Bob Dylan - I just don't get it

[ouchmonkey]

and the Modfather can sing a bit too..

? He sounds like an irritated cabbie yelling at you over his shoulder about how you pointed out your turn to him too late......

mind you, we are talkin about Dylan aren't we.

wheezy ol' fecker.

It's not so much him - it's his fans. They think he's a god or something, it makes you not even want to try listening to it. To his credit it seems to annoy him too.......

 

[ZWord]

It sounded different a while ago.

I never really liked the recordings much either except subterranean homesick blues.

But I got to understand it better when I met this old guy who calls himself Prana, and he played blowing in the wind with a harmonica and all, no amplification, just him, harmonica and acoustic in a room, and the harmonica sounded the size of an organ, and and the whole thing just seemed spaced out in time, and huge, and you know it's kind of difficult to describe music, but, anyway, when I heard it, I suddenly understood what the whole Bob Dylan thing was about.

 

[changingman]

He (Weller) sounds like an irritated cabbie yelling at you over his shoulder about how you pointed out your turn to him too late......

Hahahah... that's spot on!! He does.

while Dylan sounds like a wheelbarrow wheel or door hinge that could do with a squirt of WD40.

 

[Sir Belchalot]

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

 

[friedaweed]

Don't forget 9pm tonight bbc2.

PICK OF THE DAY
Arena: No Direction
Home - Bob Dylan
9pm

Martin Scorsese's impressive two-part profile charts Bob Dylan's meteoric rise to folk-rock stardom. Contributors include Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg and Dylan himself. Concludes tomorrow at 9pm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/bobdylan/


Just got Bob Dylan Chronicles in tescos for £3:75 too

 

[moose]

I'm not the biggest Bob fan on earth, but I did find tonight's documentary extremely interesting, not least because of what other people said about him. Particularly the North of England hecklers

 

[Hollis]

Particularly the North of England hecklers

Yeah - miserable bastards. Was quite fascinating how Dylan himself came across now - incredibly down-to-earth. Worth reading Chronicles if you haven't done so.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

It was a good documentary - valuable social history. Glad I watched it.

 

[sojourner]

It was a good documentary - valuable social history. Glad I watched it.

Me too, loved all the clips of bands, singers etc - still think Dylan is over-rated and ridiculously deified though. I'm one of those that don't 'get' it - all my mates love him, and use really emotive language when discussing him, but he leaves me cold - I thought this doc would help me 'get' it, but it didn't.

 

[han]

I don't see him as a particularly gifted songwriter... all that political stuff which he is most famous for was very fashionable in the folk scene in the early sixties, and anyway he was only emulating his hero, Woody Guthrie.
I think it was all completely false - when did he ever become active in politics or the civil rights movement?

His guitar playing ability amounts to just strumming basic open chords...

And as an individual he's just a complete tosser....

I completely agree!

There's nothing remarkable about his MUSIC at all - it's all just chords I, IV and V in predictable places, or the standard blues sequence. Completely forgettable stuff, just copying what Woody Guthrie did decades earlier (but his was real folk, not a middle-class student emulation).

It's his LYRICS that were more remarkable for their time.

He does seem a bit up his own arse, it has to be said....

 

[han]

But yes, that documentary last night was excellent!

 

[han]

Joan Baez sounds like she needs to be put out of her misery though. She sounds like a cat in pain!

 

[Hollis]

He does seem a bit up his own arse, it has to be said....

He seemed to spend most of the programme saying he'd done nothing special musically.. maybe just "articulated" the moment. We can forgive him his 60s arseyness. he was a young man then.

 

[changingman]

The first half of the docco was amazing... some fantastic archive footage. And Odetta was incredible!! Very powerful performer. Much like Sister Rosetta Tharpe (of whom there's one equally short film clip in existence)

Got the settee booked for 9 pm tonight.
It's just a shame about that bloke who keeps cropping up playing the worst harmonica you ever heard...(since I started learning anyway in 1967)

 

[silentNate]

But yes, that documentary last night was excellent!

Enjoyed the tale of the stolen records- still hasn't apologised has he...
Ripping off someone-elses version of House of the Rising Son stank also...

Thoroughly enjoyed documentary though will probably miss it tonight as working

 

[changingman]

Enjoyed the tale of the stolen records- still hasn't apologised has he...
Ripping off someone-elses version of House of the Rising Son stank also...

I'm sure you mean "House of the Rising Sun"...
The Animals have had to belatedly issue an apology over their version of the song.
Apparently there isn't a house in New Orleans..

 

[BigMoaner]

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,1574578,00.html

One thing that has always bugged me is the slavish adulation that Bob Dylan seems to attract... and I simply don't understand why.

I don't see him as a particularly gifted songwriter... all that political stuff which he is most famous for was very fashionable in the folk scene in the early sixties, and anyway he was only emulating his hero, Woody Guthrie.
I think it was all completely false - when did he ever become active in politics or the civil rights movement?

His guitar playing ability amounts to just strumming basic open chords...

And as an individual he's just a complete tosser....

So, you, Bob Dylan fan... defend yourself!!

sickening post that should have had you banned from the forum.

 

[William of Walworth]

sickening post that should have had you banned from the forum.

Nine-year-on bumping of antique-to-dead threads should be fairly banworthy IMO