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On this day, 11 May 1966, two music greats appeared in Cardiff on the same evening with Bob Dylan playing the Capitol Theatre whilst, just down the road at the Sophia Gardens Pavilion was Johnny Cash.
Backstage at the Capitol Theatre Cash and Dylan played some songs together, just before Dylan was due to go onstage.
Filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker shot Dylan on the 1966 tour and filmed Dylan with the country legend who was at the height of his well-documented pill addiction. He was swallowing Dexedrine and Equanil like candy, and it nearly killed him.
Pennebaker shot Dylan and Cash playing some Hank Williams classics, and it seems like both of them are on the verge of collapse.
It is said that Dylan arrived on stage 30 minutes late looking sharp in a new suit and proceeded to perform a solo acoustic set for the first hour which no doubt went down well with the Welsh folk fraternal but things changed when he and his band plugged in for “new” electric versions that divided opinion amongst his now bewildered audience, some of whom up and left on disgust.
