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Thread #105489   Message #2171829
Posted By: WFDU - Ron Olesko
15-Oct-07 - 04:56 PM
Thread Name: DYLAN NIGHT - Embarassing Moments
Subject: RE: DYLAN NIGHT - Embarassing Moments
Wow, you people are fussy! Complaining about guitarplaying on a 45 year old live performance!!!!   Jeesh!!!

In all seriousness, be sure to check out the Murray Lerner film "Festival" which was recorded at Newport over the course of several years. It also ends with the electric performance. You can see the director of Woodstock probably learned a few tricks from Murray before they created their opus.

"Festival" captures some magnificent as well as some very dated performances.   The comments from the audience are especially interesting.   Lerner is sitting on an archive of film and audio performances from Newport. They used some of the footage for the "No Direction Home" documentary and Lerner just released this new film.