Bob Dylan song draft

[DMT]

Kinda makes me wonder what a much younger Bob Dylan might have thought about that.

Would Young Bob approve of Old Bob hobnobbing with The Masters Of War? Would he have counseled him to use the forum to make a statement about drone strikes, perhaps?

Does Old Bob still think it's important to note that "Even the president of the United States must sometimes have to stand naked"?

The Ghost Of Young Bob visits Old Bob before the White House ceremony - now there's an idea for a movie or a play...

Surely Old Bob would quote Churchill: "If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain".

[johnnya24]

I think old Bob is angling of a Secret Service gig ... needs to get a haircut.

[johnnya24]

Dylan working on follow up to Chronicles.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/17/bob-dylan-chronicles-sequel

'bout time ... Volume 1 was excellent.

[Erik]

Anyone heard the new album yet? Thoughts?

[johnnya24]

Anyone heard the new album yet? Thoughts?

I heard a couple of songs on the radio ... not bad on the first few listens. As a Dylan fan it would certainly make me want to buy the record ... although there was nothing original or that inventive musically from the tunes I heard.

[Erik]

Saw my fourth Dylan show last night. Heyelander was there, too.

Susquehanna Bank Arts Center, Camden, NJ 07/28/13

Things Have Changed
Love Sick
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Soon After Midnight
Early Roman Kings
Tangled Up In Blue
Duquesne Whistle
She Belongs To Me
Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Blind Willie McTell
Simple Twist Of Fate
Summer Days
All Along The Watchtower
E: Ballad Of A Thin Man

I had NO idea he played High Water, She Belongs to Me, or Blind Willie McTell. What I heard sounded nothing like the versions I know. He finally stumped me on the "guess the song" game that he's been playing for years.

But, once again I got "the good Bob." He was engaged and enthusiastic for the whole set, and his band worked a hell of a groove all night, the highest points being Summer Days and Watchtower. I also found it neat that he rearranged "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" to sound a bit like "Black Magic Woman."

[Lucky]

Looks like a great set list. I had High Water as my 7th round pick in the draft.

Blind Willie McTell must have been a treat. I remember there was some kind of story about how it wasn't released until many years after it was recorded, then not played live by Bob for a while after than.

Here's the set list from the only time I got to see him, back in 2002:


Duncan And Brady
Mr. Tambourine Man
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Searching For A Soldier's Grave
Maggie's Farm
Positively 4th Street
Cry A While
High Water (For Charley Patton)
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
One Too Many Mornings
Tangled Up In Blue
Summer Days
Sugar Baby
Drifter's Escape
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Like A Rolling Stone
Honest With Me
Blowin' In The Wind
All Along The Watchtower

[Erik]

Looks like he played 4 of my picks, if I remember the draft correctly: Things Have Changed, Love Sick, Beyond Here Lies Nothin', Blind Willie McTell.

[senorsheep]

Racist Bob?

Linky - http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/opinio...tml?hpt=hp_bn7

Less than a month ago Bob Dylan could justifiably feel he was revered in France. The singer was in Paris to receive France's highest public award, the Legion d'Honneur.

As France's most prestigious medal was pinned to Dylan's lapel, his French hosts heaped praise on the 72-year-old legend for his contribution to music -- and notably his songs inspired by French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine.

It was impossible to predict that, only three weeks later, Dylan would be embroiled in an ugly controversy that has resulted in preliminary charges against him in France for inciting racial hatred.

Ironically, Dylan's comments were made about America, not France. In a Rolling Stone interview published in 2012, the singer was quoted as saying: "If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood."

A Croatian group in France pressed charges against Dylan for his remarks. Now Dylan, who has performed in both Croatia and Serbia, finds himself in legal trouble in France for comments he made last year about racism in America.

The Croatian group claimed that Dylan was equating all Croatians with the small minority of Croatian war criminals.

Has he been mixin' up the medicine, or what?

[johnnya24]

I don't think there's anything particularly racist ... poor phrasing, insensitive and a little ignorant perhaps ... but not racist.

[Erik]

Dylan has always said provocative shit just for the hell of it. Last year he told Rolling Stone that his soul died in the 1966 motorcycle crash and was replaced by that of another Robert Zimmerman who died in a motorcycle crash in 1961.

[madducks]

Bob Dylan has sold his entire catalog of songs, which encompasses more than 600 songs over 60 years, in a "landmark agreement" with Universal Music Publishing Group.

The agreement between Dylan and the company was announced Monday. It's a major shift for the singer and songwriter, who has controlled much of his own intellectual property according to multiple reports. Financial terms weren't disclosed, but the New York Times says it's estimated at more than $300 million.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/media...log/index.html

[Erik]

I would guess that has to do with end-of-life estate planning. Money is the easiest thing to divide.

As much as we hate to think about that, he is almost 80.