Victor Maymudes; Club Owner, Friend of Bob Dylan

Victor Maymudes, 65, close friend, sometime tour manager and chronicler of pop musician Bob Dylan. The son of two Los Angeles Yiddishist activists, Maymudes grew up with civil rights rhetoric and music. In 1955, he opened a Los Angeles folk club, the Unicorn. He began working with Dylan in 1962, serving as a road manager particularly adept at designing tour buses, and occasionally as talent coordinator and associate producer. He took off a few years to farm in New Mexico, but rejoined Dylan from 1986 to 1996. Maymudes had a contract with St. Martin’s Press to write a book about touring with Dylan, titled “The Joker and the Thief.” On Jan. 27 in Santa Monica.