Welcome to issue ten, packed with articles,
reviews, interviews and all our usual features. I hope you enjoy it,
but before you sample its delights I have a couple of points to make
and a question to raise.
First, Judas!’s publisher, Woodstock Publications, has
launched its own bookselling enterprise. Those of you who have ordered
from Woodstock Publications before will know of the high professional
standard of customer service to be expected, the prompt and efficient
delivery, the superb packaging and so forth. So successful has this
‘spin-off’ from the magazine been that it was time for it
to decouple itself from the Judas! website and start up a proper business
site, which is now available at: http://www.woodstockbooks.net.
Although it is independent from the magazine, obviously the healthier
Woodstock Publications and Books are, the rosier the future for Judas!
and the greater the chances of us being able to include more colour
photographs etc. So, buy your books from Woodstock Books. You will be
pleased with the service and indirectly supporting this magazine at
the same time.
Second, an apology: in the last issue we ran a wonderful article on
Dylan and Leon Russell by Peter Doggett. Just before going to press
we were offered detailed illustrative material for the article from IWC.
My eagerness to include some of these generously offered items blinded
me to the danger of overturning my ‘final, final, final deadline’
rule and trying to accommodate them at the last minute. The result was
entirely predictable: the wrong information was used, or the right information
without correct placing or background information. We’d like to
apologise for misusing this highly appreciated contribution.
Finally, my question is this. As more and more material appears on the
Internet, I occasionally come across something I think you’d like
to read in these pages. However, we have had a strict rule from the
beginning not to reprint material, as it seems unfair to people who
have already read it, and then have to pay via their subscription to
read it again. We have turned down a number of articles offered to us
for this reason, and have gone so far as to have authors hold back Web
publication until six weeks post Judas! appearance. We are
now reconsidering the policy; obviously we’d contact authors for
permission and highlight the fact that we were reprinting something
from the Web, and would avoid articles linked to from such popular Dylan
sites as the wonderful www.expectingrain.com.
Yet still I am unsure what is best to do for you the readers - if you
all have Web access we could, after all, just give you the URLs. Please
write to us and let us know your thoughts on this (especially if you
have no Web access), or visit www.judasmagazine.com and vote on it there
if you do.
I hope you are all enjoying a Bob-filled year. As you can see from the
following pages, I’ve had a highlight already.
