Pete Seeger with Dennis & Mike

[Myk Luhv]

He should've done "Be True To Your School". It went to #6 you know!

[bgas]

"The guy on the left" is Dennis Hopper. "The guy in the white shirt" is young Bobby Zimmerman, I've been told, but I don't believe it myself.

Also, the guy on the right is Dave Van Ronk, the one that the film "Inside Llewyn Davis" is based upon.  Major influence on Dylan, and generally overlooked artist.

Yes! That film is on my "must see" list, for many reasons including being a fan of the Coen Brothers, of that period in music, and of cats...

  It's a well done movie, but the pacing is really     S    L    O    W.   
I'Ding Van Ronk and Hopper is easy, what about the guys in the background and the hands to the left and  right....

...if he was so admit about doing a BBs song.

So what ?  Doesn't make any sense.

 

It's hard to  believe I'm the only one here that knew right away, from the context of the post, that SMB meant to write Adam Ant(Good thing Mikie didn't see it yet, he'd jump down yer throat!)

[Andrew G. Doe]

...if he was so admit about doing a BBs song.

So what ?  Doesn't make any sense.

 

It's hard to  believe I'm the only one here that knew right away, from the context of the post, that SMB meant to write Adam Ant(Good thing Mikie didn't see it yet, he'd jump down yer throat!)

Oh, I knew what he meant but... well... y'know... I'm me. 

[Sheriff John Stone]

I'Ding Van Ronk and Hopper is easy, what about the guys in the background and the hands to the left and  right....

Behind Dylan....Melanie?

[Pretty Funky]

Second - We don't know whether Mike is Republican or Democrat, and I don't care; it is his business.

In case anyone cares...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlnL-a5bReE


Oracle Carl hits the nail on the head in the 'folk music' debate at 1.50. Case closed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8JQOuVDVVU

[Jay]

I remember another version of California Girl with Mike singing solo, more jazzy. Maybe with John McLaughlin on electric guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex21XSzT2do

here it is 

Dafuq?  That was truly one of the strangest things I've ever heard.

[rn57]

I'm halfway tempted to email Deni Frend, the woman who helped Phil organize this show, and ask her just how Mike wound up on the bill.  Chip Monck's TV show, from where the Love/Lloyd clip above derives, was taped in a New York studio, several weeks ahead of airtime, and it could have been that Phil bumped into Mike on the street when the latter was in town to do Monck's program, and impulsively asked him to do the show in order to get some more tickets sold.

(The Felt Forum, where the Evening With Salvador Allende show was done, seated just over 4000 and less than a thousand tickets had been sold until the day before the event, which is when Dylan finally agreed to play and the concert sold out after Phil announced this on WBAI radio.)

[Myk Luhv]

Phil Ochs knew Van Dyke Parks, didn't he, and they were close friends too, weren't they? Could Van Dyke have had something to do with Mike appearing at that concert?

[rn57]

Phil Ochs knew Van Dyke Parks, didn't he, and they were close friends too, weren't they? Could Van Dyke have had something to do with Mike appearing at that concert?

Both Van Dyke and Phil possessed a sometimes wicked sense of humor - that was one reason for their close friendship - but I don't think it would have gotten *that* wicked.

I have noticed that in the lengthy accounts of the Evening With Allende show in both Ochs biographies (by Marc Eliot and Michael Schumacher), Mike's presence goes completely unmentioned. 

[Ed Roach]

"The guy on the left" is Dennis Hopper. "The guy in the white shirt" is young Bobby Zimmerman, I've been told, but I don't believe it myself.

Also, the guy on the right is Dave Van Ronk, the one that the film "Inside Llewyn Davis" is based upon.  Major influence on Dylan, and generally overlooked artist.

Yes! That film is on my "must see" list, for many reasons including being a fan of the Coen Brothers, of that period in music, and of cats...
Dave Van Ronk is the one who staked a claim to the arrangement of "House Of The Rising Sun" which eventually made it's way from Dylan to the Animals and worldwide success. I think it was the Scorcese Dylan doc where Van Ronk tells a version of the story, no real malice after 45 years or so, but mentioning that they (Animals through Dylan?) got that unique arrangement from watching him play the song.

And Dave Van Ronk was also a friend of Peter Tork, I wish I could recall some of the details and even if Van Ronk made it to Los Angeles to hang out with Tork after he was holding court at his mansion/den of iniquity in the wake of his Monkees money coming in.

Funny enough, just stumbled upon this documentary on Showtime, Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).  Amazing coincidence is that the concert is filmed in New York's Town Hall, the very place where Dennis' solo show was booked!  Ah, to look at the shots of that house, and think of the rehearsals, and think of what might have been...   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3358552/

[rn57]

On Friday, the talented but pretty troubled actor of the '60s, Christopher Jones, died in LA, at 72, which reminded me of his most famous role as rock star-turned-President Max Frost in the 1968 film Wild In The Streets.  Which in turn reminded me that in the fall of 1966 Phil Ochs was sent the script for this movie, and asked if he'd like to play Frost. 

Although there was nothing that Phil would have liked better than to be a movie star, he turned down the part because he thought the screenplay represented teenagers and the counterculture in a negative light - which it does, pretty much.  But it could be that the rock star/politician concept in it later was an influence on his idea that the only hope for America lay in Elvis becoming Che Guevara. 

(Jones was a friend of Jim Morrison and when performing songs like the hit "Shape Of Things To Come" in the film is evidently copying the Lizard King's moves - though his singing voice was dubbed.)