so who's looking forward to bob dylan's chronicles volume one book?

it's really funny how these traditions of borrowing and copying (on which Bob Dylan built his career) do not sit well in this age of legality and intellectual property.

^ cont'd.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/18/bob-dylan-s-da-vinci-code-revealed.html

man this is good, kicking myself for taking so long to getting around to it

I've read this a few times -- this and Miles' are the two music autobiographies I frequently return to. And both feature encounters with Cecil Taylor and Thelonious Monk!

probably my two faves as well

the ephemera that he champions in this book is really interesting, I didn't even know this existed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR6wtzIUtcs

so when he's talking about his post-motorcycle crash work, he offers some cheeky descriptions of Nashville Skyline and Self-Portrait, and also mentions an album based entirely on Chekhov's short works - wtf is he talking about here, John Wesley Harding? Or something that never came out? tyler?

Think he claimed or broadly hinted at one point that it was Blood On The Tracks? Oh yeah, here 'tis: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dylans-bloody-best-album-40-facts-about-the-40-year-old-blood-on-the-tracks-20150121 You might wanna search "Chekhov" here and spare yourself the surrounding RS effusions.

looks like that's just RS speculation though

in chronicles he says something like "critics claimed it was autobiographical" which seems to point in the blood on the tracks direction ... but who knows. A lot of Chronicles is kinda suspect (even though I think it's great)

Iirc he borrowed a ton of passages from Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow, also worth reading if you haven't.

some people think the whole book is an exercise in cut-up techniques. i wonder when there'll be a Room 237-style doc on Dylan conspiracy theories.

Current mood: Bob Dylan in the ‘We are the world’ video. pic.twitter.com/Ki8xzt08A8

— Sam Hammond (@vomcruise) October 18, 2017

that's hilarious