Don't Think Twice, I Luv Wight!
On 31 August 1969 Bob Dylan played in front of 150,000 people at The Isle of Wight Festival.
On 31 August 2008 Salford Salutes Dylan presented Don't Think Twice, I Luv Wight, in front of - well not quite so many, but we all had a great time.
£175 was raised for charity.Benny's photos can be seen on the following I LUV WIGHT pages.
All 17 songs from Bob Dylan's Isle of Wight set were covered, along with The Band's 'The weight'.
Bob's songs were: She Belongs To Me; I Threw It All Away; Maggie's Farm; Wild Mountain Thyme; It Ain't Me Babe; To Ramona; Mr Tambourine Man; I dreamed I saw St Augustine; Lay lady lay; Highway 61 Revisited; One too many mornings; I Pity the Poor Immigrant; Like a Rolling Stone; I'll be your baby tonight; Quinn the Eskimo; Minstrel Boy; Rainy Day Women Nos 12 & 35.

Here's the setlist:

She belongs to me/ I Pity the Poor Immigrant(The Freewheelers)
Maggie's Farm/ No more auction block (Pep, accompanied by the Freewheelers)
Girl from the North country (Ken Birch)
Changing of the guards/ Froggie went a-courtin' (Brian Fanning)

If not for you/Just like a woman/It ain't me, babe (Dave Lockley)
I shall be released/ One more cup of coffee (The Kavanaghs)
Song to Woody/ Who killed Davey Moore? (Albert Thompson)

Wild mountain thyme/ Talkin' Free Trade Hall Blues/ Like a Rolling Stone(Chris Carson)
Watching the river flow/ I shall be released/ Highway 61 Revisited (Tom O'Gorman, with Phil Almond on harmonica)

To Ramona/ Mama, you been on my mind/ Mr Tambourine Man (Foz, with Phil on harmonica on Mama, you been on my mind))
One too many mornings/ Masters of war/ Tomorrow is a long time (Chris Stern)

I threw it all away/ Dark Eyes/ Motherless children (Benny, with Phil on harmonica on Dark Eyes)
Couple more years/ Only a pawn in their game/ Visions of Johanna/ Paths of Victory (John McFadden, with Tony Devlin on bodhran)

Song for Bob Dylan/ Baby, let me follow you down/ Knockin' on heavne's door/ Things have changed/ Lay lady lay/ Don't think twice, it's all right/ Things have changed/ The weight (The Love Rats)

Days of 49/ Duncan and Brady/ If you gotta go, go now/Minstrel Boy/ I dreamed I saw St Augustine/ Quinn the Eskimo/ I'll be your baby tonight/Baby, let me follow you down/ Rainy Day Women Nos 12 & 35 (The Salford Sheiks)



















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