I give Bob Dylan great credit for some wonderful prose poetry. Like Woody Guthrie said, it's the words. But Dyan had a knack for accompanying music that was most compelling. I just missed meeting him at the UofM.I knew his contemporaries: Maury Bernstein, who passed away and was a great folk guitarist, Keith Johnson, who has since passed away. And a guy who knew everyone, but I can't remember his name! He was later a used car dealer. Had a run down apartment building, like most UofM student lodgings were and still are. Claimed Dylan lived there off and on.

Later on around 1971, I worked at WLOL-AM in Minneapolis with a fellow radio DJ back in my radio days who was a boyhood friend of Bob Dylan, "Big John Bucklen. John has a nice memory site on the web. You Dylan fans should read it! I see via the web that John is either still in radio or semi-retired from it. I left the biz inn 1977, signing KTWN-FM, Anoka, over to "beautiful music." Ha! Elevator music was better than the format change from classical to no-class music. But such was and still is the radio biz. I miss it.

I'll have a write up about my quirky classical music days elsewhere in good old Mudcat. Cheers!