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Bob Dylan dot com ^ | 5-13-11 | Bob Dylan

Posted on 05/13/2011 5:39:33 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde

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The third paragraph is most relevant to if he was censored or not. I think his setlists are all published so it should be relatively easy to find out if he had been playing any of the songs MoDo thought he should have played in China.
1 posted on 05/13/2011 5:39:36 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde
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To: scott says

You have the Dylan ping list correct?


2 posted on 05/13/2011 5:40:05 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: Mr. Blonde
"posted my picture all over the place with Joan Baez, Che Guevara, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. The concert attendees probably wouldn't have known about any of those people."

And young people in this country probably only know Che Guevara. I have never heard Dylan make any statements on Guevara. Please don't tell me he thinks Ernesto Guevara was a good guy? I hope he has more sense than that.
3 posted on 05/13/2011 6:29:57 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Mr. Blonde

I’m surprised Bob bothered to comment on this non-story. Also surprised he used the word “gazillion”. I really enjoyed Love and Theft. And more recently I was addicted (and remain latently so) to “If You Ever Go to Houston”, co-written with Robert Hunter. Not sure he’s right about his audience not knowing his older material, though.


4 posted on 05/13/2011 6:32:43 AM PDT by Huck (The Antifederalists were right.)
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To: Huck
I think “young people” are more likely to know his older stuff than his newer stuff.

The only ones who really know his recent albums are all hard core older Dylan fans.

On the subject of Dylan....

Check out XM’s Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour. Great music, great comments from someone who really knows music and musicians and the history of music.

Well worth listening to.

5 posted on 05/13/2011 6:39:23 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

I wouldn’t think he was a fan of Che’s. I assume it was all a 60’s revolutionary type deal, which Dylan never got in on to begin with.


6 posted on 05/13/2011 6:43:45 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Sadly, no. He loves Castro, too.


7 posted on 05/13/2011 6:48:16 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Mr. Blonde

Mmm, he used them up till he squeezed them dry, then he moved on. His career was built by Communists, who ran the folk music morphing unto pop music movement/industry.


8 posted on 05/13/2011 6:52:55 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

Can you show me any quote by Dylan that he loves Castro?


9 posted on 05/13/2011 6:56:06 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Mr. Blonde

“The Chinese press did tout me as a sixties icon, however, and posted my picture all over the place with Joan Baez, Che Guevara, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. The concert attendees probably wouldn’t have known about any of those people. Regardless, they responded enthusiastically to the songs on my last 4 or 5 records.”

That doesn’t come of like Dylan digs being lumped in with those people.

“They were young and my feeling was that they wouldn’t have known my early songs anyway.”

In other words, he didn’t want to play stuff that catered to the whole “down with authoritarian communism, up with kinder gentler communism”. As far as what the youth in China know as far as Dylan songs go, I guess it could be true. I am always amazed at how different musical trends go overseas as compared to the US.

Freegards


10 posted on 05/13/2011 7:07:40 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Huck

Ditto “If You ever go to Houston.” By far my favorite song on the album. For a while, I would listen to that, “High Water Rising” and Josh Turner’s version of “When I Paint my Masterpiece” repeatedly.


11 posted on 05/13/2011 7:09:43 AM PDT by Martin Tell (ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

I have worked on a documentary he was in, I know members of his band. It’s how they all think. Except I wouldn’t call it thinking.


12 posted on 05/13/2011 7:16:22 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo

So no actual quote.


13 posted on 05/13/2011 7:17:19 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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“Except I wouldn’t call it thinking.”

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Right.

It is not an intellectual exercise, or a careful consideration of facts based on personal reading of history.

It is called being “hip” and “cool”, man.

The Left consists largely of lazy practitioners of GroupThink. Step out of line and you will suffer the usual fascistic backlash.


14 posted on 05/13/2011 7:22:56 AM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
1. I have personally heard admiring statements.
2. The quote you should be looking for from the great social commentator and critic, is the quote of condemnation of Castro and his gulag. BTW, it's the same re Saturday Night Live. Been in the air for thirty years, made fun of everyone from Jesus to the president(s),
but there has never been a skit skewering the dictatorship 90 miles from us.
15 posted on 05/13/2011 7:43:24 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Mr. Blonde

Is that old, unreformed commie still around?


16 posted on 05/13/2011 7:48:09 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: kabumpo

Don’t forget about Barry Goldwater, who there is an actual on the record quote of him liking.


17 posted on 05/13/2011 8:35:26 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: kabumpo

You mean all of those people he wrote Positively 4th Street about?


18 posted on 05/13/2011 8:36:52 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: kabumpo

So you were making it all up.


19 posted on 05/13/2011 9:04:52 AM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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To: ansel12

No, I was at the rehearsal, I was backstage with the musicians, I was at a dinner at someone’s house. Conversations were going on. They all love the “Cuban revolution”.


20 posted on 05/13/2011 11:15:32 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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