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Drummer Winston Watson performed 400 shows with Bob Dylan over five years, traveling the world 10 times over. Watson energized Dylan fans and Bob Dylan himself with his joyful and dynamic drumming style, as he helped launch Dylan's "Never Ending Tour" in 1992 that continues to this day.Reviews:
Drummer Winston Watson performed 400 shows with Bob Dylan over five
years, traveling the world 10 times over. Watson energized Dylan fans
and Bob Dylan himself with his joyful and dynamic drumming style, as he
helped launch Dylan's "Never Ending Tour" in 1992 that continues to
this day.
Winston
Watson chronicled his incredible 5-year journey with Bob Dylan in daily
personal diaries and in home video footage with his Video 8 camera. Now
Watson shares it all in a never-before-told insider account, revealing
behind-the-scenes details of the thrilling and challenging journey as
drummer for the legendary Bob Dylan. A skilled storyteller, Watson
paints an intimate portrait of Bob Dylan's band, life on tour, Dylan's
music, and the mercurial, brilliant Bob Dylan himself.
Watson
lived a "rock and roll dream" as celebrity guests joined Dylan on
stage, including Bruce Springsteen, George Harrison, Neil Young, The
Rolling Stones, Santana, and The Grateful Dead. However, Van Morrison's
appearances would prove fatal to the journey of the unknown drummer
from Arizona.
From his unlikely story of joining Dylan's band, to
rehearsals, stadiums, MTV Unplugged, and Woodstock '94, to the hardship
of family separation, Watson holds nothing back, inviting us along on
his incredible journey from continent to continent as a warrior in Bob
Dylan's "Never Ending Band."
In this in-depth, often humorous
portrayal of his years with Dylan, Winston Watson emerges as an
ordinary guy who experienced the extraordinary. Bob Dylan Never Ending
Tour Diaries is the personal tale of a starry-eyed drummer who reached
the mountain top, and how it changed him forever!