How does it feel?:"It's a great thing when a song defines a summer, and like the Jamies' Summertime, Summertime in 1958 or Martha and the Vandellas' Dancing in the Street in 1964 - which, as a theme song for the Watts riots, came back even more strongly after August 11 1965 - that was the first thing Like a Rolling Stone did. Like a preacher, Dylan sang doom through the song; while no one missed the threat, you could sing along, "No direction home", just like you sang along to Satisfaction...
'I still feel like the same person,' Dylan [said] talking about the milieu where from 1960 to 1965 he did his work. 'One of the feelings of it was that you were part of a very elite, special group that was outside and downtrodden. You felt like you were part of a different community, a more secretive one. And this community spread out across America ... every little city you went to, if you knew who to call, what to look for, you could find ... like-minded people.
'That's been destroyed. I don't know what destroyed it. Some people say it's still there. I hope it is. I know, in my mind, that I'm still a member of a secret community. I might be the only one, you know?'"
