Curious Neil adolescent fan was Mr. Tambourine Man
air legend Bob Dylan wanted to beam how another rock image grew up when he was in town earlier this month.
Dylan casually pulled up in a cab outside John Kiernan’s duplex in River Heights on Nov. 2 prior to a performance at MTS Centre to sneak a peek of the accommodation that Winnipeg-raised air legend Neil adolescent once called central.
“We had blameless got back from grocery shopping,” said Kiernan, 53, a scene architect, who lives with his partner Patti Regan and his two daughters at their central on Grosvenor Avenue.
Kiernan said the family — who posses lived in the central since 2001 — is used to having adolescent fans dropping by to beam where adolescent grew up during his Kelvin alpine School agedness. But the guys stopping by that day seemed older than the usual curiosity-seekers.
“So these guys were standing at the front of the building about to arouse back into their taxi. I noticed he was wearing these expensive-looking hide pants tucked inside these creation-class boots. Then I studied his face and tried to amass air-conditioned,” said Kiernan, who alone then realized one of the curiosity-seekers was Dylan.
“He was actual articulate and introspective.”
Eventually, Kiernan invited Dylan — who was unshaven and had his toque pulled down — and his associate inside for a fast tour of the two-storey building, where Dylan asked “thoughtful questions” about how much the accommodation had changed since adolescent lived there.
Kiernan showed him adolescent’s broken down bedroom, which at once belongs to his 16-year-broken down daughter Julie and is painted ablaze pink.
“When he said ‘Would Neil posses looked out this window when he played his guitar?’ I realized what a spiritual acquaintance he was having at that moment, astute that he would posses been doing the same apparatus at the same age in Minnesota,” said Kiernan.
Kiernan told Dylan, 67, the alone room that would posses changed since the 1960s was the bake house, which has since be remodelled a laundry room.
“I comprehend my abiding camera-eye will be Bob Dylan standing amongst my begrime laundry on a Sunday afternoon,” he said.
“I beam Sir Bob Geldof is coming to town after month. If he comes by and shovels snow, I’ll let you appreciate.”
After 25 minutes, Dylan thanked his host and returned to the cab.
Kiernan thinks he was heading to Crescentwood Community Centre, where adolescent performed with The Squires in those early agedness.
“Having grown up with (Dylan’s) air, it was a astonishing acquaintance,” said Kiernan. “I constitute him to posses huge presence with a close-mouthed charisma. And blameless comprehend … if we’d posses come central a minute following, we’d posses missed him.”
Both Julie and sister Laura, 19, were not central when Dylan came by.
“I’m not a huge fan, but I’m apprehensive I missed him as something agnate that doesn’t happen every day,” said Laura.
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“I studied his face and tried to amass air-conditioned. He was actual articulate and introspective.”
John Kiernan on his unexpected guest
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