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[HIGHLIGHT] Beatles Easter Eggs on Bob Dylan Albums?! The Hidden Clues Revealed - From EP 376 · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's just a part of a recent episode of book
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  Speaker 1: Don Rock. Jim Windolph is the author of the brand
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  Speaker 1: new book Where the Music Had To Go. How Bob
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  Speaker 1: Dylan and the Beatles changed each other and the world.
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  Speaker 1: Dylan never made a big explicit statement about being included
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  Speaker 1: on that cover of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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  Speaker 1: Did he see it as a sign of respect? You think?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, that's an interesting question. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't mention. I've not seen him mention it. He's been
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  Speaker 2: asked about the album itself. And so it's like nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy eight where Dylan gives an interview and he says
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  Speaker 2: he found it over indulgent, but I like, there's an
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  Speaker 2: interview his mom gave. Dylan's mother didn't give many interviews
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  Speaker 2: in her life, but she gave it a really She
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  Speaker 2: gave a couple of great interviews to this writer Toby Thompson,
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  Speaker 2: who wrote a terrific book called Positively main Street that
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  Speaker 2: Dylan fans should check out. And she was in Dylan's
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  Speaker 2: house a lot in the late sixties in Woodstock, and
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  Speaker 2: she said, oh, Bob loves Sergeant Pepper.
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  Speaker 3: He loves the Beatles.
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  Speaker 2: So it's funny to me to think that it was
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  Speaker 2: always on, you know, in there, even though Dylan would
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  Speaker 2: later say like, that's not my thing, you know so
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  Speaker 2: but and I don't know if he mentioned that, the
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  Speaker 2: fact that he's on the cover. But the funny thing
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  Speaker 2: is his next album, John Wesley Harding. Rolling Stone did
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  Speaker 2: a story about that album cover, and they said, if
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  Speaker 2: you look at the tree on the cover, the faces
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  Speaker 2: of John, Paul, George and Ringo are carved into the tree,
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  Speaker 2: and and and then they asked a photographer and he said, well,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't aware of it, but yeah, if you if
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  Speaker 2: you look you I agree, you can.
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  Speaker 3: See that in there.
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  Speaker 2: And then my god, and then not only that, but
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  Speaker 2: when when Dylan did the cover of John Wesley Harding,
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  Speaker 2: notice that he's standing with three other guys, right, So
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  Speaker 2: it's like he wanted that album cover. So I think
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  Speaker 2: he made that album partly as a response to Sergeant Pepper, like,
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  Speaker 2: in other words, you guys are going over the top.
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  Speaker 2: I'm stripping it down to simplicity, right. And when he
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  Speaker 2: put that album out, he said he told the record label,
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  Speaker 2: no single, no tour because and and said this was
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  Speaker 2: the season of hype, and I didn't want to have
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  Speaker 2: anything to do with any fype. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a dig at the Beatles. And then the cover that album,
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  Speaker 2: aside from the Beatles may or may not be in
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  Speaker 2: the tree barker, he's standing there, so he stayed there.
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  Speaker 2: Three other guys these are just friends of his. One
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  Speaker 2: is like a Stonemason who lived in the area. The
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  Speaker 2: two other guys are these musicians. They're called the Balls
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  Speaker 2: of Bengal and they were making an album of their
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  Speaker 2: their music, Indian music for Albert Grossman had signed them
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  Speaker 2: to like a management deal, and they made a pretty
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  Speaker 2: cool album called The Balls of Bengal, I believe is
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  Speaker 2: the name of that album. And one of them, especially
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  Speaker 2: Dylan was very close with. And that's one guy and
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  Speaker 2: his brother. But the fact that Dylan is standing on
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  Speaker 2: the cover as a foursome, to me is kind of
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  Speaker 2: a parody of the Beatles, Like it's four of us
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  Speaker 2: on the cover here, you know. And yet yet the
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  Speaker 2: shot is this He said he wanted it to look
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  Speaker 2: like a snapshot and a family photo album, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what it looks like. It's just like it's not a
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  Speaker 2: very elaborate, sure, it's just like kind of a crummy
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  Speaker 2: picture in a way. You know, it's just like so
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  Speaker 2: to me, it's kind of a parody of a Beatles
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  Speaker 2: album cover.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the kind of thing he would do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, because he's fun I mean, he is
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  Speaker 3: funny as hell. They're all in Lantin's right.
