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To: Lost1 who wrote (794)	9/10/2001 8:30:48 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2695

MAG: DYLAN HATES MOST MODERN MUSIC New York -- The very private Bob Dylan speaks publicly for the first time about Carolyn Dennis, one of his backup singers whom he married and fathered a child. "It is not private to me. I've never tried to hide anything. I mean, not that I know of. I don't have any skeletons that I don't want anybody to see," he tells TIME's Christopher John Farley in fresh editions. Dylan says ex-wife Dennis is "a fantastic singer. She is a gospel singer mainly. One of her uncles was Blind Willie Johnson. What more do you need to know about somebody?" Dylan's daughter, Desiree Gabrielle Dennis-Dylan, now in her teens, and Dad don't share the same musical tastes. "I get in fights with her if I talk about music," says Dylan. The legendary rocker hates most modern music. "The radio makes hideous sounds," he says. On Beck, the folk/rock/hip-hop singer-songwriter to whom he is often compared, Dylan tells TIME, "You just can't be that good at everything you touch." Although he admits he hasn't really listened to Eminem's work (when it comes to rap, he prefers the Roots), he adds, "I almost feel like if anything is controversial, the guy's gotta be doing something right." After quitting the music business in 1987, and now releasing his 43rd album Love and Theft, "Dylan is back -- once again making music that's worth talking about," writes Farley in the current issue of TIME (on newsstands Monday, September 10th). The new album, Dylan claims, "It is completely autobiographical -- every single one, every line -- as most of my stuff usually is on one level or another." The rocker is now penning his autobiography but confesses his memory isn't crystal clear. "My retrievable memory, it goes blank on incidents and things that have happened." So, to help him piece together the past, he is collecting anecdotes about himself and weaving them into his narrative -- even if he knows they're not true. "I'll take some of the stuff that people think is true and I'll build a story around that," he says. He is glad, at 60, he's still around making music. "A day above the ground is a good day," says Dylan. "I've had a God-given sense of destiny. This is what I was put on earth to do."

To: Lost1 who wrote (794)	9/10/2001 11:45:07 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2695

Dylan is grateful the publicity machines stopped stalking him a decade ago. "In the early '90s, the media lost track of me, and that was the best thing that could happen," he says. "It was crucial, because you can't achieve greatness under media scrutiny. You're never allowed to be less than your legend. When the media picked up on me again five or six years later, I'd fully developed into the performer I needed to be and was in a position to go any which way I wanted. The media will never catch up again. Once they let you go, they cannot get you back. It's metaphysical. And it's not good enough to retreat. You have to be considered irrelevant." usatoday.com