Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History on the Road and off the Tracks, by Victor Maymudes, Jacob Maymudes
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August 2014 marks 50 years since Bob Dylan released his fourth album, Another Side of Bob Dylan. Recorded in one night, in the middle of a turbulent year in his life, the music marked a departure from Dylan's socially-conscious folk songs and began his evolution toward other directions.During the years they spent together, few people outside of Dylan's immediate family were closer than Victor Maymudes, who was Dylan's tour manager, personal friend, and travelling companion from the early days in 1960s Greenwich Village through the late 90's. Another Side of Bob Dylan recounts landmark events including Dylan's infamous motorcycle crash; meeting the Beatles on their first US tour; his marriage to Sara Lownds, his romances with Suze Rotolo, Joan Baez, and others; fellow travelers Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Wavy Gravy, Dennis Hopper, The Band, The Traveling Wilburys, and more; memorable concerts, and insights on Dylan's songwriting process.On January 26th, 2001, after recording more than 24 hours of taped memories in preparation for writing this book, Victor Maymudes suffered an aneurysm and died. His son Jacob has written the book, using the tapes to shape the story. The result is a vivid, first-hand account of Dylan as an artist, friend, and celebrity, illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, and told by an engaging raconteur who cut his own swathe through the turbulent counterculture.
Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History on the Road and off the Tracks, by Victor Maymudes, Jacob Maymudes - Amazon Sales Rank: #170831 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-10
- Released on: 2015-11-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.16" h x .82" w x 5.48" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History on the Road and off the Tracks, by Victor Maymudes, Jacob Maymudes Review
“A posthumous memoir drawn from tapes of one-time Dylan insider Victor Maymudes…with such intimate exposure, Dylan remains unknowable but interesting.” ―New York Daily News
“An unusual addition to the giant Dylan oeuvre…an intimate, conversational account of Victor's tempestuous friendship with Mr. Dylan.” ―The New York Times
“We are reminded yet again that Dylan remains as meaningful as he was 50 years ago.” ―Narendra Kusnur, Livemint.com
About the Author
VICTOR MAYMUDES was Bob Dylan's tour manager at the beginning of his musical career in the early 1960s. After a brief hiatus in New Mexico, Maymudes rejoined Dylan as his tour manager from 1986 to 1996. He died in January, 2001.
JACOB MAYMUDES is a writer, director and visual effects supervisor working for the Mill in Los Angeles, California.
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74 of 86 people found the following review helpful. The Freewheeling Victor Maimudes Revisited By W.T.Hoffman I was excited to read this biography, since I'm a huge Dylan fan with a CD collection of well over a hundred Dylan titles. Very little has ever been said about Victor Maymudes in previous Dylan biographies. Dylan never mentioned him in CRONICELS. Clinton Heylin's famous biography BEHIND THE SHADES donated two sentences to Victor, one placing him in the 1964 car trip to the deep south, the other was when Dylan rehired Victor as personal assistant for his never ending tour in the late eighties. So who then is this Victor Maymudes, and why did he (with the help of his son) write this tell all book? If you look for answers in the book itself, you will be told that "he understood Bob better than anyone ever understood Bob."(pg.277) and "We had grown up together."(pg. 244) This is typical of the hyperbolic statements made throughout the book, by a man who apparently was a megalomaniac. If Victor knew someone famous was around, he'd try to make contact with them, to collect their friendship, and network them for future business opportunities. (Dylan often screamed at Victor not to bother the other famous musicians on his tour, for this reason.) One of the most prevalent features of the book, is Maymudes love of name dropping. On just one page at random, I counted 16 different names (pg.152), which didn't provide any depth of detail to the narrative. It was only confusing, since most of the names were only mentioned in passing, to impress his readers.Victor's back story began when he created the UNICORN coffee shop with Herb Cohen (Zappa's agent) in LA back in 1955. In 1961, Wavy Gravy told Victor to go to NYC to track down a rising star on the folk scene, Bob Dylan. He met Bob at the Gaslight Café, and they became friends. There's a famous photo of the two of them playing chess together from this period. Victor was hired as Dylan's assistant and road crew, for the 1964 tour, and the 1966 tour, after which he was fired. He had no other contact with Dylan for 23 years, except for a couple of visits, and a contract to build Dylan a house in the desert. Victor was broke in 1987, after his second marriage fell apart, so he called up Dylan for a job. Dylan rehired him. In 1999 Dylan and Victor had a fight, and Dylan never talked to him again without a lawyer present. Victor died in 2001 at the age of 64, after receiving an advance from St Martin's press to write a "tell all book" about Dylan. ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN is that book. The only problem, is that it doesn't really have much to say about Dylan, since Victor was only around him intermittently from 1961 to 1966, and again from 1987 thru 1999. The book starts out slow, with Jacob Maymudes, Victor's son, explaining why he wrote the book, then tracing his family history back several generations. I would have found four generations of backstory hard to digest if it were Dylan's family. The fact that Dylan's tour manager for a few tours would think the general public would be clamoring for this information is beyond me. After 30 odd pages, we finally land in MacDougal Street, Greenwich village, when folk music ruled the hip world. All the names are mentioned, we come to connect with Dylan: Joan Baez, Dave van Ronk, Phil Ochs, Suzy Rotolo, Sarah, Albert Grossman, and so on. The problem is that Victor was not a professional musician, so he didn't really know any of these people (except for Grossman). What we have here are memoires of someone who Dylan saw more as his driver, chess partner and point man, when he was just breaking into his world wide fame. Victor was chasing the dream of wealth and fame in others, he was not able to achieve for himself.The highlight of the book, left me feeling a bit cheated. Victor states he was with Dylan, when Dylan met the Beatles in 1964 and got them really stoned for the first time. However, unlike the four reports of this event that the Beatles published in their ANTHOLOGY book, Victor places himself in the center of all the action. According to this book, Dylan had a couple of drinks and passed out right away, while Victor rolled the joints, and entertained the Beatles (who were supposedly all wearing their matching stage clothing, while relaxing in the hotel). Each of the Beatles, one by one, came up to talk to Victor, asking advice on many subjects, while Dylan slept. The whole Beatles-Dylan encounter just sounds so implausible. Supposedly Paul ran up and hugged Victor for 10 minutes (!) the next morning, and told him that "Its all your fault because I love this pot." This isn't the only place, where a lack of easily obtained information could have made the read a little more historically accurate. At one point, David Crosby wanted Dylan to write a bit for his book about musicians and politics. Well, Victor told Crosby that Dylan wouldn't be contributing to the book, because Dylan was never an activist. When Crosby retorts by saying that Dylan was in Selma Alabama for the historic civil rights march, Victor said that was the only real time Dylan was part of something like that. However, the facts are far more interesting. Dylan and Baez were onstage with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in 8/27/63 for his "I got a dream" speech. How could Victor forget that? The book also reports that Victor turned Dylan onto LSD. Dylan by all accounts never did much acid; his drug was uppers and pot. Victor, tho, was heavily into LSD, taking hundreds of trips from 1964 onwards, as well as constant pot smoking, and other drugs. With as many mind bending drugs as he had in his system, I have to wonder if the particulars of these memories are accurate or not. Especially when many of them cant be vetted by other first hand reports in other biographies.If you want to read about Dylan and Victor's friendship, or working relationship, I'm sure you can get the basic facts in this book. However much of the book is just about Victor, like his life during the late 60s and 70s in the Sante Fe -Taos area, when he built homes, and basically hung out with famous hippies from the LA scene. Much of the book could be seen as a cultural snapshot of a time, a place and a people. Since the book is actually written by Victor's son, based on 12 microcassettes of vague recollections that Victor recorded as preparation for writing his autobiography before he died, apparently Jacob just used his imagination to flesh out the story. Jacob never knew his dad very well (his parents were divorced when he was very young, and Victor was off touring with Dylan's Never Ending Tour while Jacob was growing up), I have to question how much Jacob could accurately render the life of a father he never had much contact with. To make up for this, Jacob read other biographies about Dylan, and other hippie cultural artifacts, to fill in the blanks of this story. Some of the book is interesting to read, other places the words drag on and on. The chapter that talks about Dylan's Never Ending Tour is a disaster. It's just page after page explaining how Dylan was in his bus, and they drove to Harrisburg, and stayed at the Hersey Hotel, and left but got into traffic. Then there was another town, another show, another drive, and then another town. The highlight of that chapter was when, out of the blue, an airplane emptied its septic tank on top of Dylan's touring bus. Dylan's life at that time certainly concerned itself with life on the road, but what does all this tell me about Dylan, that doesn't apply to any touring musician? Jacob could have interviewed the guys from Dylan's band at the time, or Dylan's kids, to get a more complete picture of Dylan's life. But he chose not to. (Or nobody cooperated with him.) The book seems lightweight, for that reason alone.If you are looking for a good book about Dylan's life, you might want to keep looking. Even tho there are a couple of cool chapters, describing Dylan's 1964 car trip, or the early Village folk scene, its not enough to hold your interest throughout the book. Other places, like when Victor talks about how he turned Dylan onto the right clothes to wear (the pocka dot silk shirts), or advised him how to run his career, comes off overstated, to say the least. The 60 pages that make up the Toas chapter was over long, filled with unnessacary name dropping, uninteresting job hopping, and illegal drug shopping. Dylan is barely mentioned. If you are looking for real insight into Dylan's life, read his autobiography. For a more balanced overview of Dylan's professional life, Heylin's BEHIND THE SHADES is my favorite, since it contains so many direct quotes by the people who are only mentioned in "Another Side". Had Jacob Maymudes either known his father better, or had more source material to work with than those 12 disjointed microcassettes and a tour journal from 1989, I think he would have been able to piece together a more detailed, coherent narrative.. Nevertheless, Dylan fans will still want to read Victor's recollections, if only to gain a vicarious thrill from Victor's own connection to Dylan, at a time when Dylan defined hip for the hippie generation.
