Bob Dylan - new album just out on Tidal - Rough and Rowdy Ways

I doubt Dylan ever ‘wanted to play in a rock band’.

Then why has he been doing it ever since he joined up with The Hawks?

Gee, noone’s ever accused him of that before. 🙄

Yeah, but there comes a time when you have to say, enough! it's time to quit, Bob.  You're embarrassing yourself. That time is different for everyone, but he’s reached it for me.

"I doubt Dylan ever ‘wanted to play in a rock band’."

He probably did, unless Little Richard had a chamber orchestra, You could say that “To join Little Richard” meant "to play in a rock band’."

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-little-richard-tribute-996935/

(There are pictures of that yearbook on the Internet.)

Actually, Robert Zimmerman WAS a member of a Rock ’n’ Roll band, while a high school student in Hibbing, Minnesota. I forget their name, but can you imagine having been in that band with him? Who knew?!

Dylan was a fan of Bobby Vee, born in Fargo, ND of Like a Rubber Ball I’ll Come Bouncing Back to You fame. Dylan progressed from songs about death and doom on his first records to some outright rockers when he went electric. Then back to doom and gloom! 😩

Early in Vee’s career, a musician calling himself Elston Gunn briefly toured with the band.[11][12][13] This was Robert Allen Zimmerman, who later went on to fame as Bob Dylan. Dylan’s autobiography mentions Vee and provides complimentary details about their friendship, both professional and personal.