#The Rolling Thunder Revue

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bob dylan and joan baez performing during dylan’s rolling thunder revue tour, 1975.

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Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue—Montreal Stables, Montreal, QC, Canada, December 1975 © Ken Regan.

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Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs, Gerdes Folk City, 1975

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Yesterday I bought my ticket for my fifth and final Bob Dylan concert. It'll be at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut on November 11, 2023. That date and venue are significant because that's the same place he performed on that same date during The Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975.

"So I showed up at Waterbury. It was this beautiful theater, the Palace Theatre, in downtown Waterbury. It was like an old Art Deco theater, small, maybe 2,000, 3,000 seats. I was getting settled in when Allen Ginsberg comes out. My first piece for Rolling Stone had just been published, so Ginsberg says, “Do you have a copy of it with you? Bob wants to read it.” I gave it to him and he goes backstage. Then I start watching the show.

I think it was intermission. Lola, the actress comes out with Ginsberg, and says, “Bob is really pissed at you.” I said, “Why? What's the matter?” She says, “He doesn't dig it that you're putting down Ronee Blakley.” And I said, “What are you talking about? I'm not putting down Ronee Blakley!” Then I realized I called her the "Nashville neurotic.” I put it in italics, because the role she played in Nashville was of a neurotic country singer. Ginsberg and Lola run back and start explaining it to Bob. At some point, Lola comes back out from the backstage area and comes to where I was sitting and gives me a big thumbs up sign. By then, I'm watching Dylan. Right after “One More Cup of Coffee,’ the crowd dies down. Dylan turns to the audience, and he starts strumming the first chords to “Sara,” which was one of my favorites. I think I had told Bob that. All of a sudden, I hear him say, “We're going to send this out to Larry. He's out there somewhere.” Some of my friends were actually in the audience and they start squealing, “Larry! Larry!” And Bob goes, “He's our favorite reporter. He tells it like it is.” And then he went into “Sara.” I was just gobsmacked. Not only was he not mad at me, but he said such nice things about me. In fact, when the tour was over, I made business cards. They were folded in half at the front. It was my info and you open it up and it says, "Larry's our favorite reporter. He tells it like it is." - Bob Dylan, 1975. And underneath it says, "I like you, Larry, but you're outta control." -Louie Kemp, 1975." —Larry "Ratso" Sloman, "On The Road with Bob Dylan"

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How she told me that one day we would meet up again And things would be different the next time we wed If I only could hang on and just be her friend I still can't remember all the best things she said

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/ Ken Regan, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan backstage on the Rolling Thunder Revue Tour, 1975

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[70sgroovy]

joan baez and bob dylan photographed by rowland scherman at the newport folk festival, july 25, 1964🥀

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Joan Baez and Bob Dylan onstage at Fort Worth during the Rolling Thunder Revue.

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btw btw

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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019, dir. Martin Scorsese)

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Bob Dylan & Joan Baez, The Rolling Thunder Revue, 1975.

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bob dylan performing "one more cup of coffee", 1975 (featuring scarlet rivera on violin)

[pinkdanko]

cant stop thinking about when in 1965 reporters asked bob dylan if his relationship with joan baez was romantic or just friendly and he was like “yeah, we’re just friends” and then later went on to say “you can’t be wise and in love at the same time” when explaining why he didn’t return the favor of inviting her on stage to perform with him and treating her like she was generally nonexistent during that time

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Joan Baez & Bob Dylan by Ken Regan (1975) During Rolling Thunder Revue Bangor, Me

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