På det mindre kända temat "Dylan mästrar Lennon", kommer följande lätt redigerade inslag som jag hittade på nån sida om Värdelöst Vetande om Beatles.
"As an Isle of Wight teenager in the 60s, summer jobs were often washing up in hotels and cafes. So in the summer I am washing up in a café for my summer job, and the griddle chef is a chap who I shall call V. He and I got on well. He was married to the older of sister of someone who was in my class at primary school, and she was in the maternity ward in the local hospital: delivery was either imminent or had just happened, I can't recall. I also can't recall which member it was, but one of the members of The Band was just about to become a dad, too, and his wife was in the bed next to V's wife.
The Band were just about to back Bob Dylan at his comeback concert at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival. The wives became friendly, so the husbands chatted too, and V got invited to the post-gig party at Dylan's rented house in Seaview. Given that his wife was in hospital, V accepted the invitation and duly turned up at the house in Seaview.
You may recall that Ringo, George and John all attended Dylan's set (which ran from 11pm to midnight - my voice is among the audience on the live recording released in 2013). At the Seaview house, V witnessed a conversation in the hall between Dylan and John and Yoko. J&Y were in their white suit phase at the time, but they were also in their heroin addiction phase, and personal hygiene was, it seems, low on their list of priorities: V heard Dylan telling that they stank, they should leave, and not come back until they'd had a bath. Presumably they left at that point.
It's not a first hand story, I'm afraid, but it's only one step removed, and I have no reason to believe that V was not telling the truth."
