A Tour of Bob Dylan’s ‘Complete Unknown’-Era Greenwich Village, With Day-One Fan Peter Wolf
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music At first, Peter Wolf — best known as the limber-limbed solo artist and former lead singer of the J.
Geils Band — may not seem like a day-one Bob Dylan fan who saw some of the legendary bard’s earliest New York concerts and witnessed his meteoric rise in the early ‘60s, first-hand.
But that experience and many others in Wolf’s remarkable life are recounted in vivid detail in his new book, “Waiting on the Moon.” It’s billed as a memoir and basically is, but Wolf intentionally didn’t want to do a same-old rock autobiography.
Instead, its chapters are more like a series of cameos with the incredible people he’s known over the years: There are chapters on or featuring Dylan, Muddy Waters, John Lennon, the Rolling Stones, Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, Lou Reed, David Lynch and more.
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