Bob Dylan - Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (LIVE FOOTAGE) [Rolling Thunder Revue, 1975]

This is an incredible performance of one of Bob’s greatest hits. He’s joined by Scarlet Rivera (violin), lead guitarist Mick Ronson (just out of David Bowie’s Spiders From Mars band), Rob Stoner (bass), David Mansfield (pedal steel guitar), Bob Neuwirth (guitar), Ronee Blakley (backup vocals), and drummer Howie Wyeth. Dylan’s accompanied on vocals and 12-string guitar by Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn. This footage was recorded at Harvard Square Theater in Cambridge, MA on 20 November 1975. I wanted to upload it with an overdub of the original soundboard recording, but unfortunately, the audio was blocked from YouTube due to copyright (it was officially released on “The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings“ boxset). I had to overdub the most similar sounding live version of this song, which happened to be from the evening performance at New Haven Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum in New Haven, CT, exactly one week prior to the Cambridge show. The audio is an audience tape, so the quality isn’t great, but I decided to upload it because I thought the ghostliness of the bootleg tape paired well with the grainy, almost film-noir footage. To hear this performance with an overdub of the original soundboard recording, please refer to this compilation video I made a while back: Peace & Love, ~SP