Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
PBS is showing it right now. An interesting piece of musical history. seems more of a documentary of the music scene in the late 50's, early 60's.It is going to be played again tonight and tomorrow...
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Was anyone else both amazed and a little uncomfortable when the clip of Dylan riffing on the shop signs played? On the one hand it's amazing to watch him come up with these different lines based on...
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Four decades later, Dylan's hysterical detractors("Judas!") come across as ludicrously hidebound and stodgy!
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Quote:There is a scene in `Don't Look Back' when Baez gets up and leaves, turning to say goodbye at the suite door. She never came back. Later it was discovered that she took a taxi direct to the...
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Quote:Joan Baez may be a great singer/songwritter but she's got an inflated sense of self worth and ego the size of the Grand Canyon: how could BD reject HER so publically? I think, while Joanie was...
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I have always been of the opinion that Dylan purposely let Baez take "Love Is Just A Four Letter Word". I don't buy her belief that he "forgot he wrote it". Kind of a somewhat cruel, bittersweet...
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Hi all,What Darrell brings up covers the whole theme of the show for me. He did not have much tolerance for people who didn't understand him (the press, his fans) or tried to manipulate him (the media...
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I've always felt that Dylan is one step ahead of everyone else; the fans, the media, the public at large wallowing their collective unconscience are stuck with what they know, what they get, the...
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Viewing NDH for the second time from a more objective perspetive my take is that both Dylan and Baez dispensed large doses of selective amnesia during interviews.So what! It is still an invaluable...
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Quote:Is Bob's motorcycle accident similar to Jim Morrison dying in France? Did it ever happen or was it an excuse for Bob to disappear for a while!?!Apparently, Dylan really did have a motorcycle,...
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MichaelIs it widely known that it was Grossman who personally supplied and administered Dylan 's `medicine'.On three occasions - before two press calls and a television appearance - I was present when...
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Don, I heard that story about the late Albert Grossman from someone who was present on the '65 tour. Your verification confirms it for me.Grossman was a Svengali figure, a real Col. Parker type, a...
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MikeI refuse to answer that last one.........too close to home bud
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Oh I don't think there is any doubt "Bobby" was a complete brat in 65 and 66. His behavior toward Baez in England was pathetic, childish and borish.His whole method of debating or arguing with people...
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Very well said. He chucked the whole media image of his early years, became somewhat of a jerk--at least publicly--and still came up with great stuff, over and over again.
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When you consider all of the inane and unanswerable questions asked of him by the press, I think that Dylan handled it well enough. "How many folksingers are there?" and "Can you suck your glasses?"...
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Quote:When you consider all of the inane and unanswerable questions asked of him by the press, I think that Dylan handled it well enough.He must've been thinking to himself, "This is the absolute...
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Well said, Todd. Dylan is one more entry in that list of artistic geniuses -- Bird, Rimbaud, Picasso and Faulkner come to mind, among others -- with extremely flawed characters.I do think, though,...
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In mitigation ANYONE who had to cope with the never ending avalanche of press attention that Dylan endured daily at that time would have either gone crazy or developed a defence mechanism. Dylan took...
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"It made for great copy."Not that that would influence your views in any way, being the completely disinterested, detached observer of history that you are. ;^)CB
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