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'''Alan Jules Weberman''' (born [[May 26]], [[1945]]), better known as '''A. J. Weberman''', is an American writer, political [[Gadfly (social)|gadfly]], and self-styled founder of the fields of ''[[garbology]]'' and "Dylanology". Weberman attended Michigan State University where he was arrested for sale and possession of marijuana and faced 30 years in prison. He returned to New York City where he worked as a credit manager of the Lawrence Employment Agency and visited a psychiatrist who specialized in substance abuse. This doctor, Milton Kurian had examined Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald lived in New York City. Weberman pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was barred from ever returning to the State of Michigan. He graduated from City College with honors in 1970 although he never put his diploma to use. In 1967 Weberman, along with Irvin Dana Beal, established the New York Provos. The Provos held the first Smoke In in Tompkins Square Park where demonstrators openly smoked marijuana. He is best known for his controversial personal confrontations with the musician [[Bob Dylan]] and for his 30-year involvement with the [[Yippies]], a [[counterculture]] network. He is also active in the [[Jewish Defense Organization]], a group that has been linked to violent attacks against Nazis. |
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== Public controversies == |
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[[Image:Aj weberman dylan book cover.jpg|thumb|Weberman's 2005 work on Dylan]] |
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A.J. Weberman has written on the life and works of Bob Dylan, leaving college to focus on creating what he calls a [[Concordance (publishing)|word concordance]] of Dylan's lyrics. Although a strong advocate of Dylan's importance as an artist, he is less supportive of Dylan the man. |
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Weberman's literary analysis of Dylan's work, which he has termed "Dylanology", is centered around the concept that, to Dylan, many words have lesser-used meanings differing, sometimes greatly, from their common definitions. "Rain", for instance, often means "destruction" in a Dylan song, as it does, conventionally, in poetry and fiction. "House" may mean "audience" and "gate" can mean the amount of money taken in at a concert. |
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Weberman first came to public notoriety in the late 1960s with his controversial research method of examining and interpreting the contents of Dylan's household garbage cans (ash bins). |
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This activity raised the question of legality, but it was concluded that household trash placed on a public way has been effectively abandoned as property and is, legally, fair game. [[http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1987/1987_86_684]] |
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Legal or no, Dylan and his friends found this methodology, along with what they regarded as Weberman's [[Wiktionary:haruspice|haruspice]]-like tortured reading of meaning into discarded household items, to be an annoying and alarming invasion of privacy. |
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But even more than his garbage-sifting, it was Weberman's public hectoring of Dylan and his recruiting of like-minded individuals (styled the ''Dylan Liberation Front'') to picket Dylan at home, that made Weberman such an annoying figure, both to Dylan—who physically assaulted Weberman at one point<ref>{{cite journal | url = http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/5932153?rnd=1135721710620&has-player=unknown | last = Jacobson | first = Mark | title = Tangled Up In Bob | journal = [[Rolling Stone]] | volume = #RS 866 | date = [[April 12]] [[2001]]}}; photograph [http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/who/who.html here]</ref> — and to some of Dylan's fans. |
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==Other pursuits== |
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Weberman later applied his unusual research methods to [[Richard Nixon]], [[Norman Mailer]], and other celebrities, coining the term "garbology" to describe his methods and writing the book ''My Life in Garbology''. Weberman used garbology to obtain the trash of the Palestinian Liberation Delegation and turned over his findings over to Israeli Intelligence. The trash revealed the PLO was smuggling explosives into Syria using a diplomatic pouch. |
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Weberman, in a manifestation of his leftist politics, also attempted to expand his "Dylan Liberation Front" into a "Rock Liberation Front", intended to pressure pop musicians into greater political activity. [[John Lennon]] was briefly associated with this effort.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/who/w/webermanaj.html | title = Weberman, A.J. | work = Bob Dylan Who's Who | publisher = [[Expecting Rain]] }}</ref> In this respect he was able to recruit [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] into the RLF after he invaded the offices of their manager Allen Klein over the issue of money skimmed from the Bengla-Desh benefit concert. Lennon gave Weberman $20,000 to start riots at the Republican Convention in Miami Beach in 1972. Weberman was part of a breakaway group of Yippies known as the Zippies, which was headed by [[Tom Forcade,]] who later founded High Times Magazine. More recently Weberman has worked closely with the [[Jewish Defense Organization]] in opposing Nazis, the KKK, [[Lyndon LaRouche]] and far-left anti-Zionist activists. [[http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Jewish_Defense_Organization]] |
