apocryphal dylan & zimmermania
Hee hee hee … wanna buy some mandies? Just out: "It's Zimmerman's World …We Just Live In It (Soft Sounds For Gentle People Garage And Folk Rock Tributes To The Beatnik Bard)" on Pet (cd or lp, cat. no. 009). Amazingly, that most ultimate of Bob spoofs or Dylan imitations, "A public execution" by Mouse and the Traps (Fraternity 1966 - see below), isn't on it. (And neither is the Trashmen's downright irritating "Same lines" for that matter.). Oh well, you'll probably have that Mouse track via that seminal and oft reissued "Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era" v/a 2lp or cd on Elektra (1972), won't you? If not: see below. Otherwise, bar the omission of Dutch Dylan Armand and the 5 Gentlemen track below, "It's Zimmerman's World … We Just Live In It" is pretty flawless. And hilarious, for those maniac mannerisms and how they reflect on both the Bawb phenomenon and the copy and cash in routines that are part and parcel of the pop industry. So go buy it! And if you do not pay, they got computer collectors that'll send you through the ceiling!
