Rolling Stone Jonathan Taplin Tour-Managed Rock Royalty. Now He’s Telling His Stories
In a new memoir, Taplin recalls what it was like to watch Dylan go electric, George Harrison speed-drive, and Clapton and the Band wrestle with demons and drugs
By John Scheele
Jonathan Taplin wasn’t present at the creation, but in rock & roll terms, he came close enough. He witnessed Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, saw Jimi Hendrix and many others at Monterey Pop, flew into Woodstock while working for the Band, helped coordinate George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh, and was aboard the famous Festival Express, during which the Band, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and others rode a train around Canada, playing concerts along the way.
MORE Jonathan Taplin, Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab makes opening remarks during the USC Annenberg 2013 Innovation Summit , in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Annenberg Innovation Lab.
Jonathan Taplin may not be a household name, but he has been behind the scenes of some of the most influential moments in 20th century American music. As the description of Taplin’s latest book notes, the University of Southern California professor emeritus has made waves in every one of the past several decades: “he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band in the 60s, producer of major films in the 70s, an executive at Merrill Lynch in the 80s, creator of the Internet s first video-on-demand service in the 90s, and a cultural critic and author writing about technology in the new millennium.” Taplin joins Robert Scheer on this week’s installment of “Scheer Intelligence” to discuss his fascinating career as well as his friends
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