The Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration at Madison Square Garden in New York City was 22 years ago tonight. The concert is in a live double-album release in recognition of Bob Dylans 30 years as a recording artist. Recorded on October 16, 1992, it captures most of the concert, which featured many artists performing classic Dylan songs, before ending with three songs from Dylan himself. The house band for the show were the surviving members of Booker T. and the MGs: Booker T. Jones on organ, Donald Duck Dunn on bass and Steve Cropper on guitar. Joining them was drummer Anton Fig filling in for the late Al Jackson, plus drummer Jim Keltner. Longtime Saturday Night Live bandleader G. E. Smith served as the musical director. The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, which reached #40 in the U.S. and went gold, was released in August 1993 just before Dylan was about to deliver his second folk studio set inside of a year, World Gone Wrong. The concert was dubbed Bobfest by Neil Young at the beginning of his All Along the Watchtower cover. I watched every moment of that show in the audience, as I lived through another concert on a 40-plus year Bob Dylan journey. Here is a great memory from that night, an ensemble of the who’s who in rock perform “My Back Pages” and “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.”
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 04:13:47 +0000
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