He'd also met the woman he was going to marry at the end of 1965, Sara Lownds (born Shirley Noznisky), a friend of Sally Grossman (Albert's wife, the lovely woman on the cover of "Bringing It All Back Home")and had been seeing her in secret for some months. Sara might have been pregnant by then, as their first child was born in January 1966.
Joan had invited herself on the UK tour thinking that Bob would invite her onstage to sing, to introduce her to British audiences, the way she'd done for him. Didn't work out like that. He thought his affair with Baez was way too public, and she was behaving like a pest on the tour.
She encountered Sara for the first time outside Dylan's hospital roomn when he was briefly down with the flu and Sara was there to nurse him back to health (they'd been in Paris together, then Portugal), and Baez immediately realized what was going on. It was a couple weeks after the Dylan tour, and Baez was back in London for her own Albert Hall concert, which due to the illness, presumably, Dylan did not attend.
She left the Dylan tour in a huff right after the "see-through blouse you don't wanna" incident, joining her parents in Paris.
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nicman-2
16 years ago
"see-through blouse you don't wanna" incident
What was this?
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Milkyway123
16 years ago
Yeah, I'm curious too what that means.
~It's better to burn out than to fade away~
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nicman-2
16 years ago
I watched the movie.
One of Dylan's friends was poking fun at Joan Baez and said it. It wasn't a big deal, everyone laughed about it. And from what I observed, Dylan didn't necessarily ignore her anymore or less than he ignored everyone on that particular tour. He's in his own little world for the entire film, basically listening to what everyone else is saying and keeps to himself for the most part. The only times he speaks is if he's making fun of someone or having a problem with something.
So in my personal opinion, it wasn't just Baez he was ignoring. But I'm sure if he had wanted her around, he would've paid a little more attention to her. After all, she did kind of invite herself on tour with him. He probably wasn't very pleased with that to begin with.
But it wasn't easy to find a happy Bob Dylan during that time period, so who the hell really knows.
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gollygopher
14 years ago
What does see through blouse mean?
And I do think Dylan was giving her the brush off..he was very cold to her and she seemed to get on his nerves if you watch his facial expressions and eyes when she's around, and in some scenes you can tell from her body language that she beginning to realize they all think she is a pest.
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