Bob Neuwirth is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and visual artist. A mainstay of the early 1960s Cambridge, Massachusetts, folk scene, he subsequently became a friend and associate of Bob Dylan alongside whom he appears in D.A. Pennebaker's documentary Don't Look Back and Dylan's own self-referential romantic fantasy cum tour film Renaldo and Clara. (Neuwirth assembled the backing band for Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue.) With Janis Joplin, he co-wrote the song "Mercedes Benz." Portrait photograph of Bob Dylan taken by Daniel Kramer Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941) is widely regarded as one of Americas greatest popular songwriters. ... D.A. Pennebaker is a documentary filmmaker. ... Dont Look Back is a 1967 documentary film which covers Bob Dylans tour of England in 1965, including appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The Rolling Thunder Revue was a tour headed by Bob Dylan in 1975 and the beginning of 1976. ... Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live album In Concert Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock, R&B, and soul singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. ...
Neuwirth: nothing concrete although I can see it as a theatrical proscenium stage production, se it as a strip down (as it was in the original presentation) minimal rough recital.
Neuwirth: Well a lot of it was written in Espresso bars as John and I kept crossing paths.
Neuwirth: There were a couple different projects: one was to give people in the ghetto's free photographic equipment, the other was to give just everybody who asked for it free photographic equipment.