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Until now. Until last Friday night in New York City, when a dazzling group of contemporaries, from Neil Young to George Harrison, from Eric Clapton to Stevie Wonder, took the stage at Madison Square Garden and paid joyous tribute to the music of Bob Dylan. The concert, which lasted well over three hours, was a loose-limbed, dynamic show that didn't waste a second on sentiment or nostalgia. Instead, with Bob himself leading the pack, it trip-hammered through the Dylan songbook, setting free the wild spirit of some of the best tunes written in the past 30 years...
...BANDS OF SUMMER BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN -- GENESIS -- GRATEFUL DEAD -- BONO OF U2 -- ERIC CLAPTON & ELTON JOHN -- METALLICA & AXL ROSE OF GUNS N' ROSES -- HAMMER & HIS ENTOURAGE -- LOLLAPALOOZA '92 WITH RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS -- ICE CUBE -- THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN -- PEARL JAM & MORE Touring shows are booming again, as superstars hit the road with performances in which the sounds are enhanced -- and sometimes swamped -- by high-tech, multimillion-dollar special effects and gimmicks, from floating autos to body piercing...
Other performers are opting for a high-concept strategy instead of the high- tech approach. Elton John and Eric Clapton have teamed up for a joint tour that will play stadiums in New York and Los Angeles this month. Heavy-metal masters Guns N' Roses and Metallica, who recently completed separate arena tours, have joined for a circuit of stadium concerts in 22 cities across the country, through Sept. 4. The combined show, with an opening act by Faith No More and full sets from Metallica and Guns N' Roses, lasts 5 1/2 hours, at the end of which Guns...
Michaels: I thought Eric Clapton was absolutely breathtaking...
...group) with a steady dose of oldies. "We find that classic rock is what most people want to hear," says Mark Chernoff, program director at New York City's K-ROCK. "They like the familiarity." K-ROCK and similar stations may play a new Eric Clapton record relentlessly ("We will beat it to death," Chernoff says), but they go easy on breaking their listeners in on the new stuff. Easy, and conservative. R.E.M., the Black Crowes and a couple of the less obstreperous bands will get on the air, but it may be a while before Fishbone or the Butthole...