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Bob Dylan, Chronicles
published on October 5, 2004, by Simon & Schuster.

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Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He grew up in the city of Hibbing. As a teenager, he played in various bands and with time his interest in music deepened, with a particular passion for American folk music and blues.

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Bob Dylan signed his first contract with  Leeds msuic

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Bob Dylan signed his first contract with  Leeds msuic

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"None of it seemed important. I had just signed a contract with Leeds music giving it the right to publish my songs, not that there was any great deal to hammer out. i Hadn't written much yet."

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"I played him "Nobody knows you when you're down and out." Dave liked what he heard and asked me who i was and how long id been in town, then i said i could come down about eight or nine in the evening and play a couple of songs in his set, that was how i met Dave Van Rock"

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Bob Dylan struggling with creativity and self discovery

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Bob Dylan struggling with creativity and self discovery

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"i cant say when it occurred to me to write my own songs. I couldn't have come up with anything comparable or halfway close to the folk song lyrics i was singing to define the way i felt about the world "

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He describes his feelings and emotions and grief he had felt when Cisco Died and how he incorporated his emotions into his songs

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Bob dylans parents being unsupportive of him pursuing his creative career

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Bob dylans parents being unsupportive of him pursuing his creative career

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When he was in new york during the civil war, he called home to tell his parents about his whereabouts and they called him a "joke" and didn't believe he was doing anything important

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Bob officially changes his name from Allyn to Dylan

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Bob officially changes his name from Allyn to Dylan

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"Bob Dylan looked and sounded better than Bob Allyn. The first time I was asked my name in the Twin Cities, I instinctively and without thinking simply said, Bob Dylan"

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Bob signed his letter bobby making it official to Reenie that's how she'd address him forever

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He took a train out to the Brooklyn paramount theatre on Flatbush avenue where he was appearing with the Shirelles, danny, and the juniors, Jackie Wilson, Ben E. King, and Maxine brown.

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France was in the news and had exploded an atom bomb in the Sahara desert, France has just been booted out of north vietnam by ho chi minh after 100 years of colonial rule

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"When i wasn't staying at Von Ronks id usually stay at rays place, get back sometime before dawn, mount the stairs carefully, and shut the door as quietly as possible"

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"Ic had just returned to woodstock from the midwest, from my fathers funeral. there as a letter from archibald macleish waiting for me on the table"

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the beatles were in indiana, america was in lots of hot waters, The war in vietnam was sending the country into a big depression

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The gunning down of the Kennedys, King, Malcolm X, had been relevant. Bob didn't see them as leaders being shot but fathers whose families had been left wounded

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"i had been in a motorcycle accident and id been hurt, but i recovered. truth was that i wanted to get out of the rat race. having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on"

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Ronnie Gilbert (one of the Weavers) had introduced Bob as one of the Newport folk festivals saying "and here he is. take him..you know him, he's yours" and at the time not even Elvis had been introduced like that

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"Woodstock had turned into a nightmare, a place of chaos. so now it was time to scramble out of there in search of some new silver lining and that's what we did. we moved to New York"

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"eventually we tried moving west -- tried a few different places, but in short time reporters would come sniffing around in hopes to gain some secret-- maybe i'd confess some sin"

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Every time bob and his clique would move around their addresses and living quarters would be printed in the local press and then reporters would come snooping around for the 'inside scoop'

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Bob Dylan traveled to Jerusalem and got himself photographed on the western wall wearing a skull cap. the photograph spread around the news and overnight he was named as a zionist

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Bob talks about how his being on stage started out with him being in a school auditorium, but now he was in a professional concert hall, and how his first performances were seen in the black hills passion play of south Dakota, a religious drama depicting the days of christ. he's looking back and seeing how far he's come

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Within a week he was in New York Columbia studios recording with Johnston at the helm. Johnston was thinking about how great everything they recorded was and how fantastic Bob was doing, they thought they were Going to strike pay dirt.

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in 1987 Bob had a freak accident and severey injured his hand, it had been ripped and mangled to the bone and was still in the acute stage. he had hundreds of show dates scheduled for spring and was worried he couldn't play or wouldn't be able to preform well

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something occurred where he realized that the dynamic of his performance could be transformed by combining certain elements of technique which ignite each other an could shift the levels of perception, time frame, structures, and systems of rhythm which would give his songs a brighter countenance.

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Bob had been on an 8 month tour with Tom Petty and the heartbreakers, it would be his last tour he though. he felt liek he had no connection with any kind of inspiration

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Bob had lost most of his motivation, Tom petty was at the top of the game and he was at the bottom of his. he felt he couldn't overcome the odds. his songs had become "strangers"

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Bob started to come to the realization of how he worked at getting his power, and what he was doing to get at it. and how he knew where the power was coming from and it wasn't his voice, though the voice brought him back to himself.

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Elliot Robert came to Bob with his show schedules. and it was far different from what they had talked about, he wanted to go back to the same towns he'd played the previous year and Elliot said, " you cant play the same towns every year, nobody's gonna get an erection over that."

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"the road ahead would be treacherous, and i didnt know where it would lead but i followed it anyways. it was a strange world ahead that would unfold. not only was it not run by god, but it wasnt run by the devil either"