Bob Dylan

“I had a gut dislike for Dylan, still do - at least to the Dylan of the 60s and 70s - but his talent and charisma are undeniable.”

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14467222/

Noting the music industry�s complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he [Bob Dylan] said, �Well, why not? It ain�t worth nothing anyway.�

LMAO!

My hero!
last edited: 8/22/06 8:14:18 PM”

“wheres wanderer to call him shallow and stupid for using his broad brush?

in general, i agree with bobby. and its not even a generalization to say that theres more crap being put out today than there has been in the history of music”

“but at the same time, theres still alot of GREAT music out there. but its getting harder to find and its not on any radio station around here. the alternative rock station around here plays mostly just testosterone rawk, and i cant afford satellite radio or to go out and buy a bunch of cd's

feh”

“Use your computer! www.wdetfm.org has some excellent music programs in the evening and at night. Jazz from 7-10, variety from 10-12 and alternative from 12-5am. Saturdays are bluegrass and folk. It's good stuff.

Anyone catch the American Masters on Bob Dylan?
last edited: 8/22/06 8:25:24 PM”

“Think "recording" and not "music"... he is not saying there haven't been any good songs/music in 20 years. He is rebelling against technology.

So misunderstood... it's his fate!”

“Oh, and I did NOT catch the American Masters thing on Bob. When was that?”

“I don't know that I can agree with him there.”

“im dialing up, sass. streaming audio doesnt work too well for me”

“http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/dylan/index.html

I think it was a few months ago. I taped it but if I hadn't I would seriously consider getting it somehow. It was excellent.”

“I'm sorry Crash Bang.”

“Thanks, sass.”

“I prefer live music easily to recordings as I think would many people. For me it's not just the sound but the spontaneity of a live performance, seeing and hearing the musicians tune their instruments. Seeing them create music out of empty, silent space with their bare hands. When you can do that by pressing "play" or "repeat" something huge is lost for me.

Photo-realistic painters like Richard Estes paint pictures that look like photographs. What's the point? Why go to all that technical effort just to prove that a human being can master anything as well as a camera and even better... well perhaps that is the point. ;)

There are photographers that refuse to crop their photographs because they feel it somehow imposes their views on the subject matter of the composition... that there is something deeper in the image that is at risk of being diminished when it is edited by cropping.

When I think about Dylan I think about his roots (Guthrie, blues, country, folk music). This is music that has ALWAYS sounded best to me live. I listen to some of the old recordings of Robert Johnson (snap, crackle, and pops included) and I can't imagine them having a deeper impact on me... other than if I could have heard them in person.

I re-read this and it makes no coherent point which means I have had one beer too many tonight. This is a good thing.”

“It makes sense (at least I think it does). The pops and crackles are part of the magic for you.”

“I heard people say stuff like that, but it was cuz what they were smoking, not what they were drinking.”

“or as Bob would sing. "RUMNOIN ofrm murmrr yamana burmop mfrmow"”

“i'll prolly shell out big bux to go see him when he comes to chicago. warms my heart.

I saw Dizzy Gillespie many, many years ago. I can't listen to a recording of A Night in Tunisia without thinking of that concert in a crummy auditorium at LSU. I also got to see Chet Baker play when I was a youngn' and now that he has been dead (since the 80s?) I consider myself privileged to have heard him play despite the fact that he was falling apart at the time. I listen to those CDs, esp his early stuff when his voice is soooo young, and I hear the voice in that concert.”

“i spent all night last night playing/practicing "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)". that is a fun song to play/sing but the lyrics are really tough to memorize. i constantly have to play from a sheet with the lyrics printed on it. many of the verses require some clever singing to get them to come out right. dylan is a true genus and it's never more obvious than when you study a piece of music like this.”

“I used to play that and others on guitar...I think I once knew all the words for all the songs on Dylan's albums through Blonde on
Blonde....”

“Blonde on Blonde? what's that?”

“Blonde on blonde? that my friend is.... wait - how old are you?”

“i mean is that a song dylan wrote or something?”

“uh... Yep!

Try this link: http://bobdylan.com/songs/


In my "almost ready for primetime" rotation, I currently have Positively 4th Street, Don't Think Twice, It's Alright, It Ain't Me Babe and Just Like A Woman.

(Do I detect a theme, here?)


And I've got my eye on Your Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat. I even saw a polartec model in a catalog once...”

“wow. i did not know all that. i mean i knew he did a lot of leading edge stuff in his time. that acoustic cover he did of bryan ferry's 1973 classic "a hard rain's a-gonna fall" was really outstanding. damn skippy, learn something new every day.”

“And the Freakin' Internet just goes on forever! [G]”

““Blonde on Blonde? what's that?”
Jimmy san
1:43:11 PM

Christ on a cracker, Jimmy san.”

“well if you don't know either there is no point in being rude about it stovestomper... geesh!”

“"christ on a cracker"???????”

“LOL
Damn kids ain't learned ANY of the important stuff nowadays!!!! ;-)”

“Christ on a cracker - Used as an outburst of frustration, or as an exclamation.”

“Christ on a cracker, Jimmy san.”
StoveStomper
4:50:28 PM
12/12/06

As an employee of two Catholic Institutions, I am duty bound to protest this vain and scurilous reference to holy communion.

I am also duty bound to confess that I got a good laugh out of it.”

“yeah, right... troll on brother. next thing you are going to say he wrote "knockin' on heavens door" instead of guns n' roses...
last edited: 12/12/06 10:54:20 PM”

“I think I'll spark one and climb into ,'Sad eyed lady of the lowlands', until the market opens this morning.”

“;)”

“that is a fun song to play/sing but the lyrics are really tough to memorize

but it you're singing like dylan you don't have to memorize them...just mumble”

“playing that damn hard to memorize song tonight but drank too much and my fingers are ripped up now so i can't play. what else, oh yeah, was playing something else he did... uh... no it was young... unknown legend... did young write that?”

“(burp)”

“Jimmy san...yes, Young wrote that...”