Dylan and The Band

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Dylan undertook a world tour of Australia and Europe in early 1966. Each show was split into two parts. Dylan performed solo during the first half, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica.

In the second half, backed by the Hawks, he played electrically amplified music. This contrast provoked many fans, who jeered and slow handclapped.

The tour culminated in a famously raucous confrontation between Dylan and his audience at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in England on May 17, 1966. An official recording of this concert was released in 1998: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966.

At the climax of the evening, a member of the audience, angered by Dylan's electric backing, shouted: "Judas!" to which Dylan responded, "I don't believe you ... You're a liar!" Dylan turned to his band and said, "Play it fucking loud!" as they launched into the final song of the night—"Like a Rolling Stone."

Seems the English didn't like the non acoustic music. The Hawks were actual the musicians that would become known as "The Band".

In November 1976, Dylan appeared at The Band's "farewell" concert, along with other guests including Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison and Neil Young. Martin Scorsese's acclaimed cinematic chronicle of this show, The Last Waltz, was released in 1978 and included about half of Dylan's set.

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"All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding, and it has been included on most of Dylan's subsequent greatest hits compilations.

Over the past 35 years, he has performed it in concert more than any of his other songs.

Covered by numerous artists in various genres, "All Along the Watchtower" is strongly identified with the interpretation Jimi Hendrix recorded for Electric Ladyland with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

The Hendrix version, released six months after Dylan's original recording, became a Top 20 single in 1968 and was ranked 47th in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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Bob Dylan with Joan Baez during the civil rights "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom", August 28, 1963

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May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young

-for my brother RIP

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Music from The Band

"The Weight" from Woodstock and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" from the Last Waltz

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The Band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

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Eric Clapton performs with The Band at their Hall of Fame induction

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Hullo Hullo Royal and Pigeon.

The Mountain Goats and Simon Joyner have both done a good job of bare bones acoustic music.

My favourite Dylan songs are House Carpenter, I don't believe you and Rambling Gambling Willie.

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Electric is cool, but Dylan had a raw percussive power on the acoustic that lots of people missed.

Better Dylans strumming hand than a million shredders fretting hands. That tightness takes a long time to develop.

A lot of bands sort out these types of arguments with their fans by playing two sets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZAdOgAiDqg

[Pigeon]

In the early days, the folk music lovers were very anti electric. Guess they didn't believe it could turn out well. Both guitars can share in the music as they did.