Bob Dylan

Then there was a couple of guys from around Daphmont I would jam with, Russell Coolidge, and we would do a bunch of funk and dance music.

But with Greg and them, it was always Hendrix, Stevie Ray, Bob Dylan, stuff like that.

And so the fun part was that was all up my alley because I loved music.

We would jam.

Yeah.

Funny you say that because I mean, the cover of the book, you have Bob Dylan with the kids on the set visiting Liverpool in 66.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah.

Cause the other concert that I've been to where everybody was seated was Bob Dylan, um, including Bob Dylan.

He was having a tough time standing up as he was ripping around on the piano.

Yeah.

It has to start when you're young.

I mean, it's not like Bob Dylan's parents were, like, hanging around his apartment in New York Village being like, you playing gigs this weekend? Come on, Bob, get out there.

You've only done two shows this weekend at the Village Gate.

It's like...

The only thing I ever did was Hyde Park and there was about 200,000 people there.

And I remember watching The Who and Alanis Morissette and Bob Dylan.

Yeah.

Which people have been like, oh, amazing, got to see Bob Dylan.

I was like, he was dreadful.

Yeah.

I lost the plot there.

Which famous singer-songwriter wrote the Cultural Icon Award for 2016? Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, or Bob Dylan? I don't know this one.

Bob

Dylan.

Do you want to agree on one?

No.

I don't think Bob Dylan ever won an award like that.

I'm

Like, if you look at, like, old ads for the Fillmore East or even, like...

You know, like Bob Dylan tours in the early 70s when he came back with the band or seeing any of the giant tours, the late 60s, early 70s.

If you look at the ads, it's almost, you know, it's like right to the box office for tickets.

Here's the address.

ticket? I don't want to buy more merch.

I'm just saying.

The fridge magnet I got when I accidentally upsold myself on Bob Dylan tickets.

It's a magnet of a ticket.

They were mic'd, and a number of the truly great artists of the 60s released albums with no lyrics, like John Fahey and Leo Kottke, who we'll play after the next tune.

We're going to feature some of those coming up today, but I did want to say that regardless of how you feel about yourself, Remember, as Bob Dylan wrote, we are younger than yesterday.

Countless fire and flaming rope, using ideas as my map.

We'll meet on edges soon, said I, proud me, heated brow.