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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Dylan's Mishearing of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:01:42 +0000
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On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 15:58:47 +0000, Norbert wrote:
>
> I've read an account that on meeting Dylan for the first time, the
> Beatles offered him a drink.  Dylan asked for "cheap wine."  The Beatles
> also offered him speed, which Dylan declined.  Dylan proposed instead
> that they smoke marijuana.  The Beatles admitted to him that they had
> never used it -- which astonished Bob.  "What about your song, the one
> about getting high?"  Eventually, the issue was sorted out; Dylan had
> misheard the lyric "I can't hide" from "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" as "I
> get high."
>
> Dylan or a colleague of his then produced a joint, which Dylan lit up
> and offered to John.  John, instead, handed the cigarette to Ringo, whom
> he pronounced "My royal taster."  Ringo smoked the entire thing, and
> went into a laughing fit.  The other guys agreed to partake of the
> substance, and at least two of them, John and Paul, became regular users
> -- so much so, that when Lennon's retiring personal assistant showed his
> understudy Fred Seaman the ropes of his new job, he showed him about
> procuring Thai stick for John.
>
> Just curious:  Does anyone in here still smoke weed?  I used to, for a
> while.  However, I find today's marijuana culture, at least in suburban
> Massachusetts, disturbing.  There are now three dope dispensaries in my
> small town, and the regulars shuffle up and down the street, murmuring
> to themselves in Jeffrey Dahmer monotones about how that want to
> purchase Greenland, take over Canada, and rename the Gulf of Mexico.
> These people have doped themselves into thinking they ARE Donald Trump.

I don't smoke weed or use any drug now but did in the past, and when I
did a search of "590 Sherwood Road" "1981" this piece I wrote that's in
the Google Groups archives turned up,
"Listening to Dylan on LSD":

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.dylan/c/7rLq6LFsDhs/m/TW3SgUK8AgAJ

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