Re: Dylan by Scorcese on PBS ... PART TWO IS TUESDAY!!!!

[Helen Graves <javelina>]

Thanks for the preview, Andrew!  You saw it in a cinema?  Lucky you, we're getting it on television here in the States.  And I for one don't own a fancy flat screen.  Night 1 was still FANTASTIC.  Dylan may not be especially linear, but man, is he brilliant and articulate.  Doesn't appear to have lost a single brain cell.

I was fortunate enough to know John Hammond of Columbia Records when I was a very young woman (18-25) and he was a fantastically interesting and brilliant man, passionate about the music he believed in.  And he continued to care about all of the artists he had worked with even if they had moved on to other labels or whatever.  When he died in the early 1980s after a series of strokes, there was a memorial service in a New York chapel that included jazz musicians, gospel singers, Pete Seeger, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and, of course, Bruce Springsteen.  Dylan did NOT show, and instead Springsteen did a Dylan song, harmonica and all - somewhere in a box I have the name of it written down on the service leaflet.

It was all very intimate and loving - except for two Bruce fans (teased hair black lipstick fishnets stilettos) who sneaked into the balcony and started screaming every time he stood up.  Somehow it didn't matter.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew F Wilson <andrewfwilson>
Sent: Sep 27, 2005 5:44 AM
To: babel-list
Subject: Re: Dylan by Scorcese on PBS ... PART TWO IS TUESDAY!!!!

Part Two has lots of great stuff, including the Newport Folk Festival 1965,
an outtake from Don't Look Back with Bob doing Subterranean Homesick Blues
on the roof of the Savoy Hotel in London, outtakes from Eat the Document,
including the 'Judas' moment from Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1966. I
watched this last week in a cinema. Try and see this on a big screen if you
can!
 Kind regards
  Andrew