Bob Dylan and Larry Kegan A compilation of threads from EDLIS Café https://plus.google/u/0/b/100818123260310386821/100818123260310386821/posts/6fsaVDun6bw ========== From Bob Stacy: https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=296897443667913&set=gm.278590258846180&type=1&theater Bob Dylan’s close friend from childhood, Larry Kegan, died in 2001 at the age of 59. A diving accident left Kegan a paraplegic when he was only 15 years old, and 10 years later he became a quadriplegic from a car accident. Yet Kegan, a singer-songwriter, later wrote in a song: “Every misfortune can be a blessing in disguise.” EDLIS Whos Who entry on Larry Kegan - including photographs of young Larry Kegan and Bob Dylan : expectingrain/dok/who/k/keganlarry.html __________________________________________ Article by Paul Metsa: He Was a Friend of Mine Remembering Larry Kegan, who died Sept. 11, 2001 hometownfocus.us/news/2012-09-14/Blue_Guitar_Highway/He_Was_a_Friend_of_Mine.html Larry Kegan was a steelwheeled high street hipster; a saint who shook, rattled, and rolled up to the very end. He was born and is now buried in St. Paul, Minnesota, just a stones roll away from the Mississippi River, right before it floors it along Hwy 61, down to the Big Easy and becomes salt water. He was halfway through his victory lap towards his 60th birthday before his 3-D heart gave out on him in the van and on the road. He was with his driver, on the way to the record shop to pick up a new platter about love and robbery. This, just hours after two towers crumbled in Manhattan and ripped the heart out of the rest of us. As was his style, King Kegan, as I fondly called him, spent most of that morning calling all of his New York City pals making sure they were alright. Even though he spent the last 45 years of his life confined to a wheelchair, he used a psychic radar to track the trails of those fortunate to be his friends; uplifting us when needed with an abundant grace of spirit, old-world wisdom, humor and prayer. His was a sixth sense born through the blood drops of struggle. --Paul Metsa __________________________________________ Photograph: At Herzl Camp in the summer of 1957 (l to r): Larry Kegan (fourth from left, dark jacket and white shirt), Waldman (singing), Bobby Zimmerman (Dylan), Louie Kemp and David Unowsky. https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/385136_2694929577431_2120409470_n.jpg?oh=16c3ee307c8ee8fdbfc661df611f8411&oe=54F74F51&__gda__=1424107254_6edf197cfd899a19deb88125f4a143df Bob Stacy: Miscellaneous notes from the Dylan biographies, etc. ... The Camp Herzl Performances – on the shores of Devils Lake in Webster, WI (three weeks in August – 1953, 54, 55, 56): (1) Sitting around a campfire, Bobby recites a poem about a helpless dog that brings some to tears. (2) Some see Bobby with a harmonica crammed in his back pocket. (3) Often he could be found pounding the piano in the lodge building. (4) Bob and Larry Kegan form a double act at camp, Bob playing piano and both boys singing. (5) Some see Bobby sitting on the bathhouse roof with Louis Kemp, Steve Friedman, Stevie Goldberg, and Larry Kegan. They’re up there a lot, Bobby strumming on the guitar and singing. He yells and taunts the counselors until a rabbi appears with an appropriate sermon. __________________________________________ Robert Zimmerman and The Jokers https://facebook/groups/edlis.cafe/permalink/202565869781953/ Bob Stacy: >Edlis Lyrics: The Jokers, Channel 9 TV talent show, St. Paul, MN - has anyone tried to track down this performance by Dylans group as broadcast in the 1950s? Howard Sounes, “Down The Highway” (2001), was one of the first to write about The Jokers which was an a cappella group formed by Robert Zimmerman and his summer camp buddies Larry Kegan and Howard Rutman, together with friends in St. Paul. Sounes interviewed both Kegan and Rutman, but he doesn’t say whether his line of inquiry went beyond those interviews. I’ve not heard of anyone else trying to track down more about the TV appearance. Sounes mentions that The Jokers played wherever they could find a piano, including a few high school dances. Girls would gather around as the boys harmonized pop songs of the day. Their mothers made sleeveless cardigans for the boys – in red and gray – with the name “Jokers” stitched in the front. In this outfit, the boys performed on the television