Ed Ricardo

"Take an adventure in Malibu, California in the 1970s, a time when Bob Dylan lived there. Unseen photos and stories. A world previously undetectable. A must read." "Wow! ... and you made that jacket! Amazing! I only just came across one of your stories and have read them all backwards from. 10 to 1. Fantastic! Thanks so much for posting these memories." — Narelle Hopley, Sydney Australia "Your stories are amazing: they really do portray Dylan's ethos as one of deep and abiding sense of Beat beatitude and lived caritas from then until now…" — Rob Sean Wilson, Professor of Literature & Creative Writing, University of California at Santa Cruz "Malibu is the place Bob Dylan has lived for the longest time of any place in his lifetime. People who spent a lot of time with Bob Dylan do very different books to the mainstream. My favourites were Louis Kemp's, Suze Rotolo's, and Victor Maymudes' so far. This book now adds to this list and is the best of them in my opinion. I notice some people buy both the e-book and the paperback book. Apparently some want the e-book as an index, a fully searchable copy of a book, now that few books have professional indexes. And some want the e-book as a reading copy, keeping the paper copy at home, pristine, a collector's item. This is definitely a collector's item. The publisher seems to choose quality. The paper is of the highest quality. The illustrations are many, lavish and in full colour. The format is large so the images are a good size. I want a book as a precious item, not as a throwaway. No corners cut, but that does not come cheap. The stories are interesting and the unseen photographs, especially of the painting, are spectacular! I recognize Marty and Bob Dylan in the photograph on page 68, but who are the other two? So many remarkable new pics!" — Sdrawkcab (Kyoto) "Had to choose one book for the 80th birthday, so many Dylan books out there now, but I decided to buy only one. I chose the right one! A very different book, it is so clear this really is someone close to Bob Dylan, both from the stories and the discretion, there is nothing scurrilous or worse, just capturing the times and the significance. Rather like Chronicles it tells anecdotes, but does not embarrass anyone. Amazing pics. I do not know who the two unknowns are in the new to the public pic of Marty and Bob and two others (p. 68). And the painting! Worth the price of admission by itself. But who is the San Francisco poet? It is definitely not generic, but I cannot put my finger on which poet. One more Dylan enigma. Celebrate Bob Dylan's 80th birthday by getting this treasure, then kick your shoes off, do not fear, bring that bottle over here, and read it cover to cover." — Stu Tilley (Silverstone)