Victor Maymudes..In Memory

Memories of Victor

There is now a new forum/guestbook for Victor HERE

Walking through the streets of Manhattan in the middle of the night. Walking through the streets of Santa Monica in the middle of the night. Walking through the cave dwellings in New Mexico in the middle of the day. Paris, Kentucky, Amsterdam, London, Washington D.C. - Baron taking the heat for Lil Zim. Portland, Mr. Petty, Van Morrison, MTV Unplugged, on the stage with you at the Meadowlands - one of the very last concerts for Mr. Garcia. Trying to make a baby. Trying to keep it together. Trying to get along without you. Still.

Jennifer DeBow <jendebow@hotmail.com>
taos, nm usa -

I sure miss you my friend. No need to Look Back any more.
Zimmy
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Thanks for putting this up. I miss my father. He was a good guy.
Jake Maymudes <fatvibe@yahoo.com>
SF, CA USA -

Happy Birthday, Victor ~ R.I.P.
a friend
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trying to get in touch with victor's daughter. --Al Aronowitz
Al Aronowitz <blackj@bigmagic.com>
nyc, ny u.s.a. -

hi, nice site, keep up the great work!
michael
United States -

Victor picked me out and decided I needed his help. From his office window in the Crossroads of the World in Hollywood he would watch me deliver a disheveled Dave Crosby to the studio and run around tending to Stills and Nash. He approached me and told me his story, knowing I would learn from him. Of all the folks I did learn from in that sharktank called Hollywood...Victor taught me the most. "We all have our crosses to bear...some are made of styrofoam..others are pure lead". He urged me to leave LA, find a girl...have some kids..and eat good food. And I did.
Vic called me a month before he passed. Told me it was time to return to LA and help him with his book. I was sure I had plenty of time.
dave rao <raodave@yahoo.com>
elkins, wv usa -

Hello seabourn Keep up the good work :)
con

It's been one year now since Victor left for a journey that the rest of us can only imagine. He was such a big part of my life that rarely a day goes by that I do not think of a time when we threw stones into an arroyo or hiked in the rose quartz hills above ojo caliente or talked about life, politics, power and money.
a friend
- Sunday, January 27, 2002 at 05:37:19 (GMT)

Victor would have been sixty-six yesterday. He and I shared an aversion to cigarette smoke. Being subjected to second hand smoke was one of his least favorite things about travelling with musicians. He told me that, on one occasion while traveling with the wilburry's, he quietly said to George Harrison, "when you smoke around me it's like saying..." then Victor got in George's face and shouted, "FUCK YOU!"

As I recall, after some months had passed, George saw Victor and thanked him, saying that he had stopped smoking.

If only Victor had been so inspirated in that hotel room with bob and the fab 4 all those years ago - perhaps they'd both still be around.

Still missin him.

myla <myla_reson@yahoo.com>
- Sunday, December 02, 2001 at 17:31:24 (GMT)

I miss Victor. We had a conversation that lasted for twenty years, but it wasn't long enough. I wish that I could talk to him right now.
Myla Reson <myla_reson@yahoo.com>
- Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 16:14:50 (BST)

Really enjoyed the website. Thank You!
FREE STUFF
Rhonda Davis
- Saturday, August 11, 2001 at 22:06:13 (BST)

I am a friend and will be for as long as my memory stays with me
out of all the characters in this soap opera Victor was the "one"
you could get the truth from. as he forecasted my rise and demise
He made me understand that you should always walk, before they make you run.
Thank you for keeping his memory alive,I have two pictures I would like to donate, taken while we
were in Guadalajara,México 1991' while I was "Guitar Player"
on the Never Ending tour, please contact me so I may send the jpg's.
Sincerely , César Díaz®
César Díaz <info@cesardiaz.com>
East Stroudsburg, PA us - Monday, May 21, 2001 at 08:24:35 (BST)

How sad to learn of Victor's leaving. I was there when Victor was born. My dad and mom drove Golda to the L.A. County Hospital when her pains started. I was a five year old and screaming for my father to drive faster. Vic's brother August and I were close friends as kids when the Maymudes' lived down the street. Victor was always a kind, sensitive boy. I lost track of him years ago, but I have always thought about him.
ted cohen <tedco@webtv.net>
los angeles, ca usa - Saturday, May 12, 2001 at 07:33:20 (BST)

Aerie and Jacob, my memories of your Dad all include you and the trips we took to Mexico together. They were some of my favorite times and I will remember them always. I am here as your friend and sister if you need anything.
Delia Castillo
- Sunday, March 11, 2001 at 02:56:32 (GMT)

Aerie and Jacob. Victor so loved both of you and believed in you completely. You were the lights of his life and through you his brilliance lives. Much love, Reavis
Reavis <rdm@mbcnetworks.com>
- Wednesday, February 28, 2001 at 23:03:51 (GMT)

What I most remember about Victor was getting high and walking. We walked in the canyons of New Mexico, the hills of LA, the parks of New York, the streets of London and along the canals of Amsterdam. And when we walked, we talked about music, power, people, sex and the relativity of life. For a time, I loved him like a little brother, one who had so much to offer and so much to learn. For a brief period, we were associates in a music venture. During that time he taught me a crucial life lesson in the use of power, by executing a maneuver worthy of Machiavelli. "This is right out of Shakespeare.", he said, of the business betrayal that ultimately ended our friendship. What I learned from that experience with Victor, has served me to this very day. Safe journeys to you Victor. May the tour take you to places you've never been before and reveal to you the music that you didn't hear on Earth. And who knows, maybe one day we can continue our work together. Let me know when your're ready. Reavis
Reavis Daniel Moore <rdm@mbcnetworks.com>
NY/LA, USA - Wednesday, February 28, 2001 at 21:59:25 (GMT)

