Showing posts with label the band. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the band. Show all posts

Monday, December 6, 2010

It Ain't Me, Babe (?)


About four weeks before The Last Waltz, The Band appeared on the second season of NBC's Saturday Night Live program. Buck Henry was the host.
According to the...clip
(available below) found by Bob Dylan's friend Larry "Ratso" Sloman, there is a close-up of someone in the audience, identified as as "Electoral College Dropout." It's my understanding that if there is a closeup of an audience member, special permission must be obtained. This would explain why these "close-ups" usually featured the same staff members over and over again. Has this been kept a secret for over three decades?
Here's the blurb:
On October 30, 1976, The Band appeared as the musical guest on a weekly late night sketch-based comedy show. About 14 minutes into the episode, a man who looked a lot like Bob Dylan wearing a costume (and possibly prosthetics) was briefly featured in the audience. Could this have actually been Bob Dylan wearing a fake nose, hippie wig, and weird clothing?
What do you think? Is it Dylan? Is it Sloman?

Click here to see the clip; I tried to embed it but couldn't size it correctly. (Sorry 'bout that...)
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Tiny Tim, His Then-Girlfriend & The Band.



Excerpted from Examiner.com:

While (Bob) Dylan was recuperating in Woodstock from his motorcycle accident, he and members of the Band started recording what are now known as The Basement Tapes. When more and more unreleased material fell into the hands of collectors, one thing that eventually surfaced was some recordings with Tiny Tim. Tiny and The Band recorded material for the film, You Are What You Eat, an obscure movie co-produced by Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary). Four known songs preserved on tape from this era are "Sonny Boy", "Be My Baby", "I Got You, Babe", and "Memphis, Tennessee." Dylan probably did not play on these tracks.

It is rumored that Dylan offered Tim a cameo in his unreleased television special, Eat The Document. There are also tales of Dylan and Tim privately performing songs for each other.

Bob Dylan played a Tiny Tim recording on the 11th episode of Theme Time Radio Hour. The subject was "Flowers," and the song Dylan played, was, of course, Tiny's biggest hit, "Tiptoe Through The Tulips," from 1968. Here's what Dylan had to say:

“No one knew more about old music than Tiny Tim. He studied it and he loved it. He knew all the old songs that only existed as sheet music.

Tiny Tim died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 30, 1996, when he was 64.

Goddamn, I would've loved to have been in that basement...

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