Another Post review that I haven’t got round to putting up here before, maybe because the gig was… underwhelming. I first saw Roger McGuinn playing with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Bob Dylan back in 1987, when I’d already been a huge fan for half my life. Saw him again in Sheffield, then Newark, doing versions of the show reviewed below. This was his last UK tour. Nine years on, now aged eighty, McGuinn is still touring the same show, in stark contrast to Bob Dylan, 81, whose shows have changed enormously in the fourteen times I’ve seen him since 1978. Still, like Donovan in the previous review, Roger’s more than earned the right to earn a crust in whatever way he wants. His…

Here’s another Post review I never got round to posting on the blog, probably because I was meant to be at this gig with my oldest and dearest friend, Mike Russell, who was in hospital that night and died a few days later. Anyway, a Greil Marcus piece about ‘Season of the Witch’ (which he played that night, not that I mention it) reminded me of going to this show. This review manages to avoid saying how irritating I found Donovan’s personality, though that may come through between the lines. I was surprised by how good the show was. The photo above is from the Smothers Brothers show in 1969. Here’s hoping that we’ll be hearing ‘Season of the Witch’ again as the theme song…