{"id":29863,"date":"2021-07-17T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T09:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=29863"},"modified":"2021-07-17T13:26:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:26:17","slug":"how-music-legend-bob-dylan-found-inspiration-in-the-hamptons","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/how-music-legend-bob-dylan-found-inspiration-in-the-hamptons\/","title":{"rendered":"How Music Legend Bob Dylan Found Inspiration In The Hamptons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Dylan performing on February 5, 1966<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This Sunday, when Bob Dylan makes his first TV concert appearance in some 30 years \u2014 \u201cShadow Kingdom<\/a>\u201d (with purchasing available until July 20) \u2014 there will be a perfect meal with which to accompany the show: flounder alongside a rendition of the home-made potato-chips that used to be de rigueur at Roger\u2019s Restaurant (now Townline BBQ).<\/p>\n

After all, Roger\u2019s flounder is the entr\u00e9e that made Bob Dylan happy in the 1970s. Bruce Harry, an East Hamptons native, happened to be cooking at Roger\u2019s in Sagaponick when the future Nobel Prize winner strolled in for a bite to eat. \u201cSomeone said \u2018Bob Dylan\u2019s sitting in the dining room,\u2019\u201d Harry told the East Hampton Star<\/a> in 2016. Explaining that Dylan was not the restaurant\u2019s first celebrity diner \u2013 other \u201870s stalwarts included Cheryl Tiegs (probably in the company of her then-beau Peter Beard), Craig Claiborne and Marlo Thomas \u2013 he added, \u201cI always try to perfect what I do, so I tried to make a perfect order of flounder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clearly, game recognizes game. After finishing dinner, recalled Harry, \u201c[Dylan] popped his head in and said, \u2018Thank you very much. That was a great meal.\u2019 I was all dirty and greasy, so I didn\u2019t shake his hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dylan, who, on at least one occasion, rented a house in East Hampton under his mother\u2019s maiden name so that nobody knew he had snuck into town, was not exactly swanning around the Hamptons or even venturing to Montauk for hangout sessions with Warhol (though he and his family did take jaunts to the lighthouse there). Instead, Dylan mostly lived with discretion, renting houses (on Nichols Lane one time and on Lily Pond Lane another), keeping a hammock in the living room and doing paintings as well as songwriting collaborations with theater-director and lyricist Jacque Levy. In his book \u201cChronicles<\/a>\u201d, Dylan describes East Hampton as \u201cnot really a place but a \u2018state of mind\u2019\u201d for getting one\u2019s balance back.<\/p>\n

Dylan and Levy headed East after collaborative sessions in Greenwich Village came with too many distractions and lures of local drinking spots. \u201cSome it was very funny; we\u2019d be walking down a supermarket aisle [while loading up on groceries for the Hamptons house],\u201d the late Levy said in a YouTube video<\/a>, recalling the weeks he and Dylan spent in East Hampton. Another time, he recalled, \u201cafter we finished a song, we went out to a bar and [Dylan] had a sheet [of paper] with him. Bob asked somebody at the bar if he would like to hear a song that he wrote.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bob Dylan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dylan began reciting the song and, said Levy, \u201cthe person at the bar was starry eyed. He\u2019s probably still talking about the night Bob Dylan read him a song he wrote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever goofing around took place, Dylan must have been happy with the collaboration that yielded tunes such as \u201cJoey\u201d and \u201cHurricane,\u201d which highlight the 1976 LP \u201cDesire.\u201d As Levy remembered it, a few weeks into their stay, Dylan called CBS records from the Hamptons. He had big news: \u201cGet ready. We\u2019re going to come in a couple of weeks. We\u2019ve got a new album.\u201d<\/p>\n

In \u201cChronicles,\u201d Dylan describes the Nichols Lane digs as \u201cas a colonial house with plantation-shuttered windows.\u201d Giant hedges hid him and his family from the street and there was a large backyard that opened up to \u201ca gated dune that led to the pristine Atlantic sandy beach.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bob Dylan performing in 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dylan writes that it was in East Hampton where he first began painting landscapes (the rental was a pretty good investment, then, as his pieces sell for thousands of dollars and he has a retrospective coming up in Miami). But, as Dylan points out in \u201cChronicles,\u201d he and his five kids engaged in the same family activities as the rest of us might. \u201cWe went to the beach, boated on the bay, dug for clams, went to Gardiners Island, rode go-carts and pulled wagons, walked around on Division Street \u2026 and went to the movies.\u201d<\/p>\n

That last detail was confirmed by the late Rick Murphy in \u201cDan\u2019s Paper<\/a>\u201d: \u201cBob Dylan used to take his little ones to the matinees \u2026 I saw him outside \u2013 like a complete unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Save for the occasional bit of scene-making at a local bar or supermarket, Bob Dylan had it no other way during his Hamptons sojourns. \u201cMy face wasn\u2019t that well known,\u201d Dylan writes, \u201calthough the name would have made people uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26633,"featured_media":29868,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"\nHow Music Legend Bob Dylan Found Inspiration In The Hamptons - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/how-music-legend-bob-dylan-found-inspiration-in-the-hamptons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Music Legend Bob Dylan Found Inspiration In The Hamptons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This Sunday, when Bob Dylan makes his first TV concert appearance in some 30 years \u2014 \u201cShadow Kingdom\u201d (with purchasing available until July 20) \u2014 there will be a perfect meal with which to accompany the show: flounder alongside a rendition of the home-made potato-chips that used to be de rigueur at Roger\u2019s Restaurant (now...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/how-music-legend-bob-dylan-found-inspiration-in-the-hamptons\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Grazia USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-17T13:26:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/07\/Bob-Dylan-In-The-Hamptons-G.jpg?fit=1280%2C720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/how-music-legend-bob-dylan-found-inspiration-in-the-hamptons\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/how-music-legend-bob-dylan-found-inspiration-in-the-hamptons\/\",\"name\":\"How Music Legend Bob Dylan Found Inspiration In The Hamptons - 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