Expecting Rain

I just finished reading this incredible book, it was finished in 1971-72, has anyone else read it? i intend on getting down the highway next. if you haven't read it, i suggest getting...

Thoroughly enjoyed it when I read it, ooh, 35 years ago-ish. Another great read from the early 70s was Toby Thompson's 'Positively Main Street:



(just noticed, my copy has a 9p Woolworth's bargain bin sticker on it )

(but the cover's in slightly better condition! )

Will have to check that one out thanks

I have a first edition copy of the book by Anthony Scaduto, but it wasn't taken care of too well over the years so I am afraid to read it. It does have some awesome 1966 photos, if I remember correctly.

Cool, thanks...Down the Highway is a great read by the way.

Great book, particularly since it analyzes Dylan squarely in the moment of real transition - as the book ends just after the release of JWH - and I love the analysis of JWH in there, as well.

I've never enjoyed a Dylan biography as much as Scaduto's.
Such dense research. It's forgotten, and merits rediscovery.
For the 61-66 period, there's nothing out there to top it.

Yeah,
I read it many years ago. He wrote a book about Mick Jagger as well. I read that too.
The books by Toby Thompson & Ratso are worth a look too. IMHO

I'm going to have to dig this one up!

Still the best book about early Bob!

And in an interview with Scaduto, after he'd read it, even Bob approved: "I like your book. That's the weird thing about it."
I have the WH Allen hardback 1st edition, with a very good, uncredited painting of '63 Bob (as opposed to the softback's Concert For Bangladesh Dylan) for its cover.

I read that so long ago.... it was a good book, I recall he was good at summing up the atmosphere in the car as Dylan furiously typed in the back and threw Phil Ochs out somewhere along the way, it didn't pull punches as I recall, I'd like to read it again, goodness knows if I've still got it somewhere....

I got it a long time ago, it had a different cover back then. My impression from the book was that back in those days sometimes Bob was not very nice and apparently Bob agreed with his portrayal in it.

It's such a clean, fresh biography. When you think of the tsunami of competing Bob bios that have swept in after it, you're just grateful to have got hold of Scaduto's when it was first published, way before the competing biographical torrents that would follow. And despite all that latterday competition, it's still just about the best of the lot. It never treats him as a myth, god, or conduit for authorial pretension, but simply as a man with some story behind him.

Bob? Sometimes not very nice!? What kind of wussie or pussie would come to that conclusion!

Same here...it was a gift from my first serious girlfriend.

Mine's still in relatively good condition, dust jacket and all!

I just found a first edition in great condition at Goodwill

Sweeet! I love a good bargain.

does it have pics?

congrats I've read it several times ... I have a spanish edition of may 1983. Love it ....

Yes, a few pages in the middle. I'm familiar with all but one; a picture of him talking to the President of Princeton in 1970. I've seen a few from that day, but I don't think I had seen this one.

Thanks, jc