BOB DYLAN
It was like the
time he bumped into Bob Dylan. He was having a meal at the Texas Steak house in
Amsterdam, when he was living there I mean he didn't just nip over to Amsterdam
for a steak dinner ,he’d just had the frogs legs, yes in a steak house, anyway he notices this skinny guy with kind of
frizzy hair ,he was wearing sunglasses
inside the restaurant ,not him the skinny guy , the skinny guy was wearing the
sunglasses well not just sunglasses but you know cool sunglasses ,Ray-bans
,like maybe a rock star might wear. Anyway After staring, for far too long it
hits him ‘Bob Dylan, No, that’s Bob Dylan’ ‘.I’m sure that’s Bob Dylan, what
the fuck is he doing in here? ‘‘What the fuck is Bob Dylan doing in here?’
Maybe he likes frog’s legs? I’m pretty sure that’s Bob Dylan, oh how fucking
cool is that man? I have to go and shake his hand’
You see He was a musician and songwriter of some renown
in the local Amsterdam music scene ,no
,no not Bob Dylan ,Johnny ,Johnny was .he was the lead guitarist in the best
British rock n roll band in Holland probably Europe. They were a proper rock n
roll band, a Band of Gypsy's they used to travel around in an old green Bedford van with a pair of
sneakers painted on the side but that’s definitely another story. Was it rock
and roll? It wasn’t Elvis or jerry lee, no it was more like what you’d call
R&B. In the 50s, the term rhythm and blues was frequently applied to blues
records. in the mid-1950s, after the blues had been down to the crossroad’s and
made a deal with the devil (does the devil get a capital D?) and spawned rock
and roll and electrified the blues that was R&B too , as well as the gospel
and soul music.
By the 1970s,
rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a
newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as "Contemporary
R&B". Johnny used to call it rhythm and black, because it was, can you
say that?
‘Oh fuck I’ve got
to do this, imagine the shit I’ll give myself if I don't do this .Oh fuck I
wish I hadn’t got so fucked up last night and the night before and that other
night oh fuck, focus ‘
‘OK what do I say?
I’ll say something like hey man even though you’re wearing sunglasses, er in
the restaurant as a disguise I still recognised you, you’re Bob Dylan! ‘
You see Johnny didn’t
really follow what was going on in the real world and since moving to Amsterdam
was probably stoned most days. I mean he missed Punk. Well That’s a bit harsh
,the band retreated or escaped from it, from London (and living in the back of
a van )back to Amsterdam (and living in the back of a van ,but that’s another
story )
So he didn’t realise that Bob
Dylan’s Face usually involved sunglasses, it was like his trademark the last
thing he was trying to do was disguise himself. Well shaking Bob Dylan's hand
just had to be done and some of Bobs Mo
Jo would of course be transferred to him through the physical contact ,everyone
knew that ,everyone except the two very wide bodyguards, that because of the
over-whelmingness of Bob , he didn’t
even see them ,they stopped him, suddenly, ,they were in between him and the legend of Bob. Maybe they didn’t know what Mojo was.
He was just about to explain that Mojo was something to do with Louisiana in
America and some gypsy woman there , ask Bob he’ll know, when Bob says “hey it’s OK” in that Bob Dylan growly voice.
So Johnny meant to say ‘How are your frog’s legs? I mean, I don't mean you’ve got frogs legs, is that steak? ‘Hey man even though you’re wearing sunglasses, er indoors, as a disguise, I suppose, hey man I still recognised you, your BOB DYLAN“
So Johnny meant to say ‘How are your frog’s legs? I mean, I don't mean you’ve got frogs legs, is that steak? ‘Hey man even though you’re wearing sunglasses, er indoors, as a disguise, I suppose, hey man I still recognised you, your BOB DYLAN“
What He said was
‘Er... you don’t suit the sun glasses” and then whilst thinking that looks like
steak ' have you got frogs legs?'
Bob looks puzzled, if this scene now cuts to a framed comic book section you would see a thought bubble coming out of Bob’s head
Bob Dylan wearing shades
This guy has just came all the way over here to tell me he doesn’t like my sunglasses?’ Not even to ask me the usual very obvious, ridiculous question
"Are you Bob Dylan?”
He looks thrown, off balance but then a quick recovery
And as if reading Johnny’s mind “
He says “Err, yeah good steaks in here”
"That’s why I’m in
here” and " well, you’re entitled to your opinion about the shades"
in that Bob Dylan
growly voice
Bob says something
back to Johnny and points to the wall outside for some reason, Johnny can’t
hear what he’s saying because of the noise of embarrassment going on in his
head, he offers his hand “Sorry, can I shake your hand?” So Bob being a nice
guy shakes his hand.
Jonny Saying “Oh I
recognised you” was a bit shit too as he was about to find out after leaving
the steak house he almost immediately See’s the 12 foot poster of Bob Dylan,
and yes he was wearing his trade mark Sunglasses, the one’s he was wearing in
the restaurant when he was pointing to the poster on the outside wall and
saying to Johnny that his Ray-bans were hardly a disguise, Johnny felt like a
complete dick and Bob was probably saying
“Well their hardly a
disguise it’s almost a trademark sort of thing, didn’t you notice that 12’foot
poster, right there of my face with me wearing these stupid fucking sunglasses,
that I don't suit? “You Dick” well they weren’t just Sunglasses you know Ray-bans,
Wayfarers. But the thing is not long after that close encounter of the rocks
star kind Bob stopped wearing his trade mark sunglasses? You see just like the
trousers thing.
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