Thanks Victor
Jim Rider
L.A., - Friday, February 23, 2001 at 10:21:54 (GMT)

Denise,
Please contact me about your post this site. I look forward to hearing from you.
myla <mylareason@hotmail.com>
- Thursday, February 08, 2001 at 22:50:20 (GMT)

I met Victor a handful of times, and knew him only slightly,
but I also happen to be the guy who runs the concerts at
McCabe's. I want to make clear that the memorial service is
scheduled for Sunday, February 25th at 6:00 p.m. (not the
26th, as stated elsewhere on this website). Thanks.
Zachariah Love <mccabesconcerts@aol.com>
Santa Monica, CA USA - Thursday, February 08, 2001 at 22:33:19 (GMT)

Said with love: He invited me to see Dylan... but all I saw was Victor's dick. Adios Amigo.
Darkstar
Santa Monica, CA USA - Thursday, February 08, 2001 at 17:44:38 (GMT)

Dear friends, I stumbled across your site a number of months ago while searching for information on Bob. Was thrilled to learn of your web page and eagerly awaited news of Victors' publication.Tonight by chance I was looking to see if Bob will be touring any time soon and passed the Sierra site . I had sent Victor an e-mail in September of last year and although I never heard from him I do hope he reeceived my message.I was shcked and saddened to learn of Victors' passing and hope that his opus will be available shortly. I met Victor in 1988 when he was woking with Bob and had the opprtunity to spend precious little time with him. Victor A"H was a giant of a man both figurativly and literaly. So deep and mysterious yet playful and warm. As I wrote to him in thhe aforementioned e-mail the hours that I spent with him were among my most memorable.Please advise me of the particulars regarding the memorial service planned for the end of February as I would very much like to honor his memory in some way. Victor was an original,an American classic,a man of immense loyalty. He will be sorely missed,our world is reduced due his passing. Rest in peace my beloved friend.
Barry Gavarin <MindyLeeG@AOL.com>
Flushing, NY U.S.A. - Tuesday, February 06, 2001 at 09:12:20 (GMT)

I am a reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican, researching the life and death of Victor Maymudes on Saturday, Feb. 3, for a story on Sunday, Feb. 4. If anyone would care to comment on their memories of Victor, especially his life in New Mexico, please call me at 505-474-0028 up until 3 p.m. MST, then at 505-986-3035. I can call you back collect from the second number. Thanks. - Tom
Tom Sharpe <tomsharpe@juno.com>
Santa Fe, NM USA - Saturday, February 03, 2001 at 18:39:56 (GMT)

I saw Victor for the first and only time at the 1994 Michigan State Fair. I took this picture of him standing on the stage just before Dylan's performance.
Craig Stroud <Dylan4me@aol.com>
Walled Lake, MI USA - Friday, February 02, 2001 at 12:27:00 (GMT)

I never met Victor. I only recognise him from a picture of him with Bob at an airport I believe. Wasn't he Bobs "body guard"? He was a big man I recall. One a person wouldn't want to mess with. Bob must have trusted him a lot and that to me says a lot about him. How old was he when he passed? How did he pass? He is forever a part of history in Dylanology. What more can we say about him? I would like to hear more about him. What else was he about?

God Bless him.
Brian Backus <outlaw7x77@yahoo.com>
Orting, WA USA - Thursday, February 01, 2001 at 23:08:57 (GMT)

Met him on the 4th of July in 1991, at Bob's show in Tanglewood. Victor cruised the front lip of the stage before Bob came out, scoping us out and being astonished at how low the stage was. We all said hi to him and felt warm that we were with, for a moment, a friend of Bob's. Rest in peace, Victor.
Jack <jkelleher@hcac.org>
Cummington, MA USA - Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at 23:02:40 (GMT)

Too bad that Victor is gone. I met him in Dublin, '93, at Bob's hotel. He was kindly and funny. He shared with us memories of bein on the road with Dylan, and how weird music journalists sometimes they are. He told us about a San Francisco journalist that once wrote that, actually, John Lennon and Bob Dylan were the same person...
I remember him on the street of Genova, in '92, eatin' an ice cream... but the best image of him, young and proud, is the one from Monterey, '67.
That is how we'll remember him.

Paolo <silly_boy_it@yahoo.com>
Italy - Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at 10:17:46 (GMT)

First of all we are so sad about the news and would like to know more details about where and when it happened. The last time we contacted Victor was for his birthday (2nd December) and we know he tried to phone us last June when he was planning to come to London. We have many great memories with him since early 90's in different places of Europe and at his home in L.A where we stayed on a few occasions. One of Victor's great suggestion was to travel the 3 of us around Europe by train first class, he was often looking forward to it but it never happened. Although he knew many people he was a very lonely person deep inside and also very sensitive and shy. He had artistic talents and we remember very well one of his sculpture of a woman with falling breasts at one of his actor's friend. It was sensitively executed. We may write more another time but for the moment we're so saddened by his death that we haven't fully realised it and we will miss him greatly!! It's a shame that he never had time to finish writing his books as we're sure that he had a lot to say!!! He had such a need to express himself and to be recognized for who he was. Many people around the globe will miss him - friends and foes!!! Everybody must get stoned....
Marianne & Helene Simonin <marianne_simonin@yahoo.com / h.simonin@angelfire.com>
London, GB - Tuesday, January 30, 2001 at 17:05:15 (GMT)

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