File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1998/marxism-general.9804, message 108


Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:03:38 -0400
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-G: BOB DYLAN IS DEAD!


MICHAEL BOREN WILLIAMS wrote:

>Greetings from Swiss exile.
>
>I will let you in on a little secret. I was a ghost-writer of music for
>over 15 years. I wrote songs for many "stars", including Robert Zimmerman
>(a/k/a Bob Dylan), as did my friends, Joseph P. "Joey" Gallagher, Howard
>"Howie" Levin, and too many others to mention. Zimmerman used to have
>starving and/or drug-addicted musical composers going to his Bank Square
>office in Manhattan to sell him some of his biggest "hit" songs. The
>average price this multi-millionaire paid: $50. That's right. Fifty bucks.

Wait a second. Aren't you the guy who single-handedly made Dow Chemical
stop manufacturing napalm? Or didn't you know that guy, or something?

Did I ever tell M-General about how I invented punk rock back in 1975. Joey
Ramone, who I used to sell marijuana to, was over at my pad strumming his
guitar. I turned to him and said, "You know somethin', Joey, life sucks."
He looked up at me and said, "You know something, you're right. All that
disco sucks. Goddamnit, I'm going to start playing music that articulates
that message." (Of course, Joey never used words like "articulate," but he
said something to that effect anyhow.) A few days later, he wrote
Blitzkreig Bop.

By the way, Joey Ramone told me the real identity of Thomas P. Murray.
Murray is a a 800 pound borderline schizophrenic who is bed-bound. His
mother brings him packages from Burger King 11 times a day, but she really
loves him no matter what. The poor thing gets no enjoyment out of life,
except eating junk food and playing pranks on the Internet. He started
putting on weight after he showed up at Charlotte Kates's graduation
ceremony and asked her to go back to a motel with her. She took one look at
him and exclaimed, "Yecchhhh, you've got a face like a rat, horrible body
odor. I wouldn't go near you with a ten foot pole." He went to pieces after
that and began putting on weight.

Louis Proyect

Louis Proyect



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