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Josh

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Aug 17, 2003, 11:15:09 PM8/17/03
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There was a post a couple of nights ago from someone who said that Bob came
up to people in line who were waiting for the 3rd Hammerstein Show (Blackout
night) - "Supposedly" bob asked this person "what do you want to know?" The
person posting this story asked us "what would you ask Bob?

Well ok, I'll bite- here's my response: (in no particular order, although
that's something to consider in another post)

1 - Chronicles, Yes or no?
2 - Is there something new in the works? Any details?
3 - When writing a song do you see a story first or the tune? Do you have a
method?
4 - Who is the most amazing person (or group of people) that you ever met?
Who would you still like to meet?
5 - In your opinion, who has had a similar career to yours?
6 - Do you have a theory as to why you are so popular with so many people?
7 - Are you pleased with the way your life has turned out?
8 - Do you miss anonymity?
9 - Can you categorize any of your songs as a "typical Bob Dylan song" -
Why?
10 - (going out on a limb here) "Chimes of freedom" and "Things have
changed" - Are these bookends of any sort?

Of course I have many other questions, but these would be a good start....

How 'bout you?

Josh


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Aug 18, 2003, 2:32:39 AM8/18/03
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I'd ask him for free beer. You probably think I'm joking, but I'm NOT.

>Subject: What would you ask him?
>From: "Josh" jhr...@sbcglobal.net
>Date: 8/17/2003 11:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <1xX%a.2330$8Y6....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>

Arkady

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Aug 18, 2003, 7:16:16 AM8/18/03
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"Josh" <jhr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1xX%a.2330$8Y6....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com...

> There was a post a couple of nights ago from someone who said that Bob
came
> up to people in line who were waiting for the 3rd Hammerstein Show
(Blackout
> night) - "Supposedly" bob asked this person "what do you want to know?"
The
> person posting this story asked us "what would you ask Bob?

<snip>

> How 'bout you?
>
> Josh

Hey Mr Dylan, love your latest albums, personally reckon its your best
stuff. When's the next one coming out?

Arky


Zoe

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Aug 18, 2003, 7:48:51 AM8/18/03
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> Well ok, I'll bite- here's my response: (in no particular order, although
> that's something to consider in another post)
>
> 1 - Chronicles, Yes or no?
> 2 - Is there something new in the works? Any details?
> 3 - When writing a song do you see a story first or the tune? Do you have
a
> method?
> 4 - Who is the most amazing person (or group of people) that you ever met?
> Who would you still like to meet?
> 5 - In your opinion, who has had a similar career to yours?
> 6 - Do you have a theory as to why you are so popular with so many people?
> 7 - Are you pleased with the way your life has turned out?
> 8 - Do you miss anonymity?
> 9 - Can you categorize any of your songs as a "typical Bob Dylan song" -
> Why?
> 10 - (going out on a limb here) "Chimes of freedom" and "Things have
> changed" - Are these bookends of any sort?


Mine, juts the ones I can think off the top of my head
(and pretending he wouldn't serve me smart anwers; as I was talking to an
*hypnotized* dylan, that is)

1. Hard Rain at 20 and VOJ at 24. Did you realize their literary weight,
back then?
2. The Yakuza thing, the truth
3. Do you really like Toom and/or L&T?
4. Why you keep sidelining great tracks? (CTGM)
5. The real story of Dylan/Dillon/D.Thomas.
6. Do you just *believe* in God or are you an *attendant*?
7. Can you refer, 25 yrs later, your whole NB period to your divorce or not?
8. Do you remember the day you woke up as a NoMoreNewBorn?
9. How do you *calculate*, in artistic and moral terms, your production in
that period?
10.Are you embarassed when you listen to your sermons?


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Alan Fraser

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Aug 18, 2003, 11:27:54 AM8/18/03
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On 18 Aug 2003 06:32:39 GMT, mitten...@aol.communist (send money)
wrote:

>I'd ask him for free beer. You probably think I'm joking, but I'm NOT.

I'd offer _him_ a beer! And I wouldn't ask him any questions at all.

Alan

don freeman

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Aug 18, 2003, 11:38:44 AM8/18/03
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I'd ask him about Lonnie Donegan and if he had been influenced much by the King
of Skiffle

Zoe

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Aug 18, 2003, 3:24:18 PM8/18/03
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> >I'd ask him for free beer. You probably think I'm joking, but I'm NOT.
>
> I'd offer _him_ a beer! And I wouldn't ask him any questions at all.
>
> Alan

In this case, it would be nice you asked which brand, at least.
:-)))


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Tumulty

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Aug 18, 2003, 9:26:45 PM8/18/03
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don freeman wrote:
> I'd ask him about Lonnie Donegan and if he had been influenced much by the King
> of Skiffle


"Bob Dylan", I'd say, "have you ever met my basenjis?"

Who Me

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Aug 19, 2003, 12:02:30 AM8/19/03
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Did you see or touch any monkeys?

