Once I heard about the inflated ticket prices that Dylan was going to charge those U.S. music fans interested in attending his initial 1970s live concerts, I soon telephoned Murray Lerner, the documentary filmmaker who had produced a film in the 1960s, Festival, that contained some footage of the early Dylan performing at the Newport Folk Festival prior to 1966.
But when I asked Murray Lerner over the telephone if it would be possible to arrange for screenings of his 1960s Newport Folk Festival film on some local New York City campuses to be shown for free, to 1970s college students, during the time Dylan was making his initial 1970s live concert tour (so that, for free, younger 1970s music fans could better determine the degree to which the Dylan of the 1970s was different than the Dylan of the early 1960s), Murray Lerner indicated that he still wanted to receive money in the 1970s for allowing 1970s students to see his 1967 Festival film for free, while Dylan was on his well-publicized 1970s "comeback tour."
Hence, it wasn't until the late 1990s or early 21st century that most music fans in the United States who had never seen Murray Lerner's Festival film when it was first released in the 1960s were able to see much of its footage, as well as some added footage, as part of a newly titled film, "The Other Side Of The Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at The Newport Folk Festival."
A second thing I did, when I heard about the inflated prices Dylan was going to charge folks who bought tickets to his initial 1970s live concert tour, was to write a satirical folk song about "Bob Dylan Incorporated", which protested against the commercialism of the new 1970s symbol of hip capitalism: "Bob Dylan Incorporated."
I sang the satirical folk song about "Bob Dylan Incorporated" for awhile inside the slum apartment near the Brooklyn waterfront that I was living in, while Dylan was touring again and I was publicity clerkin' at New American Library. But, by the late 1970s, I no longer was singing this particular song and had lost the piece of paper containing the lyrics for this song. And I forget if I ever recorded on my cheap cassette tape recorder in the slum apartment the "Bob Dylan Incorporated" satirical folk song on any cheap homemade cassette tape of folk songs I may have mailed to anyone during the mid-1970s. So I no longer can recall what the lyrics were to this particular folk song.
