11th of May 1966....Bet not many kept one of these, Bet you wished you did.... Maxie did........ wished he`d kept it I mean.... Robert Shelton said in his book No Direction Home that Cardiff was the ONLY place to give Dylan a fair crack of the whip so to speak, on this tour anyway, Well its much documented..What basically went on.. He went ...horror of horrors... Electric...... According to reports Dylan arrived on stage in Cardiff half-an-hour late looking somewhat different - the Huck Finn hat and denims that Maxie favoured had been replaced by a new suit - buttoned up. That was OK though because for the first hour he performed a solo acoustic set which went down well ....Then, with the immortal line: "It used to be like that... but now it goes like this," he launched into a plugged in, rocked-up version of I Don't Believe You. For the next hour confusion reigned as the assembled throng wondered what that din was coming from the stage - some disgruntled folkies headed straight for the exits. Those who stayed witnessed the metamorphosis of an idol.Those interested in Dylan's performance at the Capitol in 1966 should get hold of the bootleg documentary Eat the Document. This film, shot by D A Pennebaker, shows Dylan backstage at the Cardiff venue performing a piano duet with none other than the late great Johnny Cash.."anyone any storys or any reminiscences of that night?..love to hear them....Oh yea I nearly forgot to say, Maxies old man Freddy was a caretaker at the Capitol Theatre about that time, and Maxie told me a little story of how his father saw some scallies messing around in there and went to throw them out before someone informed him that they were in fact the Beatles. The date was December 12, 1965 which just happened to be the Beatles last Great Britain concert.......
Heres one of Maxies favourites.....In My Life...
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