Bob Dylan sure is an interesting guy, and here are three recent stories to prove it.
First, Dylan was on the New Jersey shore two weeks ago for a concert. A few hours before the show, he was wandering around a low-income neighborhood when a resident called the police to report the suspicious behavior. The two officers who responded to the call had no idea who Dylan was and took the singer to the police station when he was unable to produce ID.
“What is your name, sir?” the officer asked.
“Bob Dylan,” Dylan said.
“OK, what are you doing here?” the officer asked.
“I’m on tour,” the singer replied.
Second, after releasing four truly brilliant albums in a row, including this year’s Together Through Life, Dylan has set the release date for his next endeavor. A Christmas album. In October. Dylan’s exploration of faith is well documented, and his conversion to Christianity was the subject of his famous album Slow Train Coming. In recent years, rumors have persisted that the singer had returned to Judaism. But regardless of his personal faith and its relationship to holidays, Bob Dylan, with his gravely voice, is the last person anyone would have expected to sing “Little Drummer Boy” and “Must be Santa.”
Finally, Dylan is apparently in negotiations to voice a GPS system. This is probably the most ridiculous of these three stories because a frequent observation about Dylan is that he is borderline unintelligible. Not much else to say on the subject.
What a guy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/bigbrother/article-1206617/Like-complete-unknown-Bob-Dylan-frogmarched-collect-ID-rookie-policewoman-fails-recognise-scruffy-music-legend.html
I want to know why it’s okay to arrest a white guy walking around a Latino neighborhood on the basis that he “doesn’t fit in.”
If someone pulled that on a shabby looking black man for “not fitting in” in New Canaan, there would be peace vigils at every college campus and Obama would have the arresting officer burned at the stake.
But there’s no reverse racism, right?
I’m sure scruffy looking black men without IDs get arrested all the time. It seems like the problem was that Dylan had no ID, which is amusing, of course, considering he’d be a person you would expect most people to recognize.
I think the more appropriate reaction to the 22 year-old officer’s inability to identify the legend is a head-shaking lamentation: “Kids there days!”