Barry Gold Burg, a praised keyboard player who participated in the Bob Dylan Epola Electric Set at the 1965 New Port Fork Festival and slid a side door into a rock pantone, was on January 22 in the Tazana area of Los Angeles. I died. He was 83 years old.
His son, Alam Goldberg, said that his death in the hospital was a complication of lymphoma.
Goldberg was part of the waves of white musicians that appeared in Chicago in the 1960s. Among other people, the singer and harmonica player Paul Butterfield and the guitarist Michael Bloomfield have created a unique brand lock.
In his career, he led a guitarist and a band with Steve Mirror, a future hit maker, and said Mitch Rider and Detroit Wheels' 1966 hits, “Devil's Blue Dress On/Good Goli Misumory,” Album by Bird, Leonard Cohen and Ramones.
Moved to San Francisco in the mid -1960s, Goldberg joined his high school friend Bloomfield. Singer Nick Graveenite, another believer in Chicago Blues. Drummer Baddy Miles, who later cooperated with Jimi Hendrix, forms an electric flag, a simple blue rock costume played at the Montley International Pop Festival in 1967 on a psychedelic wave. I will do it.
Goldberg also made a mark as a songwriter. He cooperated with Country Rock's Pioneer Gram Persons, released by Flying Briteau Brothers in 1969, “Do you know it is lonely?” “You have to use your imagination.”
Despite his long resume, Goldberg probably won the first order as the first folk singer, but in 1965 on the stage of Lordi's New Port on an electric band leather jacket. It will be the closest to Dylan who has stepped in forever. And the amplified fender stratocasters and legends burned the ears of a furious audience filled with folk traditional. The history set is represented by the climax scene of the movie “A Complete Unknown” nominated for the Academy Awards.
Everything that means has been discussed for 60 years.
Barry Joseph Goldberg was born in Chicago on December 25, 1941, the only child of Frank Goldberg, and owned a leather sunburn plant.
In addition to his son, he survived by his wife, Gale Goldberg.
He studied the piano from his mother and learned confidence in performance despite his lifetime stage jitter. “I have a lot of relationships with my mother forced to play for strangers when I was eight or nine,” he once told the Jewish newspaper Dan Epstein.
But his true music education came late at night and listened to South Blues artists on his transistor radio. “I was able to feel the excitement by being released by music,” he said in an interview with the Bloomfield Note in 1996. “It was wild and incompatible,” he added.
By the middle of him, he was traveling to Bloomfield on a Blue Scrub on the south side of the city. There, they were mixed with celebrities like muddy sea, Howlin Wolf and Buddy Guy.
At the age of 18, he began to play with the lobby and the Torbadur. The New York band was a rush street nightclub that Goldberg called “Bourbon Street in Chicago”, which was cashed into The Twist Craze. Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion.
When Paul Butterfield Bluesband was invited to play the New Port Festival on the same Sunday as Dylan in 1965, Goldberg traveled to Newport with the band because he was expecting to sit down. The person who produced the first album informed Goldberg that he did not want a keyboard player on stage. (Another keyboard player, Mark Naphtalin, will participate in the band a few months later.)
“That's all,” Goldberg remembered in the 2022 event written in forward with Epstein. “In one minute, I was completely alone and I didn't have a gig after spending the biggest time. That just destroyed me.”
Fate will change at the party, along with Bloomfield and Goldberg, with other butterfield sideman, Bloomfield and Goldberg are drafted in an improvised backing band. Al -Cooper, who played the organ part of Dylan's “like a rolling stone”, played the organ. Goldberg played the piano.
For Goldberg, it was a natural fit. “We were three Jewish men in the Midwest, who had similar backgrounds, similar attitudes, and the same clothes,” he recalled earlier. “When I met Bob at a party, he was wearing tapered pants and sharp boots like me. Bob plays music not only” making scenes “. I was able to tell you that you were in a new port. “
Before Dylan's performance, the tremor was already felt by sound check. Goldberg recalled Peter, Paul, and Mary's Peter Yarou, who served as an MC that night, saying that he continued to shout at us. “Every time Yarou shouted to us, I was able to see Michael GLA like” Oh, just waiting. ” “
“When we continued,” he said in a video interview in 2018, “Michael raised his guitar at the age of nine. It was just impressive.”
He added, “This was a rock and roll.”
Dylan's electric set became famous immediately, but only three songs: “Maggie's Farm”, “Like A Rolling Stone”, “Laughing a lot of time and a train is needed to cry”. It did not last. Later, he returned to a short sound encore.
Performance was one of the most earthquakes in the 20th century, as described in countless evaluations as “complete unknown”. Dylan tilted the world of popular music from the axis, and yesterday said goodbye to a relaxing thing for the countless incandescent festival tomorrow. By lock.
There is another view. “Mostly, Dylan represents a young man and the future, and the booing people have been stuck in the past,” said Eliya Wald, Dylan Gose Electric! (2015). “However, the audience had another version that represents hopes and hope, and Dylan closed himself behind the electric noise wall and trapped into the castle of wealth and power.”
Nevertheless, the new era was welcome for Goldberg. “Finally, there were cheers as well as booing,” he said in an interview with the 2013 Rolling Stone Magazine. The upset people probably said, “I felt betrayed by him.” “But Bob was creating new kinds of music, but after we were over, everyone knew how special it was.”