Bill

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into
Paris under a German flag."
--David Letterman

"I just love the French. They taste like chicken!"
--- Hannibal Lecter


Linn Carpenter

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Aug 19, 2003, 12:10:07 AM8/19/03
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I'd ask him if I could see the inside of his bus. Heh heh. What do you think
the chances of that would be? ;-)

Linn

Alan Fraser

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Aug 19, 2003, 2:25:02 AM8/19/03
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:10:07 -0400, Linn Carpenter
<new...@comcast.net> wrote:

>I'd ask him if I could see the inside of his bus. Heh heh. What do you think
>the chances of that would be? ;-)

Higher for gals than for guys! :-))

Alan Fraser

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Aug 19, 2003, 4:57:05 AM8/19/03
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In article <CJ90b.103394$cl3.3...@news2.tin.it>, Zoe says...

>
>
>> I'd offer _him_ a beer! And I wouldn't ask him any questions at all.
>>
>> Alan
>
>In this case, it would be nice you asked which brand, at least.
>:-)))

Obviously I wouldn't offer a mass-market brand! I wouldn't drink that stuff
myself, let alone buy one for Bob. However I'm reliably told that beer isn't
Bob's tipple, so perhaps I'd be luckier with a good Burgundy and two glasses.

Alan

Zoe

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Aug 19, 2003, 6:52:26 AM8/19/03
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"Linn Carpenter" <new...@comcast.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:3F41A31F...@comcast.net...

> I'd ask him if I could see the inside of his bus. Heh heh. What do you
think
> the chances of that would be? ;-)
>
> Linn

Very low, I hope for you.
Have you ever been in one?
(^_^)


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Tumulty

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Aug 19, 2003, 9:15:02 AM8/19/03
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Linn Carpenter wrote:
>...

> I'd ask him if I could see the inside of his bus. Heh heh. What do you think
> the chances of that would be? ;-)


Where have you been, Linn? We've missed you. Anyhow, why in the
world would you want to
go inside a big dumb bus? He's probably got a bathroom in there.
Yuk. A
traveling bathroom Linn.
T.

Tricia J

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Aug 19, 2003, 11:20:53 AM8/19/03
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On 19 Aug 2003 01:57:05 -0700, Alan Fraser <alan....@boltblue.com>
wrote:

or a nice malt

Tricia J

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Aug 19, 2003, 11:21:59 AM8/19/03
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As long as it didn't smell like sweaty socks.

lawrence morrissey

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Aug 19, 2003, 1:43:02 PM8/19/03
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i would ask him if he needs any help...if there was something i could do for
you


Søren Olsen

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Aug 19, 2003, 3:17:40 PM8/19/03
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Josh wrote:

>
> Of course I have many other questions, but these would be a good start....

I think they would make Bob start running!

>
> How 'bout you?
>

"Hey, Bob -- I know a real cool pool hall -- you feel like joining me
and the guys?"

(I have plenty of time to locate a real cool pool hall in Copenhagen
before October 16th).

--
Soren O

Brian R Badger

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Aug 19, 2003, 4:07:16 PM8/19/03
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I'm sorry ,I wasn't following along in my hymnal. I thought he was the new
guitar player,guess I was wrong! Is there a link I can read on the subject?


Kev

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Aug 19, 2003, 4:41:26 PM8/19/03
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"Josh" <jhr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<1xX%a.2330$8Y6....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>...

I'd ask him what he sees in Freddy Koella.

Kev

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Aug 19, 2003, 4:42:09 PM8/19/03
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"Josh" <jhr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<1xX%a.2330$8Y6....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>...

I guess I shoudl be more specific. I'd ask him what he likes about
Freddy Koella's guitar playing.

Kickyourshoesoff

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Aug 19, 2003, 10:16:37 PM8/19/03
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<< i would ask him if he needs any help...if there was something i could do for
you >>

And he would answer, "Get over the '70s!"

J Buck

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Aug 19, 2003, 10:26:14 PM8/19/03
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<Obviously I wouldn't offer a mass-market brand! I wouldn't drink that
stuff myself, let alone buy one for Bob>

Obviously....? So what would you consider good beer?

PrivateCitizen_dudley

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Aug 20, 2003, 4:04:37 AM8/20/03
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"Josh" <jhr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<1xX%a.2330$8Y6....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>...
> There was a post a couple of nights ago from someone who said that Bob came
> up to people in line who were waiting for the 3rd Hammerstein Show (Blackout
> night)

Technically, it was a Whiteout... just ask Mike Nesmith

> - "Supposedly" bob asked this person "what do you want to know?" The
> person posting this story asked us "what would you ask Bob?
>

Just like so many times before, "How's the family?"

I always like it when folk ask me that.

Is that why there wasn't a setlist for 14-aug? I was wondering...

Across the street from where I work, there's a rehearsal studio, and
there was a big old tourBus with a nequipment trailer hitched up. The
band to whom it belonged stopped practicing at 4:11 & I stopped
working.

While my leadership skills have deteriorated if not rusted nor slept,
I did suggest to anyone who wd listen: Get to the Beer before it gets
warm.

It took about a nhour before anydoby warmed to my suggestion, but we
had a grand time, people who work together armpit to armpit o na daily
basis knocking back brews & hanging.