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Weberman has also studied the 1963 assassination of US President [[John F. Kennedy]] and was employed by the late Congressman Henry Gonzalez of Texas and Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania. Weberman's book on the subject, ''Coup D’Etat In America'', |
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postulates the assassination as part of a [[coup d'etat]] led by rogue [[CIA]] agents Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis (a contract agent) and David Christ, Head of the ELSUR division of the TSD of the CIA, angered by Kennedy's failure to remove [[Fidel Castro]] from power. The book includes transparent overlays, as in an anatomy textbook, so that the reader can compare the faces of the tramps briefly arrested in Dallas with photos of [[E. Howard Hunt]] and [[Frank Sturgis]]. Weberman's assertion that Hunt was involved in this action led Hunt to initiate a lawsuit, later dropped. Before Howard Hunt died he made a deathbed confession to his son St. John Hunt [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13893143/the_last_confessions_of_e_howard_hunt] |
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Weberman, an LSD and marijuana advocate, was arrested for running a marijuana delivery service in 2000. He pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges and served a year and a day in MDC in Brooklyn, where he worked on the ''Dylan to English Dictionary'' and claims to have made "translations" of the texts to songs by Dylan. |
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In 2005, Weberman and other well-known Yippies, including [[Dana Beal]] and [[Pie Man]] (Aron Kay), joined forces to turn the long-time Yippie headquarters at 9 Bleecker Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side into a counterculture museum. As of 2006, renovation of the building has been partially completed, and a charter from the New York State Board of Regents has been granted. Weberman, who is a member of the Yippie Museum's board of trustees, announced in early 2006, in a typical display of Yippie spoofery, that the museum would house an Institute for the Study of Advanced Political Protest.[http://www.thevillager.com/villager_144/museumwillhave.html] He is also a manager of the Lenny Bruce Academy of Sick Humor also located at 9 Bleecker Street.[http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/beneath-the-yippies-lenny-bruce-lives] |
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A film about Weberman, entitled The Ballad of AJ Weberman [http://balladofajweberman.com] won the Raindance Award at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs)[http://www.bifa.org.uk/news_story.php?news=27]. He also did research for a book by Peter Lance [http://peterlance.com] on an al-Qaeda triple agent who penetrated the FBI and CIA. Weberman's latest book HOMOTHUG, The Secret Life of Rudy Giuliani was removed from Amazon because Giuliani threatened to sue them. [http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/archives/2008/10/giuliani_bans_h.php] |
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==Reference material== |
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===Publications=== |
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* {{cite book | last = Weberman | first = A.J. | title = Dylanology | year = 1969 | publisher = Whitepress | pages = 25 pages }} |
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* {{cite book | last = Weberman | first = A.J. | title = Concordance to the songs, poetry, and assorted writings of Bob Dylan | location = New York | year = 1971 | publisher = Private printing | id = [[ASIN]] B00072TJ6C }} |
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* {{cite book | author = Dylan, Bob, and A.J. Weberman (introduction) | title = Poem to Joanie | location = London | year = 1971 | publisher = Aloes | edition = Limited edition of 300 }} |
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* {{cite book | last = Weberman | first = A.J. | title = Keep the Fuck Outta My Goddam Garbage | date = date unknown | publisher = Privately printed | pages = 22 pages }} |
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* {{cite book | author = Weberman, Alan J. and Michael Canfield | title = Coup D’Etat In America: The CIA and the Assassination of JFK | origdate = 1975 | year = 1992 | publisher = Quick American Publishing [originally by The Third Press] | id = ISBN 0-932551-10-6 }} |
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* {{cite book | last = Weberman | first = A.J. | title = My Life in Garbology | year = 1980 | publisher = Stonehill Press | id = ISBN 0-88373-096-0 }} |
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* {{cite book | last = Weberman | first = A.J. | title = Dylan to English Dictionary | location = New York | year = 2005 | publisher = Yippie Museum Press | id = ISBN 1-4196-1338-3 }} |
