Post by William J. Clinton on Sept 27, 2004 20:20:27 GMT -5
OK, the headline is the best part, but this fine journalistic artifact turned up in today's New York Post:
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The man who once sang "Blowing In The Wind" had a deeper, darker vision: Blowing away intruders.
During the height of his artistic creativity and international fame in the mid-1960s, Bob Dylan was so angered by "moochers" showing up at his secret Woodstock retreat that he armed himself.
"The place had been a quiet refuge, but now, no more," Dylan writes in his long-awaited autobiography, "Chronicles Vol 1," which hits bookstores next month. Newsweek offered an exclusive excerpt in this week's issue.
"Gangs of dropouts, druggies [and] moochers showed up from as far away as California on pilgrimages. Goons were breaking into our place all hours of the night."
He was so annoyed that he kept the guns handy.
"A friend of mine had given me a couple of Colt single-shot repeater pistols, and I also had a clip-fed Winchester blasting rifle . . . I wanted so set fire to those people."
The 208-page book is hotly anticipated,if only because it's [the] first time that the elusive songwriter actually opens up about himself rather than hiding behind cryptic lyrics, mumbled stage whispers and bizarre interviews.
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From the same fine newspaper that broke the story about Kerry picking Gephardt as his running mate . . .
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The man who once sang "Blowing In The Wind" had a deeper, darker vision: Blowing away intruders.
During the height of his artistic creativity and international fame in the mid-1960s, Bob Dylan was so angered by "moochers" showing up at his secret Woodstock retreat that he armed himself.
"The place had been a quiet refuge, but now, no more," Dylan writes in his long-awaited autobiography, "Chronicles Vol 1," which hits bookstores next month. Newsweek offered an exclusive excerpt in this week's issue.
"Gangs of dropouts, druggies [and] moochers showed up from as far away as California on pilgrimages. Goons were breaking into our place all hours of the night."
He was so annoyed that he kept the guns handy.
"A friend of mine had given me a couple of Colt single-shot repeater pistols, and I also had a clip-fed Winchester blasting rifle . . . I wanted so set fire to those people."
The 208-page book is hotly anticipated,if only because it's [the] first time that the elusive songwriter actually opens up about himself rather than hiding behind cryptic lyrics, mumbled stage whispers and bizarre interviews.
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From the same fine newspaper that broke the story about Kerry picking Gephardt as his running mate . . .