“He just likes to play all the time,” Robertson said. In fact, Dylan’s appetite for music-making far exceeded the Band’s. That “holiday,” according to guitarist Robbie Robertson of the Band, consisted in almost non-stop jamming. “But basically we’re just having a holiday.”
“We will consider any offers we get,” he told the reporter. Despite a pair of guards at the boarded-up wrought-iron gates, one reporter, Chris White, of the London Daily Sketch, did get in to talk with Dylan, who told him he’d always wanted to come to the Isle of Wight because it was the home of Alfred Lord Tennyson.ĭylan said he had no thoughts about future engagements after the festval. The press had caught the scent and had actually tried to get up close to the 29-year-old singer (who reportedly got something around $84,000 for his performance) during the week he spent rehearsing with the Band at the 16th century Forland Farm, at Bembridge.
