A random excerpt from "Down
the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan" by Howard Sounes.
"Sloan was
duly summoned to the Hollywood Sunset Hotel where Bob played him acetates
of Highway 61 Revisited. Sloan rolled about on the floor laughing when he
heard 'Ballad of a Thin Man.' Bob laughed too. He slapped his knees as if
it was the biggest joke in the world. Then he said, seriously, 'I gotta
big problem here. Columbia records doesn't any idea what this song is
about. They think it's communistic.' " (189-190)
The rest of the
anecdote is really good, but it would be way tedious to type it all
out.
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