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POP SCENEBv GEORGE WILLIAMS UO with Dylan, the man who mermans had talked to him the mass acceptance of elec- Dylan's inauspicious debut withscm tarrtn remains both poet and prophet Not Father Zimmerman nor tronic rock Weberman was a small home town band calledNEW YORK (PSS) — It of his generation Once Scaduto Mother Zimmerman nor most going around accusing Dylan of the Golden Chords to hismight tie easier to get an * ec oe interested in the artist importantly, their famous son being a capitalist pig. He disenchantment with the collegeaudience with Howard Hughes who had w ritten “Tambourine who for the past 12 years had questioned Dylan s lyrics I scene to his birth as a musicianthan with Bob Dvlan. !ut Tony Man,” “ Times Thev Are-A ;called himself Bob Dylan A. J. WEBERMAN HELPS and writer on the long, windingScaduto, the author of “Bob f'hangm’ ” and “ Blowin’ in the “When I started my “Anyway, Dylan runs into,road to New York to hisDylan. An Intimate Biography,” Wind” he couldn’t get his mind research,” says Scaduto, “I Weberman on the street and idolatry of Woody Guthrie andhasn’t nut his pen to work on off of him. which made Tony dropped Dylan a note and told Bob’s so upset that he rolls up those scratchy tough beginningsHughes vet. Getting through to no different, just older, from him my credentials as an ex- his sleeves, and Weberman tells in Greenwich Village before he Dvlan was hard enough. the millions of kids who had perienced reporter and writer, him, ‘If you think an the things became the hit of the festivalsto begin at the beginning it’s grown up with the sounds and Once a month I’d ask for an I’ve been saying about you are and the king of Americannecessarv to establish Scaduto’s moods of Dylan. interview, dropping off notes bad. wait’ll you see Scaduto’s music.credentials. For 20 years Tony Over a cup of coffee in a and teUing him what I was book!” I Though the book becomes ahad been a reporter on the New small luncheonete Scaduto j doing. There was no response.“Well the next day Dylan bit sketchy after Dylan’sYork Post. In that time he had recounted his desire “not to do' Finally. through an in- calls me and says I ain’t ever motorcycle accident, which in been a Mafia expert, a police just another fan trip.” termediary, Scaduto informed done nothing to be exposed turn led to his hermitlikeand court reporter, covered the “I wanted to get to the meat Dylan that he had talked to about’ and he demanded to see seclusion from an adoring pop music scene, and been a of Dylan, not just his work, everyone about him and could the manuscript. I agreed only public, Scaduto redeems this consumer-affairs man but what he was and really be now possibly see the real on the basis that he would give flaw with a probing analysis ofHis work in the area of represented ” Bob Dylan me an interview. And that was “ J o h n Wesley Harding,”consumer affaii* had led him The adventure began in the Dylan's reaction: “Tell how I got to speak with Dylan Dylan’s 1968 journey into self-to write a book on the subject, fall of 1969 as a mere suggestion Scaduto as long as he talked Actually, he was very helpful,j discovery,and he was getting the itch to and in January of 1979 it to everyone who knows about {taking notes and adding facts JOHN WESLEY HARDING do another book Scaduto’s became a reality. Tony did 10 me, he doesn’t need me to tell to the material I had ac- “ John Wesley Harding’ was editor, Charlotte Gordon, months of solid research, about me.” cumulated ” a milestone for Dylan,” claimsrecalling his interest in the pop compiling interviews with all With a little help from rock Reporter - turned - biographer Scaduto, who underlines thismusic scene, suggested he the people who had known critic A. J. Weberman, budding Scaduto has accumulated all assertion by analyzing theundertake a work on the rock Dylan — from Echo Helstrom Dylan ologist who was making the facts and with them brings meaning of every song in theculture. his teen-age girl friend back in(a reputation of his own by vividly to life the rise of Bob album in relationFor Scaducto, who looks a lot Minnesota in the days when; rummaging through Dylan’s Dylan.It’s all thereto Dylan’sfrom viewpoints and personal life.Greenwich Village garbage and coming up with some intriguing deductions, Scaduto got somelike the sterotype of your Dylan was a greaser and friendly neighborhood grocer grooved to the sounds of Littlewith his bushy graying Richard, to Joan Baez who hadmoustache and his ready smile, been the queen to Dylan’d king unexpected help, the idea had definite appeal. So of American music. I “W’eberman had it in forhe shot for the lop — Bob NO ONE TALKED Dylan,’’ explains Scaduto,Dylan I By the time Scaduto sat down j “because Bob had abandonedIt wasn’t until 1964 that to write he had 100 hours of {the social consciousness of his Scaduto had musically caught tape. But none of the Zim- folk heritage and sold out toLOWDOWN ON YOUTHTop Cot Once DreodedRecording Studio Session
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Big Spring Sunday Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Sun, Apr 30, 1972
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