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Dylan Tape Auctioned

What are friends for, if not to make $100,000 off your back without you knowing? It all started towards the end of the 1950`s, when Ric Kangas and Robert Zimmerman would jam together, sing and play the guitar. The event that subsequently would pay off in the future happened when Kangas asked to record Zimmerman singing, obviously without the slightest clue that one day the singer would become a mega-star named Bob Dylan.

Kangas, a photographer and actor, recorded four Dylan songs on a cassette tape, which he has held on to for over 40 years before he bought an old tape recorder at a garage sale that enabled him to listen to the old recording again. The music was featured on the soundtrack of `No Direction Home`, the recent documentary about Bob Dylan by Martin Scorsese. The tape is appraised at some $25,000, but some experts are saying it could reach a staggering $100,000 and will go under the hammer as part of an auction of music memorabilia October 6 and 7 at Heritage Auction Galleries.