Directed by Joel Gilbert
Gilbert's documentary will be many things to many people, depending on how deep your interest in Dylanology is. From its title, the documentary purports to be about two of Dylan's most famous world tours as seen through the lens of tour photographer Barry Feinstein. Those tours took place during the years 1966, when Dylan decided to give up his role as the king of folk music to play electric rock 'n' roll, and 1974, when Dylan returned to touring after a self-imposed period of seclusion following his motorcycle accident. The Band backed Dylan on both tours and the 1974 tour can be heard on the album Before The Flood.
Feinstein is a very good photographer. His work has graced the pages of Time, Esquire, Newsweek, and Look. He shot album covers for Janis Joplin's Pearl and Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin'. He worked as a cameraman on Easy Rider, Monterey Pop and even directed You Are What You Eat. Throughout the documentary we see a number of his photos of Dylan, most of which are revealed for the first time. He talks about the art of photography and the techniques he employed. He was asked by Dylan and Life magazine to cover the 1966 tour, which he shot in black and white only. Then he went out on the 1974 tour, adding color to his palette. The 1974 tour was Feinstein's last because it was so good that he believed any other tour would pale in comparison.
The documentary appeared to be a nice tribute to a man who was a talented artist in his own field and was a witness to some memorable events in the world of popular music. However, when the documentary and Gilbert venture off to cover Dylan's downtime between tours by retracing Dylan's steps in Woodstock and Greenwich Village, we see the true purpose of the documentary is for Gilbert to live out his Dylan fantasies. Gilbert is the lead singer of the Dylan tribute band Highway 61 Revisited, wrote a book about Dylan's guitar technique and even tries to appear like Dylan. The similarities start and end with the shirts and sunglasses he wears, though.
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— go to most recent comments1 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
good stuff El Bicho. i picked this up today, and look forward to the interview with Weberman, a truly demented character.
2 - Daithí Mac Lochlainn
...for further info on A.J. Weberman:
http://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/2005/02/patriot-act-potheads.html
3 - AJ Weberman
El Bitcho is a good name for this little bitch who should be bitch slapped all over the real estate. AJ happens to be the only dude who can interpet Tarantula, who has any insight into Dylan's symbolism and is willing to write about it. McCartney ain't about to do this nor is Paul Simon nor is John Lennon of course. Check http://home.nyc.rr.com/dylanology/ and find out what Weberman has to say for himself.
4 - Eric Olsen
never trust anyone who writes about himself in the third person
5 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
-COUGH-
6 - Eric Olsen
in a comment
7 - ClubhouseCancer
"...only person who can interpret Tarantula..."
This is a lie. I speak fluent Tarantula, and have been Tarantuland's official interpreter to the UN since 1975.
8 - Eric Olsen
El Bicho, very nice job - sounds very strange.
Regarding AJ, hey, relative to Mark David Chapman, he's hardly obsessive at all!
9 - Alan Weberman
LAU: “Entering the pink (pinko " a Communist or Communist sympathizer) highway (express road to fame in America) - your black (doomed to failure, hopeless) mongrel (impure) vagabond (unfaithful lover), your rat (a traitor to your beliefs not involved in a fierce, unending competition for success, wealth) from Delphi (an oracle, a prophet) - now he shall tattle on your nauseous (rejected) bra (supporter " Dylan himself) - your hair (and will also expose the style of your art) in chains (linked and dependant on the socialist realism that came before it).” (Tarantula 1966)
10 - AJ Weberman
Chapman - Lennon was close friend of mine sports fan.
11 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
can i be a weberman too? last night i went through my neighbours garbage to see if any might be in the taliban. they weren't, but i think one of them was Donovan.
12 - ClubhouseCancer
Duke, yer better off sittin' home investigatin' yourself.
Hope you don't find anything!
Love,
"Zimmy"
13 - Eric Olsen
Duker, kindly interpret "Sunshine Superman" based upon your refuse gleanings
14 - AJ Weberman
address yourself to the tarantula translations. Garbology is a science taught at several institutions of higher education and an accepted journalistic practice. What have you invented?
15 - Eric Olsen
The words of the late John Vernon come to mind: "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son"
16 - ClubhouseCancer
For the life of me, I will never understand what drives a person to deliver the ultimate profane insult " one that would literally be illegal face-to-face " to someone whom they have never met.
It's sad, really. But above that, it's just tiring to people who actually want to exchange ideas and information.
17 - Eric Olsen
yes, it is unfortunate when we have to edit and then ban people for being deranged fuckplugs
18 - ClubhouseCancer
Yes, and that.
19 - Eric Olsen
but then it would be unrealistic to expect temperate behavior from a documented obsessive-stalker-trash picker, wouldn't it?
20 - ClubhouseCancer
That actually didn't sound like the real Weberman, in truth.
21 - Eric Olsen
I wouldn't know
22 - Eric Olsen
the IP for all the comments is th esame, and all but the last one link to his website
23 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
really? wow. so we may have been in the presence of THE al weberman. well thats just absurd.
Clubhouse, incidentally, i LOVE that song. heh. I did hear a version of it recently, well, couple years ago, were the references to communism were changed to terrorists. i thought it might have been todd snider, but a google search reveals only the lyrics to said ditty. Any ideas?
And it turned out Sunshine Superman was about crows. I don't know either. Hippies, man.
24 - ClubhouseCancer
Never heard it ("Talking John Ashcroft Blues?"), but I have been reminded of the song many times in the past three years or so, Duke. Sounds like a good idea.
And if that WAS Weberman, whatever. I've had run-ins with him before. Boring.
Is Todd Snider good? Heard of, but haven't heard.
25 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
todd snider is fantastic. There's a thing hidden away in the back-pages (no pun intended) of my site, so far back that i have even included it in the brand-new look type stuff.
http://www.mondoirlando.com/mondo_mash.html
it's just a few songs one after the other in one file, but there's one of Sniders more comedic efforts up first.
I intend to delete that page sometime soon, but not for a few days i'm sure.