Having now had time for rumination I think I'm ready to address the question at hand. I think up to Bringing it all Back Home he was happy with how it was all going, but by the time of Highway 61 he was becoming a little jaded, and by the time he made the Basement Tapes he had had a gutful. That was why he never made that record. He must have listened to those songs on tape and said "Wait a minute, what am I doing?" If we had known then how to listen to Tears of Rage for example, we could almost have predicted what he would do next. I mean the title alone says mouthful. Like John Lennon a few years later he simply got off the roller coaster. I think he's happy again now he's just another musician. "Tell 'em all Tiny Montgomery says hello..."