Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learning, assimilating all kinds of information, and accommodating his act to the big concert halls. Midway through the tour, he simply surpassed Baez; he was securing the future, and she was being left behind. Dylan planned a trip to England and invited her along. She agreed, assuming they would perform together. But when they got to Europe she was shunted aside. Dylan was contemplating a change to electric music, becoming increasingly suspicious about the press, and drawing closer to himself. It was a prolific period for him, but he was hell to be with and Joan finally picked...
They remained estranged until the present tour. At her concerts, Baez would mimic him and demand that he return to the "movement" that spawned him. In a conversation with Michael March of Fusion magazine in 1969, Dylan said he hadn't seen her in two years. She must have been scared off by the electricity and morbid lyrics, he speculated, but he still loved her "even if she is straddled on peace and some punk ex-resident-from-college-kid (David Harris...
...HARD TO SAY exactly what prompted the current tour, but Dylan seems to be trying to heal old wounds, to bring together all the disparate people he has influenced and been influenced by. There's Ramblin' Jack Elliott, just a relic of his Woody Guthrie days--rumor has it his voice was plain then. He had to change registers in Providence on Tuesday to handle the chorus of "Friends of the Devil." Bobby Neuwirth harbored bitterness towards Dylan at one time because he felt that he could have been a superstar if he had gone commercial the way Dylan...
Dylan delivered a very funky rock version of "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall." When you listen to him, you have to be ready for anything -- he will almost never do the same song in the same way two times in a row. On the Band tour he sharpened the tone of "It ain't me Babe," to an almost David Bowie bitchiness: "But it still ain't me babe/ No, no, no, it sure ain't me babe/ It ain't me you're lookin' for babe." This time he syncopated the lines...
...background," and at the end "the orchestra plays a single fortissimo chord of C major and everybody goes off for a drink." The music's mystery may be rooted in its unusual creation. Burgess, 58, wrote at least half of his symphony while on a lecture tour of the U.S. earlier this year. "The score was sent to [Conductor] James Dixon from Oshkosh, Wis., without my having checked a note of it aurally," he confessed. "Holiday Inns have Muzak but no pianos...