YET ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN

You remember Bob Dylan, don’t you? Folk; hero of the sixties? Nobody could write with a political twist like he could, right? Solidarity with the downtrodden, oppressed and all that. Well if it made sense then, it makes more sense now. It makes sense to Dylan now too, so he joined an all-star cast of folkies and others raising money for survivors and refugees from the fascist military coup in Chile. Organizing the affair was Phil Ochs, who managed to convince Arlo Guthrie, Melanie, Pete Seeger, The Living Theater, Melvin Van Peebles, and Dennis Hopper,, along with Dylan, to play the Madison Square Garden Felt Forum show. The benefit was called “An Evening with Salvador Allende,” and it raised upwards of $35,000.

For Dylan, the confining pressures of a major high-power road tour were off, and in the hours following the concert he became your typical all-American folkie: drunk, a show-off, obnoxious and arrogant. The target of this “affection” was. one Larry Estridge, your basic Lower East Side would-be Dylan. Estridge writes songs in the Dylan vein, sounds a little like him, and finally got his chance to link up with his idol the day of the show. Dylan seemed amused by Estridge’s pushy manner ^allowing him to hang out and come on as his side-man later. By this time Estridge had alienated Ochs and many others.