Title: Pompous
Product review: Well. I looked forward to this book immensely. And though, as a Brit, I don't have a personal Yankee context, I was pre-disposed to be favourable. However....I found this book both pompous and, even worse, pretentious. The links were tenuous, the prose was a thesaurus exercise without meaning. But with too much ambition. I bought the Basement Tapes when they first came out. Hell, I bought them on vinyl just off Carnaby Street, as the Little White Wonder. Some time ago, when Pat Garret and Billy The Kid was showing. Marcus attempts to place the sessions on a large social mural - spanning over a century. I don't think, in fact, I'm sure, that Bob and the Band were thinking that way.Just a thought.
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