Bob Dylan and Victor Maymudes had a significant friendship that spanned multiple decades. Maymudes first met Dylan in the early 1960s and eventually became his tour manager, a position he held for many years. He was one of Dylan’s closest confidants and allies in the often tumultuous world of rock and folk music.
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MAYMUDES-Victor the “Village”. Philosopher who as mentor,
manager and friend guided Bob Dylan down the road from
obscurity to icon in the early sixties, died peacefully on
January 26th 2001 in UCLA Hospital, Santa Monica,
California. On that journey he was protected and comforted
by the presence and courage of his children Aerie Victoria
and Jacob. He was sixty-five. Victor was the son of the
respected liberal left-wing Los Angeles activists, Golda and
Abraham Maymudes and the brother of August and Zicel;
growing up the music and rhetoric of humanism, anti-fascism
and civil rights was the food on their table. Late-sixties
Victor stepped off the music stage to homestead in Northern
New Mexico, his hands turned to chopping wood and carpentry,
his heart to loving his family. 1986 until 1996 he returned
to Dylan’s side as a personal manager. The last years of his
life were spent traveling and writing his memoirs. The
product of that effort, “The Joker and the Thief” was
scheduled for publication by Saint Martins Press in 2002.
Above all, Victor appreciated the value of music, the poetry
in a well-turned phrase. “Song is the ultimate repository of
human civilization,” he maintained, “it’s a resting place
for one heart and translates the soul of culture for all.”
In 2014, years after Maymudes’ death in 2001, a memoir called “Another Side of Bob Dylan,” which was written by Victor’s son Jacob Maymudes based on recorded recollections Victor made before his death, was published. The book offers an intimate look into the life of Bob Dylan from the perspective of someone who was both a close friend and a key member of his professional team.
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