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Stephan Pickering
Jan 31, 2016, 6:14:32 PM1/31/16
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the fraud and forger known as 'lowgen'
On 22 August 2015, I received a copy of a forged undated letter, ca. 1978, purportedly written by my akhi/brother Dalton Delan (an honoured film maker) to 'Jacques von Son' in Holland, accusing me of stealing (freely available) materials (from individuals I have never heard of, did not know then, or now), of creating for Dalton a 'hoax' tape), and not being honest with my close friend Robert Shelton in London. None of this transpired, and is not true.
I discuss this below. This forgery has been perpetrated by a cyberian prankster named 'lowgen', who is not a genuine student of the Yehu'dit paradigms of Shabtai Zisel/'Bob Dylan'.
'lowgen' attempted 22 August 2015 to distort the complex, sensitive, and important post-Auschwitz historical record of scholarship on Shabtai Zisel/'Bob Dylan''s poetics, by concocting a 'letter' from Dalton Delan (my close friend and film maker) to Jacques van Son -- which is an outright forgery by Jacques van Son. (For a clumsy, obvious forgery, it is hardly on the level of the metafictions of 'Araki Yasusada'.) I forwarded this to Dalton, who on 25 August 2015, refuted lowgen's lies on the record. 'lowgen' said I was fabricating the letter from Dalton Delan. It can be empirically verified that Stephan Pickering and Dalton Delan are actual hominids, and not animatronic similitudes.
In the past, 'lowgen' has questioned, e.g., if the Barry Feinstein photograph of 3 January 1974 of Bob/Shabtai and I is real; if Bill Graham and I knew each other (cf. Scott Marshall's Restless Pilgrim for discussions of my relationship with Bill and his production assistant, Peter Barsotti, or my own 1975 Bob Dylan Approximately...one of my closest friends is Bill's orphanage survivor intimate Yitzhak Amato); if my information about Bob/Shabtai's ba'al teshuvah public appearance 20 September 1983 in Yerusalaim, at haKotel is genuine. I have (and shall be publishing) 2 wonderful colour photos of him taken by the Yisra'eli photographer/artist Tzavi Kohen, along with a statement from the photographer, and comments given to me, in private, by the CHaBaD-Lubavitcher shluchim who were present on behalf of the Rebbe. I also quote statements from Reb Allen Ginsberg on Bob/Shabtai's wonderful re/turn. As Reb Allen told me years ago, 'Bob's questions overcome our loneliness'.
In attendance was Sara Dylan (which 'lowgen' does not believe), who took numerous colour film cartridges, 2 of her Yerusalaim photographs used forInfidel's cover and inner sleeve; Bob/Shabtai's mother (I have a not-entirely-reliable statement from her), other family members. His son had a belated bar mitzvah during the public repentance for the 1979 apostasy and its chate'u/'sins'. Bob/Shabtai was wearing (which he still has) his own tefillin and tallis gadol. He had with him the silver-covered Mikra originally belonging to Mike Bloomfield's grandmother (which Mr Bloomfield gave to him 14 November 1980).
As Shabtai Zisel/'Bob Dylan' stated in 1985: 'I'm not a believer in that "born-again" type thing'.
In Chapter 2 of my monograph-in-progress, I devote over 20 pages to the entire sequence of his repentance (which began 1981, when he finally gives a repudiation of natz'rut in 'Caribbean Wind' of 7 April 1981), the three documented steps involved, which the Rebbe and his assistants were quite aware of. Not being a scholar, but a lying fraud, 'lowgen' is not a party to my research. The entire chapter segment opens with a colour photograph of the Rebbe and Shabtai/Bob studying Torah together in Crown Heights. To be sure, all of this is ignored by the 'born again' natz'rut TypeWriter in the UK, who derisively speaks of 'an ultra-Orthodox [sic] Hasidic sect [sic] called the Lubavitchers'.
On 9 September 2015, 'lowgen' continues the masquerade by claiming it was Stephan Pickering himself who forged Dalton Delan's 25 August 2015 letter to Stephan Pickering (which refuted lowgen's revealing the 22 August 2015 Jacques van Son forgery).
This is an attempt to smear both Stephan Pickering and Dalton Delan with a rather flimsy paradigm of victim pathography. Through his actions of fraudulent lying, and perpetrating a criminal forgery, 'lowgen' is, like other Cyberian pranksters, claiming to be a (pseudo-) victim.
