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[kabumpo]

Didn’t know that, thanks for telling me. Don’t quite see how it is relevant to a discussion about Dylan.

[kabumpo]

Maybe, good point.

[Mr. Blonde]

Don’t quite see how it is relevant to a discussion about Dylan.

We are discussing what political icons Bob Dylan admires. You have said that he likes Che and Castro. To me that seems strange since he is on record saying his favorite politician was Barry Goldwater. That seems pretty relevant to a discussion about Dylan and his politics.

[kabumpo]

Sorry, misunderstood. I thought you were saying that there were statements from Goldwater admiring Castro.
What Dylan has said recently doesn't count for much against his career as one of the most prominent figures of counterculture. He has written so many songs against injustice, yet not one word for the enslaved nation that is our near neighbor. The silence is telling, in my opinion.

[TheOldLady]

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[Mr. Blonde]

His career as a folk singer writing protest songs lasted all of about a year. Outside of Hurricane they are all on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (May 1963) and The Times They Are A’Changin’ (Jan. 1964). After that there was a marked turn away from political themes or songs about injustice within his music. I think that is often forgotten and it is strange since that work still overshadows his other work which is both much larger and much better.

His role as a countercultural icon wasn’t one he asked for and he was never at the marches and so on like Joan Baez.

[a fool in paradise]

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[ßuddaßudd]

Tangled Up In Blue is the only song I can stomach from this guy.
But I give him credit for longevity.

[ansel12]

So you are just making it up, we do know that Bob Dylan’s favorite politician in the 60s was Goldwater, but you, we don’t know anything about at all.

[Revolting cat!]

I guess the “Dylan can’t sing” line has worn off, and the latest is “Dylan is a blood thirsty Communist.”

[kabumpo]

He was still an important counterculture icon, the way The Beatles were. Remember he did the Rolling Thunder tour with Baez in the late 1970s.
He may have stopped writing explicit protest songs, but he was still part of the Hollywood show business circuit.

[kabumpo]

You can call me a liar all you want, but I was in the room on multiple occasions and I know what these people said and what they think. They are essentially permanent adolescents, high in reefer a lit of the time, and living in a fantasy world of being outlaw cowboys & Indians. From an uninformed, superficial, distant view, Castro fit(s) into that fantasy projection and they admire him, the way they admire Jesse James and Billy the Kid.

[ansel12]

The vagueness of that childish post is very convincing that you are just making things up, which of course you are, you can’t just do that kind of thing here, go find a source that you can post.

[kabumpo]

You seem bitter and envious that some jobs I have had have occasionally put me in the same room or within earshot of some well-known people. I guess next time I can secretly record their conversations on my cell phone to satisfy you.
All of those people are so far to the left, but none if them realize
it, just like fish don’t know they’re wet. Why is that so hard to believe?

[Ransomed]

“His role as a countercultural icon wasn’t one he asked for and he was never at the marches and so on like Joan Baez.”

Never at the anti-war marches, anyhow. I think he wanted to be Elvis, not Che. Some of that crappy folk crowd never forgave him for it, and at the time he was looked at as a traitor to the revolution when he embraced the rock.

Freegards

[ansel12]

LOL, no I’m annoyed that a liar is trying to pass off fake information about a public figure on the internet.

Go get a source.

[kabumpo]

I am the source.
Easy to prove me wrong: just show the denunciation, in speech, song, or deed, of the dictatorship in Cuba, ever, in the last 40 years.

[ansel12]

You are worse off and more idiotic than you even appeared at first.