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* {{cite book | last = Weberman | first = A.J. | chapter = Article (title unknown) | title = On The Tracks, issue 5 | publisher = [http://www.b-dylan.com Rolling Tomes] | url = http://www.b-dylan.com/pages/backissues.shtml }} |
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=== Notes === |
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=== References === |
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*Roberts, John. ''A.J. Weberman: Dylanologist'' (1995, private printing) |
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*Roberts, John. "Dear Landlord: The A.J. Weberman Story" in ''The Telegraph'' 51 Telegraph 78-91 (periodical), Spring 1995 |
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=== The Weberman tapes === |
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*''Classic Interviews, Vol. 2: The Weberman Tapes'' (UK: Chromedreams. USA: United States Dist Media, Catalog #541, released [[May 31]] [[2005]].) |
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:Recordings of telephone conversations between Weberman and Dylan, New York City, [[January 6]] and [[January 9]], [[1971]]. Originally released as ''Bob Dylan vs. A.J. Weberman'' on Folkways Records, Catalog #FB 5322, 1977, quickly deleted for legal considerations, but circulated in various [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]] pressings. Original Folkways recording also contains an otherwise unreleased version of David Peel's "The Ballad of A.J. Weberman". |
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:*[http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/weberman.htm An excerpt from a transcript of the above] |
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:*Full transcripts: |
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::*East Village Other (periodical), [[January 19]], [[1971]] |
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::*Authors or editors unknown. ''The Fiddler Now Upspoke Volume 1'' (Desolation Row Promotions, other publishing data unknown) |
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===Other recordings of interest=== |
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*[[David Peel]] and the Lower East Side. "The Ballad of A.J. Weberman", on ''Santa Claus - Rooftop Junkie'' (1975, Orange Records. Re-released in box set ''David Peel, Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw — the Apple and Orange Recordings'', 2005, Orange Records) |
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*Weberman recordings, private collection, catalogued [http://www.downtheroadtoecstasy.co.uk/ here]: |
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:*Bob Fass Show With A.J. Weberman & Ellen Sanders, WBAI Radio, New York, 1968 (155 minutes) |
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:*Bob Fass Show, WBAI Radio, New York (Studio discussion with Bob Fass, Allen J. Weberman & Ellen Zander) (Part 1) 1970 |
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:*Bob Fass Show, WBAI Radio, New York (Studio discussion with Bob Fass, Allen J. Weberman & Ellen Zander) (Part 2) 1970 |
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:*Bob Fass Show WBAI Radio New York (Studio Discussion With Bob Fass, Allen J. Weberman & Ellen Zander) (Part 3) 1970 |
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:*Alex Bennett Show, WPLJ Radio, With A.J. Weberman & Anthony Scaduto, 1974 (46 Minutes) |
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:*John Roberts, telephone interview with A.J. Weberman for ''The Telegraph'', ([[July 20]] [[1994]]) (12 Minutes) |
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:*A.J. Weberman, WFMU Radio, New Jersey (18 Minutes) (no date given) |
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:*The Larry King Show with A.J. Weberman, Garbologist (no date given) |
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*Weberman appears in the film ''Bob Dylan World Tours 1966-1974 - Through the Camera of Barry Feinstein'' directed by Barry Feinstein, Joel Gilbert, and D.A. Pennebaker (DVD released [[March 8]] [[2005]] by Music Video Distributors and/or Highway 61 Entertainment) |
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===External links=== |
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*[http://acidtrip.com/wrtwrddb.htm Weberman's Dylan-to-English database liner notes, Tarantula, Chronicles] |
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*[http://acidtrip.com/lyricddb.htm Weberman's Dylan-to-English database of every lyric to Dylan’s poems] |
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*[http://home.nyc.rr.com/dylanology/ Weberman's ''Dylan to English Dictionary'' site] |
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*[http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/lofiversion/index.php/t5352.html Weberman discusses ''Dylan to English Dictionary''] |
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*[http://www.inlander.com/inlandway/160763630058658.php Review of ''Dylan to English Dictionary''] |
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*[http://home.nyc.rr.com/dylanology/ Weberman's assertion that Dylan is HIV Positive] |
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*[http://www.garbology.com/ Weberman's Garbology site] |
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*[http://www.acidtrip.com/ Weberman's pro-LSD site] |
