Was looking for your story about Dylan and The Band's first show being in Austin to post this suggestion but didn't see it, so it's out of place but at least in similar time period.. Am a Dylan nerd and long time appreciator of your articles and am looking forward to your Austin music history book's release. Thanks for sharing the chapter portions.. I've mentioned several to some of my long-time Austin friends who are also looking forward to it...
Here's a suggested tidbit for your consideration as possible book inclusion in case you were unaware and it's not too late and it may be useful. I just heard Dylan's interview with Detroit DJ of WDTM Radio on Oct 24 1965. About 12:24, they're talking about all the crowds where half bood or walked out etc, Dylan credits the Austin (and Dallas) audiences as being only ones he's aware of where he knows that they received a strongly enthusiastic and positive reaction from audience. He describes getting a strong feeling that audience "got it" and could appreciate what he and band were doing because they understood the feeling behind what they were doing. He recounts "they clapped and went crazy after every verse" of Just Like Tome Thumbs Blues.
A unique aspect of the interview is Dylan being unusually open and cooperative with interviewer Alan Stone. A few things seem to explain Dylan giving unusually detailed and thoughtful answers and overall cooperation during the 19 minute interview before their sound check/rehearsal. As he mentions, he was of the only DJ's in Detroit that regularly played the first several Dylan records. He had interviewed Dylan a year earlier while still a solo artist and not yet the pop star he currently was, so they'd met and Dylan seemed to trust him. He was well prepared with well thought out questions and respectful to Dylan and his work throughout. And, last but not least, as he mentions in his humble understatement of a comment after pointing out to whoever posted it to YouTube that they misspelled his name, says "Bob insisted we share a bottle of wine before the interview, but it still worked."
Am guessing you may have checked when you wrote the piece about the Austin '65 Dylan & lineup that became the band's first show, but if it's possible to find anyone that was actually at that Austin show and remembers details of it, or a review that mentions details of show, I think it would be interesting to get any recollection they may have of the audience's reaction and specifically clapping after every verse of Tom Thumb's Blues and if they sensed same thing Dylan did about audience "getting it". Just Dylan crediting the Austin audience the way he does in this interview is pretty cool and interesting itself. And coming from Dylan at the time, a big compliment in my opinion.
Transcription of Austin audience related comments from 12:24 into interview: "I'll tell you. It's like it's more like we only played one place so far where I know, I had this very powerful feeling, and that's in Dallas Texas you know and in Austin Texas.. We played concerts down there and we played Tom Thumb's Blues it's called..I don't know if you're acquainted with it or not?..Yes. They knew the feeling, you know what it was all about you know and they clapped after every verse and went wild you know. I mean they really knew. They may not have known exactly maybe what it was all about but they knew the feeling of it. They're very close to the whole Mexican color and everything down there you know and it's the way things feel.."
I have wondered whether Teodar Jackson was related to Stonewall Jackson of the Capital City Quartet. Cactus Pryor told me that as a youth he saw Stonewall perform and viewed him as something as a role model. Stonewall sang bass, Cactus baritone.
Was looking for your story about Dylan and The Band's first show being in Austin to post this suggestion but didn't see it, so it's out of place but at least in similar time period.. Am a Dylan nerd and long time appreciator of your articles and am looking forward to your Austin music history book's release. Thanks for sharing the chapter portions.. I've mentioned several to some of my long-time Austin friends who are also looking forward to it...
Here's a suggested tidbit for your consideration as possible book inclusion in case you were unaware and it's not too late and it may be useful. I just heard Dylan's interview with Detroit DJ of WDTM Radio on Oct 24 1965. About 12:24, they're talking about all the crowds where half bood or walked out etc, Dylan credits the Austin (and Dallas) audiences as being only ones he's aware of where he knows that they received a strongly enthusiastic and positive reaction from audience. He describes getting a strong feeling that audience "got it" and could appreciate what he and band were doing because they understood the feeling behind what they were doing. He recounts "they clapped and went crazy after every verse" of Just Like Tome Thumbs Blues.
A unique aspect of the interview is Dylan being unusually open and cooperative with interviewer Alan Stone. A few things seem to explain Dylan giving unusually detailed and thoughtful answers and overall cooperation during the 19 minute interview before their sound check/rehearsal. As he mentions, he was of the only DJ's in Detroit that regularly played the first several Dylan records. He had interviewed Dylan a year earlier while still a solo artist and not yet the pop star he currently was, so they'd met and Dylan seemed to trust him. He was well prepared with well thought out questions and respectful to Dylan and his work throughout. And, last but not least, as he mentions in his humble understatement of a comment after pointing out to whoever posted it to YouTube that they misspelled his name, says "Bob insisted we share a bottle of wine before the interview, but it still worked."
Am guessing you may have checked when you wrote the piece about the Austin '65 Dylan & lineup that became the band's first show, but if it's possible to find anyone that was actually at that Austin show and remembers details of it, or a review that mentions details of show, I think it would be interesting to get any recollection they may have of the audience's reaction and specifically clapping after every verse of Tom Thumb's Blues and if they sensed same thing Dylan did about audience "getting it". Just Dylan crediting the Austin audience the way he does in this interview is pretty cool and interesting itself. And coming from Dylan at the time, a big compliment in my opinion.
Transcription of Austin audience related comments from 12:24 into interview: "I'll tell you. It's like it's more like we only played one place so far where I know, I had this very powerful feeling, and that's in Dallas Texas you know and in Austin Texas.. We played concerts down there and we played Tom Thumb's Blues it's called..I don't know if you're acquainted with it or not?..Yes. They knew the feeling, you know what it was all about you know and they clapped after every verse and went wild you know. I mean they really knew. They may not have known exactly maybe what it was all about but they knew the feeling of it. They're very close to the whole Mexican color and everything down there you know and it's the way things feel.."
Link to misspelled "Bob Dylan Allen Stone Interview": https://youtu.be/YB2hmVDErAg?t=742
I have wondered whether Teodar Jackson was related to Stonewall Jackson of the Capital City Quartet. Cactus Pryor told me that as a youth he saw Stonewall perform and viewed him as something as a role model. Stonewall sang bass, Cactus baritone.