G-Man on Dylan at Foxwoods...

(Excerpt from Daily Nuggets)...I think back to the 60s...man...and when Dylan first revealed his work...People must have felt like that lyric - "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is"...My father recalled the first time he heard Subterranean Homesick Blues on the radio...He hadn't heard anything like it before, didn't know if he even liked it, but couldn't look away...It seems that is the common equation with Dylan...Everyone has their opinions on what he's doing, or what he should be doing...but whatever he does, most still can't look away...And, to get myself off the hook of being one of those writers that uses a Dylan lyric to end oh-so cleverly, I will end with one of my own...I saw a Dylan interview from sometime in the 60s, and when asked for an autograph he said, "I'd give it to you, but you don't need it"...And so, I wrote:

Hey, Mr. Dylan...

A...hey, Mr. Dylan...

No...a...I don't need an autograph

But I wouldn't mind sharing a laugh

Imagine that

Making him laugh

I'd put that on my resume

Above my GPA...

And the influence of Dylan becomes osmosis

And from Robert Johnson to John Anthony Gillis

become the bookends of my musical collection

And this

Well this

This is the greatest song ever written

Since Bob Dylan wrote "Like A Rolling Stone"

However, that is the past

Let us move on

It's "Blowing in the Wind"

So I try to breathe peacefully

While some say I speak cynically

I promise I'll live respectively

So clap with me

Because this is music

So write with me

Because this is reality...