Bob Dylan: Time Machine Stratocaster Scenario
Satire: The plan was to go back in time to the day before Newport.
Realizing that Dylan has destroyed not only Newport, but the folk movement and his career, Pete Seeger realizes drastic action must be taken. To add to his misery, his evil Japanese wife has been bugging the shit out of him. For 15 years he's been promising to put running water and electricity in their cabin and he's never delivered. While she's hauling buckets from the creek, and chopping logs and washing the clothes on a rock, he's off teaching preppy kids how to harmonize on Blue Tail Fly and Kumbaya.
Then there's all the hits that got away from songs he wrote or made famous. The Kingston Trio got Where Have All the Flowers, Peter, Paul & Mary and Trini Lopez did If I Have a Hammer, and the Tokens did the Lion Sleeps Tonight and her husband a master of WASP guilt took two grand and gave it to the dude in Africa he stole it from in the first place.
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