talent show broadcast. “We were hugely ambitious, and we really wanted to do stuff,” says Howard Rutman. Sounes leaves an impression that The Jokers were mostly active during 1955 – 1956. Certainly that’s when the TV talent show happened since Channel 9 in the Twin Cities first came on the air in early 1955 (see below). By summer of 1956. members of the group had paid five dollars to cut a 78 rpm record. Glen Dundas says the demo record was recorded on Christmas eve of that year. Here’s Dundas’ listing for the demo record which could’ve included something they performed on the TV talent show: Terlinde Music St Paul, Minnesota December 24, 1956 1. Let The Good Times Roll 2. Boppin’ The Blues 3. Won’t You Be My Girl? 4. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy 5. Ready Teddy 6. Confidential 7. Still Of The Night 8. Earth Angel Not in circulation. All songs are incomplete. Bob Zimmerman on piano, shared vocals with Howard Rutman and Larry Kegan. === The television talent show likely would’ve been on KEYD-TV which began broadcasting as Channel 9 in Minneapolis in January 1955 – possibly from the location of the old KEYD radio station: collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/image.cfm?imageid=167750&Page=1&Keywords=keyd&SearchType=Basic&bhcp=1 Both the AM and TV stations were co-located in the Foshay Tower (Minneapolis) by the end of 1955. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foshay_Tower The call sign changed to KMGM-TV in 1956. KMSP became the new name of the station in 1958 and is the current call sign. Not too likely that anything recorded at the TV station during the fifties might’ve survived. The early history, the current personnel and (surviving) former personnel at KMSP might be useful to anyone wishing to inquire further: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMSP-TV __________________________________________ Photograph: Larry Kegan and Bob Dylan on stage, 19th October 1981, Merrillville, Indiana https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/592_10201208910645577_239558490_n.jpg?oh=a620f871ba7a837afa9a80cc2c861316&oe=54F0EB81&__gda__=1424708582_3d88b29f510bee8f373b3e315dad3191 Tara Zuk: https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=10201208910645577&set=oa.549310468440823&type=3&theater Having spent many weekends in his final high school year visiting the city, Zimmerman knew a small coterie of Hibbing-Duluth Jews, some of whom were also freshmen at UMinn, including Larry Keegan, one of his longest-standing friends. --Clinton Heylin, Behind the Shades, p. 32. October 19, Holiday Star Theater, Merriville, IN. . . . For the last encore, Knockin on Heavens Door is replaced by Chuck Berrys No Money Down, sung by Dylans wheelchair-bound friend Larry Keegan. Dylan plays saxophone alongside Keegan. -- Clinton Heylin, A Life in Stolen Moments, p.234. Kegan was a good singer and Bob got him up on stage in Merrillville, Indiana, on October 19 [1981] to sing an encore of No Money Down. Bob produced a saxophone - an instrument he had never been known to play in public - and barped into it a few times, bluffing that the could play, while Larry Kegan sang. The segment with Kegan went so well that the friends repeated their performance the next night at the Boston Orpheum Theater, Kegan coming on stage both nights in his wheelchair. -- Howard Sounes, Down the Highway, p.349 === Mary Kelly: pioneerproductions.blogspot.no/2014/04/32-years-ago-today-remembering-larry.html Includes the audio to No Money Down - Larry Kegan and Bob Dylan on saxophone. frequency/video/larry-kegan-bob-dylan-on-tenor-sax-no/161520788/-/5-1032 __________________________________________ Video: Larry Kegan with Gene LaFond and Scarlet Rivera - 40 Years Concert https://youtube/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EXH63oGLb8s Milu Aman: Larry Kegan, one of Bob Dylans best friends, singing a few songs here with Scarlet Rivera & Gene LaFond. Coffeehouse Extempore / Minneapolis, Minnesota / April 19th, 1982 Forty Years More To Give All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down) Aint Got The Blues I Shall Be Released Violin Lady Aint Got The Blues More Than A Memory Violin Lady North Country Blues https://facebook/groups/edlis.cafe/permalink/697121610326374/ __________________________________________ .
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