This is a long story I'll try to tell shorter. It's now been some years since I started, an hour every day, memorizing song lyrics and playing them on the guitar. At times, harmonies, more or less original, come to my mind, but they soon go out again and are forgotten. If one of my tunes catches my attention in a special way, I pick up any already existing song with similar metrics and then, continue to develop my music now with the help of the borrowed lyrics. Then when I meet the rest of the band, I play it for them to make sure my music sounds original and new to them, in which case we would think of completing it with some original verses too. Last summer, following the exposed method, I paired one of my musical sketches with the words of a Dylan's tune, Legionnaire's Disease, published in Lyrics, and that Bob apparently never recorded. I knew the Delta Cross Band and maybe other bands played the tune but, to my knowledge, they used their own music for the song, so, why not to do the same? The idea of recording the song was announced on our web page. It was then that I received a message from Cisco Fran, singer for La Gran Esperanza Blanca, telling me the whole story. Dylan had composed Legionnaire's Disease in 1978, recorded a demo and gave it to guitar player Billy Cross, who, time after, did a version of the song and released it with his own band, the Delta Cross Band, with the author's permission. Knowing this, we could only think of giving up the project. But then I thought, Zimming Point always works for free, we sell nothing, we just give it away... So, we've recorded our own version, and really like how it's come out, but it is Dylan who we feel must decide here. If he likes the song, the music is just as his as it is ours. He's got all the rights on the music too. If he doesn't like, we do apologyze and remove the song from the album. And the blink to Elmer Bernstein... we hope there's no problem with that. Anyway, we've all had so much fun with this little mischief, and that no one can take away. • JB

http://www.zimmingpoint.com/gww/modules/news/article.php?storyid=172
(listen/download the song)

From now, when you click this URL:
http://www.zimmingpoint.com/gww/modules/news/article.php?storyid=172
you can listen/download two out-takes from the album sessions:
- Abandoned Love
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

The Legionnaire's Disease article and the link for listen/download the song is now available on this URL:
http://www.zimmingpoint.com/gww/modules/news/article.php?storyid=181