2025-01-11
12 分钟A.J. Weberman sifted through the prophetic singer’s trash in search of meaning. He turned on him as a sellout and has spent decades trying to reclaim him for the counterculture.
Corey.
I'm Corey Kilgannon, a metro reporter at the New York Times.
There's no fan base quite as obsessive as Bob Dylan's.
Some might even refer to themselves as Dylanologists,
including the guy who claims to have coined that term, a guy named A.J.
weberman.
But Weberman is a different kind of Dylan fan, because he actually hates Dylan.
For the past 60 years, Weberman has been Dylan's biggest detractor.
He thinks Dylan is some kind of malevolent force, a sellout, a hoax.
He also believes that Dylan is kind of engaging in a private war with him through his lyrics.
There's a section in the Dylan song Time Passes Slowly that when played backwards,
Weberman believes Bob is saying, don't expose me.
It's funny how Dylan played backwards.
Still sounds very much like Dylan.
And play forwards.
All right.
So here I am at Dylan's garbage.
Weberman.
He'd go through Dylan's trash outside his Grenad's Village apartment building.
Progresso.