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Rare Bob Dylan video from The Last Waltz

Wolfgang’s Vault releases Dylan singing Hazel, I Don’t Believe You and other rare tracks from The Last Waltz

Hazel The Last Waltz 2 Rare Bob Dylan video from The Last Waltz photo

Bob Dylan singing Hazel with The Band at Winterland 1976 (image Wolfgang’s Vault)

(Updated) – Wolfgang’s Vault is showing raw black and white rushes from “The Last Waltz”.

They 52 videos are not perfect but they are fun to watch and show you how things look and sound before they get edited and mixed.

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Will to achieve meets the limits of disability

christmas lights 1 360x270 Will to achieve meets the limits of disability photo

Christmas lights will have to wait photo: aaron delay

It’s hard to wake up and realize that today you can do nothing but rest and pass the time until another better day.

Disabilities present the human spirit with a frustrating paradox. It’s our natural inclination to strive for achievement yet the limits of disability are real and ever present.

The paralyzed accident victim in Holland who lay inert for 26 years is the most extreme example I can think of. He could hear people talking yet he couldn’t move a muscle or communicate. ‘I screamed, but there was nothing to hear’: Man trapped in 23-year ‘coma’ reveals horror of being unable to tell doctors he was conscious Mail Online

Post polio syndrome is a frustrating disability. People rarely get polio today. Before vaccines eradicated the threat by 1960, it was every parents fear that their child would catch the crippling disease.

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James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Phil Ochs – Amchitka Concert

amchitka James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Phil Ochs   Amchitka Concert photoTravel back to 1970 for the concert that started Greenpeace

The hot news for those folks who made it though the 60s is the newly discovered Vancouver concert for Amchitka from October 17, 1970.

Remember when the world was young and we were young in it. When things were changing for the better, when old ways were destined to go, before we grew up and had families and houses and jobs, there were concerts where we celebrated life and our youth. This is one most of us missed.

When music has become a commodity, ever changing without end and without reality this CD can make your heart warm again.

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