Bob Dylan in the Berkshires and elsewhere

Bob Dylan in the Berkshires

By Dave Conlin Read; (article pre-dates Bob Dylan’s 2005 and 2006 Pittsfield concerts.)

Bob Dylan has given only two concerts in the Berkshires, both at Tanglewood (July 4, 1991 and August 4, 1997), but he has played here four times (that we know of), the other two being a mini-set as Joan Baez’s guest at the Pittsfield Boy’s Club on August 14, 1963 and, on November 7, 1975 at Mama Frasca’s Dream Away Lodge in Becket, when he played – in many senses of the word – all day long with the cast and crew of the Rolling Thunder Revue.

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Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue at Mama Frasca’s Dream Away Lodge

On November 7, 1975, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue spent the day at the Mama Frasca’s Dream Away Lodge in Becket, MA. They had played two shows the day before at the Springfield Civic Center, with special guest and Berkshire county resident Arlo Guthrie, who turned Dylan on to his friend Mama Frasca’s lodge.

This interview is the account of a friend of Mama Frasca’s who asked us to refer to him as “A.I.I.” (Anonymous Indigeneous Individual). It was conducted by Dave Conlin Read in Lenox, MA in 1998 and was excerpted in Q magazine’s special edition Maximum Bob.

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Considering Bob Dylan, in the Berkshires

Considering the music of Bob Dylan, from the perspective of the Berkshires, where he performed first in 1963 and next visited with the Rolling Thunder Revue in Nov. 1975.