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.
What a maroon...
"You've gone to the finest school all right, miss lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deeeal?
Aaaaaaaaaaoh, how does it feel?
C'mon, how does it feel?
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone..."
Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone"
©2009 HMBA
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 nothin', you got nothin' to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal...
Great post - very creative!
The irony is, of course, that they really sang "I can't hide", but Dylan thought it was "I get high" .. and so he unwittingly 'introduced' them to pot upon their first meeting, thinking that they were already potheads
MM says...
“The irony is, of course, that they really sang “I can’t hide”, but Dylan thought it was “I get high” .. and so he unwittingly ‘introduced’ them to pot upon their first meeting, thinking that they were already potheads”
Junie K says...
Ha! Bet they were insulted to know he thought they were so lacking in experience!
Don’t go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s the bathroom on the right.
Haahahahaaa ... well OK, but that is CCR, not Dylan ... /grin
Otherwise, good thing the bathroom is on the right because in Joiysey there are NO LEFT TURNS ALLOWED ANYWHERE ... poor Joiysey'ites gotta drive round and round and round in right circles all the time .......
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