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  Speaker 2: So there's like another a funny thing he said was
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  Speaker 2: when the Beatles visited him in sixty six at his
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  Speaker 2: hotel in London. Dylan said, Dylan said, are the are
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  Speaker 2: the girls still screaming for you? And John said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they sure are. We're hoping they get away, get it,
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  Speaker 2: get off of that, how about you? And Dylan said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're screaming. They're screaming for us, but in a different way,
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  Speaker 2: meaning they're booing.
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  Speaker 1: They're booing, right, somebody there's a website here. Somebody put
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  Speaker 1: up a blog I think, and they zero in on
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  Speaker 1: the album cover and they circle where supposedly, yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: Beatles are. I don't know. I don't know, but now.
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  Speaker 3: There's I didn't go this and it was in the
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  Speaker 3: weeds and nothing this.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: When I wrote about that in the book, there are
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  Speaker 2: some people who say that the British edition of that
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  Speaker 2: album on the vinyl. If you can find it, it's more,
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  Speaker 2: it's easier to see. So I don't put my hands
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  Speaker 2: on a on a nineteen sixty eight British copy of
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  Speaker 2: the album.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've seen pictures of it online. So now
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  Speaker 3: did the more.
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  Speaker 1: I look at it, now I'm seeing George, I'm seeing Ringo.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I may have to put that
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  Speaker 1: up on the screen for the video version of this
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  Speaker 1: interview because maybe that's like what they call that confirmation bias,
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  Speaker 1: like I want to see it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't hope it could be that.
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  Speaker 2: That's maybe that's what happened that photographer when they asked him,
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  Speaker 2: like do you see It's like, geez.
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  Speaker 3: The weird thing is when I look at it, I
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  Speaker 3: think I do see it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I do. It's like in the nineties there's books
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  Speaker 1: where if you should stare at it long enough, something
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  Speaker 1: comes out so at you.
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  Speaker 3: And just another album cover thing.
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  Speaker 2: The next Dylan's next album, Nashville Skyline, there's a Beatles
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  Speaker 2: message on that cover. You do you know what it is? No,
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  Speaker 2: it's incredible. So the Katari's holding on that cover. George
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  Speaker 2: gave it to him as a gift. So George stayed
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  Speaker 2: with Dylan and his family and for Thanksgiving sixty eight,
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  Speaker 2: Dylan and George wrote two songs at least together the
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  Speaker 2: night George after Thanksgiving, George wrote all things must pass,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and and Patty Boyd, his wife, Patty Boyd
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  Speaker 2: Harrison said, George felt so good. He was so confident
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  Speaker 2: after spending time with Dylan and Dylan approving of him
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  Speaker 2: as a as a singer and songwriter. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: felt great because the Beatles had been, you know, trashing him,
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  Speaker 2: or he felt that way anyway, disrespecting him. So George
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  Speaker 2: gives Dylan this Gibson guitar, this lovely Starbards finished guitar
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  Speaker 2: and Dylan's holding it on the cover of Nashville Skyline
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  Speaker 2: and he told the photographer took that picture that he
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  Speaker 2: doffed his cap. You know, he's smiling, he's doffing his
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  Speaker 2: cap a bit. That's that's to say thank you to
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  Speaker 2: George for the guitar.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that amazing?
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable looking at it here and.
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  Speaker 2: George, now there's a lot, you know, guitar geeks. I
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  Speaker 2: went deep into this guitar stuff. There is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of confusion because George that that guitar at Gibson, She's
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  Speaker 2: and that's somebody's gonna kill me, and said that Gibson
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  Speaker 2: it's not a three sixty because that's the name of
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  Speaker 2: the Rickenbacker. I forgot what it's called. Anyway, that specific
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  Speaker 2: getson guitar. George got another one when he got back
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  Speaker 2: to England that he shared with Lennon. So there's some
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  Speaker 2: confusion over like, wait, if George gave Dylan this guitar
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  Speaker 2: and then he's playing it on Here Comes the Sun,
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  Speaker 2: did he take it back or what it's like. No,
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  Speaker 2: the answer is he gave Dylan the guitar when he
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  Speaker 2: got back to London. Ian Lennon got the same kind
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  Speaker 2: of guitar that they shared, and George did record Here
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  Speaker 2: Comes the Sun with that very guitar, but a different
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  Speaker 2: a different one but the same model. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: lovely guitar.
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