If you’re a fan of ‘old school’ rock ‘n roll you must surely have heard of the Desert Trip festival, where a host of the most legendary musicians from the past 50 years gathered in California for a proper jam.
The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Roger Waters, The Who, Paul McCartney and…Rihanna.
Of course McCartney, Rihanna and Kanye released the chart-topper last year, and now two of the three teamed up over the weekend.
Here’s that jam:
It was the second weekend of festivities, dubbed Desert Trip Two, with this summary from the LA Times:
Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney turned in sets virtually identical to the ones they delivered opening weekend, while the Stones and Neil Young significantly mixed it up. As performances ranged from the celebratory to the angry, fans — some of whom traveled from other countries — were already dreaming up wish lists for next year. Weekend 2 also began in wake of some rather surprising news in the music and literature communities.
Yet circumspect as ever, Dylan made no mention Friday of the previous day’s reveal that he was the 2016 recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature.
For that matter, he made no announcement on any front, singing a batch of songs spanning his 50-plus year recording career without uttering a word to the audience…
Young, meanwhile, interjected a note of political protest in another house-on-fire performance with the youthful members of his Promise of the Real band…
In addition to Young, Roger Waters also offered overtly political comments during his opening weekend performance (Waters and the Who were slated to perform again on Sunday evening)…
You can read their full account of everything Desert Trip two HERE.
[source:latimes]
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