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.
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?)
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.
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.)
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
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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27 posted on
05/13/2011 2:57:40 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
("If Eric Holder had his way, O-B-L would still be alive today." Thank you President Bush for Gitmo.)
To: Revolting cat!; 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; ßuddaßudd; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; ...
28 posted on
05/13/2011 2:58:10 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
("If Eric Holder had his way, O-B-L would still be alive today." Thank you President Bush for Gitmo.)
To: Mr. Blonde
Tangled Up In Blue is the only song I can stomach from this guy.
But I give him credit for longevity.
29 posted on
05/13/2011 3:09:48 PM PDT by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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