distorted sound was disorientating him. Dylan came back onstage, after his electric set, via desperate bidding, to play one song on his acoustic. The 1966 tour of England was also a fraught one, with Dylan being backed by what would later be The Band. There were “Judas” calls, and boos everywhere he went, but the criticism seems quite mild by today’s standards, though there was a little rumour that someone took a shot at Dylan while he was onstage in England. Also, in ‘No Direction Home’, there’s some great offstage footage of Bob and Johnny Cash duetting at a piano on this tour.
Among the other contributors in the film were Liam Clancy, who pertinently said, “He articulated what we couldn’t”. Also contributing were Peter Yarrow, a sadly frail-looking Allen Ginsberg, Maria Muldaur, old flame Suze Rotolo, and Pete Seeger – still looking on Bob with paternal and