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*[http://www.ajweberman.com/ Weberman's Kennedy assassination site] |
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*[http://www.yippiecafe.com New Yippie Cafe and Museum Web Site] |
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Alan Jules Weberman (born May 26, 1945), better known as A. J. Weberman, is an American writer, political activist/gadfly, and popularizer of the terms garbology and "Dylanology." Weberman is a Brooklyn native who’s Great Great Grandfather, Moishe Weberman came to the United States circa 1850 and was an ordained practitioner of ritual circumcision. Moishe was opposed to any secular education for Jews and had a ghetto mentality. Alan’s Great Grandfather, the ultra-Orthodox Ben-Zion Weberman, hated Zionism, and was instrumental in bringing Joel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbi, to Brooklyn from Israel, where Joel told his followers that Israel was a greater abomination than Nazi Germany. His grandfather, Herman Weberman, was a Spanish-American War veteran. His father, Ezra Weberman, was an attorney and his uncle, Danny Webb, played the original “Sad Sack” in the movies and produced the Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC-TV in New York City. Alan attended Lefferts Junior High School in Brooklyn where he first achieved media exposure on national television as the President of the Haystacks Calhoun fan club; a 601 pound professional wrestler from Morgan’s Corner, Arkansas who spoke in an esoteric rural dialect. It was on to Erasmus Hall High School, where he fell under the influence of Neil Gallo, the beatnik nephew of “Crazy Joe” and Larry “Kid Blast” Gallo, perhaps the most notorious Mafia gangsters in Brooklyn in the 1950’s. Neil and Alan had an act called The Progressive Bible Readers that entailed loud drumming so they rehearsed at Maria Gallo’s house, the mother of Joey and Larry, as no one would call the cops and complain. When Alan was fifteen years Neil turned him on to pot one week after Alan bought his first pack of Marlboros. After smoking a jay he threw away the cigarettes. But he was a sloppy pot smoker and left roaches under his bed. As a result his parents shipped him off to Michigan State University in order to get him away from the bad influences in New York. Weberman made many friends in East Lansing, where he turned major marihuana advocate Dana Beal onto his first joint. During the summer of 1963 Weberman hitchhiked from East Lansing to Progresso in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico where he lived under very primitive conditions. When he was in Mexico City he stayed at the Hotel Commerico, the same cheap hotel near the bus station that Lee Harvey Oswald stayed at that summer. He returned to East Lansing and got a job at The Pizza Pit, where he met his first love, Debra Dixon, whose ancestry traced back to the Mason / Dixon line. Weberman became a major bad influence at MSU and two days before he was going to drop Morning Glory seeds with two six-foot tall twins he was arrested for sale of marijuana and expelled. He was facing twenty years minimum mandatory on the sale and an additional ten years after the cops vacuumed his pockets. He returned to New York City in February 1964 where he got a job at Lawrence Employment Agency and went to a shrink, Dr. Milton Kurian, who had previously examined Lee Harvey Oswald. He copped a plea in Michigan and soon graduated with honors from CCNY, since part of the plea deal involved never returning to Michigan, a distinction previously reserved for pimps. In January 1968 he moved to 6 Bleecker Street on the Bowery and became an underground journalist and rock critic (The East Village Other 1966 to 1971); an underground publisher (Tarantula, by Bob Dylan 1970); Minister of Defense, Dylan Liberation Front 1969; Youth International Party (Yippie! / Zippie!) leader; harangued Bob Dylan at his studio on Houston Street 1971; friend of John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman, 1972; Congressional researcher for the late Congressman Henry Gonzalez (Dem. TX) and the late Senator Richard Schweiker (Rep. PA); co-author of Coup D’Etat in America - The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1975, 1990; Garbologist My Life in Garbology 1980; Deputy Director of Plans Jewish Defense Organization 1982; researcher for Peter Lance on Islamist Terrorism 2004; Dylanological Lexicographer, The Dylan to English Dictionary 2006; movie star The Ballad of A. J. Weberman 2006; founder of the Yippie Museum, an educational institution chartered by the New York State Board of Regents 2007; biographer of Rudy Giuliani (Homothug 2008) and alumnus of the Graduate School of Survival at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn 2001. He threw a tomato at Nixon.
He is best known for his controversial personal confrontations with the musician Bob Dylan and for his 30-year involvement with the Yippies, a counterculture movement of the 1960's.[1] He was also an activist in the Jewish Defense Organization, a militant Revisionist Zionist organization regarded as followers of Zev Jabotinsky.
Public controversies
A.J. Weberman has written on the life and works of Bob Dylan, leaving college to focus on creating what he calls a word concordance of Dylan's lyrics. Although a strong advocate of Dylan's importance as an artist, he is less supportive of Dylan the man.
