I'll just paste in a paragraph I wrote in my post for Part 2, since it still applies here:
If you want a full explanation of what the concert was about, please read my write-up for Part 1. In that, I also explained about the sound quality issue. In short, the only known source for the whole concert is an audience bootleg. It didn't sound very good, so this concert recording hasn't been shared that much. But I could tell there was potential there, if I could get rid of most of the much. As I explained in detail in my write-up, I think I did get rid of most of it. It still doesn't have excellent sound, but it's pretty good, and worthy of being posted at my blog, where I have pretty high sound quality standards.
Now, let's get to the music. This part of the concert started with some songs by Stevie Wonder. Just one month before this concert, he released a best of album called "Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I." It contained four new songs, and he performed two of them here, "Front Line" and "Do I Do." He also had a new songs written for the occasion, but it seems he and his band couldn't practice the song enough in time to his satisfaction, so he simply spoke the lyrics instead. I don't know the actual name of the song/poem, but I made an educated guess of "Throw Down in the Name of Love." If anyone knows a better title, please let me know.
The rest of this part of the concert consists of a set by Joan Baez, capped by three songs where she was joined by Bob Dylan. The two of them had a long personal history together, especially since they were romantically linked for a couple of years in the 1960s. The two of them toured together in 1975 and 1976. But after that, they didn't appear on stage together again until this concert. Then they were stage some more in 1984. As far as I know, they have been on stage together again in the many years since then.
Dylan wasn't one of the scheduled performers, so his appearance here was a pleasant surprise. That was especially the case because he basically took all of 1982 off. He didn't release or record any music, and this was his one and only concert appearance. They dueted on two classic Dylan anti-war songs, which were ideal for the occasion. The third song they sang was a real surprise though: "A Pirate Looks at Forty," by Jimmy Buffett. I'm pretty sure that's the only time Dylan ever sang a Jimmy Buffett song in concert.
Unfortunately, Dylan's performance wasn't the best. If you listen, it's pretty clear he did little to no practice with Baez. He even got the lyrics to "Blowin' in the Wind" wrong, singing the same verse twice. But still, it was great to have his involved with this concert. Since the mid-1960s, he's rarely been overtly politically active, but he was making his voice heard on the issue of nuclear disarmament by singing these particular songs at this particular concert.
I mentioned in my write-up to Part 1 that I spent a long time fixing the sound quality issues with this concert. I could have put "[Edit]" on all the songs, since I edited every single one of them a lot. But since I did the same treatment to all of them, I've saved that for the most extreme edits. There's one case here, with "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man." On top of all the other problems I was fixing, the beginning of the song was missing. Probably, the taper was saving tape by stopping during long pauses between songs, and then was a little slow it hitting "record" again in this case. But luckily, the lyrics at the start of the song were repeated later in the song, so I was able to fill in the missing section.
This album is an hour and nine minutes long.
Note that, for all the parts, the track numbers continue from the numbers in the previous part. That way, you can put all the songs together and listen to the whole thing at once if you want.
33 talk (Stevie Wonder)
34 Front Line (Stevie Wonder)
35 talk (Stevie Wonder)
36 Throw Down in the Name of Love [Spoken Lyrics] (Stevie Wonder)
37 Master Blaster [Jammin'] (Stevie Wonder)
38 Do I Do (Stevie Wonder)
39 We Demand World Peace Today (Stevie Wonder)
40 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man [Edit] (Joan Baez)
41 talk (Joan Baez)
42 Warriors of the Sun (Joan Baez)
43 Imagine (Joan Baez)
44 Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)
45 talk (Joan Baez)
46 With God on Our Side (Joan Baez & Bob Dylan)
47 A Pirate Looks at Forty (Joan Baez & Bob Dylan)
48 Blowin' in the Wind (Joan Baez & Bob Dylan)
49 talk (emcee)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/rZFaw6jr
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/XxOyn7vxXc2PzU7/file
The cover image of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan is from this exact concert.
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