Forever Young Backing Track

Subject: Forever Young Backing Track
From: GUEST, Anthony Ramsay
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 05:03 PM

I promised to sing this song for a background to a computer presentation but the person who was going to play guitar for me can't do it now (I don't play). Does anyone have or know if there's a backing track of it online somewhere? I can only find Rod Stewart's version and I want to do Dylans. I need it for the weekend. Sorry if it's alot to ask but I tried other ways. Thank you.

Subject: RE: Forever Young Backing Track
From: Peace
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:22 PM

Try places like these.

Subject: RE: Forever Young Backing Track
From: Peace
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:49 PM

BINGO

http://www.karaoke-version.com/en/mp3-backingtrack/bob-dylan/

Subject: RE: Forever Young Backing Track
From: Peace
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:54 PM

Go to #12

Subject: RE: Forever Young Backing Track
From: GUEST, Anthony
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 06:56 PM

Thank you so much.

Subject: RE: Forever Young Backing Track
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:03 PM

Rod Stewart's "version" is not even the same song, Anthony (although it does crib bits and pieces of the original Dylan lyrics here and there). It just happens to have the same title. You cannot copyright a title. It also has, of course, the same general theme.

Dylan wrote the 1974 one specifically for his children. Rod Stewart's song was, I think, consciously directed at his entire audience. Mind you, in '74 Dylan's entire audience assumed that his song was directed at them. ;-)

The Rod Stewart one (from the late 80s?) was either a deliberate imitation of Dylan's 1974 song...or it was a subliminal imitation of it. The music is all different. The verse arrangements are very different. The Chorus (if you could even call it a chorus) is totally different. The lyrics sound like a sort of half-assed attempt to copy the Dylan song without doing it totally obviously. You just grab a line here, a phrase there, throw them in a blender, spin them around along with some pages from a rhyming dictionary, and write down what comes out when you pour the resulting concoction on a fresh new sheet of paper.

Listen to both songs, look at when they were recorded, and you'll see what I mean.

Subject: RE: Forever Young Backing Track
From: Peace
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:04 PM

Good luck, Anthony.

Subject: RE: Forever Young Backing Track
From: Peace
Date: 17 Apr 08 - 08:10 PM

LH: I think RS's version sucks. But then, I'm tired of Dylan's, too.

Subject: RE: Forever Young Backing Track
From: GUEST, Anthony
Date: 28 May 08 - 12:09 PM

Thank you for your help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxk3rpbqyEQ

Subject: RE: Forever Young Backing Track
From: GUEST
Date: 29 May 08 - 11:23 AM

Sorry, gave the wrong URL it's at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hcfa7-oXxg

Subject: RE: Forever Young Backing Track
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 May 08 - 01:27 PM

What complicates things is that Dylan has two very different versions of it on Planet Waves.