The block east of us, they shut the street off, hooked up the
sprinkler cap to the hydrant, blasted the salsa & impromptuly
blockPartied.

Two blocks south in the Yuppie part of town, everOne exited their
brownstone and sat chairwise savouring a fine california Chablis or
whatHaveU.

Sez I: Let's get to Gether & do it agin someTime.

The band across the street at the rehearsal hall?

Psychedelic Furs.

Nobody cd name a song of theirs, nor cd m daughters when finally i
arrived home.

Must be a generational gap thing, 'tween mine & theirs slipt thru the
crack.

All i no is they didn't do:

I'll stop the world & melt with you

That was Flock of Seagulls... ;-)

Pax vobiscum et McRatatouille,
dudley

Alan Fraser

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Aug 20, 2003, 4:57:29 AM8/20/03
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On 20 Aug 2003 02:16:37 GMT, kickyour...@aol.com
(Kickyourshoesoff) wrote:

Or, to many here, "Get over the 60s!" :-))

Alan

robertandrews

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Aug 20, 2003, 7:29:29 AM8/20/03
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"J Buck" <jbu...@webtv.net> wrote:
>Obviously....? So what would you consider good beer?

Anything that chases 18 straight whiskeys.


Zoe

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Aug 20, 2003, 7:29:45 AM8/20/03
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> ><< i would ask him if he needs any help...if there was something i could
do for
> >you >>
> >
> >And he would answer, "Get over the '70s!"
>
> Or, to many here, "Get over the 60s!" :-))
> Alan

.......to which I'd reply:
*get over the 90s!*

Tricia J

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Aug 20, 2003, 9:49:26 AM8/20/03
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On 20 Aug 2003 01:04:37 -0700, dud...@cloud9.net
(PrivateCitizen_dudley) wrote:

>The band across the street at the rehearsal hall?
>
>Psychedelic Furs.
>
>Nobody cd name a song of theirs, nor cd m daughters when finally i
>arrived home.

ooooo..... Pretty In Pink

Toby

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Aug 20, 2003, 11:17:50 AM8/20/03
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I'd ask him if I could trade for the other Supper Club soundboards with him

"Josh" <jhr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<1xX%a.2330$8Y6....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>...
> There was a post a couple of nights ago from someone who said that Bob came
> up to people in line who were waiting for the 3rd Hammerstein Show (Blackout

> night) - "Supposedly" bob asked this person "what do you want to know?" The


> person posting this story asked us "what would you ask Bob?
>

Graphite

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"Josh" <jhr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<1xX%a.2330$8Y6....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>...
> There was a post a couple of nights ago from someone who said that Bob came
> up to people in line who were waiting for the 3rd Hammerstein Show (Blackout
> night) - "Supposedly" bob asked this person "what do you want to know?" The
> person posting this story asked us "what would you ask Bob?

Do I have any boogers?

Johannes Starosta

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Sep 6, 2003, 5:29:17 PM9/6/03
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Hi Josh and all the other people of RMD,

Josh <jhr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> How 'bout you?
>
> Josh

"How influenced the book of the Japanese writer Sega you? Will you do a
remark of the influence? That's that, what Sega wanted. Why? Why not?"
And first I'll ask some questions like "How are you do?" And offer him
something to drink. But I'm not sure whether he accept a Cola... (:

--
Grettings, Johannes.
I'm a German pupil. If I make a spell or grammar error in my article:
Please informate me via E-mail and don'T nerve the Newsgroup with such
stuff. I'm enjoy to improve my English.

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Tum...@aol.com (Tumulty) wrote in message news:<256b6c99.03081...@posting.google.com>...

"what's it like ,waking with a myth every morning,maybe with a
woman (still sleeping,drinking coffee,smoking.Write a lot at 5-8
a.m.?".Yeah.long question- more-"How do "you" feel abut being the best
in the world at what you do?.You probably get that one a
lot,huh.Harry.Ya sure made my life more,much moreagain(as Arthur Lee
sang.) Keep on.if you want till you're 100 or just tired of it and
us.H

PrivateCitizen_dudley

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Sep 10, 2003, 4:10:08 AM9/10/03
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dud...@cloud9.net (PrivateCitizen_dudley) wrote in message news:<de20a426.03082...@posting.google.com>...

> "Josh" <jhr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<1xX%a.2330$8Y6....@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>...
> > There was a post a couple of nights ago from someone who said that Bob came
> > up to people in line who were waiting for the 3rd Hammerstein Show (Blackout
> > night)
>

> Just like so many times before, "How's the family?"
>

I take it back...

"How's work?"

LPecucci

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Sep 10, 2003, 4:35:35 PM9/10/03
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>Subject: Re: What would you ask him?

Hey,will ya' buy me a beer?

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lawrence morrissey

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Sep 10, 2003, 5:40:09 PM9/10/03
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what can i do for you


raven

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Sep 12, 2003, 3:59:31 AM9/12/03
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When is Chronicles coming out?

harry haller

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Sep 12, 2003, 2:37:55 PM9/12/03
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raven <rav...@sedona.not> wrote in message news:<3F617CE3...@sedona.not>...

> When is Chronicles coming out?

how much are the Marlboros?

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