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I was houseless in Austin when Dylan and Petty played on the same ticket. I effing fell asleep. I did that once before with Emeron, Lake and Palmer; the only time I saw either of those artists. With ELP I had the excuse of a 19 year old having stupidly swallowed a green plastidil. I may have done something similar at The Who, too. At Austin I guess it was houseless weariness. Of course, as we queued up to enter the arena in Austin, everybody was freaking out about these mega-stars about to perform. One thing I especially remember, which I was thinking my own self before this young woman said it, Bob Dylan is a prophet.

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A bunch of that phrasing is like the analogic machine Bob D affirmed say with Theme Time for that he is one machine for remembering persuasive melodic bits that he he said he was. On that JKH John Kendall Hawkins recent saying Big D is back( sucking air out of Room) i told him yes affirmative but yours here is an example of where rubber meets road. At the same time we are meat, we feel the consequences of our dragonfly weight contribution tothe scattering of human meat to count them-zero good end. On todays Scott Ridder i added that maybe all the US sells is Governater movies. Comradeship is the product left for our souls to bring to market, failing that we collapse like whatever you want to say: telescopes or object lessons. I am a yeoman student of Gaskin at the farm. Even knowing John KH objects, i said ' Dylan on his new album will do a version of the 'boss' : as in the old patri in "maggies farm" flipped to conduct a benevolent commune. A message designed to raise JKH hackles maybe, but in the spirit of his post. Thankyou for this version of Walls fell down as us kids are calling it, the piano forte and mixed with The Kids are calling it "casio piano". This works.

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You already know, but i just grasped that Last dance by Tom Petty adheres to East or West Texas Nashville country and W conventions. Ya know, the thoughts of our local circumscribed animals are dangerous when not processed as bull!shit!. What Petty did do with Mary jane or What was the name of that song? , he exaggerated the Floridian c and w element of that song to act against excessive Marijuana consumption, and it took me some of us long to apprcte the over the topness of Jane in her under alls. Your Tweeter and the monkey man cover is so good it could land with the public, tnks.

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