Bob Dylan and the Band Play Madison Square Garden January 30, 1974

This show was one of three at the Garden.  It was the first time Dylan had toured in eight years.  He and The Band had just released the album Planet Waves.  Tickets could only be obtained via a lottery.  My roommate at Fordham had scored a couple but he had no spares.  I lucked out, though.  A guy in one of my classes sold me his extra for the January 31 afternoon show at face value.  I was awestruck the entire show. Here's a review.

Goodbye to all That

On February 9, 1970, the NYC underground paper RAT published an all-women's issue, the result of a takeover of the paper by is female staff and their supporters.  The highlight of the issue--for its militant separatism, right-on targeting of male chauvinism in the counterculture, and its fiery use of language and imagery was the piece attributed to Robin Morgan titled "Goodbye to all That."  Here is a link to the piece:

http://blog.fair-use.org/2007/09/29/goodbye-to-all-that-by-robin-morgan-1970/

The importance of this piece to the early feminist movement of the late 1960s and the 1970s is reflected in its availability online.  I discuss it in my book on the Weather Underground and in Daydream Sunset.

Our National Malaise....

(from Daydream Sunset...)

“We arrived in Berkeley the day after the riots in San Francisco following the verdict for the ex-cop who killed Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone. The six of us spent a month or so looking for a place to live. Most landlords rejected any thought of renting to us as soon as they saw our scruffy lot. Eventually, we did find a place. After listening to the landlord, who happened to be the second largest slumlord in the Eastbay, tell us how hard it was to be rich, we got the keys and moved in. Six of us in three bedrooms. We weren't a collective so much as we were a collection of people. We celebrated our new abode with a case or two of malt liquor and a gallon of wine. Bob Dylan's live album from Budokan was the newest album on our playlist. Jimmy Carter made a speech about a national malaise related to Washington's defeat in Vietnam and the corruption and fascist tendencies that had been exposed by the Watergate bust and investigation. The Sandinistas were our latest heroes as they fought their way towards an eventual victory in Nicaragua. Nicaragua's malaise was being wiped away by revolution.”

From History.com:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jimmy-carter-speaks-about-a-national-crisis-in-confidence

The Late Mike Marqusee and the Politics of Bob Dylan

http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=5407

Call Me Zimmerman--Bob Dylan's Great White Wonder

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/call-me-zimmerman-bob-dylans-great-white-wonder/

From the Mayday Bookstore Blog

http://maydaybookstore.blogspot.com/2015/12/bombs-or-vermont.html

Review of Daydream Sunset by Fred Mills, editor of Blurt Magazine ( a fine music journal)

http://blurtonline.com/feature/daydream-sunset-the-60s-counterculture-in-the-70s/

The Playlist

http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2015/08/if-daydream-sunset60s-counterculture-in.html