Weberman's literary analysis of Dylan's work, which he has termed "Dylanology," is centered around Weberman's assertion that, to Dylan, many words have lesser-used meanings differing, sometimes greatly, from their common definitions. According to Weberman, "Rain", for instance, often means "hatred" in a Dylan song. Dylan wrote, "Father of love / Father of rain" in a song where opposites are contrasted.
Rolling Stone magazine has called Weberman "the king of all Dylan nuts." [2] They report an incident where Dylan, annoyed by Weberman and his associates who were constantly digging through his garbage, assaulted Weberman outside Dylan's apartment. In a different article, Rolling Stone reports that Weberman, "a man that terrorized Bob Dylan during the '60s," had now "returned to hassle his son," Jakob Dylan. Weberman claimed that the younger Dylan was a racist. [3]
Other pursuits
Weberman later applied his unusual research methods to Richard Nixon, Norman Mailer, and other celebrities, coining the term "garbology" to describe his methods and writing the book My Life in Garbology. Cultural anthropology anthropologists such as Dr. William A. Rathje of the University of Arizona conduct expeditions analyzing garbage to understand culture.[4][5]
Weberman, in a manifestation of his leftist politics, attempted to expand his "Dylan Liberation Front" into a "Rock Liberation Front", intended to pressure pop musicians into greater political activity.
Weberman has written: "In the early 1980's I worked with the Jewish Defense Organization (not to be confused with the Jewish Defense League) in running operations against Nazis. On Sundays I went to a rifle range in Huntington, Long Island, and trained Jews, young and old, how to shoot."[6] Levy and Weberman, along with JDO, were successfully sued for libel more recently and fined $850,000.[7]
Weberman has also studied the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy and was employed by the late Congressman Henry Gonzalez of Texas and Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania.[citation needed] Weberman's book on the subject, Coup D’Etat In America, postulates the assassination as part of a coup d'etat led by rogue CIA agents Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis (a contract agent) and David Christ, Head of the TSD of the CIA, angered by Kennedy's failure to remove Fidel Castro from power. The book includes transparent overlays, as in an anatomy textbook, so that the reader can compare the faces of the tramps briefly arrested in Dallas with photos of E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. Weberman's assertion that Hunt was involved in this action led Hunt to initiate a lawsuit, later dropped.
In 2005, Weberman and other well-known Yippies, including Dana Beal and Pie Man (Aron Kay), joined forces to turn the long-time Yippie headquarters at 9 Bleecker Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side into a counterculture museum. As of 2006, renovation of the building has been partially completed, and a charter from the New York State Board of Regents has been granted. Weberman, who is a member of the Yippie Museum's board of trustees, announced in early 2006, in a typical display of Yippie spoofery, that the museum would house an Institute for the Study of Advanced Political Protest.[8]
A film about Weberman, entitled The Ballad of AJ Weberman[9] won the Raindance Award at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).[10] He also did research for a book by Peter Lance[11] on an al-Qaeda triple agent who penetrated the FBI and CIA. In 2008 The Yippie Museum Press published HOMOTHUG, an unauthorized biography of Rudy Giuliani that was later pulled off the market by Amazon [12]
Reference material
Publications
- Weberman, A.J. (1969). Dylanology. Whitepress. p. 25 pages.
- Weberman, A.J. (1971). Concordance to the songs, poetry, and assorted writings of Bob Dylan. New York: Private printing. ASIN B00072TJ6C.
- Dylan, Bob, and A.J. Weberman (introduction) (1971). Poem to Joanie (Limited edition of 300 ed.). London: Aloes.
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(help) - Weberman, Alan J. and Michael Canfield (1992). Coup D’Etat In America: The CIA and the Assassination of JFK. Quick American Publishing [originally by The Third Press]. ISBN 0-932551-10-6.
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- Weberman, A.J. (2005). Dylan to English Dictionary. New York: Yippie Museum Press. ISBN 1-4196-1338-3.
- Weberman, A.J. "Article (title unknown)". On The Tracks, issue 5. Rolling Tomes.