31 of 36 people found the following review helpful. Another side By Rushmore Bob Dylan is a famously private person. Other than listening to his music and attending concerts, most of us have no idea what he's like. This book based on the title alone promises some insight into the Bob Dylan who exists outside of the recording studio and the concert stage.Jacob Maymudes begins by saying, "I did not want to write this book." That's a pretty attention-grabbing start, as far as I'm concerned. He goes on to tell about the fire that destroyed his mother's home and subsequently coming across a box of microcassettes that his father Victor had intended as the nucleus of a book about his life with Bob Dylan. Victor died of an aneurysm before he could turn the cassettes into a book. Jacob started listening to the tapes, hearing his father's voice from beyond the grave, and knew that he had to turn the memories into the book his father had started.Indeed we do learn a bit more about Bob Dylan, but ultimately to me the tapes are about Victor, and his relationships to Bob and other people in his life including his own family. Victor clearly respects Bob a great deal but does not worship him, so we do get some sense of Bob Dylan the person. Keeping in mind that Victor seems to be stoned pretty much all the time, the narrative could be more coherent and definitely more dynamic - the chapter entitled The Never-Ending Tour did not seem like it was ever going to end.Victor's relationship with Bob is probably less than most of us would expect from the close-friend designation. Victor sometimes managed Bob's tours or purchased property on Bob's behalf that he then remodeled. He provided security at Bob's public appearances. They got stoned together. Most notably, they played chess. Were they best buddies? Not in the way most of us would expect.In my opinion, the compelling narrative is Jacob's. His father was not around much, but when he was, the stories were amazing. Undoubtedly Jacob came to understand Victor much better after his death. In particular the bombshell at the end about the accusations against Victor for statutory rape (and Dylan's probable involvement in getting the charges dropped) forced Jacob to think about his father in a new way.This is not a great book. Dylan scholars will undoubtedly delight in casting Victor as a hanger-on who intended to leverage Bob Dylan's fame into a money-making enterprise. From my perspective, the stories were new to me, and the most arresting aspect was Jacob's struggle to come to terms with his father. The description of Victor's death and the aftermath is quite moving. I really got the sense of the young man who had always lived in the shadow of his mostly absent father - who in turn had lived in the shadow of a legend.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. More about Victor than Bob, but interesting By Kathleen Derevan I am an avid Bob Dylan fan, have been since my teen years, and yet, I don't know much about his private life. He really IS famously private, not the kind of "private" some celebrities claim to be in hopes of seeming mysterious and garnering publicity for it. I have always thought Bob revealed himself in his music (as confounding as that can be at times). Still, the lure of finding "another side" of Dylan was strong when I was offered this book.I have to say it didn't follow through on its promise to reveal a hidden side of Dylan. Still, I'm giving it 4 stars, because I found the story of Victor Maymudes quite interesting. He is a person whose name was only vaguely familiar to me, even though he worked with or for Dylan for many years. Apparently Bob was so angry with Maymudes that he didn't even give him one mention in "Chronicles." The story of how the book came to be written by Maymudes' son was interesting as well, and Jacob Maymude's mother's life is discussed briefly--now THERE is a book that I would love to read. Anyway, I found the story of Victor Maymudes to be worth reading, because it reminded me of the time when Dylan was just starting out in Greenwich Village. I visited Greenwich Village in the 60's as a teenager, and it was exciting stuff for a young girl to be around in those days. It's not a particularly well-written book--as Jacob says, his father never wrote any of it down, preferring to speak it all into a tape recorder. It may only be interesting to an old "hippie" like me, who enjoys the wanderings of another old hippie's mind, but I enjoyed it.
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