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.
How does it feel
To be on your own
W’th no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rollin’ stone
Yah, thats a good one by Jimi
Another tidbit was Jimi singing "'excuse me while I kiss this guy". I was devastated when I heard him sing that line!
YIKES!!! /laughs .... well, the 60's 'free love' and all that ....
From what I read, the police stopped him because it’s a Latino area and someone who lives there called and said there was a suspicious looking man in the neighborhood.
Now, was that racial profiling?
I dont know but I cant rule it out.
One of his songs came on in the car the other day. My son’s only comment was “That’s his voice?”
‘nuff said.
Bob was probably just wandering around and soaking up the atmosphere. There’ll probably soon be a song about it.
“Another tidbit was Jimi singing “’excuse me while I kiss this guy”. I was devastated when I heard him sing that line!”
Allow me to ease your mind after all these years. It’s “Excuse me while I kiss the sky”. LMAO A lot of people thought that was the line, though.
Yes, as someone who survived of the 60’s, I knew the actual lyrics - was just having some Fri night humor...
Ha! Was hoping that was the case. Just listening to Laura Ingram talk about how out of tune the guitars were at Woodstock. CSN&Y’s were out for their full nine minute opening. LOL Or was Niel Young there? I was a bit young then. My teens were in the ‘70s.
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That is such a great cover of that song even though Jimi messes up the lyrics.
There is another thread about how the promoters, the farmer who owned the land and musicians was big time free market capitalists whose #1 goal was to make money.
Yep, ain't it funny how the 'legend of Woodstock' got all turned around into some 'free love, free peace, free hamburgers, free acid (etc etc)' thingie ... bottom line is that it was ALL about the 'bottom line' right down to where the dots and commas in the numbers would be placed.
Max Yasgur, far from being some local yokel hick farmer, was one astute business negotiator ... word is that he went into the negotiations carrying pad and pencil and jotting down numbers and figures the whole time.
As parodied in the National Lampoon show "Lemmings" - "Farmer Yasser" would say:
"Well, these slickers came to me and wanted to use my land .. so I said SURE, and I charged 'em plenty!"
It wasn't that far from the truth! /laughs
Thanks, MM,
I enjoyed that! :)
June K.
Thanks! That version is one of my favorite songs of all time. For the debate about the difference between Clapton and Hendrix- when people talk about ‘soul’ (as in one has it and one doesn’t)- you really see and hear it in this version. You get such a feel of the man through the way he plays this song. It’s got a lot of layers to it.
Anway... Thanks.
It's a sad day though when kids in their 20s would know who Britney Spears and
Barry Obama are but have never heard of Bob Dylan and "Like a Rolling Stone."
The media's just not doin' their job, man!
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid...
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
Sheeez!
Bob Dylan is great. Think I’ll listen to some ‘Blood on the Tracks’ right now...
Ironically, Bob Dylan thought the Beatles were cool for singing, “I get high, I get high, I get HIGH...!” in the song, ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’.
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