Hurricane

During the final jam, Dylan, Young, and company played eight songs, including I Want You, The Wait, Helpless, and a version of Knockin' on Heaven's Door sung as Knockin' on the Dragon's Door, supposedly aimed at school board superintendent Robert Alioto, before everyone then joined in on Will the Circle Be Unbroken.

In many respects, having the benefit as a raison d'être, celebrity speeches, individual performances featuring musicians' signature songs, and a culminating singalong, it followed a template that Night of the Hurricane would similarly follow toward the end of 1975.

The Melody Maker described it as, "The most important musical event San Francisco has ever seen, harkening back to times when rock wasn't all hype and money and problems and slick showmanship." Unfortunately, and infamously, Dylan's vocal mic was not working at the SNAKK benefit, so the recordings barely register Dylan's voice.

Here, however, is a sample from Knockin' on the Dragon's Door.

[singing] someplace by Rahway Prison they ran out of gas.

In early June of 1975, Dylan was back in the States in the East Coast.

He visited Ruben Hurricane Carter at Rahway State Prison in New Jersey.

He would later visit him along with the Rolling Thunder Revue at Clinton State Prison.