After MT's brief and odd tour with Alvin Lee in late '81, he rejoined Mayall's Bluesbreakers for a Reunion Tour of Australia. The band included Colin Allen (D) and John McVie (
. They were booked into the Roxy in LA for some warm-up gigs. When the owner of 3 clubs in the Bay Area heard about it, he booked them into his clubs, so the Reunion Tour actually started there. When they did play the Roxy a few days later, Dylan came backstage and suggested doing some stuff with Taylor. Taylor did studio work with Dylan on the Infidals album in '83. Taylor ended the Reunion Tour period in Spring '84 and joined Dylan to get ready for the Summer European Tour. The "Real Live" album came from that tour.
The '84 European Tour is not popular with the Bobcats, but it is treasure trove for Taylor fans. There is hardly a bad recording from that tour and many of them have a consistent and wonderful sound quality with good bass whumf! Someone (a stagehand?) used fine equipment and was up close. The tour was under-rehearsed and the band started sloppy, but got better as it went along. Amazing that Taylor could walk on stage and play the songs he did with minimal preparation. He's a pro and an artist.
Van Morrison joined Bob on stage at a few shows. Santana joined the band on the electric encore numbers (Those who like to call Taylor's playing on CYHMK 'Santana-esque" should hear this. You'll KNOW what Taylor and Santana are playing and recognize a difference!). At the Wembley show EC joined the band along with Van and Chrissie Hynde. Talk about guitar pros...MT and EC! There is a partial video of that show. If you want to see the happiest person on earth, ever, watch Hynde. She's in RnR heaven on earth!
There are so many good recording from that tour, it is hard to name them all, but, yes, Barcelona comes to mind first. It also has the advantage of being later in the tour when the band is hitting its stride.
Taylor is immensely proud of having worked with Dylan.