Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Eat the Document (Dylan)

lookin for a copy of this..
Eat the Document is a rarely exhibited documentary of Bob Dylan's 1966 tour of the United Kingdom with the Hawks. It was shot under Dylan's direction by D. A. Pennebaker, whose groundbreaking documentary- Dont Look Back chronicled Dylan's 1965 British tour. Also circulating in various bootleg formats is a long outtake featuring a possibly alcohol- or drug-impaired Dylan in a limousine with John Lennon. As Dylan shows signs of fatigue, Lennon urges him to get a grip on himself: "Do you suffer from sore eyes, groovy forehead, or curly hair? Take Zimdawn!...Come, come, boy, it's only a film. Pull yourself together." Lennon would later recall in an interview with Rolling Stone that he and Dylan were "both in shades, and both on fucking junk, and all these freaks around us... I was nervous as shit. I was on his territory, that's why I was so nervous." (wiki)

1 comments:

  1. Well, i can tell you my opinion. It is worth a look, but not my kind of film. The editing was mostly the reason why i didn't like it. However, there is this one scene that involved a girl and her boyfriend and Dylan asking for some unusual thing, ha, that stood out to me.
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