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Notes
- ^ "Officially founded by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in January 1968, the Youth International Party, or Yippies, were a countercultural group that briefly gained fame as a part of American activism. The group’s trademark was their theatrical style; the Yippies parlayed anti-authoritative dissent and subversion into surrealism, spontaneity, mischief, and performance." Independent Lens http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chicago10/yippies.html
- ^ "Rock and Roll Daily", Rolling Stone, June 11, 2007
- ^ [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thewallflowers/articles/story/5929169/man_no_fan_of_dylan_family "Man no fan of Dylan family," Rolling Stone, July 4, 1997
- ^ Richard Severo, "Mining Trash Heap for Answers to Riddles" The New York Times, Thursday, October 5, 1989. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/05/nyregion/mining-trash-heap-for-answers-to-riddles.html
- ^ "Garbology": as defined by The Merriam-Webster Dictionary online: gar•bol•o•gy
Pronunciation: \gär-ˈbä-lə-jē\ Function: noun Etymology: garbage + -ology (as in geology) Date: 1975
- the study of modern culture through the analysis of what is thrown away as garbage http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garbology
- ^ Weberman, A. J. Coup d'Etat in America, Nodule 28: http://www.ajweberman.com/nodules2/nodulec28.htm
- ^ The Hunting of Steven J. Hatfill
- ^ http://www.thevillager.com/villager_144/museumwillhave.html
- ^ http://balladofajweberman.com
- ^ http://www.bifa.org.uk/2006/awards/raindance-award/entries/ballad-aj-weberman
- ^ http://peterlance.com
- ^ http://yippiemuseum.org/homothug
References
- Roberts, John. A.J. Weberman: Dylanologist (1995, private printing)
- Roberts, John. "Dear Landlord: The A.J. Weberman Story" in The Telegraph 51 Telegraph 78-91 (periodical), Spring 1995
The Weberman tapes
- Classic Interviews, Vol. 2: The Weberman Tapes (UK: Chromedreams. USA: United States Dist Media, Catalog #541, released May 31 2005.)
- Recordings of telephone conversations between Weberman and Dylan, New York City, January 6 and January 9, 1971. Originally released as Bob Dylan vs. A.J. Weberman on Folkways Records, Catalog #FB 5322, 1977, quickly deleted for legal considerations, but circulated in various bootleg pressings. Original Folkways recording also contains an otherwise unreleased version of David Peel's "The Ballad of A.J. Weberman".
- An excerpt from a transcript of the above
- Full transcripts:
- East Village Other (periodical), January 19, 1971
- Authors or editors unknown. The Fiddler Now Upspoke Volume 1 (Desolation Row Promotions, other publishing data unknown)
Other recordings of interest
- David Peel and the Lower East Side. "The Ballad of A.J. Weberman", on Santa Claus - Rooftop Junkie (1975, Orange Records. Re-released in box set David Peel, Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw — the Apple and Orange Recordings, 2005, Orange Records)
- Weberman recordings, private collection, catalogued here:
- Bob Fass Show With A.J. Weberman & Ellen Sanders, WBAI Radio, New York, 1968 (155 minutes)
- Bob Fass Show, WBAI Radio, New York (Studio discussion with Bob Fass, Allen J. Weberman & Ellen Zander) (Part 1) 1970
- Bob Fass Show, WBAI Radio, New York (Studio discussion with Bob Fass, Allen J. Weberman & Ellen Zander) (Part 2) 1970
- Bob Fass Show WBAI Radio New York (Studio Discussion With Bob Fass, Allen J. Weberman & Ellen Zander) (Part 3) 1970
- Alex Bennett Show, WPLJ Radio, With A.J. Weberman & Anthony Scaduto, 1974 (46 Minutes)
- John Roberts, telephone interview with A.J. Weberman for The Telegraph, (July 20 1994) (12 Minutes)
- A.J. Weberman, WFMU Radio, New Jersey (18 Minutes) (no date given)
- The Larry King Show with A.J. Weberman, Garbologist (no date given)
- Weberman appears in the film Bob Dylan World Tours 1966-1974 - Through the Camera of Barry Feinstein directed by Barry Feinstein, Joel Gilbert, and D.A. Pennebaker (DVD released March 8 2005 by Music Video Distributors and/or Highway 61 Entertainment)
External links
- Weberman's Dylanology site
- Weberman discusses Dylan to English Dictionary
- Review of Dylan to English Dictionary
- Bob Dylan, America's Greatest Anti-Communist poet
- Weberman's Bruce Ivins site
- Weberman's Steve Rombom site
- Weberman's turn a pot high into an LSD highsite
- Weberman's Kennedy assassination site
- New Yippie Cafe and Museum Web Site