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[The Bobster]

[jajdude]

Bobster, yr killin me,

Dylan is my favorite, I dare say.



Chronicles is a good read.

[jajdude]

[igotthisguitar]

Dylan & Lennon: Taxicab Confessions
Synopsis
John Lennon and Bob Dylan talk smack about Johnny Cash and Mama Cass
while apparently stoned out of their minds in the back of a London taxi

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2684261

Question: Is this footage from the D.A. Pennebaker film "Don't Look Back"?

[Ya-ta Boy]

You were in 8th Grade in '73?

[igotthisguitar]

Given the degree i love his music & songs, i agree with others who've commented that Dylan really
should NOT try to be so loose & cool on piano.

Eeeuuuuwwwwccccchhh ...

From The Internet Amazon.com 10th Anniversary Show
July 16th, 2005

Starts around the 1hr. 49 minute mark

http://boss.streamos.com/real/amazon/anniversary_archive/concert_300k.ram

The Swedish page w/ some cool links )
http://www.brageforlag.no/Dylanhot.htm

btw - he's apparently heading out on tour again shortly with none other than
MERLE HAGGARD & his band: the Strangers.

Dunno bout Bob but remember, Merle "don't inhale".

[Satori]

I love Dylan, and I love The Band, and about the only thing I love more than Dylan and The Band is "Dylan and The Band"! I also think The Band are amoung the finest interpreters of Dylans songs.

Eamo, I thought Time Out of Mind was excellent, did you not?

I saw Dylan in New Zealand on the Time Out of Mind tour. Id been a rabid fan for so long, it was really a high point. I went with my Dad, we smoked a big hooter quietly, then Dylan came out and launched into Tambourine Man, and I was thinking CAN THIS REALLY BE REAL!!!!?

By the way, in the video with Lennon, they both seemed very uncomfortable with each other, like they were jostling egos a bit. I actually prefered the way Lennon came out of it, a bit more reserved and wry. Dylan was pushing his coolness a bit hard, trying to be the man, in my opinion.

[eamo]

[Satori]

Its got a VERY unique production sound curtesy of Daniel Lanois, don't you think?

[eamo]

[Satori]

I think there are three Dylan era's. Obviously the whole first ten years were incendiary. Then he dipped off, and came back with Infidels, which, in my view, featured his second best backing outfit after The Band. Sly and Robbie on drums and bass, Knopfler and Mick Taylor ( one time Stone ) on guitar, and Alan Clarke on keys. Dylan never sounded so tight! And now the current era he's in with the latest two albumns is probably his best after those first two periods. Hell, if he stopped recorded in 75 he would still have assured himself a place in rock history. Who else has brought such depth to rock poetry?

Standing on the waters casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing.
Distant ships sailing into the mist,
You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.
Freedom just around the corner for you
But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

So swiftly the sun sets in the sky,
You rise up and say goodbye to no one.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,
Both of their futures, so full of dread, you don't show one.
Shedding off one more layer of skin,
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

You're a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds,
Manipulator of crowds, you're a dream twister.
You're going to Sodom and Gomorrah
But what do you care? Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister.
Friend to the martyr, a friend to the woman of shame,
You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

Well, the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy,
The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.
In the smoke of the twilight on a milk-white steed,
Michelangelo indeed could've carved out your features.
Resting in the fields, far from the turbulent space,
Half asleep near the stars with a small dog licking your face.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh. oh. oh. Jokerman.

Well, the rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame,
Preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.
Nightsticks and water cannons, tear gas, padlocks,
Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain,
False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin,
Only a matter of time 'til night comes steppin' in.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery gray,
A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet.
He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat,
Take the motherless children off the street
And place them at the feet of a harlot.
Oh, Jokerman, you know what he wants,
Oh, Jokerman, you don't show any response.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

Play count the literary references with that!

[ddeubel]

Wow, great thread...agree with so much.

Especially agree with your comments Satori, Infidels was a good "comeback" and I really dig "I and I" , my all time fav. Dylan song. Leonard Cohen's favourite too and he told an interesting story of finally meeting Dylan backstage after one of Dylan's concerts in Paris. Dylan says he really liked the Cohen song, "the Law" and Cohen replied yeah, he had written it over a period of a year but it took him about 3 years to polish it. Cohen says he really digs Dylan's song, "I and I" and he asks how long it took him to write. Dylan says he wrote it in his head, in the shower. Drove to the studio, penciled it again and then recorded it in one take.

That's the difference between Dylan and Cohen. .....the divine and the mechanical.

I LOVE the Dylan/Band live album, Peace concert they performed together against the Vietnam War. early 70s. First half the Band on stage, then Dylan and then both together. That album rocks. Don't remember the title, it is at home, with all my other Dylan ......

My fav. cover of a Dylan song -- the O'Jays, "Emotionally yours.".....though Neil Young tries hard with "All across the Watchtower.".

DD

[igotthisguitar]

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=bob+dylan

DYLAN & VAN MORRISON performing "Crazy Love"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1319101477902382295&q=bob+dylan

[Ya-ta Boy]

Thanks for that shot of nostalgia, igtg. I saw Dylan and Morrison in almost exactly that spot in Athens in '89. Warm night. Cool memory.

[igotthisguitar]