Hello again folks and welcome to issue
7. Seasons come and seasons go, years pass, decades even; a millennium
date change has even happened by and still the not-to-be-called-never-ending-tour,
never ending tour rolls by. When this issue hits your doormats Bob will
be mid-European tour. We at Judas! central are off to see two
shows in Sweden and participate in the Stockholm convention - and hope
to see as many of you there as possible - before the UK tour starts,
a set of dates made much more attractive by the later additions of Hammersmith
and Brixton. Ah, what memories to be rekindled and hopefully new ones
to savour too.
Inside these pages we bring you another collection of articles that
we trust you will enjoy. Again we have aimed for a balance between well
known names and newcomers or relative newcomers. This is something we
can only maintain if new writers keep coming forward. There’s
a plea elsewhere in these pages for photographs, the same goes for new
material. A few out there (you know who you are) have started articles,
please keep at them, the more new writing blood in the Dylan fanzine
world the better as far as I am concerned.
Issue Eight will hopefully feature one or more of these, plus articles
by established names. Manuel Vardavas’s bootleg column will be
back again (presuming something worthy of discussion is released, that
is) and it is quite likely we will be taking an in-depth look at SACD
and bootleg DVDs from a ‘technology-and-its-impact-on-your-Dylan-entertainment’
standpoint. In addition the (just arrived here) book Chimes Of Freedom
by Mike Marqusee looks like it is going to be worthy of a detailed review
and interview with the author. Even a chapter or so into it I feel I
can wholeheartedly recommend it already. Go to www.judasmagazine.com
for more about it.
That’s all for the future, however, for now enjoy Michael Gray
on Christopher Ricks’s Dylan’s Visions of Sin,
enjoy the fruits of Nick Hawthorne’s labour on Dylan and Marlon
Brando (incidentally Nick says that he wants to ‘thank Raymond
Landry, Peter Vincent and our esteemed editor for their invaluable assistance
on this one’) and all our other contributors for whom I give my
own thanks for their sparkling offerings to this latest issue.
Enjoy your Bob, wherever you are; if you happen to be in Europe perhaps
we’ll meet somewhere on the road.
