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   From: wilbur@wilburslice.com   
      
   On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:11:22 -0500, carlbaron   
    wrote:   
      
   >Mr Jinx wrote:   
   >> I think Folk is a good target for lampooning.  Bob clearly thought so   
   >> too by pretending to be a protest singer for a few years at the start.   
   >That's not what he said in "No Direction Home". He said he was not a   
   >protest singer.   
      
   And when Bob says something like that, you gotta take it at face   
   value.  He has a certain ethic about stuff like that - an ethic that   
   he learned while growing up in Gallup, New Mexico.   
      
   > When, at a news conference,  asked how many protest   
   >singers there were (now my numbers may not be actually what he said, but   
   >it really doesn't matter) he said 243; when asked again he said, Oh   
   >maybe 247.   
      
   Oh, please.  There's no way there were 247 protest singers around in   
   those days.  142, *tops*.   
      
   >In "No Direction Home", I got the impression that he was   
   >being pushed towards being a protest singer rather then trying to become   
   >one, and resisted.   
      
   Yeah.  Poor Bob.  Always being pushed around and manipulated.   
      
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