Bob Dylan has always been mysterious, hard to reach and kind of a dick. In interviews he seems to be either aloof, incomprehensible or just plain confrontational.







It’s hard for fans to try to get insight to a man who is always reinventing himself and while they anxiously await volume 2 of his Autobiography, Chronicles, Jake Maymudes has been working on an biography based on audio tapes recorded by his father, Dylan friend and road manager Victor Maymudes.



The biography recently a kickstarter campaign that, unfortunately, failed to reach it’s goal but the book is still in the works and youngnotions.com recently was able to get a couple of short excerpts of the book for a sneak peek in the life of one of the closest confidants of popular music’s most enigmatic character.



“July 29th, 1966 – Woodstock: Bob called and asked me to come to his place ASAP. Said he was taking things in a new direction. When I drove up to his house there were several schoolbuses parked in a row with a ramp placed next to them. Bob walked out in a rhinestone bedazzled jumpsuit and cape, hopped on his motorcycle and said ‘protest songs are dead.’ He proceeded to line his motorcycle up to the ramp and before putting on his red, white and blue helmet he shouted to me Motorcycle jumps are where it’s at, man! My next tour is going to be nothing but daredevil stunts!’ He revved the engine and sped up the ramp but something went wrong. The motorcycle veered to the right as he went off the ramp and it tossed him wildly off. He landed squarely on his head and I rushed to his side screaming that I’ll call for an ambulance but he pushed me away. Obviously concussed, he stumbled back into his house mumbling about how he had to write a book. I followed him inside, he sat down in front of his typewriter and over the next two hours he wrote the entirety of Tarantula with blood trickling out of his ears.”



“August, 1981: Bob called me up to bounce some song titles off of me to see what I thought. I asked him if this was about John Lennon’s “Serve Yourself” and he told me that he was a Christian and had forgiven John and that it was all water under the bridge. He then asked if he should call his new song ‘I Served Your Mom Last Night You Fucking Limey’ or “You Don’t Seem to Have Any Problem Serving Some Insane Screeching Japanese Fraud’?”



The book has no scheduled release date but will hopefully still be published despite the financial setbacks.