descriptions.

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Hey! The question was Mundane and Pointless! I’m sure dozens of our fellow members will bear me out on that estimation!

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You see, even moderators don’t know what forum to post in.