Brooke Dramer, a FOOTBKB (friend of OTBKB) wrote in to say: “John Cougar Mellancamp had Little Pink Houses. The Band had Big Pink. Garfield Place has Very Big Pink.”

Indeed, Garfield Place’s Pepto Bismol House is gaining status as an urban legend .For the record, Big Pink, pictured above is a pink house in West Saugerties, New York, that was rented by The Band’s  Rick Danko in 1966 or so. He was collaborating with Bob Dylan at the time and this was the house that Bob Dylan would  retreat to after his accident to write songs and record songs in the house’s large basement.

These tw0-track recordings came to be known as The Basement Tapes.

Members of Dylan’s band wrote most of the songs on Music from Big Pink at or around the house, and the band then began to use the name, The Band. The cover illustration, below) for the album is by Dylan.