'baby, let me follow you down' on dylan's first album - GoFuckYourself.com

TheMob · 10-25-2005, 09:25 PM

in the beginning of the song he says that he first heard it from 'rick von schmidt'..

does anyone know who this is? i can't find anything on him.

it's an awesome song!

The Truth Hurts · 10-25-2005, 09:27 PM

try Eric

graphical x · 10-25-2005, 09:28 PM

Dylan is overrated.

Nasty · 10-25-2005, 09:41 PM

Its Eric von Schmidt (Stephen Fenerjian)

TheMob · 10-25-2005, 10:02 PM

After Dylan's second album ..., Columbia wrote a letter to Von Schmidt, informing him that from that time on, Dylan and he would share the composition of "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down."

"So I wrote back, 'If indeed Dylan and I are co-authors of this thing, why are you starting to pay me now, instead of when the record first came out?" But in my letter back, I was scrupulously honest, when I heard the song, that I though it was a Blind Boy Fuller song, that I changed it a little bit, and Dylan had changed it a little bit.
I got this wonderful letter back [from Columbia] ... that said: 'You're quite right Eric, you have no rights to this song' .... They didn't know who did have rights to it, but they knew I didn't have rights to it. That was that. I never got a dime."
But Von Schmidt doesn't hold any hard feelings towards Dylan, who he calls the "best PR man I ever had." "Sometimes I think I'd like to learn his version of it."

http://www.bobdylanroots.com/inter03.html

Good read!

reed_4 · 10-26-2005, 06:05 AM

got any mp3s dude?

videoxpix · 10-26-2005, 06:14 AM

great version of this song on the Dylan Bootleg series VOL. 1, also a killer live version with The Band from The Last Waltz.

TheMob · 10-26-2005, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by videoxpix

great version of this song on the Dylan Bootleg series VOL. 1, also a killer live version with The Band from The Last Waltz.

That's a pretty cool version.. listening now.

Thanks!

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Nasty Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sunny Fucking California Posts: 1,575	Its Eric von Schmidt (Stephen Fenerjian) __________________ “Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” ― Omar Bradley (1948)

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TheMob Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: 2006 Posts: 8,584	After Dylan's second album ..., Columbia wrote a letter to Von Schmidt, informing him that from that time on, Dylan and he would share the composition of "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down." "So I wrote back, 'If indeed Dylan and I are co-authors of this thing, why are you starting to pay me now, instead of when the record first came out?" But in my letter back, I was scrupulously honest, when I heard the song, that I though it was a Blind Boy Fuller song, that I changed it a little bit, and Dylan had changed it a little bit. I got this wonderful letter back [from Columbia] ... that said: 'You're quite right Eric, you have no rights to this song' .... They didn't know who did have rights to it, but they knew I didn't have rights to it. That was that. I never got a dime." But Von Schmidt doesn't hold any hard feelings towards Dylan, who he calls the "best PR man I ever had." "Sometimes I think I'd like to learn his version of it." http://www.bobdylanroots.com/inter03.html Good read!