CREEM—July 1979
by Machine Rock

OSAKA, JAPAN The Guinness Book Of World Records has officially given credit for the world’s shortest (no pun intended) Bob Dylan interview to CREEM regular Jeffrey Morgan for the following exchange between Dylan (on stage during a recent concert) and Morgan (who was sitting in the front row at the time):

DYLAN: This next number is a song I once did with the Band. You remember the Band, don’t you? It was on an album called Planet Waves. It sold twelve copies.

CREEM: WHY?
DYLAN: Get this guy outta here.

Even though he missed the rest of the concert, Morgan later called the exchange "a great rock ’n’ roll moment. Almost as good as the time I asked Lou Reed if he was scared of death."

Dylan was unavailable for comment.

Photo: Robert Matheu, Cover of CREEM July. 1979 by Bob Alford