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Last & only time I saw Bob,

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:51:40 +0000

In reply to no that's when the culture of

Last & only time I saw Bob, he was singing "You gotta serve somebody". He's travelled a million miles since then, and assuredly not in a straight line. Trying to co-opt Scorcese's movie for some little regaling on the left, trying to fit Dylan into some gripe against the ages, is pretty laughable. Been wondering when I get to quote these, and perhaps this is the time:

Now the railman gave me two cures
Then he said, "Jump right in"
The one was Texas medicine
The other was railroad gin
And like a fool I mixed them
And it strangled up my mind
Now people just get uglier
And I have no sense of time

...I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' walkin' way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

So long honey babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
Goodbye's too strong a word, babe
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could've have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right

no that's when the culture of

artappraiser — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:42:39 +0000

In reply to What a ridiculous response.

no that's when the "culture of protest" ended and people like Dylan moved on. Change.

What a ridiculous response.

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:38:54 +0000

In reply to No you don't have to work on

What a ridiculous response. Maybe you mistakenly linked the wrong thing?

No you don't have to work on

artappraiser — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:26:52 +0000

In reply to Yeah, things change, but one

No you don't have to work on Maggie's farm no more

Yeah, things change, but one

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:21:37 +0000

In reply to he not busy being born is

Yeah, things change, but one thing that hasn't is that Maggie still runs the farm.

We could throw out some stand alone Dylan lyric to cover any thought " but with truth so far off, what good would it do?".

The title: Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese has many twists of known facts but the title gives a clue to what they were doing. The movie is "A" Bob Dylan story, not "The" Bob Dylan story. There are a million of them. They all have some truth.

he not busy being born is

artappraiser — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:21:30 +0000

In reply to Bob Dylan & the Culture Industry’s Destruction of Dissent

he not busy being born is busy dying ~ It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

...Life is flux....The world order is continual change and resistance to this change is a kind of death in that the individual is refusing to participate in that which defines life... ~ Ancient History Encyclopedia on Heraclitus of Ephesus

The only constant is change ~ lotsa people @ Wikiquote

I remember walking through a

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 08:21:00 +0000

In reply to Bob Dylan & the Culture Industry’s Destruction of Dissent

I remember walking through a Camden Town bazaar a long time ago, and suddenly the inteo notes for Like a Rolling Stone live from Royal Albert Hall (64? 66?) started booming out of some hawker's ghetto blaster (can I still use that term?) a few aisles away, and it sounded so energetic and inviting I just had to buy the cassette, even w/o anything to play it on (oops, suddenly remember I did, my portable recorder to document my thoughts just got stolen early out in a Paris hostel). When I got home months later, I discovered shortly after the intro the tape switches to mono and stays there - still okay, but not magical.

This may or may not be the metaphor you're looking for. Dylan was already old even at that time. He hadn't quite lived up to the "voice of his generation" expectations a decade or more before, had failed folk music, had failed Judaism, was on his way to selling out as just another supergroup hack. Dylan has been mesmerizing and disappointing people in slightly unequal measures throughout his career. I'm sure his fascinating Chronicles disappointed others, but it was the (or 'a') tonic I needed at the time, even though I'd long stopped following him. Perhaps that he took his kids on a Caribbean sailboat tour would sound yuppie and pampered or excessive or plebean. Perhaps that he skipped his most famous works of the time(s).

I remember running across David Byrne's blogsite and being disappointed that he kinda sounded like everyone else, held obvious political views, etc. Dylan didn't disappoint me that way - he was still (and likely still is) looking somewhere different, watching the doughnuts, not the holes...

Someone asked Alejo Carpentier how he could write in Cuba under Castro without taking on the regime's atrocities. "I am writing about time, about Centuries - I can't be involved with these temporal changes".