Bob Dylan book

[Soul Stream]

Been reading the new Bob Dylan autobiography. Anybody else pick this up. Man, it's pretty freaky. If you don't think so, read the part about his explaination of his "numberical" musical system taught to him by Lonnie Johnson. It's from Mars.

[medjuck]

we've talked about this... feeling is that Lonnie was bullshittin' him in old sophisticated "negro" manner or, if he wasn't bullshittin', it was jive-- doesn't matter if it's "TRUE," so long as Dylan thinks it is. the third possibility is that Bob knows it was jive but digs the play of it & is sharing.

Or maybe Bob's just jivin' us. Who knows if he even met Lonnie Johnson.

BTW Johnson lived in Toronto at the end of his life. Some people got together and raised a fund for him which he banked where a friend of mine was a teller --she's now a University president!-- and he would always see her to withdraw money. One day he looked at his balance and mentioned that it was running low but it was ok because so was he. He died shortly thereafter.

[GregK]

... MUCH better than tediously Lanois-ified "Have Mercy."

Oh Mercy