From a Buick 6—On the Road with Bob Dylan: A Multimedia Presentation by Pete Elman

Pete Elman returns with the story of Bob Dylan’s classic trilogy of rock albums, recorded in New York and Nashville with his legendary backing band, The Band. Through lecture, slide show with photographs, charts and maps, recorded music, film clips, the use of live music, and a brief question and answer session, Mr. Elman will teach us about the poet laureate of rock’n’roll’s first electric music efforts. This was the moment that the kid from Hibbing, Minnesota cemented his legacy as the heir apparent to his hero Chuck Berry as the next great American rock and roll poet.  The first album of the trilogy, Bringing It All Back Home, was released in March 1965 and was eventually hailed as one of the greatest albums in rock history.  Two more classics, Highway 61 revisited and Blonde on Blonde, would follow, and the rest is history. Join us for a journey on the road with Bob Dylan and The Band.
PETE ELMAN, musician, writer and teacher, has been a professional musician since 1963, working as a keyboardist, trombonist, guitarist, bassist, arranger, composer, studio musician, recording artist and producer. He has performed and recorded with Grammy-winning writer/producer Rick Nowels (Stevie Nicks, Madonna, Celine Dion), Tom Johnston (Doobie Brothers) and Stef Burns (Huey Lewis and the News). Along the way he has composed, arranged, and produced music for film, TV, commercials, and several recording artists. In the 1990s, he released four acclaimed solo instrumental albums. As a journalist, Pete covered sports for the Cape Cod Times from 2000-2011, and continues to work as a freelance sportswriter. He taught public school from 2002-2015, and in 2013 published an acclaimed children’s musical picture book, Seasons Rhymes in Time. He is currently teaching eleven popular courses on American music for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Bay Area universities including UC Berkeley; among them: Turn, turn, turn, a regional chronological journey through the golden age of rock and roll, 1955-1970.  Pete is currently working on several book projects.