A few days ago there was a perfect day to watch a film in a movie theater: stable rain falls, temperature in the 30s and a film diving in the past, especially in the early 1960s and a youth named Bob Dylan Robert Zimraman was born.
Most critics and a part of the public have converted “a full unknown” into a accurate box office hit. In his review, my colleague Michael Philips called it “Bob Dylan a Hollywood love letter”, but wished that “it was the same nerve as craftsmanship.”
This is a good film, but I want it to give more time to Chicago, which Dylan visited before conquering New York and fuel the controversy by “electric electric electric” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Earlier, he performed at a club called The Bear, which was on Ontario Street near State Street, and spent a significantly attractive WFMT-FM 98.7 radio hours with Stud Turkel.
But two of the most important people of their early years, it would be good to get a little more about both Chicago dwellers. He will be the manager/entrepreneur al -Grosman and guitarist Michael Bloomfield. He is in the film, but is again accused for minor roles. Nevertheless, they are forced (mysterious?) Enough to indicate and rewarding further discovery.
Grosman (played in the film by Dan Phogler), was a hard waste cider who was now known as the manager of the dialon for a short time. He was one of the most notorious impressions of folk music, which was usually considered the first folk nightclub, The Gate of Horn, where the artists wore clothes in suits and relationships and their audience came from the suburbs. He arranged for the performance of Dylan in the bear, of which Grosman was a co-owner. The Grosmans will manage the dialon only for a short time and will have very long trading relations with Peter, Paul and Mary, Janis Joplin, Richie Haves and Bands. He died in 1986.
Falaned journalist Nick Deriso wrote an attractive piece on the substack in which he first met Dylan with Bloomfield, saying, “I was playing at a club in Chicago … A man came down and said he played the guitar .. And he played all kinds of things … he used to play anything around me.
This Bloomfield (played by Ellie Brown in the film) and he and Dylan will cooperate in the next few years. In Newport, Rock. “) Dialon went to Rock from Lok. Deriso said, “Credit of his external ambition, his terrible muse, his hard reluctance to yield for convention,” said Deriso. “But Credit Bloomfield’s federation guitar is also running through everything – and dialon knew that it would happen.”
Some are living and well who knew him. Very active Corkie Seigel told me a few years ago, “I always thought Michael was a special. Just look at his pictures. you can tell. He did not even need to play the guitar. The spark always came out of his head. Anyone who knew him will fully understand what I am talking about. … I do not care about his guitar. I really miss Michael. what a pretty. There was no increase and decline. Just get up. But he used to rise so high that he competed with his head on a cloud, and he was that. ,
Some of us are remembering Bloomfield by some of us. Filmmaker Rob Relner has said, “Eric Clapton, Badi Gai, Bibi King … and so many others with proper respect for other people, who are in the Pantian of the Great of Blues … Michael Bloomfield is just the best blues Was a guitarist whom I have ever heard. ”
You can still listen to him, on various internet sites and recording. You can also discover and read “Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of a American Guitar Hero”. It is a certain biography, but not a happy story, as it ends at the age of 37 with Bloomfield, but it brings it out of the shadow.
It is written by an ad ward, a journalist and historian who writes for various publications, consistently contributed to NPR’s “Fresh Air” and Austin is one of the founders of the south by the South West Music Confaab in Texas.
In a few days, you can visit the 65th Annual University of the Chicago Folk Festival, which on Saturday at Ida Noyes Hall (1212 AD) and in the music celebrations on Saturday at 8 pm and 7:30 pm at workshops. Presenting music. PM on Saturday at Mandel Hall (1131 AD 57th Caint); More information on www.uofcfolk.org.
It has been said and it has been written that Dylan first came here for the early folk festival in 1961, which wandered in the campus with his guitar and Harmonica. But it is difficult to separate the truth from the myth of the dialon with many things. The “a complete unknown” adds to it, but also, as Philips writes, “not a biopic job to stick to the factual records, only to distille and play his ideas of authenticity.”
I have no problem with this and if this film leads you to Mike Bloomfield, all are better.