From: will.dockery@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 6:13:51 PM UTC-5, Zod wrote:   
   > On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 5:15:36 PM UTC-3, will.d...@gmail.com wrote:    
   > >    
   > > "Nothing and no one influenced the new one. I’m old enough not to need   
   influences. This is what it is. I’ve been reading up on stuff, it turned   
   into lyrics, there’s the melody and it is what it is. I don’t listen to   
   anybody anymore, I read,    
   but I don’t listen. If I listen to anybody these days it would be Bob Dylan   
   because he’s the yardstick. You write a song like Jokerman or Every Grain of   
   Sand it’s hard to get anywhere near the same league. That’s the only guy I   
   would listen to    
   today because I think he’s amazing."​ -Ian Hunter    
   > >    
   > > All American Alien Boy · Ian Hunter    
   > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGYGOesT7-o   
   > Love Mott...   
      
   This is interesting, reading the liner notes booklet that came with the Mott   
   The Hoople box set,  turns out that Ian Hunter met up with Bob Dylan early on,   
   in 1970:   
      
   https://www.pressreader.com/uk/classic-rock/20190205/283566631747600   
      
   "Mott got positive response... from Bob Dylan himself. During Mott's first   
   U.S. tour, early 1970, Hunter was standing outside a club in New York when a   
   figure walkedup singing "At The Crossroads". "I thought he was taking the   
   piss," thought Hunter. When    
   the pair's eyed met again inside the club.  Hunter recognized Dylan. “He   
   said: 'Mott The Hoople!', then started jumping up and down, singing At The   
   Crossroads, and he's got all the lyrics..." -Kris Needs   
      
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