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ISIS is the longest running Bob Dylan magazine still in print. Established since 1985, our aim is to provide Dylan enthusiasts with a comprehensive magazine regarding all aspects of Dylan's life and work.

 

ISIS Magazine includes the long running diary style 'Wicked Messenger' newsletter, which has been produced for the past 25 years by world-renowned Dylan expert Ian Woodward.

 

Other columns include comprehensive reviews of book, CD and DVD releases, and Henry Porter's unofficial CD column, which aims to review every bootleg Dylan CD released worldwide.

 

We publish exclusive articles, interviews and rare and exclusive photographs of Bob Dylan. In fact, ISIS is everything that you will ever need in a Dylan magazine.

 

All ISIS subscriptions run from January to December.

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Previous Issues

 

Over recent years, ISIS Magazine has been able to gain unprecedented access to a number of people that have either worked with, or been close to, Bob Dylan.

 

Listed below are some of the interviews to be found in previous issues of  ISIS

 

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Issue 79  

Manchester Revisited 

Mickey Jones reminisces. Mickey Jones talks about his time as Dylan's drummer on the whirl-wind 1966 world tour, culminating in the Manchester Judas concert.

 

Issues 83 / 84 / 85   

A Chat with Cesar Diaz   Part 1, 2 & 3 (SOLD OUT) 

Cèsar Diaz joined The Never Ending Tour crew as Bob Dylan's guitar and equipment technician in 1988. Known throughout the music business as the 'Amp Doctor' Cèsar spent two years on the road with Dylan as technician before joining the band as a guitarist. Cèsar played 60 concerts alongside Bob Dylan before departing in 1993,  mainly for health reasons. Derek Barker (editor of ISIS Magazine) and his wife, Tracy, spent three days in March 1999 staying with, and interviewing Cèsar on the Island of Puerto Rico. The result of these interview sessions is a fascinating behind the scenes look at life on the road with Bob Dylan. 

 

Issue 85  

A Chat with Bucky Baxter (SOLD OUT) 

Shortly after his departure from the tour band in 1999, Derek Barker conducted a short telephone interview with multi-instrumentalist Bucky Baxter about the reason for his leaving Dylan's band.

 

Issue 81 & 82  

A Chat with Al Aronowitz  Part 1 & 2

ISIS Magazine talks to Al Aronowitz about what it was like to hang out with Bob Dylan during the sixties.

 

Issue 88  

A Chat with David Whitaker

During his time in Minneapolis in 1960, Bob Dylan and Dave Whitaker became close friends (they even dated the same girl). Bob Dylan told Anthony Scaduto that David Whitaker was responsible for an enormous change in him. Dylan: "I saw Whitaker and it was like that - motioning with his hand an in a karate chop - just over and out. I was on this side and suddenly I was on that side".  Whitaker reminisces about the "old days" with editor of ISIS, Derek Barker.

 

Issue 89  

A Chat with Elliott Landy

Photographer Elliott Landy spent time with Dylan and his family in Woodstock and Greenwich Village where they both lived in the late sixties and early seventies. During his time in Woodstock Landy was invited by Bob Dylan to take a series of intimate photographs of Bob Dylan and his young family. Elliott talks exclusively to ISIS prior to the publication of his book "Dylan In Woodstock." 

 

Issue 90  

A Chat with Jacques Levy.

In an extremely illuminating interview with the co-writer of the classic 1976 album "Desire," Jacques Levy tells ISIS Magazine exactly what it was like to write songs with Bob Dylan. An interview and article containing many previously unearthed facts.  

 

Issue 96  

A Chat with Howard Sounes

Derek Barker interviews Howard Sounes on the eve of the publication of his Dylan biography "Down The Highway".

 

Issue 107

An Interview with Scarlet Rivera

Masato Kato interviews Scarlet Rivera.

 

Issue 113  

Riffing with Larry Charles

Trev Gibb interviews "Masked & Anonymous" director Larry Charles.

 

Issue 114  

Blood On The Tracks - 30 years on.

Derek Barker interviews "Blood On The Tracks" guitarist Kevin Odegard

 

 

Below are just a few of the many articles published in ISIS  

 

Issue 83  

One Time In London  (SOLD OUT) 

An insight into Dylan's time spent in London 1962-63.

 

Issue 86  

Old Friends  

This article examines the past relationship between Dylan and Paul Simon prior to the two artists embarking on their joint US Tour.

 

Issue 87  

From Me To You - From You To Me 

An article examining the influence that John Lennon & Bob Dylan had on each others music.

 

Issue 87  

Revolutions Per Minute

Article detailing Bob Dylan's 1966 appearance in Sydney, Australia, revealing the emergence of a professional recording from this concert. 

 

Issue 89 

Inside The Museum

Author, C. P. Lee, gives an in-depth review of the Sydney '66 concert.

 

Issue 90  

Bob Dylan Talkin' Religion

Article examining Dylan's newfound faith in an old time religion - Christianity.

 

Issue 99 

Oh My God, he's gone electric by C. P. Lee.

Article examining Love & Theft from a different perspective.

 

Issue 99  

The Generosity of Genius by Andrew Muir.

Andrew's comment on Love & Theft.

 

Issue 103 

Acoustic Troubadour 

Dylan's Acoustic guitars Article covering Dylan's most used Acoustic guitars.

 

Issue 104  

Judas 

Dylan's Gone electric Article providing information on Dylan's electric guitars and where some of them can be seen today.

 

Issue 106

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

An in depth article, which unearths many new facts about one of Bob's finest albums.