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I traded my electric equipment
for an acoustic guitar.
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Started playing almost immediately.
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There he is, down at the end of the bar.
Dylan! How are you?
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Dylan Thomas, and he's looking shocked.
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Out in Minnesota...
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there was a young man who was inspired...
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to change his name to Dylan...
:22:23
because of the poet Dylan Thomas.
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"Piety sings
:22:28
"Innocence sweetens my last black breath
:22:33
"Modesty hides my thighs in her wings
:22:38
"And all the deadly virtues
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"plague my death!"
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Why it became that particular name,
I really can't say.
:22:52
There was some intimation
that maybe he was changing his name...
:22:54
'cause of a racial thing.
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'Cause, I later found out...
:22:59
that Minneapolis had a fairly big history
of being anti-Semitic...
:23:02
which I wasn't aware of at all.
:23:04
The name just popped into my head
one day.
:23:06
But it didn't really happen
any of the ways that I've read about it.
:23:09
I mean, I just don't feel like I had had a
past...
:23:12
and, you know,
I couldn't relate to anything...
:23:14
other than what I was doing
at the present time...
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and I don't, you know...
:23:20
Didn't matter to me what I said,
you know. It still doesn't, really.
:23:26
He sounded, like, average, I would say.
He wasn't the worst, he wasn't the best...
:23:30
but the repertoire was similar
to everybody else's repertoire...
:23:34
Josh White, Odetta, Belafonte.
:23:36
Right then and there I had no goal
except learning all the songs I could.
:23:55
He was hungry.
You know, hungry in a lot of ways...
:23:57
not just for money, not just for fame...
:23:59
but he was hungry for experience,
for getting out, for doing it...