“You gotta stick it out though. That’s all there really is at the end of the line in this business. B.B. King and Chuck Berry are still working. Little Richard is as good now as he was then.”
~Bob Dylan to Edna Gundersen, August, 1990
Historic event
The March on Washington – 1963
Lincoln Memorial,
Washington, District Of Columbia
28 August 1963
March On Washington (Washington Rights March).
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- August 28: Bob Dylan’s performance @ March On Washington in 1963 – includes video of 3 songs
August 28, 1964
Al Aronowitz drives Dylan from Woodsrock to New York to meet the Beatles. Dylan and Aronowitz end up introducing the Beatles to the delights of cannabis at the Delmonico Hotel in New York.
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)
On 28 August 1964 Bob Dylan introduced The Beatles to cannabis.
The two parties were introduced by a mutual friend, the writer Al Aronowitz, at New York’s Delmonico Hotel. Upon arriving at The Beatles’ suite Dylan asked for cheap wine; Mal Evans was sent to get some, and during the wait Dylan suggested they have a smoke.
Check out this brilliant piece @ beatlesbible.com -> Bob Dylan turns The Beatles on to cannabis
I don’t remember much what we talked about. We were smoking dope, drinking wine and generally being rock’n’rollers and having a laugh, you know, and surrealism. It was party time.
~John Lennon (Anthology)
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Concerts – August 28
- 1963 – Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA
- 1965 – Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Forest Hills, NY, USA
- 1990 – Holiday Star Music Theater, Merrillville, IN, USA
The second night is perhaps the best of the late summer shows, featuring a frenetic “Silvio,” with extensive harmonica, and an electric “Hang Me Oh Hang Me,” which leads straight into a one-off performance of the gospel standard, “Stand By Me.”
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995) - 1993 – Marcus Amphitheatre, Milwaukee, WI, USA
- 1994 – The State Theatre, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
- 1997 – World Amphitheater, Tinley Park, IL, USA
- 1998 – Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin, NT, Australia
- 2002 – Pengrowth Saddledome, Calgary, AB, Canada
- 2004 – Sec Taylor Stadium, Des Moines, IA, USA
- 2008 – Uptown Theater, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- 2010 – McMenamins Historic Edgefield Manor, Troutdale, Oregon
- 2012 – Covelli Centre, Youngstown, Ohio
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