In the process, 'lowgen' has permanently destroyed any pretense of credibility as a so-called 'Dylan collector', and volitionally places his actions among a proliferating body of similarly destructive, fraudulent work in Cyberia.
For those interested, my refutation of 'lowgen' is an appendix to my Chapter 2. (It was printed at a Denmark 'Bob Dylan' website briefly, but they have a problem with post-Shoah 'Jews', and it was removed, along with my scholarly contributions.)
FOR THE RECORD:
1) the undated 'Dalton Delan' letter to 'Jacques van Son' was not written by Dalton Delan, but is a forgery from Jacques van Son distributed gleefully by 'lowgen';
2) Dalton Delan is the author of the 25 August 2015 letter to Stephan Pickering, completely repudiating the 'Dalton Delan' forgery being perpetrated by 'lowgen', after it was immediately brought to Dalton Delan's attention by Stephan Pickering.
Dalton wrote to me: 'Of course that "letter" in broken English is not from my typewriter! The grammar reminds me of one of those "wallet stolen" email solicitations one gets from Nigeria and the Ukraine...I am happy to completely deny authorship to anyone you need. L'Chaim, Dalton' ;
3) Stephan Pickering has carefully elucidated the forgery: 'lowgen''s obfuscating statements are constructed on a series of lies and phantasies, mentioning individuals I do not know (I do not know 'lowgen'), events which never took place, and saying, as mentioned above, I forged Dalton's 25 August 2015 letter to me!;
4) this morning, 10 September 2015, Dalton read the above, approves it, and I am disseminating this warning.
'lowgen' is a liar, a forger, a fraud, a bigot, who hides behind an alias, refusing to provide complete honest data of who/where he is.
Stephan Pickering has never heard of various individuals 'lowgen' claims I had contact with over 40 years ago...with the exception of the late Robert Shelton, to whose 1986 biography No Direction Home Stephan Pickering made numerous contributions gratefully acknowledged by Mr Shelton in print. Robert Shelton was an individual whose memory and friendship and kindness with me I cherish... zekher tzaddik livrahkazek.
As a Torah chassidish Yehu'di, I am presenting this as a WARNING to individuals in the 'Bob Dylan world' for whom I have profound respect. I do not want any of you victimised by this fabricating hate monger.
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STEPHAN PICKERING / חפץ ח"ם בן אברהם
Torah אלילה Yehu'di Apikores / Philologia Kabbalistica Speculativa Researcher
לחיות זמן רב ולשגשג
THE KABBALAH FRACTALS PROJECT
On 22 August 2015, I received a copy of a forged undated letter, ca. 1978, purportedly written by my akhi/brother Dalton Delan (an honoured film maker) to 'Jacques von Son' in Holland, accusing me of stealing (freely available) materials (from individuals I have never heard of, did not know then, or now), of creating for Dalton a 'hoax' tape), and not being honest with my close friend Robert Shelton in London. None of this transpired, and is not true.
I discuss this below. This forgery has been perpetrated by a cyberian prankster named 'lowgen', who is not a genuine student of the Yehu'dit paradigms of Shabtai Zisel/'Bob Dylan'.
'lowgen' attempted 22 August 2015 to distort the complex, sensitive, and important post-Auschwitz historical record of scholarship on Shabtai Zisel/'Bob Dylan''s poetics, by concocting a 'letter' from Dalton Delan (my close friend and film maker) to Jacques van Son -- which is an outright forgery by Jacques van Son. (For a clumsy, obvious forgery, it is hardly on the level of the metafictions of 'Araki Yasusada'.) I forwarded this to Dalton, who on 25 August 2015, refuted lowgen's lies on the record. 'lowgen' said I was fabricating the letter from Dalton Delan. It can be empirically verified that Stephan Pickering and Dalton Delan are actual hominids, and not animatronic similitudes.
In the past, 'lowgen' has questioned, e.g., if the Barry Feinstein photograph of 3 January 1974 of Bob/Shabtai and I is real; if Bill Graham and I knew each other (cf. Scott Marshall's Restless Pilgrim for discussions of my relationship with Bill and his production assistant, Peter Barsotti, or my own 1975 Bob Dylan Approximately...one of my closest friends is Bill's orphanage survivor intimate Yitzhak Amato); if my information about Bob/Shabtai's ba'al teshuvah public appearance 20 September 1983 in Yerusalaim, at haKotel is genuine. I have (and shall be publishing) 2 wonderful colour photos of him taken by the Yisra'eli photographer/artist Tzavi Kohen, along with a statement from the photographer, and comments given to me, in private, by the CHaBaD-Lubavitcher shluchim who were present on behalf of the Rebbe. I also quote statements from Reb Allen Ginsberg on Bob/Shabtai's wonderful re/turn. As Reb Allen told me years ago, 'Bob's questions overcome our loneliness'.
