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| Dylan and Baez came to see me at the Gaslight Caf� in November 1964 after the above article appeared in the NY Times on Nov. 14th. I was opening for Mississippi John Hurt�.or Son House or Skip James�maybe Dylan and Baez came to see them�..Dylan wanted to meet me after my two encore show�the best show I ever did at the Gaslight�.he stuck his hand out to shake�it was limp�I like that�.rednecks like to squeeze it�I'm a piano player�I like to take it easy�Dylan said, "And this is Joanie Baez�"�.actually it was Clarence "Sam" Hood,Jr. who came backstage after my show. "Biff" he said, "come here..there's someone I want you to meet�.." Dylan and I shook hands and he said, "And this is Joanie Baez�" I said, "Joanie WHO?" to settle a score between us from a year and a half before�.a bunch of us were singing "We Shall Overcome" onstage after a Baez concert at Earlham College in Richmond,Indiana�1963�Baez came over to me looked me in the eye and said, "You're singing too loud." "Joanie WHO?" says I�the teaching here being..you CAN'T sing TOO LOUD for Civil Rights�she's a big phony and Dylan just wanted to phuck'er anyway then cop out explaing to Scorsese some bullschitt about mixing up ""love"" with "wisdom" �yawn�boring�.only Biff rose above anything they have to say because he heard that same old schitt yesterday�..yesterday their raves fell in a maze of old cliches�. .
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