HAT FACT...
Felt Forum
Madison Square Gardens
New York City, New York
7 May, 1974
Friends of Chile Benefit Concert
Lawrence Morrissey recalls an encounter with Bob Dylan:
' Everyone was just kind of hanging around the flowerpot when someone realized that Dylan had left his guitar unattended back in the dressing room and tore off to fetch it. Bob kept saying, over and over, “My guitar. My guitar. What would I do without my guitar?” This brought laughter from his friends.
Just then Dylan dropped a vest he’d been clutching underneath his brown-leather bomber jacket. As he bent down to retrieve it, some jerk ran by and stole the cap off his head. Dylan stood straight up, grabbed his head, and began screaming, “My hat. He took my hat.”
Realizing what had happened, I dashed off after the thief. During my pursuit, I noticed Dennis Hopper running behind me. I cornered the kid in a doorway and coerced him into returning the hat. As the kid ran off into the night, Hopper approached and said, “Hey, that was pretty cool what you just did. Why don’t you come to the after-show party?” '
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HAT FACT...
As discussed by Sean Wilentz in his book Bob Dylan in America, there are similarities between the 1945 Marcel Carné movie ‘Les Enfants du Paradis’ (Children of Paradise) and the creative ideas of Bob Dylan during the Rolling Thunder Revue / Renaldo and Clara period.
It is the character of Baptiste who is of most interest to Dylan fans (pictured below). A mime who wears white face make-up, he also appears at one point wearing a pale wide-brimmed hat with flowers and a flowing scarf around his neck.
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1975
Montreal, Canada
Used as the cover photograph for 'Rolling Stone' magazine, 15 January 1976.
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19760422
Starlight
Ballroom
Belleview Biltmore Hotel
Clearwater, Florida
22 April 1976 – Two shows - afternoon and
evening
By 1976, the wide-brimmed hat was replaced by the scarf that had previously been knotted around his neck. The above scarf can be seen in the picture below:
http://www.bjorner.com/DSN03275%201976%20Rolling%20Thunder%20Revue%20II.htm#DSN03330
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HAT FACT...
In 1978, an article by Jacques van Son retold the story of Bob Dylan's arrival in Paris for the European leg of his tour that year.
"As is well-known, Paris is one of Dylan's favourite cities, and he was spotted on the streets numerous times during his stay there, usually in the late afternoons, including one stop at an exclusive shop to try on as many as thirty hats before finally purchasing one that he brought with him onstage -- but did not wear -- that evening."
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