I guess since John Fogerty once lived in Northern California (El Cerrito, next to Berkeley, to be exact), Arcade Fire chose to cover the Creedence Clearwater Revival song “Hey, Tonight,” last night (July 30) at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, about an hour south of Fogerty’s old home.
Richard Reed Parry handled the lead vocal.
Check it out:
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One year ago, on July 31, 2013, Bob Dylan performed “All Along The Watchtower” and “Early Roman Kings” and other songs at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO.
Here are clips of both of the previously mentioned songs.
Dylan’s vocal performances are quite good, and his band is superb as usual.
Another view:
“Early Roman Kings”:
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Jeff Tweedy, as previously reported, has a new band, Tweedy, with his song Spencer.
Here is a live acoustic version of a song, “Wait For Love,” that will be on the debut Tweedy album.
Jeff Tweedy with Mavis Staples, “Only The Lord,” Newport Folk Festival 2014:
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Check out this song from Karen O’s upcoming lo-fi solo album, Crush Songs, due Sept. 9, 2014.
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Great performance by Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen of Bob Dylan’s “All ALong The Watchtower” at the Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN on October 5, 2004.
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So I’ve got a handful of clips from Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s showe at Warsteiner Hockey Park, Mönchengladbach, Germany, July 25, 2014.
And after that, a bunch of clips from the show in Vienna on July 23.
“Love and Only Love”:
“Days That Used To Be”:
“Blowin’ In The Wind”:
Another view:
“Name Of Love”:
“Heart Of Gold”:
“Barstool Blues (excerpt):
“Rockin’ In The Free World”:
Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria on July 23, 2014.
“Love And Only Love”:
“Goin’ Home”:
Another view:
“Standing In The Light Of Love”:
“Days That Used To Be”:
“Living With War”:
Another view:
“Love To Burn”:
“Blowin’ In The Wind”:
Another view:
“Heart Of Gold”:
Another view:
“Barstool Blues”:
“Psychedelic Pill” (excerpt):
“Cortez The Killer”:
“Rockin’ In The Free World”:
“Who’s Gonna Stand Up And Save The Earth”:
OK, so we know this day, 49 years ago, was historic. Bob Dylan going public with his new electric rock ‘n’ roll sound.
We all know the story. We all know the different versions of the story.
What remains amazing is the music.
On Saturday July 24, 1965 Dylan played a workshop and did three acoustic numbers. I’ve got “All I Really Want To Do” and “Love Minus Zero/ No Limit” from that workshop, and then all the songs from his evening performance on July 25, 1965.
Here Dylan rock out through “Maggie’s Farm,” “Like A Rolling Stone” and “Phantom Engineer,” an early version of “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry.”
This music will be as alive as anyone until humans are no more.
What a gift that we can hear this music today.
“All I Really Want To Do”:
“Love Minus Zero/ No Limit”:
Bob Dylan – Love minus zero-no limit (live 1965) by Bambino_Portoghese
“Maggie’s Farm” at Newport”:
“Like A Rolling Stone” at Newport:
Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone (Live… by toma-uno
“Phantom Engineer” (early version of “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry”):
“Mr. Tambourine Man”:
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”:
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Last night The Hole Steady delivered this blistering performance of the excellent “I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You,” which is on the equally excellent Teeth Dreams.
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One year ago, Bob Dylan and band performed “Blind WIllie McTell” at the Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD on July 23, 2103.
Cool version.
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After a couple of minutes of talking, Eddie Vedder and Cat Power sing “Tonight You Belong to Me” and then Vedder sings “The Needle and the Damage Done.”
This happened at this past weekend’s Super Bock Super Rock in Portugal.
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Or watch an arty video with audio of me reading from the novel here.
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