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Yeah? [pause] So, it’s just a few people then? What’s a few? [pause] That’s more than a few. [laughs] Yeah, but, that’s not what you’d call a few. [pause] Aw. I dunno. Look, I’ll just have to think about it—see how the day goes—then I’ll get back to you. [pause] Yeah, okay. Bye. [hangs up] #bobdylan
April 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
BOB’S VOICE: [off right] Maria? Hi, it’s me again. [pause, laughs] Yeah, I just like the sound of your voice. Listen, what’s the area code for Tulsa, do you know? [pause] Tulsa, yeah. [pause] All right. Good. [pause] Yeah, that’s okay. I don’t need it right away. [pause] Oh, ya did? [pause] #dylan
April 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
SAM: Yeah. [shuts tape off]

BOB’S VOICE: You need anything?

SAM: Naw, I’m fine.

[Sam drinks more beer, scribbles more notes. Pause. Bob’s voice is heard again offstage right on phone. Sound of waves continues.]
#dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
April 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
BOB’S VOICE: Yeah. And they’re spiritual beings. That’s what he says.

SAM: Do you believe it?

BOB’S VOICE: Yeah.

SAM: Have you had any direct experience with angels?

BOB’S VOICE: [off] Yeah. Yeah, I have. I just gotta make one more phone call, all right?
#dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
April 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
BOB’S VOICE: That’s the first question?

SAM: You want me to start with something else?

BOB’S VOICE: [still off] No, that’s okay. Angels. Yeah, now, angels now—what is it? [pause] Oh—the pope says this about angels—he says they exist.

SAM: Yeah? The pope?
#dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
SAM: [punching RECORD button] Yeah. Okay. All right. It’s rolling.

BOB’S VOICE: Ask me somethin’.

SAM: Right. [referring to notebooks] Let’s see—okay—let’s see now—okay—here we go—Do you have any ideas about angels? Do you ever think about angels?
#dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
April 4, 2025 at 5:22 AM
SAM: Couple.

BOB’S VOICE: What if I don’t have the answers?

SAM: Make it up.

BOB’S VOICE: Okay, so ask me a question.

SAM: [quickly putting a cassette in recorder] Okay, wait a second. I gotta see if this thing is working.

BOB’S VOICE: You got a tape? #dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
March 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
BOB’S VOICE: [off right] Sam, what’s this thing supposed to be about anyway?

SAM: I dunno.

BOB’S VOICE: [off] Are we supposed to have a theme?

SAM: I got a buncha questions here.

BOB’S VOICE: [off] You brought questions?

SAM: Yeah.

BOB’S VOICE: How many questions?
#dylan #bobdylan #truedylan
March 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Photograph: Daniel Kramer, 1965. www.theguardian.com/music/2016/m... #dylan #bobdylan
March 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I can’t count anymore. Okay, look, I’ll talk to you later and see what’s goin’ on. [pause] Okay. Bye.

[Bob hangs up offstage. Sam looks in that direction, then returns to his notebooks, cracks open a can of beer, and drinks.] #dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
March 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Okay, well look, I got somebody here so. [pause] Yeah, I know. Yeah, well, I seen their act before. Yeah, I seen it. I seen it in St. Louis. Yeah. [pause] I dunno—’59 or ’60, somethin’ like that. [laughs, pause] I was around. I been around a long time. #dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
March 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
BOB’S VOICE: [off right] Maria? Listen, what’s that thing gonna be like tonight? [pause] Yeah. There gonna be a lotta people there? [pause] Well, that’s what I’m tryin’ to figure out. [pause] Yeah. I don’t know. How many people you think there’ll be? [pause] #dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
March 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Only a snatch is heard before Bob’s voice comes from offstage right, speaking on the phone. As soon as Bob’s voice is heard, Sam shuts the recorder off and starts leafing through his notebooks, scribbling in them now and then.] #dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
March 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
[Bob exits stage right. Sam sits on bench facing stage right, pulls out a cassette tape and sticks it in recorder, punches a button, and the same Jimmy Yancey tune is heard coming from the machine itself. #dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
March 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
BOB: Yeah. Poor ol’ Ricky. I wish he was here with us today. I wonder if anyone ever told him, when he was alive, how great he was. I mean like the rock ’n’ roll critics.

SAM: You got me.

BOB: You know, Emilio Fernandez used to shoot the critics that didn’t like his movies. At parties.
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March 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Bob Dylan's first album was released this week 63 years ago. The last song on side B was "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean".
youtu.be/-Bb-VTyXNDQ?... #dylan #bobdylan #loureed
Lou reed - See that my grave is kept clean (full version)
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March 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Bob reenters from right but with no reaction to car-crash sounds.]

BOB: Who was playin’ that music before?

SAM: What music?

BOB: That piano music.

SAM: I dunno.

BOB: Hm.

SAM: “If James Dean sang he’d’ve been Ricky Nelson?’’ Elvis said that?
#dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
March 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
[Bob exits stage right as Sam moves down left toward table. Just as Bob exits, the sound of screeching tires and a loud car crash comes from off right. Sam pays no attention, but goes about setting tape recorder, beer, and notebooks on table.
#dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
March 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
BOB: You brought some beer?

SAM: Yeah.

BOB: I just gotta make a couple phone calls.

SAM: Good.
#dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
March 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
[Bob moves as though to exit stage right again, but stops again.]

BOB: You know what Elvis said? He said that if James Dean had sang he’d’ve been Ricky Nelson.

SAM: Is that right?

BOB: Yeah. [pause] You need anything?

SAM: Nope.
#dylan #bobdylan #truedylan #samshepard
March 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
BOB: Yeah, Iowa or Indiana. I forget. But this place up there has this kind of aura about it. It’s on this kind of broad expanse of land. It’s like that place made James Dean who he is. If he hadn’t’ve died there he wouldn’t’ve been James Dean.

SAM: Hm.
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March 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
BOB: Yeah, but I was on the curve where he had the accident. Outsida town. And this place is incredible. I mean the place where he died is as powerful as the place he lived.

SAM: Nebraska?

BOB: Where’d he live?

SAM: He came from the farm, didn’t he? Somewhere.
#dylan #bobdylan #truedylan
March 18, 2025 at 6:38 AM