Mens journalbob dylan band member dead at 8313 hours ago

By Chris Willman. Bob Merlis, a representative, said that Goldberg died in hospice care after a year struggle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, with his wife of 53 years, Gail Goldberg, and son, Aram, at his bedside. Goldberg was also a founding member of the s group the Electric Flag. Popular on Variety. After more than a decade of work on the film, the doc finally played film festivals in and got a wider release in As a producer, he worked on two Sledge albums with Saul Davis.

Mens journalbob dylan band member dead at 8313 hours ago: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan was released

In later years he was part of the blues-rock supergroup the Rides with Shepherd and Stills, registering two No. That group followed on the heels of another group Goldberg played in with his guitarist friend Bloomfield, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, leading to the fateful gig with Dylan as the legend delighted or stunned crowds at Newport with his newish, noisy, full-band electric format.

Goldberg wrote about the Newport experience for an article in the Jewish publication the Forward in In one minute, I went from having the greatest time to being completely alone and having no gig. It just destroyed me. Bob had done a short acoustic performance at the festival that afternoon, which was what everybody expected from him, but now he was talking to Michael about getting a band together for his festival-closing performance Sunday — something people were definitely not expecting.