allow me to cross post (please)

Some context;


Quoted from "The Saturday Evening Post" July 30, 1966

"This is Bob Dylan's year to be mobbed. Next year it will probably be somebody else. But this year Bob Dylan is the king of rock 'n' roll, and he is the least likely king popular music has ever seen. With a bony, nervous face covered with skin the color of sour milk, a fright-wig of curly brown hair teased into a bramble of stand-up tangles, and dark circled hazel eyses usually hidden by large sunglasses, Dylan is less like Elvis or Frankie than like some crippled saint or resurrected Beethoven.
The songs he writes and sings, unlike the usual young-love pap of the airwaves, are full of dark and, many insist, important meaning; they are peopled with freaks, clowns, tramps, artists and mad scientists, dancing and tumbling in progressions of visionary images mobilized to the massive beat of rock 'n' roll. They often make very little logical sense, but almost always they make very good poetic sense. According to a recent poll, college students call him the most important contemporary poet in America."


And no-one can ram context down anothers throat, but nonetheless there is a reason for all this "Dylan Worship". It comes from appreciation of his unique talent, then and now.

 Misterfixit wrote: 


Man, I wanna party with you!

No doubt she inspired you to write "Always Something There to Remind Me." 

I think Al Kooper confessed in an interview with Terry Gross that he had no fuckin' idea what he was doing on the organ and everybody but Dylan wanted him out. IIRC he showed up hoping to play guitar for the album, but Mike Bloomfield's playing put that idea on the shelf toot sweet. 

 casey1024 wrote: 
I echo this sentiment. He's always worth listening to, IMO.  Not sure why there is such hatred of Dylan on RP.

Poet and storyteller extraordinare.  I can understand why many do not enjoy hearing him sing, but I, for one, do.  Thank you, Mr. Zimmerman.

 I think he describes Easter time in Juarez very well
now get back to your Bay City Rollers collection

richlister wrote: 

 cShaggy wrote: 

I be here!  Hope you are having a great time right this minute!

Everybody in my church be dancing to this most excellent song...  love it...
 

Bob, how you ever got to prominence is beyond even God's knowledge.

This... is shite.

One of Bob's brilliant best.  From AllMusic.com:

"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" has six verses but no chorus. The song's lyrics describe a nightmare vision of the narrator's experience in Juarez, Mexico, in which he encounters sickness, despair, prostitutes, saints, shady women, corrupt authorities, alcohol and drugs, before finally deciding to return to New York City. The lyrics incorporate literary references to Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and Jack Kerouac's Desolation Angels, while the song's title references Arthur Rimbaud's "My Bohemian Life (Fantasy)".

 Poacher wrote: 
Poacher, you apparently don't know shit.

Painful. Should have just stuck with poetry and left the cacophony voice out of it.

 cShaggy wrote: 
His hotel account was closed for abusing the rules of the house. Apparently, he was found sitting alone in the middle of a trashed room, naked apart from a pair of desert goggles and a single rubber glove. 

 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote: 

Or at least shoot the piano player...

 Proclivities wrote: 
Cheers, Proclivities!  

 On_The_Beach wrote: 
  I try not to go back more than 18 months on post-responses, but I got a little zealous and "literal" there.  Yes, they surely were influenced by Bob's work.  I admire the work of both artists too.

 Proclivities wrote: 
I see you have dredged up a 2+ year-old post that was a somewhat flip response to a troll. Having said that, John, Paul & George were in awe of, and heavily influenced by Dylan, certainly in their early work, as were most songwriters in the early/mid 60's. This ain't exactly a revelation. If you're gonna quibble over "#1", go with "a major" influence. As for Ringo, he was marching to the beat of a different drummer.
(And yes, I love the Beatles!)

love this song...

Bob Dylan has a new album out called Tempest...  for details about the album, look here...

 WonderLizard wrote: 
An old Hohner Pianet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohner_Pianet) in the studio, scars, cigarette and dooby burns; it had character.  I was there with my cameras.  The backups stayed around and practised for Highway 61.  I left with a groupy girl waiting outside who gave me the clap.

 On_The_Beach wrote: 
At no time did any member of The Beatles ever cite Bob Dylan as their "#1 influence".  Good tune here.

He's a poet.  And poetry is often not so accessible. 

So last year I went to a concert of this brilliant songwriter. It was a pleasure to see this living legend perform, even though it wasn't very pleasant on the ears.. 'cause I hadn't realized it until then that Sir Bob is just that: an utterly brilliant songwriter. When interviewed even his answers are poetic.

But he can't sing (not live anyway), play the organ nor harmonica... but he does it.. all of it..

It took a while to get used to it, and halfway into the concert I got to enjoy this mumbling man that seemingly randomly pressed the keys of the keyboard and just as precisely blew into the harmonica..

A memorable night it was.. ;)

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

 

I would crank it up, but that would cause all the neighborhood dogs to start howling.

I'm ready to hit the harder stuff.

I love Dylan, but understand perfectly why there are a lot that don't. His voice along with Neil Young (who I also love) is definitely an acquired taste. Unlike some people, I understand that music is subjective and just because you love something does not mean that someone else's opinion to the contrary is not valid.

 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote: 
Why?  Does all the awesomeness bother you?