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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Frank Zappa and Bob Dylan
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:38:40 +0000
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 13:48:38 +0000, K. Hematite wrote:

> On Thursday, 13 January 2022 at 22:28:26 UTC-5, Willie wrote:
>> On Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 8:47:49 AM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 12:19:35 PM UTC-5, James Zadok wrote:
>>> > On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 07:30:27 UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Did I not read a small blurb around 1977 or so, in RS Random Notes
>>> or the Creem Magazine version, a rumor or report that Zappa might
>>> produce a Dylan record?
>>> > >
>>> > > It was a very fleeting moment, sort of like the photograph that
>>> showed Lou RTeed and Ronnie Van Zandt drinking Budweiser, it is just
>>> about apocryphal, and of course never happened, either.
>>> > >
>>> > > Anyone else remember this blip on the radar of rock-n-roll history?
>>> > http://www.united-mutations.com/d/bob_dylan.htm
>>> >
>>> > "On December 22, 1982, Dylan appeared, unannounced, on Zappa's
>>> doorsteps. According to Michael Gray, in his book Mother! Is The Story
>>> Of Frank Zappa (Proteus, 1984, pages 148-9), "Someone suddenly called up
>>> saying "This is Bob Dylan. I want to play you my new songs." Zappa went
>>> on to say that he had never met Dylan before, but could see someone (via
>>> a video screen) in the cold, with an open shirt, and no coat. Gray
>>> quoted Zappa, telling Karl Dallas, that Dylan played eleven new songs on
>>> the piano, humming the lyrics. "I thought they were good songs. He
>>> seemed like a nice guy . . .I asked him if it had any Jesus in it . .
>>> .and he said no." When Zappa gave him something to eat, his dogs barked
>>> at Dylan. Zappa joked that his dog didn't like Christians, but Dylan
>>> didn't laugh. "Maybe he's not supposed to," Zappa said.
>>> >
>>> > "Dylan never followed up on the collaboration. Some of the songs he
>>> played for Zappa probably ended up on Dylan's next album, Infidels."
>>> "As for Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited was really good. Then we got Blonde
>>> on Blonde and it started to sound like cowboy music. You know what I
>>> think of cowboy music." -Frank Zappa
>> Will wrote:
>>
>>> "As for Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited was really good. Then we got Blonde
>>> on Blonde
>>> and it started to sound like cowboy music. You know what I think of
>>> cowboy music."
>>> -Frank Zappa
>> What context did Zappa say this in? I'm hard put to hear cowboy music in
>> Blonde on Blonde, so have to think there's a put on here. Or was he
>> mixing BoB with the song John Wesley Harding or with Nashville Skyline?
>
>
> The first track of Blonde on Blonde was "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35."
> Give a listen to the beginning of Gene Autry's "Rheumatism Blues":
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKhpoj5l7E

That's interesting.

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