Ha Ken
(& thanks for the comments on my snap)
I agree with both you & Donovan; Dylan probably played little games
with Everyone, but if you read the Donovan commentary, he seems to have
generally enjoyed being with the big D.
My friend Stephen Scobie is a big time Dylan fan & has published a fine
work of criticism on the man & his work; I am just something of a fan,
but did keep up with all the reviews in Rolling Stone more or less,
especially in the early days. And you're right, The Band was a great
live band; I saw them first on the Great Canadian Rock train in late 69
& they burned. There's a film of that trip, with Joplin, The Band, The
Grateful Dead & many others....
Doug
On 30-Sep-05, at 12:44 PM, Ken Wolman wrote:
> Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> There's a bit from Donovan's memoir about being with Dylan in The
>> Guardian the other day. He seems not to feel he was all that
>> dismissed.
>
> From where I sat it sure looked like Dylan was playing games with him.
> I'll take Donovan's word for it--he was the one on what might have
> been the receiving end.
>
>> A lot of the footage in the Scorcese film is from Don't Look Back, or
>> its out takes. One of the most interesting things for me, as someone
>> who absolutely loved the rawer electric stuff from the get -go, is
>> just how amazing his performances with what was to become The Band
>> are; & the stiff -upper lip rejection by so many of his British fans.
>> And the great humour in the interviews with others, like Al Kooper,
>> who's a hoot.
>
> ...and it all brings back evenings in the East Bronx with my old
> friend Hank Berman, out of our skulls (did I really say that?:-),
> listening to Dylan's early electric stuff. I was mesmerized. I was
> surprised that when he brought the small-b band onstage at Shea
> Stadium in 1965, some guy is supposed to have yelled "You scumbag!" at
> Dylan, who replied "Aw, come on now...." Did I hear right that they
> found the guy in the UK who shouted out "Judas!"?
>
> I'm sitting here with a newly purchased two CD set from his 1975 tour.
> Some of the early stuff he kept doing..."Hattie Carroll," "Blowin' in
> the Wind," "It Ain't Me, Babe," "Hard Rain." Personally I think Joan
> Baez sang the last one much better, and I'm not thrilled with the cuts
> he made in "Tangled Up In Blue," but hell, it's Dylan.
>
> I managed to hear The Band up in Binghamton in 1969. It was the best
> concert by a rock band that I ever heard.
>
>> And, looking at the way the press treated him, it seems the only way
>> to sruvive was to act as he did, go hide behind the wit & the shades.
>
> Curious--I can't think of one review of his work that I ever read. It
> wasn't that I didn't see any, I just didn't care.
>
> ken
>
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