Posted on 12/27/2004 11:51:13 PM PST by goldstategop
I had the priveledge of working on his CD ROM "Bob Dylan, Highway 61". At the time I started on it, I didn't like Dylan. By the time I finished, I had a great admiration for the man and his amazing song writing. He's up for a Nobel Peace Prize this year in Journalism for his songwriting. Well-deserved.
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For those of you who don't like the voice but like the songs, this can't be recommended highly enough.
Ultimate 60's war ( Vietnam ) protest song , Masters of War by Bobby Dylan :
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
'Masters of War' was not about the Vietnam War - - it was about ALL war and those who profit from it (the defense industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about in his farewell speech?). The song was included on Dylan's Freewheelin' album which was released in May 1963 (Kennedy was President!) and Vietnam was just coming onto the radar screen.
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Today I went to the Dylan exhibit at the E.M.P. in Seattle. It was excellent. It covered the years 1956 to 1966. The overwhelming impression I got was of a young man who was uninhibited in his ambitions, who was in the very right place at the right time, and who was taken up by some very talented and well-connected people. It seemed to me that Zimmy went from cute, talented upstart to icon in about 18 months at age 20 or so. How could anyone have anticipated this? Of course he played along because he wanted to enjoy the wealth and the audience. But in no way did it seem that he ever conceived of himself as anything more than a singer/songwriter parcel to a well-established American tradition of such.
On July 1, 1978, I saw B.D. play that song at a rock festival in Nuremberg at the Zeppelinfeld, site of the infamous Nazi Party rallies held there in the 1930s. He introduced the song by saying simply "I can't believe that I'm singing this song here."
http://bobdylan.com/performances/
Pancho and Lefty, { listen } Bonnaroo 2004 Music Festival, Manchester, Tennessee, 6/11/04 Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine, Washington, DC, 4/2/04 { RealAudio } It Ain't Me, Babe, Toronto, 3/21/04 { RealAudio } Down Along the Cove, St. Louis, 3/2/04 { RealAudio } It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, Chicago, 3/7/04 { RealAudio } Moonlight, Chicago, 3/7/04 { RealAudio } Something, New York City, 11/13/02 { RealAudio } You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, New York City, 11/13/02 { RealAudio } Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread, New York City, 11/11/02 { RealAudio } The End of the Innocence, Los Angeles, California, 10/15/02 { RealAudio } Mutineer, Berkeley, California, 10/11/02 { RealAudio } Some recent cover versions of Bob Dylan songs: Gates of Eden, Marc Carroll { RealAudio } Seven Days, Loup Garou { RealAudio } You're A Big Girl Now, Mary Lee's Corvette { RealAudio } She Belongs To Me, Grateful Dead { RealAudio } Things Have Changed, Barb Jungr { RealAudio }
High Water (for Charley Patton), Sunrise, Florida, 2/1/02 { RealAudio } "High Water" and "Lonesome Day Blues", originally released on "Love and Theft". I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind, from Timeless { RealAudio } Bob Dylan has recorded "I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind" for the newly-released album Timeless," Lost Highway Record's tribute to Hank Williams. Other artists contributing tracks include Emmy Lou Harris, Ryan Adams, Beck, Lucinda Williams, Keith Richards, Keb' Mo' and Johnny Cash. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, UCSB Events Center, Santa Barbara, California, 10/14/01 { RealAudio } "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum", from "Love and Theft", is one of the seven new songs performed so far on Bob Dylan's current tour. Check future tour dates on the Live and In Person! page on bobdylan.com. Standing in the Doorway, Osaka Koseinenkin Kaikan, Japan, 3/6/01 { RealAudio } "Standing in the Doorway", from Time Out of Mind, was not performed live until June, 2000, almost three years after the album's release. This performance is from Bob Dylan's tour of Japan in early 2001. Dusty Old Fairgrounds, Town Hall, New York, NY, 4/12/63 { RealAudio } "Dusty Old Fairgrounds" is a Bob Dylan composition for which there are no known official releases or known studio recordings. This recording is from his 1963 Town Hall concert and was originally intended for release on the never-issued Bob Dylan In Concert album. This World Can't Stand Long, performed by Johnnie & Jack, recorded 1947, composed by Johnnie Wright, Jim Anglin and Jack Anglin { RealAudio } For the past couple of years, Bob Dylan has been performing songs originally recorded by Johnnie & Jack. Here are two of those original recordings. Ring Them Bells, The Supper Club, New York, NY, 11/16/93 (early show) { RealAudio } "Ring Them Bells" was originally released on Oh Mercy High Water Everywhere, part 1, Charley Patton { RealAudio } A recording from 1929 or 1930, Charley Patton's work was an inspiration for Bob Dylan's new song on "Love and Theft", "High Water (for Charley Patton)". Though, as you'll hear, the lyrics are a bit hard to make out, there is a valiant effort at transcription at Harry's Blues Lyrics Online. Biographical notes on Charley Patton can be found at The Blue Flame Cafe. This recording can be found on Revenant Record's staggering 7 CD set, "Screamin' and Hollerin' The Blues: The World of Charley Patton", due to be released in October, and on Yazoo Records' Charlie Patton: Founder of the Delta Blues, 1929-34 Poor Lazarus, "Minneapolis Hotel Tape", Minneapolis, MN, 12/22/61 { RealAudio } From the legendary recording in Bonnie Beecher's apartment back in 1961. Dink's Song, "Minneapolis Hotel Tape", Minneapolis, MN, 12/22/61 { RealAudio } Another song recorded that same night.
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Actually, in his own way Dylan was far more radical than the self-styled posers of the time, because he truly was his own man, or tried to be. I think he also had a conversion to Christianity in the Seventies.
Yep. He converted to fundamentalist Christianity at one point, I think. It speaks to his quintessentially conservative leanings. No other singer has taken that step.
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Bob's cool. But I love Ann Coulter.
Very wise. ....concur completely.
He got a few English Mastiffs to help deal with the problem when he lived in Pt. Dume (Malibu), but the fact that he was told he couldn't defend his life and property without being considered a criminal himself is just outrageous. ......but typical, considering his state of residence.
lol.....can you imagine Dylan attempting to explain to his folky friends that he supported Goldwater?. They might've killed him right then and there.
I was only a punk kid of 10 in 1962 ...Found out about Dylan a few years later ...Despite Dylan's reluctance to directly speak out against the Vietnam War in public , he was , and still is to a great extent , associated with anti-war songs . Add in the fact that he was tight with people like Joan Baez ( they lived together for a while ) and Allen Ginsberg ( no America lover ) , and it is easy form misconceptions of the man . Anyway , I appreciate your setting me straight .
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