'Something' for Harrison - 4K upgrade: Bob plays a tribute to his old friend at a NYC show in 2002.

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"The Concert for George" was a tribute to George Harrison, held one year after his passing on November 29, 2002, at London's Royal Albert Hall. Unable to attend, Dylan instead performed "Something" in Harrison's honor as a special, extra third encore at his show on November 13, 2002 at New York's Madison Square Garden.

In an emotional voice Dylan told the audience, "There’s a tribute going on, I guess it’s next week or the week after, it’s over in England, for George Harrison. And, you know there’s all kinds of people going over there, I’m not sure who. But we can’t make it, and that’s why I'm going to do this song now in remembrance of George, because we were such good buddies."

The soft tones of Dylan's tender introduction are replaced by an enthusiastic roar of recognition from the crowd immediately upon hearing the song's first two or three unmistakable notes.

It seemed like a special moment for the musicians and the audience, with Charlie Sexton pouring himself into his guitar solo at Bob's prompt, Larry Campbell providing gorgeous backing on mandolin, and Dylan clearly moved and highly emotional throughout. That mood continuing through the musicians' several moments standing at the front of the stage taking in and acknowledging the crowd's long rounds of applause, loud cheers, and whoops of appreciation before the lights went down the final time.

This performance of "Something" from 2002 was the first video posted here and is still the most heavily viewed of all of them, by several orders of magnitude.

The original was encoded in DVD format by my late husband Jon in 2003 along with a few other sample clips that married my videos with his DAT audios, to share with a few friends.

This new version has been upgraded to 4K, offering much improved video quality, and I've re-synced and remastered the accompanying DAT audio track to make Dylan's introduction more clearly audible and, at least I hope, to also improve the sound on the clip in general.

Thanks to a new, second PC I finally acquired a few weeks ago that is an actual fully decked out, kickass-quality, professional digital video workstation, I'll now be able to produce many more videos with 4K resolution, and prepare new clips for upload much faster than before. It wil also allow me to step up the pace on the larger project of digitizing and sharing some of the volumes of other musical material ifrom the "Casper Audio and Video Music Archive" - including more from Dylan as well other musicians.

Immediately next up are a couple more 4K clips from this same concert.
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This is so beyond beautiful. The way he and his bandmates stood silently and remembered George.

JayYarbroughMusic
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It's easy to see why Bob likes that song. He would see that as a song he could have written. The way he has arranged it live it feels just like his own. A true master at the top of his game!

nickbullock
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They had mutual respect for each other. Its clear Bob wanted his Tribute to be sincere and performed to perfection. George would have been moved, they were great together.

marieholland
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Wow. 31 years after the Bangledesh Benefit, on the very same stage. I am sure no one got more out of this than Bob himself. Thank your Mr. Dylan, for then, and now this.
WE MISS YOU, GEORGE...

TheBatugan
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Imagine telling George in 1964 he would write a song that gets sung by Bob Dylan and Elvis!! Strange feeling how just by writing one 3 minute song your whole legacy is secure. Some special about that.

robertJ
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This guy could sing the phone book and it would become a classic…

brianmcfan
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George Harrison and Bob Dylan are like intimate brothers and true friends WITHOUT envy, competition, jealousy. .. George Harrison being humble and sincere, adored and respected his OLDER brother.

Rosemary-uzy
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A true tribute from a close George Harrison friend, how loving!

RandyRanson-dx
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Let's see, write a song, then have your song, sung by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Celine Dion, Joe Walsh and Bob Dylan, can't get much better than that. George Harrison what an amazing and wonderful person, we were lucky to have him in our lives.

RandyRanson-dx
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That's astonishing, I'm sure George would have loved it.

dannystewart
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Larry Campbell in mandoline...a great perfomance

hernanandrade
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The crowd singing along to the chorus, so beautiful. RIP George

doodleBurgers
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Charlie Sexton played that guitar solo a beautiful tribute from Bob Dylan to George Harrison

manomusic
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My generation is dying off - 75 years or older. What a run we had from the 1960s to now! It's an old age thing to see the highlights of one's life pass away year by year, The current generation of young people in their 20s have a completely different world and expression, which is foreign to we oldsters. Still, we see Paul, Bob, Mick & Keith, Neil and a handful of others defying becoming irrelevant, This vid is from a show in 2002, already 21 years ago. Heartful thanks to the poster. - date-stamp May 30, 2023, .

alecspeer
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To hear Bobs vocals instead of trying to make them out. Thanks to Everyone involved from Bob to instrument techs, roadies, other grunt workers.

johncook
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I love Bob's tribute to his old friend GEORGE HARRISON.peformed a year after George's passing.A way to pay tribute to not only a longtime friend, but also a Wilbury.

colinwilliams
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George Harrison was touched and touched humanity ... we should/could do the same with LOVE ...

oneeyedjack-gp
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I love how bob acknowledges the beautiful guitar solo with a glance of respect 2:41 followed shortly thereafter by another glance of recognition to the bassist up in the back somewhere 2:52 Even now it hurts my heart to think that one day the world will be without him. I hope Bob makes it into the new system after this broken down system finally fails and shuts down for good.

lukethedrifter
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That’s the best tribute I’ve ever seen for George Harrison so far.
🎼🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

majorfeelgoodrecords
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Thanks so much for sharing Bob's beautiful tribute to his friend, George Harrison. A very moving tribute.

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