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1- COVER – The Ventures of Zimmerman
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- 1946 – Ravaged By War , The Fabled City of Duluth , Minnesota Faces Economic Extinction
- “SA DAM SHAME THAT IS ALL I KIN SAY”
- FEARING FOR HIS VERY GROSS PROFIT BEFORE TAXES , THE BRILLIANT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR ABE ZIMMERMAN WOWS TO FLEE THE DOOMED CITY , HE AND HIS LOVELY WIFE , BEA CHOOSE AS THEIR HAVEN FAR-OFF HIBBING MINNESOTA , MORE THAN FORTY MILES TO THE NORTH WEST THINKING ONLY OF THEIR INFANT SON , ROBERT, THEN SEND HIM ON AHEAD.
- Size of This Kid, its Cheaper than Carfare
- .. NOT FOLLOWING THEMSELVES UNTIL THE LAST TOASTER HAS BEEN SOLD.”
- “OKAY A DOLLAR NINETY-FIVE FOR THE BAT , LEMME GET BACK” TO YAH ABOUT THE BALL
- SAFE IN HIBBING , THE ZIMMERMAN FAMILY PROGRESS AND , IT IS HERE THAT AS THE YEARS PASS, YOUNG BABY BEGINS TO DISCOVER THE INCRIDIBLE HIDDEN POWERS THAT DESTINE HIM TO BE A LEGEND IN HIS OWN TIME
- THE CAPITAL OF MINNESOTA #273 BILLION
- CERTAIN THAT HIS EXTRAORDINARY POWERS MUST REMAIN A SECRET KNOWN TO HIM ALONE , YOUNG ZIMMERMAN SEARCHING FOR A ROLE TO MASK HIS TRUE IDENTITY
- TUTTI FURUTTI ALL ROOTIE
- TWO CHORDS AND FUNNY HAIRCUT AND THAT SHVARTZEN MUST BE WORTH A FORTUNE
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- THE CRAZED BLACKMOOR PUTS YOUNG ZIMMERMAN ON THE RIGHT TRACK , HE REALIZED THAT NO ROLE COULD BETTER SERVE HIS PURPOSES THAN THE UNORTHODOX SENSITIVE LIFE OF A SINGER , HE DEVELOPS SKILLS
- AND ACQUIRES METERIALS
- “THESE TUNES I AM CHANGIN”
- HE FINDS A NWE NAME
- “BOBBY SHEAKPEARE ? BOBBY LOVEPLACE? BOBBY YEATS? BOBB?”
- “I LOOKING FOR SOME POMES BY SOME GUY NAMES DEAL- AIN THOMAS”
- “THAT’S PRONOUNCED DYLAN”
- “DING!!”
- AND EVEN CHANGES HIS APPEARANGE
- AND HIS SECRET IDENTITY AS THE GOY FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY HE SAVES A RESTLESS FAREWELL TO HIS FOND PARENTS
- “yOU’RE NO GOOD!!”
- “IT’S ALL OVER NOW BABY NU!!”
- “IT’S ALLRIGHT MA..”
- “‘N’ THESE HERE’S BLUES LEADBELLY LEARNED ME”
- “AND MAKES FOR NEW YORK ON HIS SECRET MISSION TO SCREW THE WORLD AND MAKE A BUNDLE,.. NOW HIS SECRET IS SAFE NONE SUSPECT THAT IDEALISTIC COMMITTED LITTLE FOLK SINGER BOB-DYLAN IS IN FACT THE AMAZING ZIMMERMAN – FASTER THAN A PROXY BALLOT, MORE POWERFUL THAN AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE, AND ABLE TO BUY TALL BUILDINGS WITH A SINGLE BOND! “
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- AMERICA’S YOUTH IS GATHERED , AS USUAL FOR AN EVENING OF FOLK MUSIC . AND AMONG THE ANGRY DEDICATED AND HIGHLY PAID PERFORMERS IS A YOUNG MAN ONLY TO HIS FRIENDS AS BOB DYLAN.
- FOR IN HIS SECRET IDENTITY ZIMMERMAN PERFORMS CONTINUALLY ON STAGE AND OFF, DETERMINED THAT WE WILL KNOW HIS SONGS WELL BEFORE HE STOPS SINGING
- SUDDENLY , ZMMERMAN’S CAREER NOT TO MENTION THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE , THREATENED BY AN INVASION OF SCREAMING FOREIGNERS
- THROUGH WALLS HIS RELATIVELY SENSITIVE EARS MAKE THE PLUTOCRAT OF POP AWARE OF THE IMPENDING CATATSROPHE
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- HE MOVES WITH THE SPEED OF A HOT NEW ISSUE ON THE BIG BOARD
- HIS MIRACLE MISSION COMPLETED ZIMMERMAN RESUMES HIS SECRET IDEDNTITY AS PLAIN OLD WOKADAY ENTERTAINER BOB DYLAN
- AND FOLK-ROCK PUTS THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE BACK ON TOP OF THE HIT PARADE TO STAY
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- HIGH IN THE ROLLING HILLS UPSTATE NEW YORK , HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS GATHER TO PARTICIPATE IN YET ANOTHER CLIMATIC EVENT OF THE SIXTIES….
- MEANWHILE IN A BIG PINK HOUSE NOT FAR AWAY , LIFE FOLLOWS THE SAME OLD HUMDRUM PATTERN FOR SUPERSTARS BOBY DYLAN AND HIS LOVELY SIDEKICK QUEEN JOAN BAEZ..
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- STEPPING INTO A NEARBY SOUND-BOOTH , THE ORDINARY RUN-OF-THE MILL SUPERSTAR TRANSFORMS HIMSELF IN TO ZIMMERMAN…!!!
- THE SAVIOR OF THE SIXTIES SPEEDS TOWARD MEGALAPOLIS THE ZIMMERMOBILE
- BUT IT WON’T BE EASY FOR OUR HERO : FROM THE HIGHWAYS AND THRUWAYS OF UPPER NOE YORK STATE EMERGE THE DEAD WEATHERMAN
- THE UNSCRUPULUOUS ENEMIES OF CONSTRUCTIVE CAPITALISM HAVE MINED THE ENTIRE CITY!!
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- BRAVELY DOUBLE-PARKING THE ZIMMER MOBILE , ZIMMERMAN DECIDES GO IN TO FOOT , BUT THE WEATHERMAN ARE EVERYWHERE
- REALISING THAT SECRET IDEDNTITY IS THREATENED , ZIMMERMAN MAKES A DARING AND UNCHARASTERISTIC MOVE.
- BUT HIS FIRTS BRAVE EFFORT IS FOILED BY DUPES OF THE INSIDIOUS WEATHERMAN
- MOMENTS LATER HE ARRIVES AT THE FABLED WARNER BROTHERS SEVEN ARTS BUILDING ONLY TO FIND IT SURROUNDED BY WEATHERMEN
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- SO ZIMMERMAN PASSES THROUGH THE GATES OF EDEN
- THE BROTHERS WARNER SOON REALISE THAT THEY AIN’T SEEN NOTHING LIKE THE MIGHTY ZIMM..
- .. HE DOESN’T UNDERESTIMATE THEM , AND THEY DON’T UNDERESTIMATE HIM
- ZIMMERMAN RESUMES HIS SECRET IDENDITY AS JUST PLAIN FOLK SINGER BOB DYLAN AND REJOINS HIS JUBILANT FRIENDS
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