Stan Freberg: Elderly Man River
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Posted on 10/16/2016 11:31:46 AM PDT by Rummyfan
I'm not sure he's a liberal.
I heard an interview with him long ago on a college station (it was perhaps NPR); the interviewer asked him a leading question about Vietnam, inviting him to comment on the politics of it.
Bob Dylan declined to answer, saying something like "a lot of people make the mistake of thinking that because I sing about certain things in my music that I agree with this or that side in a political context, and I would only say that you might be disappointed if I told you what I really think about that subject."
I actually know someone who has a family member that worked for Dylan back in the '80s. According to this person, he is almost completely apolitical; when Dylan is hanging out with people he trusts, the number one thing he likes to talk about is music, of all kinds, but particularly folk music.
As I understand it, he got very, very interested in folk music when he was growing up in the iron range town of Hibbing, Minnesota. It just became his whole life, and there's pretty much nothing he likes more than folk music and the telling of stories through music.
Sort of like Jackson Brown. I liked many of his songs, but his own singing voice I found very smug and annoying.
"No," she said, assuming he was referring to her husband, Dave, who was out on a plumbing job. "But he should be back soon." Bob asked if she would mind if he waited. Twenty minutes later, Dave - the plumber, not the rock star - returned and asked the missus whether there were any messages. "No," she said, "but Bob Dylan's in the front room having a cup of tea."
Ping! Great story. Like the one when Dylan got arrested.
FTA: “How is histoplasmosis spread?” well, it’s caused by fungal spores which invade the lungs through airborne bat droppings. In other words, the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.
Mark Steyn should win the Nobel prize just for that line!
Still, Dylan deserves one more than Obama.
Nobel prizes for obozo, Yassir Arafat. And Rigoberto Menchu, whom it later turned out to have lied about a lot of her experiences. The Nobels for Peace and Literature have long been a joke.
Congratulations to Bob Dylan - he's earned it.
I was stunned that the Nobel committee awarded the prize to a born-again Christian.
There are so many more notable candidates...
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I suppose if it's not political, in the leftie sense, nothing qualifies for the Nobel Prize. Just consider the Peace Prize...
Al Baby (Nobel, that is) himself said, I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
If only he could acknowledge how right he was!
After insults to the memory of is ideals, like Yasir Arafat and Barack Hussein Obama, the rotational speed of his remains should be in the double digit thousands of RPMs...
Dylan left after a bit, his former girlfriend left after that year and we seldom spoke of Dylan. She felt that he was misunderstood and a different persona than what he had become in popular culture.
Of course, that sounds like most young ladies that are soft towards a guy, but my impressions of him changed after knowing them together.
“... But it does seem to me that, while most rock stars pursue eternal youth, Dylan has always sought premature geezerdom. The traditional elderly rocker look is best exemplified by Gram’pa Rod Stewart: peroxide hair with that toss-a-space-heater-in-the-bathtub look, tight gold lamé pants with extravagant codpiece, pneumatic supermodel on your arm...”
Dylan is no liberal/progressive.
His protest songs are universal. Even a song that was ostensibly about early-60s counterculture could be read as a conservative protest in the age of Obama.
Not just that, but he converted quite openly to Christianity in the late 70s, and lost a lot of fans because of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsEkqdiaX8
Meant to say,
Even a song, such as Subterranean Homesick Blues, that was ostensibly about early-60s counterculture....
Dylan has acted like a conventional American Jew since his Christian phase ended in the early ‘80s.
For all the Dylan prize controversy, what’s notable is that he is almost certainly the last Nobel Literature winner who is grounded in Western Civilization.
I like Paul Shanklin’s impersonation of Dylan. I hear his brother, David Zimmerman, plays piano better than Dylan does.
Someone, maybe Shanklin, does a fantastic impersonation of Dylan singing the Minnesota Twins theme song.
‘Were gonna win, Twins, we’re gonna score...’
Stan Freberg: Elderly Man River
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They’re really dragging the bottom of the barrel now.
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