>BY the way, a lot of the Dylan-is-Judas stuff occurred in the UK, not
>the US.
Right. The guy yelled Judas at a concert in the UK. You can hear it all on the recording. Dylan responds, speaking into the microphone, "I don't believe you....you're a liar." Then they start playing "Like a Rolling Stone" and you can hear Dylan, off microphone, saying "play real fuckin' loud."
There's a new book out on Dylan by Mike Marqusee, an American who's been living in England for years. He wrote a very good book about Muhammad Ali a few years ago. That book had a long section on Dylan too.
>Bob Dylan’s abrupt abandonment of overtly
>political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an
>uproar among critics and fans. In Wicked
>Messenger, acclaimed cultural-political
>commentator Mike Marqusee advances the new
>thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his
>songs but changed the manner of his critique to
>address the changing political and cultural
>climate and, more importantly, his own evolving aesthetic.
>
>Wicked Messenger is also a riveting political
>history of the United States in the 1960s.
>Tracing the development of the decade’s
>political and cultural dissent movements,
>Marqusee shows how their twists and turns were
>anticipated in the poetic aestheticanarchic,
>unaccountable, contradictory, punk of Dylan’s
>mid-sixties albums, as well as in his recent
>artistic ventures in Chronicles, Vol. I and Masked and Anonymous.
>
>Dylan’s anguished, self-obsessed, prickly
>artistic evolution, Marqusee asserts, was a
>deeply creative response to a deeply disturbing
>situation. “He can no longer tell the story
>straight,” Marqusee concludes, “because any
>story told straight is a false one.”
>
>“In this remarkable reflection on the culture of
>the sixties, Mike Marqusee restores the
>forgotten moral and political contexts of
>Dylan’s supernova years. In doing so, he rescues
>one of the most urgent poetic voices in American
>history from the condescension of his own later
>cynicism.” Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz
http://www.sevenstories.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100174020