i've lost my harmonica, albert?

great tv interview with gordon lightfoot

the dylan content begins at 7:15 where he recalls

the 1965 newport folk festival.





edited to add footage of newport rehearsal and comments from the likes of bruce, petty, etc.







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i might start using this thread for clips of folks speaking about bob.

here john cougar mellencamp's two great heroes: bob dylan and the dalai lama.

about six minutes in

tom petty tokyo 1986 on touring with bob and farm aid

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Fekk, we are in the presence of Minimalist Genius.....or not.

is that a backlash at the backslash. I decided to remove my little dribbling because I found it lacking and patently obvious and I'm looking for my harmonica.

I'll throw ya one.want an E or an F?

I've had enough Fs thrown at me in my life

Which song is Tom Petty talking about that Bob wrote and Tom produced (sounds like it was for the Hearts of Fire soundtrack)?

band of the hand

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band of the hand

Must be one of the worst things he has ever done.

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I've had enough Fs thrown at me in my life

Bah Goom, I'll throw ya an eeeeee then.

thanks rich, that's the idea. we're back on track.

here's the first part of that brief documentary from the first post.

[www.bbc.co.uk]

scroll down to Dylan and the King

Lamar Fike, one of Elvis Presley's 'Memphis Mafia', recalls what Elvis made of Bob

Damn...Old Lamar still kickin eh? I can't open that clip for some reason. I remember that scurrilous guy who wrote Biographies,dishing the dirt.can't recall his name.did one on Elvis and one on Lenon...............he told how Elvis was booked into a Hospital to have his intestine cut back.but he changed his mind,but because he had paid for it he GAVE the Op to Lamar for his Xmas.and made him go through it.......what a bunch of red necked assholes.

"Lynn Goldsmith" - oy, go ahead


"Sting"


Al
Why I had to defend this guy on that now defunct site .... well, yes I do understand
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thanks, richard.

I knew I'd seen that on here before.

"bob dylan invented my job." warren zevon.

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Damn...Old Lamar still kickin eh? I can't open that clip for some reason. I remember that scurrilous guy who wrote Biographies,dishing the dirt.can't recall his name.did one on Elvis and one on Lenon...............he told how Elvis was booked into a Hospital to have his intestine cut back.but he changed his mind,but because he had paid for it he GAVE the Op to Lamar for his Xmas.and made him go through it.......what a bunch of red necked assholes.

Are you talking about Albert Goldman? He wrote an even nastier biography of Lennon. He specialized in vindictive hatchet jobs on deceased rock stars, taking advantage of the fact that you can't libel the dead. I saw him interviewed in a programme about Phil Spector many moons ago; a total nutcase and a truly unpleasant arsehole. Rumours are that he was waiting for Bob to croak to do a similar job on him. However, according to Wikipedia, Goldman himself snuffed it in 1994.

So we are now free to say that Albert Goldman was a bedwetting necrophiliac transvestite who regularly sodomized small furry animals. He would have wanted us to say that.

Thats the very bastard R-C............but he wouldn't have wanted us to say that...he was uncomfortable with the truth.

in this video:

john w. whitehead (never heard of him until now)

steve cropper

"[Bob Dylan's] a good friend. I think the peak of our relationship probably came during his birthday celebration. On his 50th Birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden—I think Duck and I played on 27 different songs. There was more in the show, but we played on 27 different songs (Laughs). It went by like a rocket. We were just tossing chord changes and go on to the next song. What came out of it was pretty good. We’ve always been fans with Bob. We never really worked with him. He came to us. We were playing in Europe and he came backstage, and he said, ‘Hey, they’re going to celebrate my 50th birthday and I’d like the MGs to be my back-up band.' We said give us a call and he did. We decided to do it and we had a lot of fun. That really got us."

So, after the session, Al came to me and said, ‘You told me you’d listen to this guy. You got time?’ I forgot about it, and I said, ‘Oh, okay.’ Everybody’s breaking up their equipment and leaving so we can pick up the next day. I said, ‘Bring him down to the piano.’ I said, ‘What do you do?’ Otis said, ‘I sing a little bit.’ I said, ‘Do you play piano?’ He said, ‘I play a little gut-tar, but I don’t play piano.’ He said, ‘Give me some of those church chords’—he meant those triplets—dut-dut-dut. I started playing in the key of B Flat. Otis started singing “These Arms of Mine”.