In attendance was Sara Dylan (which 'lowgen' does not believe), who took numerous colour film cartridges, 2 of her Yerusalaim photographs used forInfidel's cover and inner sleeve; Bob/Shabtai's mother (I have a not-entirely-reliable statement from her), other family members. His son had a belated bar mitzvah during the public repentance for the 1979 apostasy and its chate'u/'sins'. Bob/Shabtai was wearing (which he still has) his own tefillin and tallis gadol. He had with him the silver-covered Mikra originally belonging to Mike Bloomfield's grandmother (which Mr Bloomfield gave to him 14 November 1980).
As Shabtai Zisel/'Bob Dylan' stated in 1985: 'I'm not a believer in that "born-again" type thing'.
In Chapter 2 of my monograph-in-progress, I devote over 20 pages to the entire sequence of his repentance (which began 1981, when he finally gives a repudiation of natz'rut in 'Caribbean Wind' of 7 April 1981), the three documented steps involved, which the Rebbe and his assistants were quite aware of. Not being a scholar, but a lying fraud, 'lowgen' is not a party to my research. The entire chapter segment opens with a colour photograph of the Rebbe and Shabtai/Bob studying Torah together in Crown Heights. To be sure, all of this is ignored by the 'born again' natz'rut TypeWriter in the UK, who derisively speaks of 'an ultra-Orthodox [sic] Hasidic sect [sic] called the Lubavitchers'.
On 9 September 2015, 'lowgen' continues the masquerade by claiming it was Stephan Pickering himself who forged Dalton Delan's 25 August 2015 letter to Stephan Pickering (which refuted lowgen's revealing the 22 August 2015 Jacques van Son forgery).
This is an attempt to smear both Stephan Pickering and Dalton Delan with a rather flimsy paradigm of victim pathography. Through his actions of fraudulent lying, and perpetrating a criminal forgery, 'lowgen' is, like other Cyberian pranksters, claiming to be a (pseudo-) victim.
In the process, 'lowgen' has permanently destroyed any pretense of credibility as a so-called 'Dylan collector', and volitionally places his actions among a proliferating body of similarly destructive, fraudulent work in Cyberia.
For those interested, my refutation of 'lowgen' is an appendix to my Chapter 2. (It was printed at a Denmark 'Bob Dylan' website briefly, but they have a problem with post-Shoah 'Jews', and it was removed, along with my scholarly contributions.)
FOR THE RECORD:
1) the undated 'Dalton Delan' letter to 'Jacques van Son' was not written by Dalton Delan, but is a forgery from Jacques van Son distributed gleefully by 'lowgen';
2) Dalton Delan is the author of the 25 August 2015 letter to Stephan Pickering, completely repudiating the 'Dalton Delan' forgery being perpetrated by 'lowgen', after it was immediately brought to Dalton Delan's attention by Stephan Pickering.
Dalton wrote to me: 'Of course that "letter" in broken English is not from my typewriter! The grammar reminds me of one of those "wallet stolen" email solicitations one gets from Nigeria and the Ukraine...I am happy to completely deny authorship to anyone you need. L'Chaim, Dalton' ;
3) Stephan Pickering has carefully elucidated the forgery: 'lowgen''s obfuscating statements are constructed on a series of lies and phantasies, mentioning individuals I do not know (I do not know 'lowgen'), events which never took place, and saying, as mentioned above, I forged Dalton's 25 August 2015 letter to me!;
4) this morning, 10 September 2015, Dalton read the above, approves it, and I am disseminating this warning.
'lowgen' is a liar, a forger, a fraud, a bigot, who hides behind an alias, refusing to provide complete honest data of who/where he is.
Stephan Pickering has never heard of various individuals 'lowgen' claims I had contact with over 40 years ago...with the exception of the late Robert Shelton, to whose 1986 biography No Direction Home Stephan Pickering made numerous contributions gratefully acknowledged by Mr Shelton in print. Robert Shelton was an individual whose memory and friendship and kindness with me I cherish... zekher tzaddik livrahkazek.
