It turned into a really interesting Bob Dylan moment, too.He was nervous as shit! He was an emotional wreck! Dylan is a fascinating character. George Harrison told me a fascinating story once. Bob Dylan made that very famous appearance at the Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden. This was one of the first benefits thrown by a rock star to help a situation. Bob was there in rehearsal, and George says, “So, you coming?” Bob says, “Eh, it’s really not my thing.” So George said he didn’t even know if Bob was going to show up, and the only time he knew Dylan was there was when he saw him in the wings at the concert when George was playing.Bob is just one of those unique characters that travels to the beat of his own drumbut that particular night at the 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, all of his contemporaries, people he admired, were all playing.

He was worried that he wouldn’t live up to the standard they set! He was nervous! So it was interestingwhen he first came on, it was like, whoa, where is this voice coming from?

Did you get that impression yourself?I thought it was a powerful performance, but I was also impressed by his choice of songs. To go right back to “Song for Woody,” paying tribute to his influence, and then going dark with “It’s Alright, Ma,” when most of the performers had not been mining a lot of that darker side of his catalogYeah, but then he did “Girl from the North Country” too. But you’re right, doing those particular songsI think Bob has always had an encyclopedic knowledge of music, and of course he paid tribute to his influences, as all these artists were also paying tribute to him. I had one interview with Bob, and it was one of the weirdest experiences I ever had, yet it was great. Was that associated with this concert?No, it was done a couple of years before it — for the Oh Mercy album, which was a tremendous record of his.

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But the concert was a fitting tribute to who I call the poet laureate of American music. It’s been staggering, the songs he has written, performed, and done, the changes he has gone through, how people always write and talk about him without ever getting to really peer behind the curtain much.In your behind-the-scenes role, did you have a sensewhen you say Dylan was nervous, did you have a sense of that from the way he was acting or things that he said?I didn’t get to talk to him, so I can only tell you from a distance. In rehearsals it looked like he was enjoying himself immensely, and I gotta believe that he was having a good time at the concert, but he was just a little nervous as to living up to what had gone before him. Awards and honors and stuffI don’t know what it means to him. The Nobel Prize? Does he really care about that stuff much? To us it’s a tremendous honor, and you want to honor a man that’s given us so many great songs.

If you grew up in the ’60s, it was like a soundtrack to what you were doing at the time, or at least what a certain amount of people were doing at the time. It’s been a joy following him through all his changes, and whatever critics write, I don’t care. Whatever people say, I don’t care. I’ve admired him for a long time.Wikipedia tells me there was an afterparty at Tommy Makem’s bar.

Did you go, or did you know about it?No, at the end of that concert I was so exhausted. The amount of work that goes on is incredible; we were putting in 18-20 hour days the whole week, and the day of the concert, you’re up at seven, eight in the morning and you’re going until 12 at night and you’re on adrenaline only. By the time that show was over, I just wanted to crawl into bed.

Bria 3.5.4 for mac pro. I have no idea whether I was even asked to go or not. I think we were, because I think a couple of the producers I was working with went. I’m not sure.It’s interesting to think that this concert celebrated 30 years — which seemed like a long time, and certainly was an incredible accomplishment, but here we are now 25 years later. If you think back to trying to imagine what Bob Dylan’s career would look like in 2017, from your desk in 1992, could you have imagined what he’s done since then?You know, the songs he was putting out then were still incredible, so I knew he was going to keep going for a while. Whether I would have said another 25 yearsthere are blues artists who kept going until they were 80, and I would have thought him capable just because of his writing. I don’t think your writing diminishes with age until you get either senile or have some sort of issue. I probably would have thought, yeah, he’ll still be around, he’ll still be writing things.

I wouldn’t have thought he’ll still be touring. These boxes that are coming out, giving even more insight into how his songs developed and how hard he worked on arrangements and changed them and kept doing things with them, I think are fascinating insights into how hard he works.

Hello!

The observant among you will notice that this blog, if not quite dead, is certainly resting.

However I still receive a steady stream of enquiries from all over the world asking for help in researching information for books, TV projects, pHD’s, websites etc.

To save me replying individually here are the pertinent facts.

I don’t have an exact list or searchable database of the copies I own, nor can I easily search for reviews, interviews etc. other than picking up the physical copy and scanning each page. This seems to come as a surprise to many, particularly those born into a world where Google and the internet have always existed. In case it appears otherwise, this blog is not the product of a small business start-up. This blog is the product of a single, recently divorced man, sitting alone in a room late at night and manually scanning pages of old music mags with a shitty home scanner.

If you want to find a specific article or research your pHD then the place to start is at the British Library (in London) which holds a complete archive of all MM and NME’s.

You need to register for a reader pass and the best thing to do is to pre-register online. You will need to bring proof of your identity and your address (and your student ID if you have any).

You can search most of the catalogue with your pre-registration.

When you request something it will usually take up to 70 minutes for them to give it to you. If you need to get a particular book, it may take up to 48 hours so that ideally you request everything a couple of days beforehand.

However, all the magazines, NME, Melody Maker, Mojo, Select etc. etc. can be accessed straight away in the Humanities 2 area. They are grouped by year in big book sleeves. You can just take them out, read them, take notes (only pencils and laptops are allowed)

You can photocopy and scan articles. As the magazine paper sizes are really big (at least the old ones are) you are only allowed to scan them which is quite expensive. It’s 37p per scan. Museum staff will watch you so there’s no way around it. Alternatively, if you have a smart phone, apps like CamScanner do a good job of scanning a page such that it’s readable, albeit not reproducible in print or broadcast TV

You can’t remove any of the books or magazines from the library.

I hope this helps.

My thanks again to all the writers, photographers and bands that made this pre-internet period of music journalism so vibrant and exciting.

Charles