Bob Dylan

“Why is it, that I have no problem understanding Bob Dylan when he is singing now? I realize I have more familiarity with the words -- but I can't understand why I had so much trouble understanding him singing when I was younger. He sounds perfectly normal to me now.

Is this a bad sign?”

“Yes.”

“you're smoking less dope”

“Or more, one of the two.”

“* laughs *”

“Roll a fat one, Chris!! lmao

When it comes to his live perfomances, though, you can never predict (or even sing along to yourself) ecause he phrases everything different each time he sings that same songs.

But, I think I suffer from the same problem as you with his singing...”

“It's weird.. I got several mp3's of him -- playing in my headphones as I work.. and I understand every line!

Weird.”

“BTW, that "Desire" album was awesome. One of his best, IMO.”

“Yes, "Desire was" the best.”

“The woman who played electric violin on that album was fantastic.”

“Oh, the ragman draws circles
Up and down the block.
I'd ask him what the matter was
But I know that he don't talk.
And the ladies treat me kindly
And furnish me with tape,
But deep inside my heart
I know I can't escape.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Well, Shakespeare, he's in the alley
With his pointed shoes and his bells,
Speaking to some French girl,
Who says she knows me well.
And I would send a message
To find out if she's talked,
But the post office has been stolen
And the mailbox is locked.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line.
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine.
An' I said, "Oh, I didn't know that,
But then again, there's only one I've met
An' he just smoked my eyelids
An' punched my cigarette."
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Grandpa died last week
And now he's buried in the rocks,
But everybody still talks about
How badly they were shocked.
But me, I expected it to happen,
I knew he'd lost control
When he built a fire on Main Street
And shot it full of holes.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Now the senator came down here
Showing ev'ryone his gun,
Handing out free tickets
To the wedding of his son.
An' me, I nearly got busted
An' wouldn't it be my luck
To get caught without a ticket
And be discovered beneath a truck.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Now the preacher looked so baffled
When I asked him why he dressed
With twenty pounds of headlines
Stapled to his chest.
But he cursed me when I proved it to him,
Then I whispered, "Not even you can hide.
You see, you're just like me,
I hope you're satisfied."
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Now the rainman gave me two cures,
Then he said, "Jump right in."
The one was Texas medicine,
The other was just railroad gin.
An' like a fool I mixed them
An' it strangled up my mind,
An' now people just get uglier
An' I have no sense of time.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

When Ruthie says come see her
In her honky-tonk lagoon,
Where I can watch her waltz for free
'Neath her Panamanian moon.
An' I say, "Aw come on now,
You must know about my debutante."
An' she says, "Your debutante just knows what you need
But I know what you want."
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.

Now the bricks lay on Grand Street
Where the neon madmen climb.
They all fall there so perfectly,
It all seems so well timed.
An' here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.



Copyright © 1966; renewed 1994 Dwarf Music”

“Thats a good one chili. Ever heard "You aint goin nowhere" off the basement tapes. I think thats the only place you can find it. My dad used to play and sing that when I was growing up. Sorry reminiscing.

Anyone read the new memoire yet?”

“I-John: I've been pretty lucky so far finding any mp3 I wanna hear. I might go look for "the basement tapes".”

“Towndog, Some stuff on the basement tapes is Ok, but there's some stuff there that should stay in the basement. Almost sounds like Dylan trying to play pop. He never wanted them released.”

“I'm listening to Dave Matthews and Phish covering Bob Dylan Hurricane.

LOL.”

“The woman who played electric violin on that album was fantastic.”
Geobeet
9:40:22 AM


Scarlet Rivera, Geo. And she is awesome!!!!”

“Blood on the Tracks will always be my favorite.

If I had to guess at a "best" how could you not pick Highway 61 Revisited? It changed rock music.”

“All I know about Bob Dylan is that he grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota. I've seen his house there.

The only other thing in Hibbing is "the big hole."”

“In my best nasal voice: "Everybody must get...stoned.”

