Posted on 05/07/2021 7:17:49 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
23 years old and touring England. It was the times that attracted the young to him. Objected to being called a poet. His answers to older reporters questions were all over the place-kinda like some of his songs. Immature. Distant. Used the distant mystique to his advantage. The more he pulls back the more people wanted of him. He was good ok? Trailblazer. Another part of me thinks he took us all for a ride for all those years.
Saw him perform 3 times. 1973 w/The Band was great. Said good-nite at the end-that's all. He only owes us a good performance. The 2nd time was the Jesus phase-small venue. Talked too much. 3rd was ok. It was difficult to watch how stupid the British reporters questions were. Dylan exposed them. Maybe it takes a popular young man to point it out. I didn't like either of them but like wars getting started this is the human condition. All we can do is separate ourselves. See it in this country? Thanks.
It was the era of Beatles press conferences
And old guard media trying to put upstarts/youth culture in its place
That's a song by the band, Boston.
I met him once. My brother worshipped him. I did not. I thought he was overrated I was a Joni Mitchell fan and thought she was underrated. Time has changed my mind. I am in my 60’s. Younger artists are reinterpreting our singer songwriter songs and I now believe Dylan was pure genius. His songs are so deep and now, with age behind me, I understand. I love Joni Mitchell as well but there is no lyric writer better than Leonard Cohen.
The one time I saw him live he was drunk as a skunk, couldn’t play, couldn’t sing.
Paradise you’re right. There was a lot to be upset and angry about in those days.
Dylan reminds be of politicians. If you fall in love with them you’ll just end up disappointed. Here’s another-you’ll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American voter(or rock fan).
Cohen was simpleton rock. Used women. Who threw the glass? Man that was weird! No one in the crowded room to calm him down-scared. That’s how wars get started. You mean he’s like the rest of us?
I didn’t care much for him or his music, although I did like Peter, Paul & Mary’s version of “Blowing in the Wind”—that is, until I found out that the wind in question is blowing from the east—”the east wind will prevail over the west wind”—Mao Tse-tung, 1957
Dylan turns 80 on May 24th.
Those and so many more. "Tangled Up and Blue" and "A Simple Twist of Fate" immediately come to mind.
Here’s Dylan covering “You Belong to Me” by country music writing team , Pee Wee King, and Redd Stewart.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eyIZsQSDU0
He turns this classic tune into a sad lonely love song like his ‘Boots of Spanish Leather’. It makes you stop in your te
Racks if you’re a human with feelings.
I can separate these sixties musicians from communism
Just put in ‘Blood on the Tracks’ turn it up and forget about it.
The glorification of entertainers is stupid. Their percentage of messed up personal lives probably exceeds that by double, when compared to inner city single parent families. Not that Mr Robert Zimmerman (his real name) has led a messed up life.
His Jewish upbringing no doubt put a deeper thinking mind in him. The scriptures do that to a person. It’s the opposite of the shallow, emotion driven, commie liberal thinking.
‘The glorification of entertainers is stupid.’
There’s only one problem. People want someone, anyone to glorify. We see that in Obama and Clinton-B.J. not Hillary. It’s like they’re messiah’s. Until the messiah appears entertainers will do.
He’s a Joo?
‘The glorification of entertainers is stupid.’
I read that he and a friend were going from their car into a gathering. He said the friend ‘Now I’ve got to be Bob Dylan again”.
There was a lot to protest against back then, a 19th century mentality caught in the 20th century and Dylan was the troubadour de luxe of the era. Anyone accusing him of being a lackey of the CPUSA is themself a sycophnat to anachronistic, knee jerk thinking. Dylan was a big disappointment to the hard left of America - the Harry Bridges 1930’s commies in the music biz like Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger and The Weavers and later Joan Baez, Country Joe and camp follower, pretend poet, Allen Ginsberg. The CPUSA/Trotskyite ideologues tried hard to recruit Dylan to their ranks but never understood that they were peripheral to the 1960’s Drugs, sex and rock & roll counterculture that was mainspringed by anarchists, a different animal than the bootlicks of Uncle Joe’s Soviet Union. The hatred of government, the worship of sentient autonomy, is a belief shared by many conservatives including the Ayn Rand objectivist wing. Dylan’s tune “Maggie’s Farm” will tell anyone exactly where his head was at.
A live performance of a song from his 1997 masterpiece and Grammy award winning album Time Out of Mind.
35 years after his first live performance.
He and Keith Richards are the keepers of American music...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hO-83CIVKM
In other news, Willie Nelson just turned 88 years-old.
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