When Bob Dylan was still Robert Zimmerman, he and his friend, Ric Kangas, played guitars together. Dylan laid down a few tracks and asked his pal to record them using reel-to-reel tape record in 1959.

Now in 2006, Kangas came across those old gigs in a suitcase and contacted Jeff Rosen, Dylan's manager. Rosen listened to the tape and the tape ended up being played in Martin Scorsese's Grammy-winning 2005 Dylan Documentary, No Direction Home.

Kangas said "A lot of people saw the documentary and started asking about it," "I had no idea it was this important. It turns out these songs are some of the earliest songs Bob had recorded on tape."

Last Wednesday, a publist said that Dylan had no comment about this.

On the tape, Dylan takes lead vocals on 3 songs "I Got Troubles," "I Got a New Girl" and "The Frog Song," so-called by Kangas because of Dylan's today trademark craggy singing style. The "Like a Rolling Stone" purveyor then backs up Kangas on a tune called "I Wish I Knew."

The original tape will be on an floor auction held by Heritage Auction Galleries on Oct 6-7, the online bidding ends the day eariler and those bids will compete with the floor auction.

Auction item no.22193

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Blackie Lawless, W.A.S.P.'s mainman, told Swedish's Close-Up Magazine on September 27 that the band newest album "Dominator" has been pushed back its release date from Nov 13, UK / Nov 21, US to January 2007.

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Ronnie James Dio announced his posibility of co-working with Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath. He said " We've already written one (new) song together. The reason for that is that there's a release coming out, it's called Black Sabbath: The Dio Years - they've already done one, of course, Black Sabbath: The Ozzy Years; that was the beginning and, really, the best part of it all - but they've decided to do one, again, Black Sabbath: The Dio Years, and we wanted to make it a little but more special, not just give you things you've not heard from a live perspective. These are two things you'll never hear again - two new songs. We are going to do that. It's been fun already. The one we've done - the one that I've done with Tony has been really wonderful - just great to realize how magnificent a player he was. You forget that after 10 years at a time that you don't work with someone. So we are gonna be doing that. And I hope you'll like it. I think it'll be great."

About the rumors of posibility that he will be rejoing Black Sabbath, Ronnie mentioned "There's always rumors about everything - about a RAINBOW reunion, about a Black Sabbath reunion. Our purpose was to do this because we wanted to have this product be a bit more special than anything else - not just, 'Here's a live track you've never heard before.' I mean, that's cool, but I'm sure people have heard that. We wanted to do something a bit more special, so the whole band would write and play these songs, and... They've wanted to hear them long enough, so here they are. But it's not anything that we've talked about leading to anything other than that. No, it's for that project."

Meantime, Joe Siegler, webmaster of Black-Sabbath.com has announced on the rumors that "Today was not the first time I had heard these rumours. Running this site I hear all kinds of things, and generally I tend to discount them - but this one had some more weight to it, so I decided to do some poking around on my own. While I can't get anyone to officially say anything about this, it does seem to have the air of an authentic story to me. Heck, I can't get any official word about who is even playing on the new tracks for the Dio Years set, besides Iommi & Dio. One would hope it's the same four guys (Iommi/Butler/Ward/Dio), but I can't get official confirmation of that one, either. So it's known that the Dio Years box set is happening. When - who knows, although I would imagine sooner rather than later. What the contents of the set are is also officially unknown. I've been hearing some rumours about specific content, but I don't really want to spread any more FUD about that issue, so I'll leave that out for now. Suffice it to say if what I heard is true, fans will really like it."

He also quoted that
"Know facts:

• There will be a "Black Sabbath: The Dio Years" box set.
• Said box set will contain at least two newly recorded tracks.
• Tony & Ronnie collaborated on the newly recorded tracks.

Rumours/Speculation:
These are all unconfirmed - so don't take it as fact, eh? :)

• Geezer Butler & Bill Ward will comprise the rhythm section on the new tracks.
• Iommi/Butler/Ward/Dio will tour in 2007 as "Heaven & Hell".
• They are not billing themselves as "Black Sabbath" due to legal reasons. FALSE - see update below.
• The Dio Years set may include the video mentioned by Dio on the Live Evil recordings. "

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