Patricia Bunin writes the Senior Moments column each week.
Bob Dylan and The Band recorded the “Before the Flood” album at The Forum on Feb. 11, 13 and 14, 1974. , went looking for his house in Malibu. Of course, we had no address, but I had read enough about him to predict a vague area. Very vague, it turned out.“Wait, let’s try this canyon; I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that he lives near here,” I said.
When that didn’t pan out, I moved on to, “Turn here. Doesn’t this sound like the name of a canyon he would live in?” Eventually, we got pretty close to an estate where I was sure the man who wrote the words, “Hey lady, hey, lay across my big brass bed,” would live. “Can you see what I mean?” I asked my brother who protested all he saw were tall fences and private property signs. I love the boy but sometimes I worry about his lack of imagination.just wasn’t meant to be. “Have you forgotten who you are talking to?” I admonished him. Then I segued into a reminder of his sister, at 13, who took two buses in a strange city to get to, climbed 20 flights of stairs and waited in the stairwell for hours until he came out of his suite.
We are still debating the timeframe of our failed search in Malibu. His memories of dates are tied to sports games; while mine lean more toward “I think that was the year my poems were published in Cosmopolitan.”And to think, my brother thought his big sister would give up on finding Bob Dylan.
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