I went ‘Holy Moly’. The hair on my arm stood up about four inches. I looked around at everybody and said, ‘Somebody get Jim Stewart in here right now (Laughs)! I said, ‘Jim, listen to this guy.’ Jim said, ‘We got to put that down’.

thanks jane. beautiful.

wasn't he the greatest.

neil young on bob dylan

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bill cosby

[www.tennessean.com]

In your early professional years, you worked at The Gaslight, a Greenwich Village club that is known for being a place where Bob Dylan used to play folk songs.

OK, see, there was a man named Len Chandler, who had a doctorate in music and who played the 12-string guitar. He was one of the regulars, and he was already at The Gaslight before I started working there. I respected him. He'd sing folk songs and put his foot on this tambourine with no head on it: He'd tap his foot so the sound of the tambourine was rhythmic, and then he'd play the 12-string guitar at the same time. He was good. Had his doctorate, understand? A real historian.

I was doing comedy: 15-minute sets after the folk singers did 25-minute sets. I was a break from the folk singing. After I did a set, I'd usually go to the Village Gate and try to catch Sonny Rollins or some jazz musician. But one time, Len said, "I want you to meet somebody," and then words to the effect that this guy he wanted me to meet was going to become great. So he took me back to meet this young man, who was sitting in a chair with his legs crossed. There's a swinging motion that some people make with the top leg that's bent. He was doing that. And he had one of those white mugs so typical of the coffee houses in those days, and the mug had wine in it. He was playing with his hair like Stan Laurel. And Len said, "This is Bob Dylan, this is Bill Cosby." And Bob said, (exaggerates Dylan's raspy mumble) "Hrdyflaaaw." Len and Bob started talking, and I couldn't understand anything Bob was saying, so I said, 'I'll see you later.'

I was used to Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles and maybe throw in Little Richard or Fats Domino, but when I heard this Bob Dylan sing, I'd never heard singing like that. And then the next time I saw him, he'd added a harmonica. I said, "Oh, no." I didn't get any of it. He made it, though, deservedly. It turned out he was a great writer, and the public found him.




Hrdyflaaaw!





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randy newman



Q: Rolling Stone just did a big piece on you, the first in years. But your quote about Dylan having only an "early period" is getting all the notice.

A: Oh! I shouldn't do that. It's hard enough in this business with critics taking shots at you. And taking a shot at the guy who's the best we've ever had, in terms of lyrics, as a rock 'n' roll pop songwriter, is something I shouldn't do. It's just that sometimes I can't resist a joke. It just seems to me that there was a remarkable five albums or so, and then there wasn't. But he's said nice things about me. I regret it every time I do something like that.

Cosby could say more about the mutual struggles then, "living" downstairs at the Village Gate.

a slightly different telling - from an interview with "JazzWax"

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JW: So I hear you turned down Bob Dylan?
AD'L: He had just come to New York City and was playing at Gerdes Folk City on West 4th St. with Joan Baez. He caught me on Bleecker St. one day and asked if he could audition to play at the club. I said, "Now?" He said, "Yes." So I said we should go to the Caricature Cafe on McDougal St. I knew it would be empty in the early afternoon and it was easier going there than turning on all the lights at the Gate. When we got there, Bob took out his guitar and played for me. It was all Woody Guthrie. I said to myself, "I already have Ramblin' Jack Elliott playing the club, who already was doing Guthrie's stuff. What am I going to do with this kid?" Besides, Guthrie was still alive, and Bob was so clearly doing him.

JW: What did you tell Dylan?
AD'L: I listened to Bobby and I was nice and said I'd consider it. At the time, he wasn't big enough to draw a crowd at the Gate. I didn't think doing that close an imitation of Guthrie was going to get him anywhere. A couple of years later he played Town Hall and the event lost money. His big break came in 1961 when Robert Shelton, the New York Times' folk critic, gave him a big write-up. No one was reviewing folk music for newspapers other than copyboys at the time. Even when Bobby made it, I didn't care much for him. It had nothing to do with the music. I just never liked his voice. But the youngsters cottoned up to him. He was very clever to go electric at [the] Newport [Folk Festival] in 1965.

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that's an hour long, richard!


heeeeeeeeeeeeere's johnnnnnnnnnnnnnny!







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The Zimmerman bit is at 31:35

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