On This Day in 1966, Bob Dylan's World Tour with the Hawks came to a dramatic conclusion at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Bob had a few things he wanted to get off his chest. Read all about it in JUDAS!
http://www.route-online.com/all-books/judas.html
Bob Dylan Speaks, Royal Albert Hall 1966
in between songs . . . . . .
On this day in 1966, Bob Dylan and the Hawks played their final night of the tour at the Royal Albert Hall, London. There was the usual mix of enthusiasm and antagonism from the crowd. The Beatles were in a box for the show, John Lennon echoed many who’d witnessed the shows when he said ‘about five or six people booed … and everyone else in the audience were shutting them up’. The combination of being demob happy and totally wired meant Bob opened up to the audience between songs like never before. He told them that Visions of Johanna wasn’t a drugs song, that he liked all his old songs, that he doesn't use the word 'rubbish', wouldn't pick it up even if it was on the street, that he’d been playing rock n roll since he was ten, he even offered them a whole minute to shout out whatever they wanted to get off their chest... plus there was an extended rap on the Mexican painter story before Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues. But you can listen to it all, compiled on this video here. At the end of the show, the curtain comes down on the most extraordinary tour in Dylan’s long and varied career. He was never going to be the same again.#Dylan66
Read more about the whole tour in JUDAS! by Clinton Heylin: http://www.route-online.com/all-books/judas.html
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