Rise to vote, sir!

I had a copy of "Bringing it all Back Home" that had something on the album, probably a beer stain or god knows what, but it play the most glossalalic phrase during "It's All Right Ma" and I wish I'd recorded it. Kind of a "badee-bidet-bjong" or something weird and chanting, and then I'd nudge the needle and it'd go "and itch...and itch...and" *nudge* "It's All Right, Ma...I can MAKE it..."

and then I cleaned the album one day and the "scratch" completely disappeared...

whidbey: "It's All Right Ma"



when i'm old and grey and bumping around on a cane (should I be so lucky, that is), i will be glad that one day, i heard bob dylan perform that song live, with my own two ears.


many other dylan songs get love for various reasons, but for some reason this one is underappreciated. i don't know how people can hold up "Watchtower" as a greater piece of work than this, but they do.

one of dylan's most powerful songs.

"I Can't Wait"

Goodness hides behind its gates.
Teachers teach that knowledge waits,
can lead to hundred dollar plates.
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes does have to stand naked.

Yep.

rickythepenguin: many other dylan songs get love for various reasons, but for some reason this one is underappreciated. i don't know how people can hold up "Watchtower" as a greater piece of work than this, but they do.

one of dylan's most powerful songs.

Indeed, the delivery, the lyrics, the music. It's a breathtaking song. I've heard Dylan say, in an interview (in No Direction Home?), that he sometimes listens to this song and is surprised by it. He says he's too old to do something like that again.

Inigo_Montoya: Goodness hides behind its gates.
Teachers teach that knowledge waits,
can lead to hundred dollar plates.
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes does have to stand naked.

Yep.

Saw Dylan and the Band play that in 1974, during Watergate. Can you imagine the applause?

/God, I'm old
// Dylan really should be put down.

I wish I wish I wish in vain
that we could sit simply in that room again
10,000 dollars at the drop of a hat
I'd give it all gladly if the submittard fell into an acid vat.

As Tom Lehrer said, it's okay if you put a couple of extra syllables into a line.

Inigo_Montoya: Goodness hides behind its gates.
Teachers teach that knowledge waits,
can lead to hundred dollar plates.
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes does have to stand naked.

Yep.

Oh the masters make the rules
for the wisemen, and the fools

His best song

Cat Food Sandwiches

The concert recorded for Before the Flood?

He's actually not hard to understand at all when he's talking normally. And personally I don't think he's hard to understand when he's singing either.

Inigo_Montoya: Cat Food Sandwiches

The concert recorded for Before the Flood?

No, it was the concert in support of "Planet Waves". Band solo, Dylan solo, Dylan and the Band.

Cat Food

Yep...That tour was recorded on the album Bob Dylan and The Band: Before the Flood

If you're not familiar with that album, I'd highly recommend you go out right now and buy it.

Inigo_Montoya: Cat Food

Yep...That tour was recorded on the album Bob Dylan and The Band: Before the Flood

If you're not familiar with that album, I'd highly recommend you go out right now and buy it.

Thanks, I have it on vinyl, but haven't heard it for years. Might have to break down and purchase a CD.

Passive Aggressive Larry: He's actually not hard to understand at all when he's talking normally. And personally I don't think he's hard to understand when he's singing either.

Once you get the ear for him, he's easy to understand. But at first, I had a little bit o' trouble.

Blonde On Blonde FTW!

I just, just got back into Dylan recently. Did you know his music has lyrics? Some of it quite profound

Blood On The Tracks, hands down

hee hee it's funny because he sings diff'rent

Oop, gotta go, "Hee Haw's" on

Favorite Dylan lyric:

And I couldn't help but think, through the thunder rolling and stink,
That I was just a puppet in a play.
And through the roar and smoke, this string is finally broke,
And a cannon ball blew my eyes away."

Favorite Dylan song:

When the Ship Comes In

Cat Food Sandwiches
i envy you greatly, sir.
/youngin'

it's Blond on Blonde

Second best line in all of rock and roll

"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face."



(THE best line is "Yeah yeah yeah.")

Inigo_Montoya: Goodness hides behind its gates.
Teachers teach that knowledge waits,
can lead to hundred dollar plates.
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes does have to stand naked.

Yep.

While money doesn't talk, it swears
obscenity, who really cares
Propoganda, all if phony.

"The sun isn't yellow, it's chicken."
-- "Tombstone Blues"

Genius.

Looks like this has a version of "Born in Time" on it. A personal under-rated favorite.

Inigo_Montoya: But even the President of the United States
Sometimes does have to stand naked.

Nothing personal, Inidgo but this trite little line always gets brought out when a Rep is in the WH; I dont know if Bob sang this any time that Bill was in office but if he had, I doubt people applauded the way they did when he sang it in '74. Which I saw. In Chicago. One of the 22 times I saw him over the years.

I only stopped cuz I got dammned sick and tired of hearing crap like 'blowin in the wind'; for a man with such a great back and current catalog of songs, he always manages to play a crappy warhorse like that.

I will say this: I watch a PBS special about his times at Newport and seeing him do Mr Tamborine Man was truly a revelation.

He is the only singer/song writer I would lable a genius. In popular music no one else is even close.

Glad he's got more stuff coming out; its always interesting - unlike the garbage that Neil is trying to pass off ala
Chrome Dreams II - an unlistenable piece of garbage.

Most of this stuff is floating around, but I'd love to hear the live cuts.
/his voice was strong and clear when I saw him last year
//wonderfully surprising

An alternate version of Tell Ol' Bill? Sweet, that's one of my favourite Dylan songs ever.

see famous look-a-like faces

mfaby

I understand your point. That whole verse just seemed germane to the situation in the US today, and I thought I'd pass it on the whomever. I'm sorry that it can sound trite. Note that it was written during a Democratic administration.

How about this, instead?:

Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull.
From the Grand Coulee dam to The Capitol.

"They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I cant help it if I'm lucky."

Dylan's a funny guy. In fact, there's the entire lyrics for his neat little song "Jet Pilot"

Well, she's got Jet Pilot eyes from her hips on down.
All the bombardiers are trying to force her out of town.

She's five feet nine and she carries a monkey wrench.
She weighs more by the foot than she does by the inch.

She got all the downtown boys, all at her command
But you've got to watch her closely 'cause she ain't no woman
She's a man.

dmax 2008-07-30 04:46:10 PM
Second best line in all of rock and roll
"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face."

Let me guess. You're a photographer, too.

mfaby: I dont know if Bob sang this any time that Bill was in office

Frequently, it got the same hoots and applause from the audience then as it did now. I suspect, for different reasons.

Dear Jerk: dmax 2008-07-30 04:46:10 PM
Second best line in all of rock and roll
"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face."

Let me guess. You're a photographer, too.

Nope. And not related to dmin.

Inigo_Montoya: mfaby

How about this, instead?:

Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull.
From the Grand Coulee dam to The Capitol.

Good one.
Or (on a personal level)
'They say I shot a man named 'Gray' and took his wife to Italy.
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me...
I can't help it if I'm lucky'

I feel right at home in this thread.

Jokerman, insightful:
Standing on the water, 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 truth so far off, what good will it do.