"You hear sometimes about the glamour of the road, but you get over that real fast. There are a lot of times that`s no different from going to work in the morning. Still, you`re either a player or you`re not a playera_| If you just go out every three years or so, like I was doing for a while, that`s when you lose your touch. If you are going to be a performer, you`ve got to give it your all."-Bob Dylan While most of rock`s elder statesmen rarely venture far from home, the ultimate rock icon Bob Dylan has spent practically all of his life since 1986 touring the globe-including a gig at a military academy, a private convert for Japanese businessmen and a special performance for Pope John Paul II: Why? Respected Dylan expert Andrew Muir documents the ups and downs of this unprecedented trek, and finds time to tell the story of his own curious meeting with Dylan. "`Excuse me Mr. Dylan` I squeak. HE MOVES-and how-the head swivels round in an instant. Dylan is staring me in the face (or at least the rivers of swat where my face should be)and says pointedly and interrogatively: `Yeah`a_|" Muir also tries to get to grips with what exactly it all means-both for Dylan and for the Bobcats: dedicated Dylan followers, like himself, who trade tapes of every show and regularly cross the globe to catch up with the latest leg of The Never Ending Tour.
