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this is a discussion within the Music Community Forum; Yes, that was Bob Dylan up on stage I was assured. Yes, the words were in there somewhere, I was assured. Turns out, if I’m lucky by the end of the first chorus I can figure it out. No one ...

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Old 05-27-2011, 06:25 PM   #1
 
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Bumbershooting: Bob Dylan



Yes, that was Bob Dylan up on stage I was assured. Yes, the words were in there somewhere, I was assured. Turns out, if I’m lucky by the end of the first chorus I can figure it out. No one else I’ve talked to about it seems willing to admit what appeared patently obvious to me: If I knew this was the Bob Dylan I’d be getting, I don’t think I’d want to attend. I mean really knew. I had been warned, but this was beyond even my worst expectations.

We’d intersected with a few other writer types, and marveled at how good Dylan’s band was and the stripe going down his leg to mark him out for the eye from a stadium’s length away. But as the minutes passed and I tried to listen closely, I just didn’t experience the glimmers of recognition and nostalgia that I’d hoped he might stir up. My cohorts who’d experienced many a Dylan concert over the last few decades remarked this is the best they’ve seen him in all that time. I was powerless to argue in the face of such a response, beyond admitting I couldn’t understand a damn thing he was saying. His raspy unintelligible wail would remain unintelligible to me throughout my stay, cut short because I just really couldn’t take it any longer.

As we left the stadium and exited the gates, suddenly Bob’s words appeared with clarity out of nowhere, singing “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.” The voice that I’d been straining to hear was suddenly accessible to me outside the stadium, minus the gravelly overtone. Ummm, huh? When the final reports were written recounting the set-list as a veritable greatest hits collection, it just made me that much madder.

Everyone else seems happy to give Bob a free-pass on this one, but not me. This will go down as one of the most disappointing musical experiences I’ve had yet in my nearly thirty *gulp* years. For that Bob, there is no free pass.

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Old 05-27-2011, 07:45 PM   #2
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Those looking for Dylan should probably take a shot at one of his son, Jakob's, shows. Jakob is a pretty good song writer in his own right and probably is a better singer than his father ever was.
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Pops has the blues...Jakob aint quite there yet..

Hard to like a Liberal Artist?

Accurate, but don't sell Jakob short. He's got skills all his own...and he wears that same silly hat his Daddy wears. LOL

And you know it's funny. I like lots of liberal artists...I had to get over that a long time ago - that thing where artists want to share their politics. It ain't always easy, but music is the art I love, opinions notwithstanding of course.
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Wait Smash... you can't understand Dylan? Isn't he your father?
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Wait Smash... you can't understand Dylan? Isn't he your father?
Not that he did not try to be .... bet these blokes can't understand Dylan either.


Is this a new genre for Dylan?


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Old 05-28-2011, 03:06 PM   #6
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Is this any wonder that this is my favorite Dylan tune.

Dylan for Dummies

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Old 05-28-2011, 07:26 PM   #7
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Big sale at Guitar Center this weekend. I nearly bought the Epiphone Les Paul Slash...but I just couldn't justify it, even at under a grand.
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Old 05-29-2011, 09:01 AM   #8
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