Elsa Dorfman's photographs
By ELSA DORFMAN | November 16, 2006
Bob Dylan was in Lowell with the Rolling Thunder Review, and Allen was staying at our house. Harvey (Silverglate) and I went to the concert. I brought my camera. Although the concert folks were very fussy about no cameras, the Dylan people let me bring mine with me. I went into the Dylan green room with Allen. Dylan was wearing light-blue suede boots. He asked me if I knew where Poe was buried. Where he lived in Boston. Alas, I had no idea. He and Allen fooled around for my camera. This image is one of the only images of Allen and Dylan together. It has a total underground life of its own.
Jonathan (Richman) was staying at our house and Joe Harvard dropped over. They are old Cambridge friends going way, way, way back to Fort Apache, Joe’s mythic recording studio in Roxbury. Joe has a great book on the Velvet Underground and lots on MySpace. Vintage Jonathan on YouTube.
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- Van Morrison
You might call this the Van Morrison equivalent of Bob Dylan’s Modern Times .
- Live and kicking
Yes, we suffer from an embarrassment of riches when it come to live music here in the Boston area.
- The unnamable
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- He’s here!
I’m Not There is an apt name for a bio-pic with six Bob Dylans, none of them the real one.
- Agent Zimmerman
I had just removed his hand — gently, I hope — from my knee when the man in the off-white linen suit told me that he was the one who recruited Bob Dylan into the CIA.
- Covering Dylan
Dylan is his own cover band.
- Lucky 13
Our producers Hall of Fame
- Straight Man Versus Jokerman
Those expecting a night of Sinatra-style duets when Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello shared the bill at the DCU in Worcester were sorely disappointed.
- War zones
The party’s over. Time for the lessons to begin.
- Wasted again
Who was Edie Sedgwick? Was she a muse who inspired some notable work by Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan or just a footnote in their careers? Did she have any talent or accomplishments of her own? Why, in short, does she deserve a bio-pic? Watch the trailer for Factory Girl (QuickTime)
- Bad-news bearers
There are echoes all across Gala Mill (ATP), the new album by the Australian band the Drones. The Drones, "I Don't Ever Want to Change" (mp3)
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Topics:
Museum And Gallery
, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Joe Harvard