As a Torah chassidish Yehu'di, I am presenting this as a WARNING to individuals in the 'Bob Dylan world' for whom I have profound respect. I do not want any of you victimised by this fabricating hate monger.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
STEPHAN PICKERING / חפץ ח"ם בן אברהם
Torah אלילה Yehu'di Apikores / Philologia Kabbalistica Speculativa Researcher
לחיות זמן רב ולשגשג
THE KABBALAH FRACTALS PROJECT
Will Dockery
Jan 31, 2016, 6:21:08 PM1/31/16
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Robert Shelton was a great writer and illuminator on Dylan.
What is your opinion of the writer Paul Williams (of Crawdaddy! not the singer)? I always enjoyed his writings on the performance art of Bob Dylan.
And... so it goes.
Stephan Pickering
Jan 31, 2016, 6:47:28 PM1/31/16
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On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 3:21:08 PM UTC-8, Will Dockery wrote:
> I kind of suspected as much, thanks, Stephan.
>
> Robert Shelton was a great writer and illuminator on Dylan.
>
> What is your opinion of the writer Paul Williams (of Crawdaddy! not the singer)? I always enjoyed his writings on the performance art of Bob Dylan.
>
> And... so it goes.
Shalom & Boker tov, Will...
> I kind of suspected as much, thanks, Stephan.
>
> Robert Shelton was a great writer and illuminator on Dylan.
>
> What is your opinion of the writer Paul Williams (of Crawdaddy! not the singer)? I always enjoyed his writings on the performance art of Bob Dylan.
>
> And... so it goes.
Todah rabbah/thank you. I disagreed with Paul, especially in 1980 when he sent me his 'What Happened?'...but he was a fine writer, and I first began reading him when Crawdaddy! first appeared. His essay written in the months after July 1966 is quite cogent, nearly 50 years later. (His material on Philip K. Dick was fascinating!)
Will Dockery
Jan 31, 2016, 6:55:52 PM1/31/16
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Stephan Pickering
Jan 31, 2016, 7:23:06 PM1/31/16
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On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 3:55:52 PM UTC-8, Will Dockery wrote:
Shalom & Boker tov, Will...just pulled out a file to double-check...I first read Paul in August 1966, when in Crawdaddy! # 4 he published 'Understanding Dylan'...Shabtai / 'Bob''s publisher reprinted it in a songbook. Paul Nelson's introductory essay in the Deluxe Edition of the BoB songbook, I think, is more insightful, but this is not to take away from Paul's heartfelt honesty.
S
Shalom & Boker tov, Will...just pulled out a file to double-check...I first read Paul in August 1966, when in Crawdaddy! # 4 he published 'Understanding Dylan'...Shabtai / 'Bob''s publisher reprinted it in a songbook. Paul Nelson's introductory essay in the Deluxe Edition of the BoB songbook, I think, is more insightful, but this is not to take away from Paul's heartfelt honesty.
S
Stephan Pickering
Jan 31, 2016, 7:47:46 PM1/31/16
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Shalom & Erev tov, Will...the Paul Williams essay I found quite interesting, aside from 'Understanding Dylan', was his 'Time and Bob Dylan', which was reprinted in 'Bob Dylan the original', 1968 (Warner-Bros.-Seven Arts Music), pp.. 46-48. It is worth re/reading...
Will Dockery
Jan 31, 2016, 8:28:08 PM1/31/16
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Just Kidding
Jan 31, 2016, 10:40:59 PM1/31/16
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>Torah ????? Yehu'di Apikores / Philologia Kabbalistica Speculativa Researcher
>????? ??? ?? ??????
>THE KABBALAH FRACTALS PROJECT
Way too fucking long.
Will Dockery
Feb 1, 2016, 10:41:32 AM2/1/16
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Interestingly, this was in 1974, and around the same time I first began reading your writings, in a little booklet that was advertised in one of those "rock" publications... possibly Crawdaddy! if not Creem or Rolling Stone.
Seems I dimly recall an article or two by you, Stephan, in one of these magazines, possible Crawdaddy!, but also the magazine Fusion comes to mind..?
Fusion was yet another relatively short-lived magazine with a focus on music, back in those 1973-75 years that I greatly enjoyed in my late childhood to early teens.
