Bob Dylan: right-wing Christian? Closing comments

Thanks to Scott Marshall:

“I wanted to respond to John Carvill’s follow-up (and I’ll end it from my end with the following).

“As for the whole cup of tea business (which I brought up), Mr. Carvill has the liberty not to drink the cup of tea, or complain when he does drink it, I’ll grant him that.

“As for Webb’s book, I do have it and have read large chunks of it, enough to know that Webb doesn’t claim Dylan to be a “right-winger”—he claims he is more conservative in his expressions than many people have allowed for. That is an important distinction because “left wing” and “right wing” have oh so many negative connotations (if we can even all agree on their denotations!)

“As for the religion stuff being old news, I generally agree with him on that, but yet there’s still a new generation always coming up who maybe haven’t heard of it yet.

“And I freely submit a mea culpa as far as the Wenner/Dylan exchange. In haste, I automatically equated the edited version (the hard copy issue of “Rolling Stone”) with the audio clips that Mr. Carvill heard. I should have been more careful, and so I admit the mistake/error, but it certainly wasn’t a lie because there was no intent on my part to mislead. But I was wrong, and do apologize, and wish Mr. Carvill the best—and I’m certain we could have tea over our mutual enjoyment of Dylan’s music.”