-just not the same without Rob....sorry Joan, was standing up sweating and screaming the first time I heard this covered live....British Steel Tour ....(wanna hear Joan cover "Island of Domination")

I dunno Choggie, I was brought up on the Priest version as well, but Joan is just so awesome here...

"Diamonds & Rust" was a 1975 song written and performed by Joan Baez, which is said to describe her relationship with Bob Dylan ten years prior. In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time, to a seedy hotel in Greenwich Village. She recalls giving him a pair of cuff links, and summarizes that memories bring "diamonds and rust" (time both turns dirty charcoal into beautiful diamonds and shiny metal into ugly rust). Dylan is never specifically named in the song, but Baez has admitted in her memoir as well as in a number of interviews that he is the inspiration for the song. (from Wikipedia)

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This is such a wonderful song and by far the best Joan Baez has written in my opinion.

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...whoah.

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