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Tagger
05-16-2009, 09:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2L2VwHIv1k

Tagger
05-16-2009, 09:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5Mw0qDTSY&feature=related

Tagger
05-17-2009, 07:38 AM
American Poet ... Bob Dylan ,,,the 60's... How did he come up with lyrcs ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjqYPH7rAo&feature=related

Tagger
05-17-2009, 07:45 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xIulyVsG8

Tagger
05-17-2009, 07:51 AM
NO !!!! say it isn't true ... Dylan goes electric ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnO2jwvaB5c

ProfessorM
05-17-2009, 11:58 AM
Eddie I think I heard he is going to turn 68 next week. Man

Tagger
05-17-2009, 12:21 PM
Still love pre electric Dylan ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtkVGClqrT4

Tagger
05-17-2009, 12:37 PM
Who's interviewing Who ... Do you want to interview Bob Dylan ? He'll terrorize you ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR8YuIGqWi4

Bocephus
05-18-2009, 08:57 AM
I saw an interesting movie about Dylan, called "Im not there". Had Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, couple others... was kinda weird, like you had to already know alot about Dylan to get it, and I dont, so I didnt.

mosholu
05-18-2009, 10:02 AM
I saw an interesting movie about Dylan, called "Im not there". Had Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, couple others... was kinda weird, like you had to already know alot about Dylan to get it, and I dont, so I didnt.

I know a fair amount about Dylan but a lot of that movie went right by me. The whole Richard Gere section about Woodstock, at least I think that what it was, was a mystery. Cate Blanchett was cool as the mid 60s Dylan. Where is the director's voice over when you need one.

Bocephus
05-18-2009, 01:29 PM
yeah, the whole part with Richard Gere was just out there. I thought it was just me not knowing every detail about Dylan's life, but I guess not. Youre right, though, the mid sixties dylan was the best part of that movie, Ledger didnt do himself or Dylan any favors being in that one.

sokinwet
05-18-2009, 06:49 PM
I believe the 2nd concert I ever attended was Dylan at Symphony Hall for his 1st "electric" appearance in Boston. Don't remember much except a lot of strange looking people were there.....didn't know at the time that I would soon become one!

Crafty Angler
05-19-2009, 04:16 AM
Watched part of I'm Not There when it first came on cable - and never made it to the end...:hs:...gotta say it was a big disappointment after all the hype

One of my favorite lines is Dylan's during an interview, possibly in one of those Youtube clips I haven't had time to watch yet - I use it all the time:

"I'm not related to those people - and I can prove that in any court"...:laughs:

Classic

If you get a chance to see the PBS Dylan in Newport documentary, it's definitely a must-see if you're a fan

Slingah
10-05-2011, 12:08 PM
north country blues - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSj0sbHnVfs)

Slingah
10-05-2011, 12:18 PM
GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY SUB ITA - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxfW8lKIYa0)

Slingah
10-05-2011, 12:20 PM
Bob Dylan- Hollis Brown- 1963 (Music Video) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr0rOw3em5s)

Joe
10-08-2011, 12:22 AM
When he was living with Joan Baez she said he would write in the mornings from the time he got up, chugging coffee, then switch to red wine around 1:00 pm, edit a bit, and knock off around two. This was 1963/4 or so.
He wrote prodigously, one song/poem after another. This was quite a departure because up until this time (with a few exceptions) folk singers were litterally that: they sang traditional folk songs. Songs by Wooody Gunthrie, Pete Seeger, and songs that went back to early Americana that were discovered by musicologist Alan Lomax in the 1930's as part of a WPA Arts Project.
Joan Baez got her start singing primarily old English and Irish ballads within the Cambridge MA scene which was emerging simultaneously with the Greenich Village scene.
She was an activist, but not an intellectual. A family joke in the Baez household was that anyone who gave her a book as a present didn't know her very well. Joan did not write much either, like most of the people performing then she was an, 'interpretative troubour.'
Joan got her first hit of an original song, "Love Is Just A Four Letter Word," by fishing it out of Dylan's trash can. Which she did each day when he was napping in the afternoons. He liked it, but could not remember writing it.

Slingah
10-09-2011, 05:13 PM
hey Joe......looks like Bob is under a little scrutiny again....just in a different medium this time...
Dylan Paintings Draw Scrutiny - NYTimes.com (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/questions-raised-about-dylan-show-at-gagosian/)

Joe
10-09-2011, 06:31 PM
He's been doing that his whole career - I'm surprised this was so heavy handed though. T.S. Elliot, and themes from Emily #^&#^&#^&#^&inson poems, have been favorite appropriations over the years.
I think his brain is fried at this point. With the exception of Blood on the Tracks and Desire, since the motorcycle crash, most of his work has been uneven, to downright terrible. I don't think Modern Times compares to his best work, though the critics heaped on the praise.
You have to understand that he’s a ‘darling’ of the NYT. People whom they are loathe to criticize because it has come back to bite them ass so many times. These artists were ahead of their time and the critics were blind and it looked bad that the critics lacked the sophistication to pick up on it. Meryl Streep, Robert Deniro, Woody Allen, David Byrne, Jeff Koons, Debbie Harry, Patti Smith and a host of other prominent artists also hold darling status – it’s almost like they can do no wrong.
He lost about 10 years of what could have been great creativity, to alcoholism.
People who read tremendous amounts can sometimes inadvertently plagiarize - that's what happened to the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin about five years or so ago - and she was always meticulous about citing sources. It’s possible to get original ideas mixed up with ones you’ve read in the distant past. But in Dylan's case, he was often seen in NY Public Library reading original Civil War journals, so that was intentional to be sure.

Tagger
10-10-2011, 10:05 AM
Still love pre electric Dylan ... good stuff Matt .. A great gift squandered ? Not the first time with an artist . Seems to happen most the time .

rphud
10-10-2011, 12:07 PM
The light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long" - Tyrell, from "Blade Runner" (or the preferred "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep")

Slingah
05-29-2012, 05:11 PM
Bob Dylan Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom | Music News | Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-awarded-presidential-medal-of-freedom-20120529)

Raven
05-29-2012, 05:31 PM
I'm still smiling over what wild Willy did on the white house roof.