{"id":488061,"date":"2019-07-16T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=859543"},"modified":"2019-07-16T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:18:58","slug":"flashback-bob-dylan-and-neil-young-play-gates-of-eden-in-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-bob-dylan-and-neil-young-play-gates-of-eden-in-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Bob Dylan and Neil Young Play \u2018Gates of Eden\u2019 in 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Dylan<\/a> has invited only a tiny handful of guests onto his stage over the past decade, and Neil Young<\/a> became one of them at a co-headlining show in Kilkenny, Ireland, this past Sunday evening. It happened midway through Dylan\u2019s set when Young came out to perform the folk classic \u201cWill The Circle Be Unbroken.\u201d<\/a> Coincidentally or not, they played the same song together in 1975 during their first onstage collaboration at Bill Graham\u2019s 1975 SNACK benefit<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

They played together again at \u201cThe Last Waltz\u201d the following year, the 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Dylan\u2019s 30th anniversary concert in 1992, and the Roseland Ballroom in 1994. But their most significant performances together came during Dylan\u2019s very first shows on his ongoing Never Ending Tour in June 1988. At the time, both artists were managed by the late Elliot Roberts and the first show happened to be taking place at California\u2019s Concord Pavilion, not far from Young\u2019s home. He was on break between legs of his Bluenotes tour and decided to stop by.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeil drove up in his Cadillac convertible,\u201d tour manager Richard Fernandez told Young biographer Jimmy McDonough, \u201chis Silvertone amp in the back.\u201d The fact that he\u2019d never performed songs like \u201cBoots of Spanish Leather,\u201d \u201cIn the Garden,\u201d and \u201cGotta Serve Somebody\u201d didn\u2019t deter him in the slightest, and he blissfully played along to everything, adding in impromptu little solos wherever he could. \u201cThat\u2019s Neil Young on the guitar,\u201d Dylan said near at the end of the first night. \u201cGive him a hand!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNeil took over the whole show,\u201d Roberts told McDonough, noting that Dylan was a little unsure after the first night if Young should carry on with them to the next gig until he burst into the dressing room. \u201cGreat show!\u201d Young said to Dylan. \u201cSee you tomorrow night, Bob?\u201d Dylan relented and Young joined the band again that week in Berkeley and Mountain View before heading home.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s fan-shot footage of \u201cGates of Eden\u201d that appears to be from the Berkeley show on June 10th, 1988. It\u2019s more than a little blurry and the sound isn\u2019t pristine, but it gives you a decent idea of what the performance looked like. In his wildest dreams, Young couldn\u2019t have imagined that he was guesting on the first week of a tour that would still be going more than 30 years later. There are no future dates on the books now, and on the off chance that Dylan does decide it\u2019s time to end the tour, it\u2019s appropriate that Young was there for the last night, bringing the whole thing full circle. But it\u2019s much more likely that another leg will be announced in the coming weeks and Dylan will be on the road well past his 80th birthday in 2021.<\/p>\n

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Bob Dylan has invited only a tiny handful of guests onto his stage over the past decade, and Neil Young became one of them at a co-headlining show in Kilkenny, Ireland, this past Sunday evening. It happened midway through Dylan\u2019s set when Young came out to perform the folk classic \u201cWill The Circle Be Unbroken.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 17:01:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}