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From: wimp@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Haferman)
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Subject: Re: Dylan the Dork  at "LIVE AID"
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 12:49:25 EDT
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>> But, Wood/Dylan/Richards were absolutely fantastic in my opinion.
>> So some people don't like great acoustic guitar.  


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> Dear Jeff,
>
> 	I am not going to flame you, but I don't think you were
> listening very carefully to Ron Wood and Keith Richards when they
> backed up Bob Dylan. Their performance as acoustic guitarists
> wasn't even satisfactory, even though it was nice of them to do it.
> How you could refer to it as "great acoustic guitar" is really
> beyond me, unless you are welcoming flames. They were familiar
> faces with unfamiliar instruments, and they sounded like it. Get
> a hold of a tape of the performance. It was awful.

> 		Jay Elkins



Well, for the time being, I'll take back the "great" until I do hear
a tape of the performance.  However, I got into the performance very
much even though I was watching it on a 8" BW television with thirteen
other people in the room with the sound turned all the way up to the 
distortion level.  I do know that there were some problems in the performance;
I believe one of Dylan's strings broke and Ron Wood gave his guitar to Bob,
is that about right?  

ANYWAY,  let me say this 
   Forget the guitar playing if you want to, if you're a Dylan fan
(as I am),  then you flipped when he opened with "When the Ship Comes In".
This was the most impressive part for me, where I thought everything sounded
tight, I thought Dylan was singing strong, and the Guitars sounded good.

   "The Ballad of Hollis Brown" was OK in my opinion, but then again,
I've never been into this tune.

    As for "Blowin' in the Wind", this was too predictable.  I thought
it was a bit stale.



That's all for now...

Jeff