<Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> Mel Lyman played harmonica like no one under the sun / Mel Lyman didn't just play harmonica, he was one .--Landis MacKellar </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <P> In 1963 Lyman joined Jim Kweskin's Boston - based jug band as a banjo and harmonica player . Lyman, once called "the Grand Old Man of the' blues' harmonica in his mid-twenties", is remembered in folk music circles for playing a 20 - minute improvisation on the traditional hymn "Rock of Ages" at the end of the 1965 Newport Folk Festival to the riled crowd streaming out after Bob Dylan's famous appearance with an electric band . Some felt that Lyman, primarily an acoustic musician, was delivering a wordless counterargument to Dylan's new - found rock direction . Irwin Silber, editor of Sing Out Magazine, wrote that Lyman's "mournful and lonesome harmonica" provided "the most optimistic note of the evening". </P> <P> In 1966, supported and funded by Jonas Mekas, Lyman published his first book, Autobiography of a World Savior, which set out to reformulate spiritual truths and occult history in a new way . In 1971, Lyman published Mirror at the End of the Road, derived from letters he wrote during his formative years, starting in 1958 from his initial attempts to learn and become a musician, through the early 1960s as his life widened and deepened musically and personally . The last entries are from 1966 which simply express the profound joys and deepest losses which defined and gave his life direction and meaning in the years ahead . The key to the book and the life he lived afterwards are stated simply in the dedication at the beginning "To Judy who made me live with a broken heart". </P> <P> It was his relationship with Judy Silver which brought him to Boston in 1963 . Again, Lyman became acquainted with many artists and musicians in the vibrant Boston scene, including Timothy Leary's group of LSD enthusiasts, International Foundation for Internal Freedom (IFIF). Lyman was involved for a very short time and, against his wishes, so was Judy . Knowing LSD's power, he felt she was not ready but stated "the bastards at IFIF gave her acid...I told her not to take it . I knew her head couldn't take it ." Lyman's fears turned out to be justified and she left college and returned to her parents in Kansas . According to one of the anonymous sources interviewed by David Felton for Rolling Stone, "Judy got all fucked up--this is his second old lady--I mean like she got really twisted . I don't know if it was the acid or the scene or whatever, but she split . She went back to Kansas . She was totally out of the picture by the summer of 1963 . Judy is probably the most important thing in Mel's life . He worshipped Judy, really loved her . Then she split, you know? She couldn't help it, she was totally freaked out . They took her away ." Lyman was by all accounts very charismatic and later, after Judy had left, a community or family naturally tended to grow up around him . At some point thereafter Lyman began to realize himself as destined for a role as a spiritual force and leader . </P>

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