Re: Frank Zappa and Bob Dylan

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:
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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?

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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.

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Anyone else remember this blip on the radar of rock-n-roll history?

http://www.united-mutations.com/d/bob_dylan.htm
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"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.

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"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:
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"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?

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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":
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKhpoj5l7E