April 13, 2011
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Dylan @70
It’s official. The ’60s are dead.
Whatever was left of the decade of protest died an ignominious death over the weekend, when its grand troubadour, Bob Dylan, played in China and Vietnam — with a very significant catch.
The catch being that both governments demanded — and were given — the right to pre-approve Dylan’s playlist.
Not that he included any of the protest songs that made him famous — and which might have made censors in both governments nervous.
He sure didn’t include any overtly political statements — as Bjork did when she signaled her support for Tibetan independence in a 2008 Shanghai concert.
Yes, Dylan now says he never considered himself “the High Priest of Protest, the Czar of Dissent” back in the day — though he certainly waited long enough to say so. (Then again, he didn’t play Vegas casinos back then, as he does now.)
Check it out…i saw someone on the train reading this book en español
Now think about that shiite…and you’ll have half an idea what Bob Dylan is–and it’s not somethang the Fox “news” crowd can easily pigeonhole
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, ‘n’ how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.Yes, ‘n’ how many years can a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea?
Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?
Yes, ‘n’ how many times can a man turn his head,
And pretend that he just doesn’t see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.That‘s supposed to be a protest song…right???
It looks more like proverbs or a psalm to me–and to the uneducated that occupy the editorial offices of News Corp–it never occurred to them that Bobby Zimmerman might be the Second Coming of Kings Paul or Solomon
Besides being an epic poet along the lines of Shakespeare, Homer, Shelley and the Romantics
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep-
He hath awakened from the dream of life-
‘Tis we, who, lost in the stormy visions keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance strike with our spirit’s knife
Invulnerable nothings.-We decay
Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume us day by day,
And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.whose works have been misinterpreted from Day One by scowlers of Christminster and the pseudo-Sartre bitchboys–as well as the cuntlings in editorial positions who neither know shiite about Bob Dylan nor took the time to research it
In No Direction Home an exasperated Joan Baez talks about how she and the “movement” tried to get Bob involved…but he was only into playing guitar and writing psalms…errr–songs
RE: the NY Post accusation that Dylan was too rebellious to play Vegas back in the day
Lady Gaga cwould play Vegas if she so chooses to…but she’s 20-fucking-something…THAT would be a career step DOWN!
@70 Dylan could sell out the Garden–and being a New Yawker i mean Madison Square–every day from the end of April to September if’n he wanted to…as long as He cuts the Live Nation Dolan gonifs out of the equation…the Knicks and Rangers ain’t gonna be using the place for long
HOKEY since it’s got the Grateful Dead in the video..but i’m getting me a Telecaster
Comments (2)
i’m listening to Lupe Fiasco – Words I Never Said…
Dylan was before my time, and I missed the whole zeitgeist, so all I ever knew of him was the dude who invented the (reinvented as) Pearl Jam method of enunciation.