Very sad to report this, Bob Neuwirth, one of Bob Dylan’s sidekicks died aged 82 a few days ago.
We would have reported this sooner but we’ve had ‘techy’ problems.
To many Dylan fans Bob Neuwirth was a dignified, often zany (to use an old fashioned word) but ‘ruthless’ part of Bob’s madcap world of creativity and passion.
It is said the Bob N would be Bob D’s ‘ruthless’ henchman when somebody – including Joan Baez – needed a nudge out of the way. He was also the put-down prince to Dylan’s king.
Dylan biographer, Daniel Mark Epstein, described him as: “The master of the revels – handsome, quick-witted and ruthless, he could cut someone to shreds with a well-timed insult or put-down, and then rescue them with a puckish smile.”
But he could be funny. For instance, he became famous for being the man with no head in the brilliant Subterranean Homesick Blues vid, shot in an alley near the Savoy hotel in London.
Born in Akron, Ohio, the son of Clara and Robert , Bob attended the school of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, and became a familiar figure as a singer and guitarist in local clubs when he met Dylan at the Indian Neck folk festival in Branford, Connecticut, in 1961.
Good on ya Bob!
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