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Bob Dylan

Post by MKFaizi » Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:27 pm

First thing that struck me was how we have all aged. I first became aware of Dylan and Joan Baez and Martin Luther King in about 1962 -- when I was ten years old.

Bob Dylan has written one hell of a lot of songs. Very poetic. Had a knack for words. My guess is that he meant most of them. The catch is that he never wanted anyone to know or to use his meaning. I reckon he did not want anyone to follow HIM. He never wanted to be the Messiah.

It was all right for his words to be used in rebellion but he did not want to be the star rebel. Tear the motherfucker down but don't tell 'em Bob sent you.

Yet, I am not sure it was that conscious. Maybe.

Could be that he was confused. When I was a teen, everybody thought Joan Baez was this ugly girl who had the hots for Dylan. Looking at her pictures as a young woman, I reckon she looks right pretty. Black hair, big brown eyes, nice face, slim figure. At sixty-six, she is still a pretty woman and Bob looks like crap. His labial fold is just ripe for the pickin. Joan just has some grey hair.

In my assessment, he was a rebel rebelling against the status quo while rebelling against those rebelling against the status quo soon to become the status quo and against the soon to become the status quo and so on. You try to pin him down and bitch is going to move. You think he's Jew, he's going to be Christian. You think he's folk, he's going to be rock. You think he's rock, he's going to be country.

No damn wonder baby boomers is drivin SUVs.

Pure bitch.

Don't get me wrong -- I like Dylan. Great wordsmith. Can't sing worth shit.

You just can't put him in a slot. He'll slip out.

Like, if you said to Dylan, "Hey, Mister Tamborine Man," Dylan would say, "Yo' mama."

Pure nigger. Thug Life.

Faizi

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Post by Tomas » Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:45 pm

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Post by Jamesh » Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:28 pm

Can't sing worth shit.

I always object to this statement. It is commonly made. He was a brilliant singer because of the emotion his voice induced in people. I couldn't care less about the limitations of his vocal range or any of that sort of crap.

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Post by MKFaizi » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:04 am

Well, object on, my nigga.

Naturally, I object to your objection.

Dude could not sing. I don't care about emotion. Anyway, dude did not seem all that emotional. However, it is true that his singing ability was not important. He was a poet.

Back in the day -- when he first made the John Wesley Harding album, I did like "All Along the Watchtower." But, if I listen to it now, I plumb like the Hendrix version better.

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