Bruce Springsteen also said, "The first time that I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother, and we were listening to, I think, WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody kicked open the door to your mind, from "Like a Rolling Stone."
Spike says,
I started listening to folk music after The Day The Music Died and all there was on the radio was bubble gum and teen angel music. Of course you had to buy the albums because in the south folk music was not on the radio, so the first time I heard Dylan was 1963 on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album. I was 18 years old and upon hearing Masters Of War, Don't Think Twice, Oxford Town, Hard Rain and the rest, I knew that I wanted to hear everything the guy would write. And I have. I have owned and worn out all his vinyl albums, his tapes several times and now have all his CD's.( All his studio albums with some live and repackaged ones) Never been interested in hearing him sing other people's songs.
I got busted for pot in the army and had to tell my parents that I was a long time stoner. While home on leave, I was playing Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 when Mom walked through the room and said, " So that's what he is singing about."
I met him once in Seattle. It was after he had played and I was walking around outside the stadium. At a big dark bus several people were standing all wondering who was in the bus. In a few minutes out stepped Dylan with a towel around his neck. We all gathered around him and took turns speaking to him. I had for several years sent him birthday cards which were picture cards of NW Washington mountain scenes with Just Happy Birthday and Thanks For The Music written on them. I always wondered if he actually received them. When I got a chance to speak to him that night I said, "Thanks for the music." He jerked his head toward me with a stern look, and then smiled and nodded. So I knew he had been reading the cards, and I think he probably alearted security
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