Bob Dylan

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    I read that there is some concern about Bob possibly having some difficulties as a result of dementia. Apparently he's exhibited some strange behaviors (that is, more than normal), not showing up to receive his award, repetitive set lists and such. Sure hope he's doing OK. His music changed my life. Much respect for Bob Dylan.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • weddingparade
    weddingparade Posts: 1,179
    for sure. respect. the dude is 75 years old!!
  • weddingparade
    weddingparade Posts: 1,179
    At the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan stepped on stage, plugged in his Stratocaster electric guitar and forever changed Rock ’n’ Roll. Now, 47-years later, Dawn Peterson thinks she may have that very guitar, left on her pilot father’s plane after the show. Elyse Luray and Wes Cowan team up to investigate what could be the most valuable item since the show began.
    http://www.pbs.org/video/2253616014/
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,505
    https://youtu.be/AjIsUUoebuk
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • joe159
    joe159 Decatur, IL. Posts: 329
    https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-time-out-of-mind-fragments-bootleg-series-1234632265/

    Looking forward to this release. His bootleg series is excellent imo, even turned me on to his religious and early 80's stuff that I'd always dismissed before
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,505
    https://youtu.be/OSg3IeP7m64
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,112
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    https://youtu.be/OSg3IeP7m64
    I'm ordering the 10 LP set.  this is one of my favorite albums and one of Dylan's best touring periods!
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  • dudeman
    dudeman Posts: 3,163
    static111 said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    https://youtu.be/OSg3IeP7m64
    I'm ordering the 10 LP set.  this is one of my favorite albums and one of Dylan's best touring periods!
    Agreed and agreed!  His guitar playing was the best of his career, too. (In my opinion, of course.)
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  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,112
    Any Dylan fans read/readin The Philosophy of Modern song?
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  • dudeman
    dudeman Posts: 3,163
    Haven't started it yet but it is next on my list. 
    If hope can grow from dirt like me, it can be done. - EV
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,705
    Great that he’s still putting out music to listen to but he should def hang it up playing live shows! 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    josevolution said:
    Great that he’s still putting out music to listen to but he should def hang it up playing live shows! 

    I haven't seen Dylan since the amazing 80's show with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, so I don't know how rough his shows are today.  But I strongly suspect playing live on tour gives the man incentive to keep going.  Much has been written about how important that is to him.  So if I were to go to a Bob Dylan show today, I would go with the intention that I was helping one of our greatest living musicians to keep going and have reason to be on this earth a little longer.  I know that probably sounds flaky, but that truly is how I would see it.   That is how I felt when I saw Dizzy Gillespie near the end of his life.  No way could he blow hot bee bop like he could in the 50's and 60's, but I got to see a national treasure play live. To me, that was thrilling, memorable, and worth every cent!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,126
    brianlux said:
    josevolution said:
    Great that he’s still putting out music to listen to but he should def hang it up playing live shows! 

    I haven't seen Dylan since the amazing 80's show with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, so I don't know how rough his shows are today.  But I strongly suspect playing live on tour gives the man incentive to keep going.  Much has been written about how important that is to him.  So if I were to go to a Bob Dylan show today, I would go with the intention that I was helping one of our greatest living musicians to keep going and have reason to be on this earth a little longer.  I know that probably sounds flaky, but that truly is how I would see it.   That is how I felt when I saw Dizzy Gillespie near the end of his life.  No way could he blow hot bee bop like he could in the 50's and 60's, but I got to see a national treasure play live. To me, that was thrilling, memorable, and worth every cent!
    I saw that tour as well. It was Bob Dylan and Tom Perry and then the Grateful Dead. One of my regrets is that was the only time I saw Tom Petty live. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited January 2023
    GlowGirl said:
    brianlux said:
    josevolution said:
    Great that he’s still putting out music to listen to but he should def hang it up playing live shows! 

    I haven't seen Dylan since the amazing 80's show with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, so I don't know how rough his shows are today.  But I strongly suspect playing live on tour gives the man incentive to keep going.  Much has been written about how important that is to him.  So if I were to go to a Bob Dylan show today, I would go with the intention that I was helping one of our greatest living musicians to keep going and have reason to be on this earth a little longer.  I know that probably sounds flaky, but that truly is how I would see it.   That is how I felt when I saw Dizzy Gillespie near the end of his life.  No way could he blow hot bee bop like he could in the 50's and 60's, but I got to see a national treasure play live. To me, that was thrilling, memorable, and worth every cent!
    I saw that tour as well. It was Bob Dylan and Tom Perry and then the Grateful Dead. One of my regrets is that was the only time I saw Tom Petty live. 

    Very cool that you saw Dylan with the Dead!  Yeah, I too regret I did not see Tom Petty live more than the one time, but once is better than none. 
    Believe it or not, I never saw the Grateful Dead, even though I grew up on the peninsula and lived in San Francisco from '69 to '73.  Hard to believe.  

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Hi!
    Hi! Posts: 3,095

    Casual Dylan fan here. I had seen him one time at the Outlaw Music Fest show in Detroit back in ‘16. I enjoyed it. I Thought he looked pretty snazzy in his white suit too. I would have to agree that he is a national treasure and I would go see him play again. It would conjure up the same feeling I would get if I were looking out at the Grand Canyon or looking up at Chimney Rock. Feelings of awe, wonder, and respect. 

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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    Nailed it! :lol:


  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,126
    edited January 2023
    Hobbes said:
    Nailed it! :lol:


    :rofl:

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    My favorite Bob Dylan tribute song:


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • dudeman
    dudeman Posts: 3,163
    edited August 2023
    It is rumored that Bob is going to stop touring next year. Is anyone going to try to catch one of the last performances?
    If hope can grow from dirt like me, it can be done. - EV
  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    edited August 2023
    dudeman said:
    It is rumored that Bob is going to stop touring next year. Is anyone going to try to catch one of the last performances?

    No. Honestly, and with all due respect for his body of work, he is, by miles, the worst live act I've ever seen. I saw him a few years ago, maybe it was 2016, and, yikes: terrible sound, stage lit by what seemed to be a single 40-watt bulb, unrecognizable music, incomprehensible lyrics, zero acknowledgement that there was an audience.

    I still get angry thinking about it. We and hundreds of other people left before intermission; as we fled for the parking lot, I heard the only recognizable words of the night, "tangled up in blue." Like the rest of you, I'm sure, I know that song well; it's brilliant. That night, an artistic felony, a crime of great violence, was committed against that song and, I assume, many others (it was impossible to tell what any of them were, so I am just guessing). I don't know why he would dismantle -- vandalize -- his own body of work like that, but I wasn't interested in spending any more time watching it happen.

    ETA: I've seen some rough performances -- small-town hardcore bands playing in abandoned stores, etc. This was SO much worse than any of those shows.

    ETA2: Before anyone says, well, he's old: Mavis Staples opened for him, and she was a GEM. She put on a show, brought her best effort, engaged the crowd. And I'm a fan of Richard Thompson, who's no spring chicken but who still is a polished, witty, charming, incredibly talented performer after 50+ years in the business.
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