![]() The Top 10 Best Bob Dylan Songs About Women.We’d both wait until we were summoned by Dylan. Mick never talked about the old days with Bowie and the Spiders From Mars, he just blended in with everyone else on that tour. The level of quality was incredible we were all living high on the hog. It must have cost Dylan a lot, because he was putting us all into luxury resorts. The Rolling Thunder tour parked there for a couple of weeks. I remember running him around the Belleview Biltmore Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, in a wheelchair. Mick was a Vodka Collins man, which was a sort of lemonade with vodka. We’d be taking advantage of the hospitality suite every night. Mick and I were drinking buddies on the Rolling Thunder tour. There were about 300 people on the road with him. It was like a travelling artists’ colony. He wanted to revive the spirit of Greenwich Village with Rolling Thunder. That’s when he invited me to go on the tour. One time we were up there and he said: “I wanna do something different, man.” When I asked what he meant, he said: “I dunno, maybe something like a circus.” Six months later I was in New York and bumped into him in the Village. He liked the house a lot and wanted to rent it from me. He was often a visitor at my house in Malibu. He really hadn’t changed by the time he asked me to do the Rolling Thunder tour with him. I first met Dylan in the early days of The Byrds. That’s where I got the idea for the riff for Eight Miles High. It didn’t have a TV but it had electricity, so we plugged a Fender Amp in there, taped a cassette player on top and listened to John Coltrane and Ravi Shankar. Those Dick Clark tours really weren’t that good to be on, though The Byrds did manage to get our own transportation: a Clark Cortez, which was one of the first medium sized motor homes. I didn’t get involved with, but he was there all the time. On the bus there was a rolling poker game he always played. The Byrds toured with Bo Diddley as part of Dick Clark’s Caravan Of Stars. When you talked to him he was just a regular guy, but he really played that image of his well. He was a really sharp guy, and knew a lot about how to project an image. He was very clever and artistic, into things like Kurt Weill. We played together at the Whisky but didn’t really get to know each other well then. David Crosby didn’t like him, but I always had a lot of respect for Jim Morrison. He was just on his way down to Dane County for his trial. I met him once on a 747 airplane, when they used to have a bar upstairs. What happened to you?” Elvis just sort of mumbled: “Well, I’m makin’ movies now.” And that was the extent of the meeting. John had said: “Hey, Elvis, you used to make some really great rock’n’roll records. When I asked them later how it was, they told me he was sitting on the arm rest of a couch and had a bass guitar plugged into his stereo. So I waited at the house until they got back. I asked George if I could tag along, but he said he just didn’t think it would be right. One time I was hanging out at The Beatles’ house in Bel Air when they were invited to go and meet Elvis. I told John Lennon about that and he went: “Aah, yeah!” So that’s where he got the idea for his. Look up at the street lights and move your head around they’re groovy!” So when I got out to LA, I dug out a little pocket money and went to the optometrist’s to have some made up. I was walking down MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village one night, about three in the morning, and Sebastian was walking towards me with these little round shades. In The Byrds, I’d got the idea for wearing granny glasses from John Sebastian. He was kind of dangerous, too, but Paul’s personality mellowed him out. ![]() He could be a little mean-spirited, but he was funny. I liked his wit he had a real firecracker humour. ![]()
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