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[Erthona]

I thought at first is was an artist talking about their producers, etc. Reads really nice knowing it was Dylan; it sounds like the way he talked and wrote. Adding to Judas, Jesters, song and dance man and et al., should there be? another symbol for clarity, or is it OK that people may be guessing? You did say "song and dance" man; what about a reference to a song, perhaps "subterranian". just trying, Loretta

Well it was more about the creative process, and he was simply the vehicle I used to talk about it. Specifically the idea about when non-creative people ask inane questions about the creative process like "where does the inspiration come from", or "who is your muse"? It's not really their fault that they can't understand it (hell, most artists don't know how to conceptualize it), but what is irritating is this the assumption that they could understand if only we would tell them, like we are playing coy or something. I thought the interview of Dylan in 65 showed this quite explicitly.
However to answer your question, I thought to make it more explicitly about Dylan would take the focus off of the point of the thing. It was not my intent to just re-write a brief event in Dylan's history. I thought I left enough "clues".

#1 song, "Like a Rolling Stone"

"Your latter writings, better than the first:
so of course, the first is what they wanted,
before you hooked with Robby and Rick et. al.,
and really blew their ears out."

Makes reference when he went electric, even citing two of "The Band's" members that back him during this time. I would have included Levon Helm, but he wasn't with them at this point.

"really blew their ears out" a reference to Pete Seeger at the "Newport Folk Festival" wanting to cut the electrical lines because the distortion was so bad that it was agitating his father who wore a hearing aid.

And of course he was called "Judas" during his tour in England.

I think that is quite a lot. I could have included a reference to "Mister Jones" asking questions, or "blowing their ears out at Maggie's Farm", still if people didn't get it from what was there, I'm not sure that would have helped. I could have titled it Dylan, but once again that would move the focus from where I intended it to be. To me it is a fine line to walk.

What are you thoughts on this?


Dale