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Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel... of a Sort

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Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
> kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>>>Four Stories Featuring Time Travel??? of a Sort
>>>
>>>It seems that you've been mysteriously transported through time... now what?
>>
>>I get a patent on my mysterious process and then license it to Grateful
>>Dead fans?
>
> Or anyone who yearns to hear Pink Floyd at Winterland in 1972.

Or anyone who yearns to be a rock star back in the day:

BOB DYLAN, TROY JONSON, AND THE SPEED QUEEN (excerpt) by F. Paul Wilson

    Dylan walks in and I almost choke.

    I've known all along it had to happen. I mean, it was
    inevitable. But still, finding yourself in the same
    room with a legend will tend to dry up your saliva no
    matter how well prepared you think you are.

    My band's been doing weeknights at the Eighth Wonder
    for two months now, a Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday gig,
    and I've made sure there's an electrified Dylan song
    in every set every night we play. Reactions have been
    mixed. At worst, hostile; at best, grudging acceptance.
    Electric music is a touchy thing here in Greenwich
    Village in 1964.

    ...

    The band's ready to begin the next number on the set
    list, our Yardbirds-style "I'm a Man," but I turn and
    tell them we're doing "All I Really Want to Do." They
    nod and shrug. As long as they get paid, they don't give
    a damn what they play. They're not in on the plan.

    I strap on the Rickenbacker twelve-string and start
    pickng out Jim McGuinn's opening. I've got this choice
    figured to be a pretty safe one since my wire tells me
    that the Byrds aren't even a group yet.

    Dylan's taken a table at the rear with the skinny
    brunette. He's slouched down. He's got no idea this is
    his song. Then we start to sing and I see him straighten
    up in his chair. When we hit the chorus with the three-
    part harmony, I see him put down his drink. It's not a
    big move. He's trying to be cool. But I'm watching for
    it and I catch it.

    Contact.

    Research told me that he liked the Byrds' version when
    he first heard it, so I know he's got to like our version
    because ours is a carbon copy of the Byrds'. And
    naturally, he hasn't heard theirs yet because they
    haven't recorded it. I'd love to play their version of
    "Mr. Tambourine Man," but he hasn't written it yet.

    ...

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Four Stories Featuring Time Travel… of a Sort jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2026-09-16 14:12 +0000
  Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel… of a Sort kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-09-16 11:30 -0400
    Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel⦠of a Sort BobbieSellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.invalid> - 2026-09-16 10:12 -0700
      Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel⦠of a Sort Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2026-09-16 18:06 -0700
        Re: Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel⦠of a Sort kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-09-16 21:15 -0400
          Re: Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel⦠of a Sort ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2026-09-17 05:17 +0000
            Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel... of a Sort Don <g@crcomp.net> - 2026-09-17 18:25 +0000
              Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel... of a Sort William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2026-09-17 15:28 -0400
                Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel... of a Sort Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> - 2026-09-17 15:38 -0400
                Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel... of a Sort Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2026-09-17 21:49 -0700
                Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel... of a Sort kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-09-18 09:21 -0400
        Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel⦠of a Sort BobbieSellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.invalid> - 2026-09-16 20:48 -0700
    Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel… of a Sort scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-09-16 17:31 +0000
      Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel... of a Sort Don <g@crcomp.net> - 2026-09-17 18:24 +0000
  Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel⦠of a Sort Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-09-16 20:45 -0500
    Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel⦠of a Sort William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2026-09-17 15:35 -0400
      Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel⦠of a Sort Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-09-17 15:41 -0500
      Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travelâõ of a Sort Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2026-09-17 21:40 -0700
        Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travelâõ of a Sort William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2026-09-18 16:33 -0400
      Re: Four Stories Featuring Time Travel⦠of a Sort Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-09-18 16:56 +1200

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