Miles Davis Told Dylan ‘You’re Not a Real Musician’ at a Music Gala—Dylan’s Response Left Him SILENT
November 18th, 1968. 9:34 a p p.m. Plaza Hotel Grand Ballroom Manhattan. Miles Davis stood at table 7, dark suit, sunglasses indoors, cigarette…
November 14, 1974, 9:47 p.m. Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan. Andy Warhol pointed his finger directly at Bob Dylan’s face and said the…
February 18th, 1965, The Tonight Show, Studio 6B, NBC Burbank. Dean Martin was in the middle of telling a story when Bob Dylan…
November 12th, 1965, 11:34 p.m. backstage at a London venue. Bob Dylan was standing near a makeshift bar, drink in hand, when a…
The jungle was drowning them. The year was 1906. The Philippines, a narrow jungle trail on the island of Samar. American soldiers sweating…
Why General Pershing Demanded the M1911 for All Soldiers (400,000 Were Issued Old Army Revolvers GI)
It is the summer of 1918. Somewhere in the mud and darkness of the Western Front, a young American soldier, I’m a doughboy…
The morning of October 8th, 1918. The Argon Forest, France. The trees are shredded. The mud smells of rot and sulfur. Corporal Alvin…
March 31st, 1943. Somewhere over the jungles of Burma, 4,000 ft above the Earth, Second Lieutenant Owen Bagot is hanging in the sky,…
The pistol appeared on the desk like an afterthought. Small, elegant, wrapped in a fitted leather holster with gold hardware. The kind of…
Imagine you’re a German soldier in the autumn of 1944. The Allies are pushing hard from the west. Your unit has just overrun…