I've been neglecting to post entries here, and in the interim I cycled again through my Dylan/Springsteen/Beatles interests.
I always intended to read this book, and it was good. The story of Springsteen as he blew up from the clubs all the way to stadiums. The story is how he maintained his integrity and balanced his values through the process. *** -- I mean you got to like Springsteen to care about it.
You don't learn anything meaningful about Dylan or how he writes his songs or anything that matters by reading these interviews. I knew that would be true, but I read a bunch of them anyway. The more recent they are, the less bullshit they have in them. ** -- Don't depend on Dylan to give you any insight into himself.
I picked this up to look for one piece of information that proved not to be in it (I made a conclusion based on absence): A friend had told me that the guitar solos before "The End" on Abbey Road were played by Clapton, Harrison, and Page. Every official source says it's Harrison, McCartney, and Lennon. This book of the recording session logs makes a point of naming as many musicians as possible who came in to play on sessions; it doesn't say anything about this. My conclusion is that the official story is accurate.
Anyway, I got caught up reading a lot of other parts of the book. If you really want to go deep into the Beatles it is cool and fun. ***
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