Comments on: Exclusive offer: Dylan’s original 1st Chronicles manuscript!

By: william

william — Sun, 16 May 2010 21:27:48 +0000

Isn’t the selling of copyrighted material illegal, even if the writer, Bob Dylan, said “do what ever you want with it?” An email stating that fact does not negative or compromise a previous copywritten document / contract from the Publisher.

Unless Simon & Schuster Publishing and Bob Dylan agreed to have this personal document be sold for personal gain one selling it or the individual buying it can
be prosecuted for buying selling an unauthorized document.

I wonder what the late Hans Marius Stormoen would do?

By: Zainab McCoy

Zainab McCoy — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:22:52 +0000

Thank you for your show of trust and support. Yes, Rankflv, I agree with you whole heartily. I sent Mike Hobo’s Positively Bob Dylan link to the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles because they seem to have a great love and respect for Bob as illustrated by their website. They’d be the perfect organisation to do such a generous thing.

But you know in 1947 when a little Bedouin boy (who is nameless to me), discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls, the scholars, researchers, historians and anthropologist kept them amongst themselves for many years. I’ve kept the contents of the Chronicles – volume one manuscript to myself now for nearly four years. Now is the time to let the world get to know the real unedited Bob Dylan. And why not, he’s not just a musician or an industry; he’s public property. We musicians are nothing without a loving supportive public. Like Tom said “I only hope one day someone will make a ruckus over my manuscripts”. I believe the true fans of Bob Dylan will love and respect him even more after they read his honest unedited manuscript.

Positively
Zainab

By: rankflv

rankflv — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:57:25 +0000

It should be scanned, made into a pdf and freely distributed among fans.

By: Zainab McCoy

Zainab McCoy — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:05:09 +0000

Hi Sean, That was a great critique of the Dylan original first Chronicles manuscript article and the unpublished text which is posted on Mike Hobo’s ‘Positively Bob Dylan’ website. Thanks for breaking it down historically for the readers and potential buyers. I refer to the manuscript as the “first” because Bob sent two. If you favour the word “early” manus that’s fine & mellow but it’s only a matter of semantics. If you think that page had a spectacular error you’d die laughing at the rest. I’ve come to believe that the rest of the deleted text could be source material for writing a psychoanalytical novel about the man himself. I hope Bob’s fans appreciate the value of reading it for free on Mikes website.

Keep Swingin’
Zainab McCoy

By: RightWingBob.com » Mixed Up Confusion

RightWingBob.com » Mixed Up Confusion — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:28:41 +0000

[...] early manuscript of Bob Dylan’s memoir, Chronicles, being offered for sale, as described at this link (from March 17th). Actually, it’s described as the first manuscript of Chronicles — [...]

By: Zainab McCoy

Zainab McCoy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:32:11 +0000

Hi Tom, Thanks for sharing. That’s a great plot for a novel and Dorian certainly is apropos. It reminds me of a play I wrote loosely based on the life of Billie Holiday, ‘A Bright Day for a Dark Lady’. The only problem is she’s in hell with Rock musicians and agents. God is holding a grudge against her because she destroyed her life. Her Jazz musician friends are all in heaven trying to get her out of hell.

A serious tip; write some comments in your handwriting in the margins of you manus for Blood on the Tracks and it’ll fetch a nice sum for some heir far off in the future. But most importantly, be sure to follow up Blood on the Tracks with many other good books.

Keep Swingin’
Zainab McCoy
WTV.no

By: Tom Grasty

Tom Grasty — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:37:19 +0000

This is a real find to be sure. I only hope one day such a ruckus will be made over the MS for my novel, which also happens to have a little Dylan in it.

It’s called BLOOD ON THE TRACKS, and it’s a murder-mystery. But not just any rock superstar is knocking on heaven’s door. The murdered rock legend is none other than Bob Dorian, an enigmatic, obtuse, inscrutable, well, you get the picture…

Suspects? Tons of them. The only problem is they’re all characters in Bob’s songs.

You can get a copy on Amazon.com or go “behind the tracks” at http://www.bloodonthetracksnovel.com to learn more about the book.