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« skrivet: 08 maj, 2014, 11:47:05 »
Oh to have been a fly on the wall as Bob Dylan wrote some of his now classic songs.

Until time travel becomes possible, the closest we may get to observing Dylan the songwriter in action are the four pages from the working manuscript for “Like A Rolling Stone” that Sotheby’s will auction on June 24, 2014 in New York.

On the pages, along with many of the lines that ended up in what some believe is Dylan’s greatest song, a song that certainly changed people’s ideas of what rock ‘n’ roll could be upon it’s release in July of 1965, are lyrics that Dylan clearly was considering for inclusion, but which didn’t make the cut.

The chorus, for instance, didn’t fully come together until page four of the manuscript. On page one there is a version of the chorus that reads:

“How does it feel
How does it feel
To be (or not to be) on your own
Direction (road back home)
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.”

Right below the second “How does it feel,” Dylan has added “Is it ain’t quite real.”

And at the side of the page it says “Al Capone” with a line drawn to the word “direction” in the chorus.

On the second page of the manuscript is a version of the chorus with “path unknown” as one of the lines.

At the top of page three is written: “How does it feel/ Behind the wheel.”

At the bottom of page three the chorus is again a work in progress:

How does it feel to be on your own
It feels real (dog-bone)
Does it feel real.”

Then he wrote “New direction home” but put a line through “new” and wrote “no” under it.

Then: “When the winds have (unreadable word that could be “flown”)
“Shut up and deal like a rolling stone
Raw deal
Get down and kneel.”

By page four this is the chorus:

“How does it feel, how does it feel
To be on your own
Like a dog without a bone
Now you’re unknown
Forever complete unknown
New direction home
No direction home
Like a rolling stone.”

“If you look at these four pages, you can see that at this stage there are rhyme schemes that he didn’t pursue, and I suppose the chorus is the biggest surprise,” Richard Austin, Sotheby’s manuscript expert, told the New York Times. “Here you have a chorus that is such an iconic piece of history, but it clearly didn’t arrive fully formed. And you wonder, if he chose another rhyme, would it have had the same impact?”

Dylan has written names of songs and books on the pages, which may or may not relate to the song itself: “Pony Blues,” a song by Charley Patton; “Midnight Special” (and above it “Mavis”); “On the Road”; and “Butcher Boy,” which likely refers to “The Butcher Boy,” an old folk song that the Clancy Brothers recorded.

“It was ten pages long,” Dylan once said of the manuscript for “Like A Rolling Stone.” “It wasn’t called anything, just a rhythm thing on paper all about my steady hatred directed at some point that was honest. In the end it wasn’t hatred, it was telling someone something they didn’t know, telling them they were lucky.”

There’s also a mostly discarded verse that reads:

“You never listened to the man who could (illegible) jive and wail
Never believed ‘m when he told you he had love for sale
You said you’d never compromise/ now he looks into your eyes
and says do you want make a deal.”

And what ended up being the third verse reads like this in part:

“You never turned around
To see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns
When they all came down
And did tricks for you to shake the money tree.”

There’s a line drawn through that entire last line.

The four manuscript pages for “Like A Rolling Stone” could sell for as much as $2 million.
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« Svar #1 skrivet: 08 maj, 2014, 13:13:40 »
The Roger Smith Washington DC 2006 i huvudet på dokumenten är något man får bortse ifrån förutsätter jag... :party:
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« Svar #2 skrivet: 08 maj, 2014, 13:16:22 »
The Roger Smith Washington DC 2006 i huvudet på dokumenten är något man får bortse ifrån förutsätter jag... :party:

Tre nollor! ^_^

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« Svar #3 skrivet: 08 maj, 2014, 17:55:13 »
The Roger Smith Washington DC 2006 i huvudet på dokumenten är något man får bortse ifrån förutsätter jag... :party:

Dax att putsa brillorna  :mellow:  :ph34r:

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« Svar #4 skrivet: 08 maj, 2014, 18:43:02 »
Skulle ju inte precis tacka nej till att få äga de där papperslapparna .............
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« Svar #5 skrivet: 08 maj, 2014, 20:58:53 »
The Roger Smith Washington DC 2006 i huvudet på dokumenten är något man får bortse ifrån förutsätter jag... :party:

Dax att putsa brillorna  :mellow:  :ph34r:

Ha Ha Ja verkligen...får skylla på att jag satt på jobbet....undrade lite vad egoBen menade med tre nollor också...briljant svagsynt av mig på min ära... :d6:
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« Svar #6 skrivet: 08 maj, 2014, 21:34:10 »
The Roger Smith Washington DC 2006 i huvudet på dokumenten är något man får bortse ifrån förutsätter jag... :party:

Dax att putsa brillorna  :mellow:  :ph34r:

Ha Ha Ja verkligen...får skylla på att jag satt på jobbet....undrade lite vad egoBen menade med tre nollor också...briljant svagsynt av mig på min ära... :d6:

Bättre svagsynt än svagsint    -_-
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« Svar #7 skrivet: 09 maj, 2014, 07:54:36 »
The Roger Smith Washington DC 2006 i huvudet på dokumenten är något man får bortse ifrån förutsätter jag... :party:

Dax att putsa brillorna  :mellow:  :ph34r:

Ha Ha Ja verkligen...får skylla på att jag satt på jobbet....undrade lite vad egoBen menade med tre nollor också...briljant svagsynt av mig på min ära... :d6:

Bättre svagsynt än svagsint    -_-

Ja fast man är ju rädd att symtomen går hand i hand... :party:
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« Svar #8 skrivet: 09 maj, 2014, 22:00:55 »
Den 12 maj 1965 var Dylan i London. Sedan stack han och Sara på semester till Portugal. Den 1 juni var Dylan tillbaka i London för att göra en tv-special för BBC (bara ljudspåret finns kvar idag). Sedan åkte han hem till USA. Han måste ha stannat på hotellet i DC strax efter att han kommit hem efter BBC-sessionen. Den 15 juni gjorde han det första försöket att spela in låten i studio. Den klassiska versionen vi alla (?) älskar spelades in dagen därefter, den 16 juni. Det innebär att låten bara var dagar eller högst knappt två veckor gammal när han, Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield m fl satte den. Förutsatt att min kronologi stämmer.
Det finns fortfarande ett Roger Smith Hotel i New York City, men hotellet i DC är nedlagt sedan länge.
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« Svar #9 skrivet: 10 maj, 2014, 11:34:04 »
Sådana däringa papperslappar borde ha en givenplats i notböcker och dylika publikationer  :d4:

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« Svar #10 skrivet: 24 juni, 2014, 18:59:50 »
Hej alla. Satt just och kollade Sothebys auktion online och Bobs text såldes för 1,700.000$.
Undrar om han själv skrockar förtjust....
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« Svar #11 skrivet: 24 juni, 2014, 20:43:19 »
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/06/24/dylan-working-draft-like-rolling-stone-could-bring-up-to-2-million-at-nyc/
Enligt Fox News blev slutpriset 2 045 000 miljoner $. Rätt dyrt, oavsett vad som är rätt och riktigt  :d1:
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