And so... well you know where it goes.
Stephan Pickering
Feb 1, 2016, 11:50:51 AM2/1/16
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Will Dockery
Feb 1, 2016, 5:28:16 PM2/1/16
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http://www.groovytunesday.com/magazines.html
Some of the issues before and after #79 are listed, with slight contents mentions, but just barely misses #79, and besides doesn't even provide cover scans of the issues it does list...
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FUSION- #62 September 17, 1971- (Now printed in Magazine format. Nixon Dilemma Issue w/ articles: A Plea For Courage by Mel Lyman; The Scapegoats by Nick Tosches; Flash Burn Funnies by Mad Peck; Jim Morrison / Louis Armstrong; more) VF+ $28
FUSION- #63 October 1, 1971- (A Look At Today's America; Country Music; The Who; more) VF+ $17
FUSION- #80 December 1972- (Magazine format now Monthly w/ glossy cover. The History Of Cereal; Grand Funk; Roy Orbison; Woody Allen; a look back at 1972. Mad Peck; Ken Barnes; more) NM $23
FUSION- #82 January 1973- (David Bowie front & covers plus article; Inside from cover ad of Moms Apple Pie LP w/ uncensored cover art; Autobiography by Richard Meltzer; AM Radio Wrapup of 1972; Flash Burn Funnies by Mad Peck; more) VF $24
FUSION- #84 March 1973- (Guide To Deadly Diets; Trash In Fashion; Mott The Hoople; Paul Morrissey Movies; Secret Of The Stars; more) F- $14
FUSION- #85 April 1973- (Skin Mags; Elmore James; Jack Levine Mystery Part 1; more) VF+ $20
FUSION- #86 May 1973- (Jack Levine Mystery Part 2; Poco; Celtics Vs Knicks; Gamble & Huff; Sex Object; more) VF+ $20
FUSION- #87 June 1973- (Jack Levine Mystery Part 3; Rod McKuen; Mad Peck; Dion & The Belmonts; nudie cover; more) F+ $18
FUSION- #88 July 1973- (Jack Levine Mystery Part 4; Stevie Wonder; Pine Ridge Diary; nudie back cover; more) VF $17
FUSION- #89 August 1973- (Jack Levine Mystery Part 5; Capitol Records; McCoy Tyner; The Move; Black Oak Arkansas; more) VF $20
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I'm pretty sure that Fusion is where I first read your work, which was then, and remains, a fascinating and somewhat unique study of the writings of Bob Dylan.
Thanks for many enjoyable hours of "thin wild mercury" expositions.
:)
Stephan Pickering
Feb 1, 2016, 6:28:29 PM2/1/16
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On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 2:28:16 PM UTC-8, Will Dockery wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that Fusion is where I first read your work, which was then, and remains, a fascinating and somewhat unique study of the writings of Bob Dylan.
>
> Thanks for many enjoyable hours of "thin wild mercury" expositions.
>
> :)
Shalom & Boker tov, Will...someday, a reader in Cyberia will discover the magazine I published in either late 1974/early 1975. As I recall, it was a preliminary piece on PLANET WAVES. The cover of Fusion # 79 October 1972 had a cover story on 'Rolling Stones: American exile', the cover painting by Mark Dunkelman. My copy is rather battered nearly 44 years later. The review of my work by Ralph Pessah was, I think, uneven, but Ralph was kind in offering me high praise...remember, 45 years ago, no-one was discussing Kabbalah in a 'rock magazine', and I had the advantage then (and now) in being literate in the Hebrew/Aramaic texts, AND having a life-long interest in the words of Shabtai Zisel / 'Bob Dylan', giving me the ability to make linkages between identical usages of symbols.
> I'm pretty sure that Fusion is where I first read your work, which was then, and remains, a fascinating and somewhat unique study of the writings of Bob Dylan.
>
> Thanks for many enjoyable hours of "thin wild mercury" expositions.
>
> :)
Will Dockery
Feb 1, 2016, 7:59:34 PM2/1/16
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I will find that book in the near future.
Rachel
Feb 1, 2016, 8:36:41 PM2/1/16
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You're not kidding! :)
warningm...@gmail.com
Feb 1, 2016, 10:41:44 PM2/1/16
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Shame on you for publicly besmirching this man who has done so much for so many, with your glaring falsehoods.
Just Kidding
Feb 1, 2016, 10:58:48 PM2/1/16
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