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Ian Hunter on Bob Dylan

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Will Dockery

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May 15, 2021, 4:15:36 PM5/15/21
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"Nothing and no one influenced the new one. I’m old enough not to need influences. This is what it is. I’ve been reading up on stuff, it turned into lyrics, there’s the melody and it is what it is. I don’t listen to anybody anymore, I read, but I don’t listen. If I listen to anybody these days it would be Bob Dylan because he’s the yardstick. You write a song like Jokerman or Every Grain of Sand it’s hard to get anywhere near the same league. That’s the only guy I would listen to today because I think he’s amazing."​ -Ian Hunter

All American Alien Boy · Ian Hunter
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Zod

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May 16, 2021, 7:13:51 PM5/16/21
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Love Mott...

Will Dockery

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May 17, 2021, 1:39:08 AM5/17/21
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This is interesting, reading the liner notes booklet that came with the Mott The Hoople box set, turns out that Ian Hunter met up with Bob Dylan early on, in 1970:

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/classic-rock/20190205/283566631747600

"Mott got positive response... from Bob Dylan himself. During Mott's first U.S. tour, early 1970, Hunter was standing outside a club in New York when a figure walkedup singing "At The Crossroads". "I thought he was taking the piss," thought Hunter. When the pair's eyed met again inside the club. Hunter recognized Dylan. “He said: 'Mott The Hoople!', then started jumping up and down, singing At The Crossroads, and he's got all the lyrics..." -Kris Needs

Zod

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May 17, 2021, 8:10:54 PM5/17/21
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Cool, they met rather early on...

Zod

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Jun 8, 2021, 6:21:31 PM6/8/21
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Cool, Ian H. just turned 82...
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