First convention protester: Bob Dylan? - Helps convince son Jakob to not play for Repukes in MN.

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First convention protester: Bob Dylan?
By TOM WEBB - ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS | 7/15/08 12:59 PM EST Text Size:

The Minnesota Agri-Growth Council was negotiating with Jakob Dylan (pictured) and his band, the Wallflowers, to perform for 5,000 invited guests.



Has singer Bob Dylan staged the first protest of the 2008 Republican National Convention by persuading his son Jakob Dylan not to perform here in September?

That's the talk in the Twin Cities, although neither Dylan was available to comment Monday.

This much is known: The Minnesota Agri-Growth Council was negotiating with Jakob Dylan and his band, the Wallflowers, to perform for 5,000 invited guests at a nonpartisan industry bash called AgNite on Sept. 2, the second night of the Republican convention.

Representatives had agreed on a performance fee, although no contracts had been signed, said Daryn McBeth, executive director of the agribusiness trade group. Then, the deal fell through.

"The lead singer of the band, his dad is Bob Dylan, and I'm told he (Bob) weighed in and encouraged them not to do it because of the political nature of what's going on in town that week," McBeth said.

McBeth tried to relay the nonpartisan nature of AgNite, noting it was a celebration of America's food industry. GOP conventioneers are definitely welcome, he said, but Democrats and independents are, too. No matter.

"The deal was dead at that point," McBeth said. "I don't know how Bob got wind of it, or if his son and the band communicated it to him. But (the gig died after) the concern about politics, and maybe Bob Dylan's feeling about the state of Minnesota and his son's band playing in his home area."

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11763.html

Go Bob!

[panader0]

1. Love Bob

[JackORoses]

2. Good on ya, Bob! Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!

[Cha]

4. Exactly! I think Bob Dylan spoke

out for the first time in Rolling STone about the importance of this election..actually in was in The London Times.

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Bob Dylan Speaks Out For Barack Obama
6/6/08, 7:00 am EST

"Bob Dylan has come out in favor of Barack Obama. In an interview with the London Times, Dylan described the Democratic presidential nominee in Kennedyesque terms when asked by an interviewer for his take on the US election. “Right now America is in a state of upheaval,” Dylan said. “Poverty is demoralising. You can’t expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we’ve got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up…Barack Obama. He’s redefining what a politician is, so we’ll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I’m hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/06/06/now-its-serious-bob-dylan-endorses-barack-obama/

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3. "a celebration of America's food industry"

Yeah, sure...like frankenfoods (gmos) and RBGH (growth hormones for cows).
Thanks Bob!

[skooooo]

5. yay Bob!