“Saw you standing in the hallway, red plastic cup, and one of those big long
cigarettes

You asked me if I could play you some Dylan

I said “Dylan who?” you told me to kiss your ass

I apologized, but you could tell I didn’t mean it by the way I rolled my eyes

and when you said it wasn’t me it was you
somehow I knew you were gonna tell me why

Stuff was flying out of the window
falling and breaking on the pavement underneath

He’s screaming at you, red faced and fuming

He’d come home early, parked his car way up the street

You had your stockings in your hand, panties in your purse

it was ten a.m. and all the neighbors heard
him calling you a whore and a tramp

you just stood there while your heels sank into the warm wet ground

He got a lawyer, you got a bottle

He got the children and you moved in with your mama

She fixes breakfast and lets you use her car

she don’t care how late you call to tell her where you are

Ya’ll still fight and she still nags you some
but somehow it’s different now than when you were young

It’s your own damn fault you been threw hell
for one reason or another, somehow she kinda blames herself

lyrics by Mike Cooley
music by Drive-by Truckers (Cooley, Hood, Howell, Lane, and Neff)”

“Robert Zimmerman, from Hibbing Minnesota...

Then, took the name Dylan from Dylan Thomas...”

“ONe of my good friends from college was from HIbbing...he got married there. Not much to do for entertainment in Hibbing...so we went to the bar!”

“lol I didn't expect that there would be much there. Maybe that spurred him on to go to Greenwich Village in the 60's...”

“Mr. Dylan shares my birthday.”

“I once gave Bob Dylan a blowjob in a Burger King bathroom.”

“Scarlet, yes, thanks Tree. I could not remember her name. I think she helped make that album huge. I didn't even know there was such a thing as an electric violin before that album.”

“The sounds that lady generates! wow!!”

“Oh yeah baby, I made her scream. that wasn't the violin”

“Happy Bday Mr. Dylan”

“Happy birthday Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me :)”

“I've got a pic of Dylan when he was a teenager. He's standing on the street in SanFran with several of the Beats...Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsburg, etc.”

“Little Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing MN sure has come a long way”

“Happy birthday, Bob! The sun's not yellow, it's chicken!
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“My TT name come from the Bobby D song”

“An old buddy of mine saw Dylan in a club before he became famous.”

“I saw you at the Fillmore East, Step!”

“....I like the Way ya look at meee.... ,Evry thing about you's bringin me misery.....

Happy birthday Bob : )”

“"you dont need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"~~~~~~~~

for mothers day..my son, named dylan , got us tickets to see HIM and Willie Nelson together this Sunday in clearwater.
sat guru nam, majaraj qi !!to my musical guru~~”

“He's (They) here in two weeks Bowie Baysox stadium. I saw him a couple summers ago at the Marine Museum in Solomons Island. A rather intimate crowd of maybe 4,000”

“Did anyone else's PBS station carry the Marten Scorcese (sp?) Dylan special the last two nights. Four hours of Dylan documentary! "The long road home" Awesome! I've got to find some of that concert stuff that he never recorded on any albums! Anyone have any bootlegs? I have the Basement Tapes but thats it.”

“Wasn't it, "No Direction Home?"”

“Didn't talk about the drug induceed haze that fueled a lot of his writing.”

“I didn't see it...

Do you know if they will be re-broadcasting it?”

“Saw a very little bit of it.

It was awesome!”

“Bob's kind of like Zappa; either ya love 'em or ya just don't get 'em.”

“Geezr yes, sorry brainfart”

“or ya just don't get 'em.

There's not much to "get".”

“don't know if you're a member but netflix has this... http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=70037724&trkid=189530 ...they have a few other dylan movies too...Dylan was my first concert...i saw him at the famous, beautiful, and historical Louisville Palace...it was the first show after an extensive remodel...i'll never forget that
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“There's not much to "get".”
Mutt


Even YOU couldn't be serious with this statement”

“The greatest american poet has nothing to"GET"?”