Posted on 08/14/2009 4:02:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Maybe they would have recognized him if he had introduced himself as Robert Allen Zimmerman.
Folk and rock god Bob Dylan was treated like an mere mortal by Jersey shore cops when a someone called to report a shady looking man wandering around the neighborhood.
Dylan was in Long Branch, N.J, on July 23 as part of a tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp that was to play at a baseball stadium in nearby Lakewood.
A 24-year-old police officer apparently was unaware of who Dylan is and asked him for identification, said Long Branch business administrator Howard Woolley.
But the singer of such classics as "Subterranean Homesick Blues" wasn't carrying ID, so police took him back to his hotel, where tour staff vouched for him.
A Dylan publicist didn't return a call seeking comment.
LOLOL!
A teachable moment for Gates, Urkel, and Cadillac Devalle.
I’ll bet Dylan didn’t mind a bit. Thought it was an interesting way to spend an afternoon probably.
Apparently, the person who phoned it in was racist....
“The incident began at 5 p.m. when a resident said a man was wandering around a low-income, predominantly minority neighborhood several blocks from the oceanfront looking at houses.”
"A 24-year-old police officer apparently was unaware of who Dylan is and asked him for identification, said Long Branch business administrator Howard Woolley."
They really need to do a better job in the music programs at these NEA-controlled public schools.
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I may have to carry around a couple CDs to have in handy for the next time a young cop pulls me over for a traffic ticket.
NBC conveniently left that out . NOt unexpected mind you . If you want the whole story you have to read the UK reports .
I think that this reporter is only publishing this episode because in this celebrity driven media something like this happens and it is, of course - Bob Dylan - but otherwise its a non-story
How does it feel?
To be on your own
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone.
-- Bob Dylan (paraphrasing :)
Not likely. I recall a story from years ago contrasting Dylan with Elton John as they tried at difference times to enter Israel. EJ made a "big celebrity" fuss, while Dylan just quietly got into the security line.
This will cause zero to say Dylan acted stupidly.
Most the time, he enjoys being a complete unknown.
Yes, then they can meet Rose Garden for a toast of Bob's favorite --- "cheap wine" ----
/grin
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
I always thought that at Monterey, Jimi sang "cigarettes to conceal" ... if you listen to it closely it really sounds like three syllables
Too bad he wasn't an illegal alien. They wouldn't have hassled him at all.
Most likely half the folks living in that “ latin quarter “ WERE illegals !
Another tidbit was Jimi singing "'excuse me while I kiss this guy". I was devastated when I heard him sing that line!
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