If TMZ had been around in the 60s, you can bet that D.A. Pennbaker’s famous film of John Lennon and Bob Dylan “clearly fucked up on junk” in the back of Dylan’s limo would have made it to their blog and been blasted all over the Internet. But it wasn’t until the mid-80s when the videotape trading underground really took off, that copies made their way into collector’s eager hands (I had a copy). Now it’s easy to see, of course, on YouTube.
I’d always read that Dylan was extremely drunk and that Lennon was tripping or else just stoned, but maybe they were on something stronger. Lennon would know, right? It would explain the vomit talk, I guess! Dylan is obviously out of his mind on something and makes little, if any sense. Lennon seems a little embarrassed but still willing to play along. Whatever surreal flights of rock god verbal fantasy they had planned for this filming, the results were something rather less than coherent.
This is history baby. Not like great history or anything, but history nonetheless…
Famous People on Drugs (YouTube link)
Famous People Still on Drugs (YouTube link)
The John Lennon Bit (scroll down)
Dylan vs Lennon (transcript)
