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11V TVUOli I U — -- *---Zombies, but he was coming along. He had his own clique of devout supporters. It took a couple of years and a little bit of San Francisco for Dylan to become the guru of American music.San Francisco of the middle sixties was becoming the home town of the counter culture, and Dylan fit right in.He was the counter cnlture.He didn’t have the foot stomping of Janis, or Jimi’s fire, but look where they are, then look where he is.The San Francisco scene was the beginning of the bell-bottom era.If you want to see the roots of the acid rock era, go take a look at the movie “Monterey Pop”. If you’ve seen it, see it again.It is a fascinating portrait of a movement caught between the holdovers of the early sixties, and the acid generation to come.The first thing that you will notice is the lack of blue denim. Then you will notice the make-up on the women’s faces, and that the crowd doesn’t even boogie. Most surprisingly, if this was the center of the drug culture, then why isn’t there even a joint shown in the film? It all seemed very controlled, and even the hippies looked downright straight by today’s standards.Dress and habits are strange. Almost cyclical The night of the Bob Dylan concert in Montreal last week 1 noticed some of the same things. It wasn't the normal crowd that I had seen at Allman Brother concerts, or Dead concerts, or even an abysmal Quicksilver concert.Sure there were a few joints, but not a lot of blitzed geeks floating around. The crowd was a bit more reserved, older, dressed more conventionally, and had less hair.It was a time lapse, a feeling of unreality, but as you sat down in the Forum, there was a general feeling that something good was going to happen. You just didn't want to spoil it.So during most of the concert, people just sat and listened, and maybe that's why I didn't hear one request for a song shouted at Dylan.It seemed that everyone had just too much respect for Dylan to shout at him.Dylan and his old group. The Band, started off with continued on p 7I read Tony Scaduto’s book and Toby Thompson’s also, and for a while, I hung out at 8th Street and MacDougal trying to catch a glimpse of the elusive Mr D So let's just say that when my tickets came for the Montreal concert, I was psyched.Montreal was the only city on the lour where there was no mail order requirement for tickcts.lt was also the only concert that wasn’t sold out. but Montreal and Dylan get along.In 1981, when Dylan was getting thrown out of the folk clubs in New York, the Pot Pourri in Montreal (now the Rainbow Bar and Grill) gave him a job for 200 dollars a weekAnd in l!M( when Dylan was booed off the best stages in Europe (the Europeans couldn't get into Dylan on an electric guitar), he got a standing ovation at the Place-des Arts.This time around Dylan was playing the Forum, Montreal's biggest concert hall. The crowd encompassed all ages and all social strata, from 1:5 year old pot-puffing teeny hoppers to thirty year oldcontinued on p 7
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