[Frantzie]

The tolerant lefties and folkie Bolsheviks in the folkie community attacked Dylan when he went electric. I think he even got death threats. Such tolerance. I was never a huge Dylan fan but he was very cool when the cops asked him for ID in NJ recently when he was wandering around before a show. The cops were too young to know who he was. He never made a fuss and just walked with them to the tour bus to get his wallet and ID.

[Mr_Moonlight]

I was never a huge Dylan fan but he was very cool when the cops asked him for ID in NJ recently when he was wandering around before a show ~~~ He never made a fuss and just walked with them to the tour bus to get his wallet and ID.

I posted about this extensively on the threads here on FR when that incident occurred ... that Dylan wasn't your typical 'rock star celebrity' type, and that the incident was really nothing .. really ... that it was just being blown up because of his name recognition (or lack of it, by the young Joiysey Police).

Several FReepers automatically knee-jerked the story as some offensive jack-boot political thing, which it was not. Some others knee-jerked the story as the 'celebrity got what he deserved' ... again, which it was not.

Dylan was just walking thru a neighborhood as is his right , disheveled perhaps, and got asked by police to show ID .. he didn't have any and explained who he was and where he was staying .. they went back to the hotel and all was settled. No harm, no foul ... no screaming, no raving lawsuits, no big deal.

The only reason it made news is that he just happened to be Bob Dylan, that's all .......