Robert Zimmerman Vs. A.J. Weberman

Tracklist

A1	Historic Confrontation Pt. 1
B1	The Ballad Of AJ Weberman Pt.1
B2	The Ballad Of AJ Weberman Pt.1

Credits

• Interviewee – Bob Dylan
• Interviewer – A.J. Weberman

Notes

TMOQ release of historic telephone conversations. An incredibly funny recorded telephone conversation between Bob Dylan and one of his famous tormentors, A. J. Weberman. They're so good off each other it's like a Catskills tummler schtick of great musicological import... "Bob Dylan, as we know, disappeared from sight in the summer of 1966, began to raise a family of his own and remained in a semi-reclusive state for close to two years. By the time he returned to America's stereo cabinets with that wondrous creation, the timeless and beautiful LP "John Wesley Harding", Dylanology itself had taken on an activist edge, almost as a by-product of the souped-up trauma of 1968. Rather than Dylan taking a few years off to live as a normal human being after the marginal achievement of bending American culture to his will, on his own terms, Weberman saw nothing but sinister implications both in Dylan's respite and return. It all got very personal. Within a short span of time he had Dylan going from being the most Progressive voice since Christ (a prophet in winkle-picker shoes) to an agent of the oligarchy, a sell-out, a scag junkie, all kinds of horrors. He was a reactionary Pied Piper; leading the children of the 60s away from the barricades and into his own narcotized haze of blissful domesticity (yuck!). An album of lovely, if largely conventional songs, Nashville Skyline, seemed to convince Weberman that he was onto something. He had to nail down this fraud good and proper, so he sounded his own call to action. He formed the DLF (the Dylan Liberation Front), staged demonstrations outside Dylan's Greenwich Village abode, shouted through bull-horns, chanted, demanded negotiation, scared the bejesus out of the neighbors. Then he started stealing, and analyzing, Dylan's garbage. Through a process he later termed Garbology, he claimed he could derive vast insight and defining proof for his thesis among the discarded cigarette butts, soup cans and Blimpie wrappers Dylan and his family consigned to oblivion. Recordings of telephone conversations between Weberman and Dylan, New York City, January 6 and January 9, 1971. Also contains an otherwise unreleased version of David Peel's "The Ballad of A.J. Weberman".

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
FB 5322, #12	Bob Dylan Vs A.J. Weberman	Bob Dylan Vs A.J. Weberman - The Historic Confrontation ‎(LP)	Folkways Records, Broadside Records	FB 5322, #12	US	1977
FB 5322	Robert Zimmerman Vs A.J. Weberman	Robert Zimmerman Vs A.J. Weberman - Robert Zimmerman Vs A.J. Weberman ‎(LP, RE)	Broadside Records	FB 5322	US	Unknown