A recent (UPDATE: OK, sort of old, but new to us) episode of the History Channel’s Pawn Stars makes walking around Caesar’s Palace with a Dylan record in your hand, and finding Bob Dylan to sign it, look altogether too easy. But before you try, consider that even if you track down Dylan, odds are you are not as disarmingly cuddly as this Pawn Stars dude Chumlee who has been given this assignment. You can see it happen: even as Dylan’s reflexively trying to end the interaction, he’s all smiles looking into Chumlee’s soft face.
Also: Bob Dylan made a cameo on Pawn Stars, you guys:
Dylan’s in this one:
And, the happy ending:
(via The Daily Swarm)
If you’re like me you want to know more about Chumlee now, so here is Austin “Chumlee” Russell’s History.com bio page. I love that Austin’s nickname comes from his childhood “friends” likening him to the cartoon character Tennessee Tuxedo’s sidekick — a walrus named Chumley — and it is that spelling Dylan used on the LP cover. Bet Dylan knows all about Chumley The Walrus.
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Well of course he was on the show! Don’t you remember that part of Don’t Look Back?!?
Reporter: Bob! If you could sign an album cover for any type of TV actor, what type would that be?
Dylan: Well, if they have a pawn broker TV star, named after Chumley the Walrus, and he approached me in Las Vegas, I figure I’d sign that record. *enigmatic smile*
Hah 150 dollars. That album sells for 6 bucks at most record shops.
this is old news. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold.
I can’t believe that guy bought it for 50 bucks. Conrad is right – that record goes for a just a few dollars at most record shops, and that’s with the mark-up after they’ve gotten it from someone else. What a chump!
i can guarantee you this was filmed over a year ago
Haha! So ridiculous in so many ways! I love it!
I saw this episode before!
Not sure I’d pay the guy a quarter for a copy of Self-Portrait.