{"id":485355,"date":"2019-05-02T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=830373"},"modified":"2019-05-02T09:40:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:40:56","slug":"flashback-bob-dylan-and-joan-baez-duet-for-the-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-bob-dylan-and-joan-baez-duet-for-the-last-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Bob Dylan and Joan Baez Duet for the Last Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joan Baez<\/a> played the final New York City concert of her 60-year career last night to a capacity audience at New York\u2019s Beacon Theater. It was an emotional evening that touched on many of the key songs in her history, including \u201cThe House of the Rising Sun,\u201d \u201cNo More Auction Blocks,\u201d \u201cImagine\u201d and four Bob Dylan<\/a> covers. It ended, appropriately enough, with \u201cDink\u2019s Song (Fare Thee Well)\u201d and a last bow as some in the audience openly sobbed. She wraps up the American leg of her farewell tour with a pair of shows at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York and then finishes it out in Europe over the summer.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone<\/em>,<\/a> Baez explained why she\u2019s saying goodbye in Europe. \u201cEurope has been faithful to me, in some ways, at times when the States has not kept up,\u201d she said \u201cI wouldn\u2019t blame that on anybody expect my own self and my own career and when I let it kind of go and when I worked hard. At any rate, I love Europe and my public over there. It\u2019ll bring a nice closure.\u201d<\/p>\n

By complete coincidence, Bob Dylan will be in Europe at the exact same time and they\u2019ll both be in Germany the first week of July. It wouldn\u2019t take much effort for him to come out at one of her last shows for one final duet on \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind.\u201d It would be a nice gesture and a way to thank her for introducing him to a mass audience in 1963, but odds it\u2019ll happen are very, very low. They haven\u2019t played together since an ill-fated European stadium tour in 1984 when they shared a bill with Carlos Santana.<\/p>\n

In her 1987 memoir And a Voice to Sing With<\/em>,<\/a> Baez explained that promoter Bill Graham promised her equal billing and the chance to duet with Dylan every night. But her name was tiny on the poster and she felt disrespected at nearly every turn of the tour. Dylan was often surrounded by bodyguards and it was hard for Baez to even get near him. He finally invited her out on the third show in Hamburg, West Germany for ragged \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind and again in Munich two shows later for \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind\u201d and \u201cI Shall be Released.\u201d You can see video of it right here.<\/p>\n

The invitations stopped after that and Baez\u2019s anger grew as the tour went from The Netherlands to Belgium and Sweden. By the time the tour hit Copenhagen, Denmark she went into Dylan\u2019s dressing room to say she was quitting the tour. \u201cI leaned over and kissed his sweaty forehead,\u201d Baez wrote in her book. \u201cIt was covered in whiteface. He looked, as the British say, as if he\u2019d been dragged through a hedge backward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I dreamed I seen you on TV,\u201d she remembers Dylan saying. \u201cAt least I think it as a dream. Hard to tell the difference anymore. You was wearin\u2019 this blue scarf. That was some scarf!\u201d She explained to him that wasn\u2019t a dream, but rather a broadcast of a recent show. Things then got a little weird. \u201cBob started running his hand up my skirt, around the back of my knee and partway up my thigh,\u201d she wrote. \u201c\u2018Wow, you got great legs. Where\u2019d you get those muscles?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom rehearsing,\u201d she said. \u201cI stand up and rehearse a lot.\u201d She then removed his hand from under her skit and placed it on his chest. He mumbled something about maybe playing a song together at the show that night, but she just kissed him again and walked out. \u201cI thought maybe I shouldn\u2019t write all this stuff about you, but it turns out it\u2019s really about me anyway, isn\u2019t it?\u2019\u201d she wrote. \u201cIt won\u2019t affect you. The death of Elvis affected you. I didn\u2019t relate to that, either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dylan has never given his side of their final encounter, but he also never sang a note in public with her again. When they were both on the bill at the White House\u2019s Civil Rights concert in 2010, she didn\u2019t even try to say hello when he arrived. \u201cThe chances of him just walking past me would be too awful a scenario,\u201d she told Rolling Stone<\/em> in 2017.<\/a> \u201cIt would just bring up feelings that aren\u2019t necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

The whole story would have a wonderful ending if Dylan came out at one of her final shows, but it\u2019s hard to imagine. Besides, she was a superstar long before she met Bob Dylan and she\u2019s gone on quite fine for decades now without any help from him whatsoever. Wrapping up the whole thing on her own terms, by herself, is probably the best move anyway.<\/p>\n

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