![]() He Gave Axl Rose Some Cold, Hard TruthĪxl Rose was in a rare expansive mood at a 2009 concert in Taiwan. Dylan’s reply? “Eggs over easy and coffee.”ĥ. Parkinson had approached Dylan at a restaurant to tell him that he loved his music. So what? I couldn’t pick him out of a lineup, and, according to Parkinson, neither could Dylan. Michael Parkinson is a distinguished English talk-show host, whose show Parkinson aired on the BBC for 33 years. He Confused a Famous BBC Talk-Show Host for a Waiter He was taken back to his hotel, where the reception staff explained to the officers who, exactly, they’d picked up.Ĥ. A couple of police officers, responding to complaints about a “scruffy old man acting suspiciously” picked up the ID-less singer. In Long Branch, New Jersey, in 2009, Dylan, who was in town for a concert, decided to take a stroll. He Was Picked Up by New Jersey Police for Looking Like a Hobo “On the third night they stuck Bob at the mic with me … and he never brushes his teeth, so his breath was like … right in my face.” For what it’s worth, Mitchell has needled Dylan over the years, saying, among other things, “I like a lot of Bob Dylan’s songs, though musically he’s not very gifted.”ģ. She gave him a few sarcastic options: “Ambivalence, for the scent of confusion” “Arbitrary, for the man who doesn’t gave a shit how he smells” and “Empathy - feel like them and smell like this.” To her surprise, “Bob actually liked those!”Īs recounted in Brian Hinton’s Joni Mitchell bio Both Sides Now, the Canadian singer-songwriter had a bad experience sharing a microphone with Dylan at a concert in Japan in 1994. He’d been asked to endorse a cologne called Just Like a Woman, but he didn’t like that name and wanted her advice on alternates. In her memoir Wishful Drinking, Fisher writes about getting a call from Dylan. He Called Carrie Fisher to Brainstorm Names for Cologne Here, apocryphal or not, are some of the best:ġ. Whatever the cause, Dylan long ago entered that realm (and it’s a fun realm Nicolas Cage and Shia LaBeouf live there) where you’d at least entertain any strange stories you hear about him as being true. When people hail you as a prophet and a genius and dig through your garbage for clues about your day-to-day life, it’s got to do things to your head. He was born different, that’s for sure, but living for so long under intense scrutiny probably didn’t help tamp down any interpersonal oddness. I can confidently say, though, that Dylan is a world-class weirdo. ![]() I’m in no position to judge, since I like every album he’s ever released, even the bad ones. ![]() Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, and maybe he was deserving and maybe he wasn’t.
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