Bob Dylan

beatleszeppelin · 08-03-2011, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by captaincaptain

Here is Bob's 15 year old grandson, Pablo Dylan. I think he has a lot of work to do.

Terrible.

Moshe · 08-12-2011, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by beatleszeppelin

Terrible.

OH DEAR
That really is awful

TockTockTock · 09-27-2011, 03:58 PM

Why does Dylan receive so much hype and praise for his music?

I realize this sounds a bit condescending, but I genuinely want to know...

Howard the Duck · 09-28-2011, 12:06 AM

^^the protest movement was just something Dylan latched on

he was never all that sincere in it, he admitted it himself in Chronicles Vol. 1, I think

blastingas10 · 09-28-2011, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Il Duce

^^the protest movement was just something Dylan latched on

he was never all that sincere in it, he admitted it himself in Chronicles Vol. 1, I think

Exactly.

Howard the Duck · 10-01-2011, 08:43 AM

i'm listening to disc 2 of No Direction Home

really great stuff - hearing different slants on overplayed albums' tracks

blastingas10 · 10-01-2011, 09:42 AM

"The last time I met Bob was after a concert he'd done in Paris. We met in a cafe and we had a real good writers talk. You couldnt meet two people who work more differently. He said, "I like the song you wrote called Hallelujah. How long did it take you?" And I said, "Oh the best part of two years." He said, "two years?" Kinda shocked. And then we started talking about a song of his called I and I from infidels. I said, "How long did you take to write that?" He said, "Ohhh, 15 minutes." I almost fell off my chair. Bob just laughed." - Leonard Cohen

blastingas10 · 10-30-2011, 04:01 PM

Bob Dylan was the original hippy, and anyone curious about the style and tone of the "younger generation's" thinking in the early 1960's has only to play his albums in chronological order.They move from folk-whimsy to weird humor to harsh social protest during the times of the civil rights marches and the Mississippi summer protests of 63' and 64'. Then in the months after the death of president Kennedy, Dylan switched from the hard commitments of social realism to the more abstract "realities" of neo-protest and disengagement. His style became one of eloquent despair and personal anarchism. His lyrics became increasingly drug-orianted, with double-entendres and dual-meanings that were more and more obvious until his "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35" was banned by radio stations from coast to coast... maybe because of the chorus line saying "everybody must get stoned." By this time he was a folk hero to the "under thirty generation" who seemed to be in total revolt of everything their elders were trying to believe in. By this time, too, Dylan was flying around the country-from one sold out concert to another-in his private jet plane, worth about 500,000 dollars. His rare press conferences were packed with reporters who treated them more like an audience with a wizard than a question and answer session with an accidental public figure. At the same time, Dylans appearance became more and more bizarre. When he began singing in Greenwhich village about 1960 his name was Bob Zimmerman and he looked like a teen-age hobo in the Huck Finn tradition... or like the Nick Adams of the early Hemingway stories. But by 1965 he had changed his name to Dylan and was wearing shoulder-length hair and rubber-tight, pin stripe suits that reflected the colorful and sarcastically bisexual image that was, even then, becoming the universal style of a sub- culture called "Hippies." -Hunter S. Thompson

SATCHMO · 10-30-2011, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by blastingas10

Bob Dylan was the original hippy, and anyone curious about the style and tone of the "younger generation's" thinking in the early 1960's has only to play his albums in chronological order.They move from folk-whimsy to weird humor to harsh social protest during the times of the civil rights marches and the Mississippi summer protests of 63' and 64'. Then in the months after the death of president Kennedy, Dylan switched from the hard commitments of social realism to the more abstract "realities" of neo-protest and disengagement. His style became one of eloquent despair and personal anarchism. His lyrics became increasingly drug-orianted, with double-entendres and dual-meanings that were more and more obvious until his "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35" was banned by radio stations from coast to coast... maybe because of the chorus line saying "everybody must get stoned." By this time he was a folk hero to the "under thirty generation" who seemed to be in total revolt of everything their elders were trying to believe in. By this time, too, Dylan was flying around the country-from one sold out concert to another-in his private jet plane, worth about 500,000 dollars. His rare press conferences were packed with reporters who treated them more like an audience with a wizard than a question and answer session with an accidental public figure. At the same time, Dylans appearance became more and more bizarre. When he began singing in Greenwhich village about 1960 his name was Bob Zimmerman and he looked like a teen-age hobo in the Huck Finn tradition... or like the Nick Adams of the early Hemingway stories. But by 1965 he had changed his name to Dylan and was wearing shoulder-length hair and rubber-tight, pin stripe suits that reflected the colorful and sarcastically bisexual image that was, even then, becoming the universal style of a sub- culture called "Hippies." -Hunter S. Thompson

