Last night we watched the second half of the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about Bob Dylan,
"No Direction Home - Bob Dylan". Much of the best footage was of interviews. Here is one exchange as near as I can remember it.
Interviewer: "How many song writers who toil in the same vinyards of song as you, write protest songs?"
Dylan: "136"
Interviewer: "You mean around 136, or do you mean precisely 136?"
Dylan: "Either 136 or 142."
There was this priceless bit, I think they were in France, and Dylan is in the car and while they are stopped somewhere these kids mob the car and stick their arms and heads in the window demanding his autograph. He says "No" a couple times and they keep persisting. Finaly he says, exasperated:
"You don't need my autograph. If you needed my autograph I'd give it to you."
He really didn't understand celebrity. Or maybe he understood it all too well.
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I just finished watching a PBS series called "American Roots Music". It was a broad stroke series so there isn't the same kind of in-depth look at artists as you got from a whole documentary on Dylan, but it was really interesting from a music standpoint.
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