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Folk rocker, musical icon, and writer of some of the best songs ever, Bob Dylan played fanboy last week when he visited the childhood home of folk rocker, musical icon, and writer of some of the best songs ever, Neil Young.

According to the CBC story, the owner of the Winnipeg home where Neil Young grew up, John Kiernan, saw his wife talking with two strangers on the front lawn.

“And I’m looking around, and I realize, this guy having a tuque on has really great boots on, these sort of cowboy, motorcycle boots. And he was wearing really nice leather pants. And I realize I’m staring face-to-face with Bob Dylan.”

Dylan and his manager were then invited into the house and given the grand tour, including Neil’s old bedroom.

“OK, so this was his view, and this was where he listened to his music. It suddenly dawned on me, when you’re looking at Bob Dylan standing in a hallway, that he had a very parallel experience 200 miles to the south, sitting in his room, listening to his music, looking out his window,” Kiernan commented.

It’s good to know that even after having number 1 albums, his songs covered by everyone from Jimi Hendrix to the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Guns ‘N’ Roses, influencing everybody in rock music either directly or indirectly since 1962, and being named one of Time magazine’s 100 most important people of the century,  Bob Dylan can still be a huge fan of the musicians he admires.