✰ Clyde

"[Lou] was a good friend through everything. We had this brother-sister type relationship in the group, and it lasted long after the group split. We would always exchange Christmas cards, Valentine cards. It was one of those friendships where it didn't matter if you didn't see each other a lot. We'd meet up after two years or five years and it would be like we'd seen each other last week. As you get older, you come to realize that that kind of friendship is rare, so I miss him a hell of a lot. It's just dawning on me that he's not out there anymore...Now Andy's gone, Sterling's gone, Nico's gone and Lou's gone. It feels strange. I miss them all, but I really miss Lou. He was a great songwriter who pushed the boundaries in terms of what he was writing about, but more importantly, he was a good and loyal friend. It doesn't seem right that I won't be sending him a Christmas card." (via)

“It’s a common thing to change your name. It isn’t that incredible. Many people do it. People change their town, change their country. New appearance, new mannerisms. Some people have many names. I wouldn’t pick a name unless I thought I was that person. Sometimes you are held back by your name. Sometimes there are advantages to having a certain name. Names are labels so we can refer to one another. But deep inside us we don’t have a name. We have no name. I just chose that name and it stuck. My forebears were Russian. I don’t know how they got a German name coming from Russia. Maybe they got their name coming off the boat or something. To make a big deal over somebody’s name, you’re liable to make a big deal about any little thing. But getting back to Dylan Thomas, it wasn’t that I was inspired by reading some of his poetry and going “Aha!” and changing my name to Dylan. If I thought he was that great, I would have sung his poems, and could just as easily have changed my name to Thomas.”

Contact sheet portraits of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, London, April 1965 © Philip Gotlop.

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“George Harrison, visiting the United States, happened to be visiting Tom Smothers and having dinner at Tom’s place that Sunday night. They turned on the TV to that evening’s preelection Comedy Hour, and Harrison was impressed by what he saw, especially the Braverman piece. ‘He went crazy,’ Tom [Smothers] remembers. ‘He was asking, “Who put that together? What was that?” He really was excited.’ So excited that Harrison agreed, for the next Comedy Hour show, to slip in and appear as a special unannounced guest.” - Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” (2009) “George readily agreed to videotape an appearance during his stay in California, and Tommy recalled that ‘he came over and we spent a lot of time watching some of the old tapes and some of the newer shows together. He was very charming but a little uncomfortable by himself on the show.’” - That Magic Feeling: The Beatles’ Recorded Legacy, Volume Two, 1966-1970 (2009) “The Beatles even provided the brothers with a US exclusive — the videotaped premiere of ‘Hey Jude’ — and in the middle of the Smothers Brothers’ battle with the CBS censors, George Harrison showed up in 1968 as a surprise guest to offer moral support. ‘Whether you can say it or not,’ Harrison urged them on the air, ‘keep trying to say it.’ And they did.” - Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” (2009) (x)