Do 2 Out Of Tunes Make Perfect Harmony? Bob Dylan And Van Morrison Together

A fly on the wall... How thick was the air when Paul McCartney laid down the vocal tracks for Hey Jude? How frozen might the night have felt if Keith Richards hadn't stumbled out of bed to mumble an overdose of words in his head that later took on the shape of Satisfaction? A fly on the wall... When Foreigner came into grasping musical chapters that wouldn't be written with Lou Graham or the faintly scent of silence that fed Randy Meisner's brain waves after being told the Eagles would fly without him. A fly on the wall... Robert Plant discovering for the first time the art of rolling vocal notes into positions a Beatles generation wouldn't fully understand until after the times began to change. The look in Ozzy's eyes when he realized he had just bitten the head off a dove not a bat. Lynne Payne would spend pain staking hour after hour walking slowly down each Barnes and Noble aisle trying to understand the wicked way of how lazy we had become in knowing the trails traveled before our arrival. I remember her telling me, "How can we expect to grow forward, outward or be strong enough to move to the side if everything in our past is locked on what we assumed happened? The elder's are passing and without someone standing nearby to scratch down their experiences...he or she next in line won't have a journey but rather a hollow expectation." Maybe that's why I spit words onto a computer screen like a black ant hunting down cupcakes. Wandering doesn't make you wise until a crumb has been introduced to the entire tribe. A fly on the wall... The day a Sam Ash Music catalog arrived at the door and for the life of me I had no clue as to whom I was looking at. How could it be the summer's biggest and best sale when what the hell? I couldn't make it past the Rock Star on page one? Slipped from the chapters of music's canal of rhythms and rhymes I share with you the fly that sat on the wall when Bob Dylan met up with Van Morrison in 1989 in Greece. RollingStone Magazine paints the perfect portrait: During an off-day, Dylan and Van Morrison climbed onto the picturesque Hill of the Muses in Athens for a stunning four-song acoustic set that thankfully was captured by cameras for the BBC documentary Arena: One Irish Rover - Van Morrison in Performances. They began with Morrison classics "Crazy Love" and "And It Stoned Me," but the clear highlight was the 1986 Morrison obscurity "Foreign Window," featuring Dylan on harmonica and Van on guitar and vocals. They wrapped up the set with a duet on "One Irish Rover." Check out both songs in this incredible video. Van Morrison's Sixties garage rock band Them released a cover of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" in 1966, and a few years later Morrison began regularly performing "Just Like A Woman" at his solo shows. But he didn't actually share a stage with Dylan until The Last Waltz in 1976. They teamed up for a handful of shows on Dylan's 1984 European tour, and the very day after this stunning performance on the Hill of the Muses, Morrison came out during Dylan's encore to perform "Crazy Love" and "And It Stoned Me." In 1998 they finally went on an official tour together, and later in the year they were joined by Joni Mitchell. They duetted during many of those shows, but they never quite captured the intimate magic they shared that day in Greece. I share with you the video