Do you have any relevant and original thoughts of your own on the subject, or did you just feel like dropping this quote in any thread that happened to be about Dylan?

blastingas10 · 10-30-2011, 08:39 PM

Thats exactly what I felt like doing. Hunter Thompson was a great writer, people should hear what he has to say about Dylan. This is the Bob Dylan thread, theres no rule that I cant post a quote about him. Give me an effin break man. Its the Bob Dylan thread for christ's sake, anything about him is relevant. I admit, I was off topic on the other thread but I havent done a damn thing wrong on this one.

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Originally Posted by TheBig3

Someday when you're not a teenager anymore you'll look back on this time in your life and wish someone told you to stfu. I know it happened to me. At a young age you can't contemplate music being good that doesn't make you want to break things, or have some ass kicking riff that you think pulls the ladies. it comes with time and maturity.

And if you're gunna pull the "im older than 19 card" then your just a moron who never grew past cars, chicks and beer. And if you are actually over 19, please take some time and look at what your doing, and ask yourself why, becuase I know alot of these people, and let me tell you in all sincerity, no one likes them.

Before people jump on the "who do you think you are bandwagon", let me say this, its too GD hot to give a crap about offending people, just roll with it.

It is a generalization, but there is some truth to it as well. Its hard to understand some of Bobs songs when you are young.

To all the Dylan haters:

If he isnt the greatest songwriter/lyricist ever, then who is? Besides Leonard Cohen, and I dont even think Leonard is better.

09-27-2011, 03:58 PM	#3 (permalink)
TockTockTock They/Them Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,914	Why does Dylan receive so much hype and praise for his music? I realize this sounds a bit condescending, but I genuinely want to know...

10-01-2011, 09:42 AM	#7 (permalink)
blastingas10 Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 2,126	"The last time I met Bob was after a concert he'd done in Paris. We met in a cafe and we had a real good writers talk. You couldnt meet two people who work more differently. He said, "I like the song you wrote called Hallelujah. How long did it take you?" And I said, "Oh the best part of two years." He said, "two years?" Kinda shocked. And then we started talking about a song of his called I and I from infidels. I said, "How long did you take to write that?" He said, "Ohhh, 15 minutes." I almost fell off my chair. Bob just laughed." - Leonard Cohen

10-30-2011, 04:01 PM	#8 (permalink)
blastingas10 Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 2,126	Bob Dylan was the original hippy, and anyone curious about the style and tone of the "younger generation's" thinking in the early 1960's has only to play his albums in chronological order.They move from folk-whimsy to weird humor to harsh social protest during the times of the civil rights marches and the Mississippi summer protests of 63' and 64'. Then in the months after the death of president Kennedy, Dylan switched from the hard commitments of social realism to the more abstract "realities" of neo-protest and disengagement. His style became one of eloquent despair and personal anarchism. His lyrics became increasingly drug-orianted, with double-entendres and dual-meanings that were more and more obvious until his "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35" was banned by radio stations from coast to coast... maybe because of the chorus line saying "everybody must get stoned." By this time he was a folk hero to the "under thirty generation" who seemed to be in total revolt of everything their elders were trying to believe in. By this time, too, Dylan was flying around the country-from one sold out concert to another-in his private jet plane, worth about 500,000 dollars. His rare press conferences were packed with reporters who treated them more like an audience with a wizard than a question and answer session with an accidental public figure. At the same time, Dylans appearance became more and more bizarre. When he began singing in Greenwhich village about 1960 his name was Bob Zimmerman and he looked like a teen-age hobo in the Huck Finn tradition... or like the Nick Adams of the early Hemingway stories. But by 1965 he had changed his name to Dylan and was wearing shoulder-length hair and rubber-tight, pin stripe suits that reflected the colorful and sarcastically bisexual image that was, even then, becoming the universal style of a sub- culture called "Hippies." -Hunter S. Thompson