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.
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, 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.
Doug
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There was the usual amount of corruption,
intimidation, and rioting.
Sir Charles Petrie
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