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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 27, 2008 12:14:33 GMT -5
"He was a giant, a great, great soul, with all of the humanity, all of the wit and humor, all the wisdom, the spirituality, the common sense of a man and compassion for people. He inspired love and had the strength of a hundred men. He was like the sun, the flowers and the moon and we will miss him enormously. The world is a profoundly emptier place without him." Bob Dylan
We have all lamented before the absence of Bob Dylan from The Concert For George but Dylan did remember George with a very straight and, for Dylan, coherent cover of "Something." It is very moving and humble and was performed at Madison Square Garden on November 13, 2002.
Here is the audio where Dylan mentions the concert but that he can't make it:
I am excited though because I found a fan's video of this performance(it seems to be an edit of two different homemade videos). The person filming this must have been caught off guard as it is missing the spoken intro heard in the link above and it takes the filmer several seconds to focus in but it is good enough. This compliments The Concert For George in my book:
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Post by OldFred on Jul 27, 2008 12:23:42 GMT -5
It would have been nice if the performance was added as a bonus feature on the Concert For George DVD. Thanks for sharing that, John.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 27, 2008 12:31:30 GMT -5
It would have been nice if the performance was added as a bonus feature on the Concert For George DVD. Thanks for sharing that, John. Were you there, OldFred? It is at MSG, your second home! I love your idea of a professionally shot performance of this tribute being added as a bonus to TCFG with maybe a contemporary, brief set-up by Bob himself!
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Post by OldFred on Jul 27, 2008 12:35:39 GMT -5
It would have been nice if the performance was added as a bonus feature on the Concert For George DVD. Thanks for sharing that, John. Were you there, OldFred? It is at MSG, your second home! I love your idea of a professionally shot performance of this tribute being added as a bonus to TCFG with maybe a contemporary, brief set-up by Bob himself! Wasn't working at the Garden at the time. The concert was in 2002 and I didn't start working at MSG till late 2004. This year marks my fourth year at the Garden. Would have been nice if I was at that show, I agree.
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Post by ImBigK on Jul 28, 2008 19:25:30 GMT -5
Thanks for the link!
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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 29, 2008 9:08:43 GMT -5
I am really appreciating much more this Dylan tribute to George now that I can see Bob actually doing it. Dylan posted the audio only of this on his official website, the wonderful bobdylan.com, back in 2002 although I didn't hear it until much later. Once I heard his spoken intro and song, I immediately stopped being mad at Dylan for not playing at TCFG. Yeah, I had lashed out at him on the old Board for not being in England for the concert as George had himself come to the U.S. in 1992 to play at Dylan's tribute at MSG and George had always praised Dylan even at times when most others were not(late 70's/early 80's).
No, Dylan cared a lot about George and hopefully these video clips( one with the spoken intro and the other showing the performance) prove that!
Watching Dylan, note that at the 1:17 minute mark, Bob bends his knees turns to the band quickly as if to gather courage and then faces the mike to go into the always dramatic bridge of "Something:"
"You're asking me will my love grow I don't know, I don't know You stick around now it may show I don't know, I don't know."
Wow, at the,"You stick around now it may show" it starts sounding like an original Dylan song from Nashville Skyline or New Morning and by the second, "I don't know, I don't know," Dylan has won us over by both adding his own mark to the song through his idiosyncratic phrasing all while still faithfully following George's arrangement.
Beautiful. George had to be beaming someplace else!
The "bridge" to "Something" is among the most stirring moments in any pop song IMO. That was best demonstrated in 2002, when I first heard Paul do "Something" on his uke. I thought after the first two verses that Macca's cover was nice and fitting but not anything memorable; I mean how could it, Paul was just by himself on a uke? Wrong! Paul got to that bridge and the emotion meter jumps off the counter as Paul nailed the, "I don't know, I don't know"! Major tears and goosebumps time.
And when Clapton joins in with Paul at The Concert For George, that goes to an even higher level.
Still, I am very touched by Bob Dylan's very humble but loving tribute here.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jul 29, 2008 9:15:43 GMT -5
Shame on Dylan for not participating in the CONCERT FOR GEORGE.
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