I’ve been singing it wrong for all these years.’” “And I’m looking down on the teleprompter-some of the guys didn’t know the words by heart like I did-and it was programmed with the official Bob Dylan songbook, and the words were scrolling up and I go, ‘Man, that’s not the way I learned it off the record. “They used my arrangement,” he said proudly. Thankfully, given the high price of gasoline, this show was a lot closer to home, and once again fans witnessed McGuinn’s transformation from a generally shy, reserved man into one of the most engaging, charming and talkative performers around as he led them on a musical journey through his life.Īs the lights dimmed, he walked on stage strumming and singing “My Back Pages,” one of more than a dozen Dylan songs the Byrds reimagined as their own, changing the time signature to 4/4, employing what McGuinn calls “a Beatles beat,” and cutting the length to less than three minutes “for AM radio.” He told the audience it had become “kind of a theme song” for him, and recalled playing it onstage at Dylan’s 30th anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden in October 1992 with an all-star band that included George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Tom Petty and Dylan himself. The stories are so important to him that he won’t play bars, nightclubs or dinner theaters, where there’s too much commotion. And while there have been occasional detours into full-band accompaniment-such as 2018’s “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” anniversary tour with fellow Byrds co-founder Chris Hillman, backed by Marty Stuart and (the appropriately named) the Fabulous Superlatives-his solo shows are so mesmerizing, so enchanting, so fulfilling, that I’ve seen him five times over the last four years, most recently driving 130 miles to catch his July 2021 performance in northern Los Angeles County. That’s been McGuinn’s concert formula for years. Billy Joel Announces the End of His Madison Square Garden Residency.Alice Cooper Albums Get Deluxe Editions.Eric Clapton Shares 3rd Clip From Expanded Edition of Legendary Royal Albert Hall Residency: ‘The Definitive 24 Nights’.The Rolling Stones’ ‘Some Girls’: The Grooves of Now.Moby Grape: When Bad Things Happen to Good Bands.Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie Album: Mac-To-The-Basics. Bill Wyman to Play on Rolling Stones’ Next Album: Report.
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