Victor Maymudes (December 2, 1935 – January 27, 2001) was Bob Dylan's tour manager at the beginning of his musical success in the early 1960s.
[1] In his unfinished autobiography, posted on a website,[2] Maymudes recalled opening the Unicorn coffee house in Los Angeles.
The Unicorn (located on the Sunset Strip next to what would become the Whisky a Go Go) opened in 1957 by Maymudes and Herb Cohen (later well-known rock manager of Frank Zappa, Tim Buckley, and Tom Waits[3]), was the first of its kind on the West Coast, south of San Francisco.
He was "tall, taciturn" with "penetrating dark eyes, turbulent hair and an uncanny ability to keep his mouth shut", wrote Robert Shelton in his 1986 biography of Dylan, No Direction Home.
Maymudes died January 27, 2001, at UCLA Hospital in Santa Monica, California, a day after he was stricken with a cerebral aneurysm at his home in Pacific Palisades.