--- title: 6 Things We Learned From the New Bob Dylan Tell-All description: Longtime road manager Victor Maymudes spills about the night he introduced the Beatles to pot, his relationship with Joan Baez and much more canonical: https://time.com/3329446/bob-dylan-tell-all-rolling-stone/ author: Rolling Stone article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-12T13:00:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:41.655Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 6 Things We Learned From the New Bob Dylan Tell-All og:description: Longtime road manager Victor Maymudes spills about the night he introduced the Beatles to pot, his relationship with Joan Baez and much more og:url: https://time.com/3329446/bob-dylan-tell-all-rolling-stone/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte62da13b35d78965/6986a2eb3bc99975551a541d/bob-dylan-rolling-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 6 Things We Learned From the New Bob Dylan Tell-All twitter:description: Longtime road manager Victor Maymudes spills about the night he introduced the Beatles to pot, his relationship with Joan Baez and much more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte62da13b35d78965/6986a2eb3bc99975551a541d/bob-dylan-rolling-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 6 Things We Learned From the New Bob Dylan Tell-All > Sponsored content. 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On Bob Dylan's 70th birthday, TIME takes a tour of the haunts and venues where the singer-songwriter spent his early days in Greenwich Village_ by [Andy Greene / Rolling Stone](https://time.com/author/rolling-stone/) ## Andy Greene / Rolling Stone Sep 12, 2014 1:00 PM UTC  Bob Dylan performs onstage during the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards held at The Hollywood Palladium on January 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Bob Dylan performs onstage during the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards held at The Hollywood Palladium on January 12, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.Christopher Polk—2012 Getty Images by [Andy Greene / Rolling Stone](https://time.com/author/rolling-stone/) ## Andy Greene / Rolling Stone Sep 12, 2014 1:00 PM UTC _This article originally appeared on_ [Rolling Stone](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/6-things-we-learned-from-the-new-bob-dylan-tell-all-20140909). Not many people get close to Bob Dylan, but Victor Maymudes – who was Dylan’s road manager in the mid-Sixties and again from 1986 to 1996 – certainly did. Maymudes died in 2001, but he left behind hours of interview tapes, which his son Jacob has turned into a revealing new memoir, _Another Side of Bob Dylan_. The book, which hits shelves this week, traces their entire time together, from the coffee house days in Greenwich Village to their legendary cross country road trip in 1964 to the madness of the Never Ending Tour in the 1980s and 1990s. Here are six things we learned from the book. [**MORE: In Pics: The Evolution of Bob Dylan**](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/the-evolution-of-bob-dylan-20110509) **The night Dylan met the Beatles was kind of awkward.**Maymudes provides one of the most complete accounts of the famous summit, at the Beatles’ New York hotel on August 28th, 1964\. “Bob tried to roll a joint and it fell to piece in his hands,” Maymudes says, “scattering pot over a bowl of fruit sitting on the table.” Victor took over and rolled the joints himself. That helped liven up the party, but Dylan, who’d been drinking, passed out on the floor within an hour. “The following morning, Paul came up to me and hugged me for 10 minutes,” says Maymudes, ‘and said, ‘It was so great, and it’s all your fault because I love this pot!'” **Dylan quit drinking in 1994.**“He just stopped on a dime,” Maymudes says. “He didn’t talk as much once he stopped and he didn’t laugh as loud either. It was a really big deal for him and really showed his commitment to changing his behavior. He was capable of dealing with a broader range of personalities when he was drinking and after stopping, his tolerance for certain types of behavior diminished. Bob lost a bit of self-esteem when he sobered up, became little more introverted and a little less social.” [**MORE: In Pics: Bob Dylan Through The Years**](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/photos-70-photos-of-bob-dylan-on-his-70th-birthday-20110524) **George Harrison was pissed off about Dylan’s 30th-anniversary concert in 1992.**The all-star show at Madison Square Garden was widely believed to be for charity. It was actually for profit. “Harrison was so angry, he made T-shirts with dollar signs on them and sent them to me and Bob,” Maymudes says. “George also got in trouble with Olivia, his wife. She tracked the last number he dialed on the hotel phone to a limousine company that I had arranged for him to use to send a limo for a girl he was involved with. When Olivia blew up over that, I found myself in the middle of the confrontation.” **Victor was there when the legend cut** **_Another Side of Bob Dylan_** **in one amazing night.**“He had never sang the songs in front of anybody before \[that night\],” Maymudes says. “He just blurted it out, like electricity building up in a capacitor, and then shooting out, he had packed it all inside himself and let it explode. I was in a daze.” [**MORE: Rolling Stone’s 10 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs**](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-10-greatest-bob-dylan-songs-20110511) **Joan Baez was no pushover.**Maymudes was shocked when Dylan married Sara Lownds. “I asked him, ‘Why Sara?!'” Maymudes wrote. “‘Why not Joan Baez?’ He responded with, ‘Because Sara will be there when I want her to be home, she’ll be there when I want her to be there, she’ll do it when I want to do it. Joan won’t be there when I want her. She won’t do it when I want to do it.'” **During downtime on his 1989 tour, Dylan went out to see Tim Burton’s** **_Batman._** There aren’t many more details available, but it raises many questions. Was Dylan upset by the film’s exclusion of Robin? Did he dig the Prince songs? Was he bummed out when Val Kilmer took over as Batman in 1995? Has he seen the more recent Dark Knight trilogy? How about _The Avengers?_ [**MORE: In Pics: The 10 Worst Bob Dylan Songs**](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-10-worst-bob-dylan-songs-20130703) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3329446/bob-dylan-tell-all-rolling-stone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3329446/bob-dylan-tell-all-rolling-stone/"},"headline":"6 Things We Learned From the New Bob Dylan Tell-All","datePublished":"2014-09-12T13:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:00:41.655Z","description":"Longtime road manager Victor Maymudes spills about the night he introduced the Beatles to pot, his relationship with Joan Baez and much more","url":"https://time.com/3329446/bob-dylan-tell-all-rolling-stone/","keywords":["Music","Rolling Stone","Bob Dylan"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte62da13b35d78965/6986a2eb3bc99975551a541d/bob-dylan-rolling-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Andy Greene / Rolling Stone"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte62da13b35d78965/6986a2eb3bc99975551a541d/bob-dylan-rolling-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards - Show","caption":"17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards - Show","creditText":"Christopher Polk—2012 Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3329446/bob-dylan-tell-all-rolling-stone/","name":"6 Things We Learned From the New Bob Dylan Tell-All"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A Tour of Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village","description":"On Bob Dylan's 70th birthday, TIME takes a tour of the haunts and venues where the singer-songwriter spent his early days in Greenwich Village","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/HS3Fz2mV/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2011-05-22T22:21:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HS3Fz2mV.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3329446/bob-dylan-tell-all-rolling-stone/","duration":"PT3M33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3329446/bob-dylan-tell-all-rolling-stone/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```