Bob Dylan's autobiography, which came out a few months back, reveals that Narrows fave, and blues master, John Hammond had a fun nickname in The Village in the early 1960s.
That's when the Bobster was scuffling around, and so was young John. By the way John's father, also named John Hammond, was a bigshot at Columbia Records and signed Bob Dylan. In the book, Dylan notes his gratitude to the elder John Hammond and that young John never mentioned who his father was.
John Hammond senior, by the way, also signed Billie Holiday, Bruce Springsteen and other greats, and brought blues legend Robert Johnson out of obscurity.
Okay the nickname for young John Hammond: Jeep.
No explanation given.
Submitted by Steve the Emcee, who really enjoyed reading Bob's book
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