Bob Dylan writes amazing songs, but they are not literature.

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 17:17:01 CDT 2016


Well, I'm not there, it seems.  I think a scene is in that movie of that title about him and I guess it merged Newport with Manchester and other performances (which I did not know about) so I assumed it was Newport. Or I learned the story of Manchester and misremembered. 

Just a pawn. 

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> On Oct 20, 2016, at 5:47 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 
> "Chronicles" is great.
> 
> As for "Play it f*cking loud" (German pedant alert) -- did Dylan say this at Newport at well? He definitely did in Manchester after he was called "Judas" by some heckler:
> 
> http://www.downvids.net/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-live-in-the-manchester-free-trade-hall-1966--841232.html
> 
>> I was overjoyed......and ended up peeking thru the
>> keyhole down upon my news
>> while I shouted "Play it F*cking Louder, Academy" (Dylan, going
>> electric, turning to his band after boos at Newport '65)
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