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"I don't think I'm gonna be really understood until maybe 100 years from now". claimed Bob Dylan one time. Author of the Dylan To English Dictionary, a Dylanologist in extremis and a pioneer of Garbology (the practice of rooting through rubbish in order to gain insight into the lives of the prominent and the celebrated), A.J. Weberman has made it his life's work to understand Bob Dylan, using methods most would consider beyond the pale.
Weberman's most notorious activity was his covert recording of a series of phone conversations he had with Dylan in 1970 - both pre and post his first probes into the Dylan household's garbage cans. The results were both staggering and hilarious - as many discovered when the tapes were bootlegged in the years following.
At times hilarious, at other times disturbing, this film provides a fascinating document of the life of Alan Jules Weberman, and the dubious lengths to which he has gone to achieve his aims.
The aforementioned phone conversations between Weberman and Dylan punctuate the film, which also features an unforgettable cast of supporting characters close to Weberman, including; activist, street singer and all round troublemaker [co-author of the infamous 1971 publication 'Steal This Book', David Peel; former child dancer and singer-songwriter Jay Byrd and Aaron Kay aka 'The Pieman'. The film enjoys a vivid Americana soundtrack, adding an extra veneer of strangeness to the story of A.J. and the universe in which he operates.
All these elements combine to create a hilarious and fascinating film which roams freely beyond the boundaries of conventional documentary making.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
As the cover blurb states this film is, at times, hilarious, and at other times a little disturbing. In any event, this well made film certainly provides a fascinating document of one man's obsession with his idol. In the 1970s, A.J. Weberman fervently believed that Bob Dylan could change the world through his musical messages and when Dylan deviated from this duty, Weberman went to unbelievable lengths to persuade him to get back on track. These tactics included taping telephone calls with Dylan, systematically shifting through the singer's garbage, and holding a mass protest meeting outside of Dylan's New York home- unfortunately on a week that Dylan and his family were out of town!
The filmmakers spend a lot of time with Weberman who introduces them, and us, to an extraordinary cast of supporting characters including- famed activist and punk-poet musician David Peel, former child dancer Jay Byrd, and the extreme radical Aaron Kay, aka "The Pieman"; all of whom appear to be clinging on to a counter-cultural moment that came and went forty years ago.
The documentary is punctuated by the aforementioned tapped telephone conversations between Weberman and Dylan, all of which are set to animations. This film may not be everyone's cup of tea, but nevertheless, it is a film that everyone should see. Highly recommended.
The filmmakers spend a lot of time with Weberman who introduces them, and us, to an extraordinary cast of supporting characters including- famed activist and punk-poet musician David Peel, former child dancer Jay Byrd, and the extreme radical Aaron Kay, aka "The Pieman"; all of whom appear to be clinging on to a counter-cultural moment that came and went forty years ago.
The documentary is punctuated by the aforementioned tapped telephone conversations between Weberman and Dylan, all of which are set to animations. This film may not be everyone's cup of tea, but nevertheless, it is a film that everyone should see. Highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A hilarious and fascinating documentary. Its the kind of film you can watch again to pick up on the great one liners delivered by AJ Weberman and his cronies. The intimate telephone brawl between Dylan and Weberman made into animations are a revelation.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Excellent film about the man who ransacked Dylan's dustbins. Incredible story told by AJ himself, who, it must be said, is somewhat of a loose cannon these days, but hearing the infamous phone calls between Weberman and Dylan in 1970, back then he was sharp as a knife.
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