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Article 1200 of rec.music.dylan:
From: [e-mail] (Rebecca A. Buck)
Subject: Donovan on "BRinging It All Back Home," 1965
Date: 6 Mar 90 19:17:47 GMT

Notes from the past, #9

DONOVAN REVIEWS NEW DYLAN ALBUM!
Record Mirror exclusive by Richard Green, May 15, 1965

It was all quite simple.  We put Bob Dylan's new LP "Bringing It All Back
Home" on a record player, sat Donovan down next to it and noted his
comments.

Subterranean Homesick Blues
  "this is a gas.  First time I heard it I like it.  Chuck Berry rhythms
and Dylan words go well together."

She Belongs To Me
  "Yea, it's beautiful.  His Buddy Holly influence comes out.  Very
pretty harmonica on it, it's nice.

Maggie's Farm
  "This is the ... (Turns volume up and laughs). It's a good send-up.
It's just amusing.  You know, all these things he does they're just
personal, you can't understand them.  It's just to make one person
laugh, probably Maggie.  Don't like this much."  (Takes it off).

Love Minus Zero/No Limit
  "He played this one to me without accompaniment, it's good.  (Sings
along).  A lot of people have said it's a big crappy with his
accompanists, but they're very sympathetic really."

Outlaw Blues
  "He could do something completely new with this.  He could be termed
a pop form.  Can't imagine the groups doing it.  But him, yes.  His
music now doesn't fill up too much of his day.  Don't think it ever did,
he was writing poetry more than songs.  This John Hammond thing is
festering in America.

On The Road Again
  "Him and his buddies, they're having a good session.  It's just a
gas for them."

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
  "That's Al Grossman. He keeps plying this in his pad.  He hadn't read
the words for six weeks. He just put them in front of him and read what
he'd written.  Apart from that, the group hadn't started with him.
(Takes it off)

Mr. Tambourine Man
  "This is beautiful, this one.  When I first heard this about a year
and a half ago, I wrote my "Tangerine Eyes" from it, but I didn't ever
record it because I didn't want to steal it.  I didn't know what the
lyrics were.  I've sung it to him, he digs it.  (Sings along.) That's
the best one on the LP, man, I've not heard the rest of them, but ...

Gates Of Eden
  "He's got a place outside New York called Bearsville.  The bears come up
to his window and he feeds them.  He stays there and goes into town once
a month and does a concert for ten thousand.  That's why he gets bitchy
with all these reporters, he doesn't care two figs.  There's a cinema
in this little town and every time he goes there, it makes the papers.
They get all excited.  That's good that.  That's his classical sort of
stuff, where the poetry comes in.  It's hard for people to dig it."

It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
  "He's written a lot of poem and he's just picked these few to put to
song.  You've got to be a genius to understand them.  To me he's just a
guy that writes poems and puts a lot of feeling in them.  it's hard for
me to say what I think of him.  I couldn't write a story of what I think
of him for any paper.  I like him because he shoots down a lot of people
who shoot a load of crap."

It's All Over Now Baby Blue
  "Yea! He played this one as well.  It's a great one.  I dig this one.

On the question of the weirdo sleeve notes, Donovan commented: "There's
no reason why you should understand them.  He just puts things down that
means things to him."

And what of the album in general?
  "That a good LP to play in the fallout shelter when the bomb's
dropped because they'll all realise what they could have done."