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Spring and a new album from Bob?! Can't wait! I'm as happy as a Minnesotan can be :D :D :D
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Spring and a new album from Bob?! Can't wait! I'm as happy as a Minnesotan can be :D :D :D
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Mexique
Yes I am actually ok with paultill Mexico has not been colonized by Spain at the time for independence! as he said Mexico has found its independence in 1821 and it is true that this is Mexico, which abolished the slavery. voyant medium voyance telephone
Its great that even after
Its great that even after all these years, Bob Dylan keeps writing and singing extrordinary music. I'm very excited for his new album release later this month, and i will be sure to get it.
Words From The Audience!
Finally, someone with something to say about Bob Dylan's audience! Thank you, "cully1962" for your insightful comments below.
It IS great that Bob Dylan finally has a large audience who are more fully appreciating what his lyrics say, and who are allowing fresh delivery, and the endless variations, to create new experiences with the songs. And it is Bob Dylan who made it happen, but not overnight. It took a lot of patience and persistence from Bob Dylan.
And it also took a lot of patience and tolerance from those of us in the audience who understood it and put up with those who did not.
Some of us, like me, picked up on it right away. I will never forget the first time I heard him do it at a show. It was the Bob Dylan & Tom Petty tour. I remember the thrill I got when I first heard Bob Dylan's new delivery. I was listening to something brand new, something he had never done before and it was very exciting. But I felt like I was the only one who was excited about it. The people around me looked either baffled or pissed off.
I couldn't get enough of it, but for literally years, I felt like I was the only one in the crowd who was enjoying it. It made me mad. I wanted to shout at the frowning Bores: "Why did you bother to come?! Stop complaining, shut up, and let me enjoy the show!"
It was also exciting to read in "Chronicles" how Bob Dylan "discovered" this "new" way of making a song new from the guy who showed it to him.
But I was sure I wasn't the only one who appreciated it, I was just part of a minority. There are still a few Bores Who Don't Get It who end up sitting next to me sometimes, but for the most part, it really does seem like most of us not only "get it," we deeply appreciate it.
Carol Shriver residing in NYC and Upstate New York
Dylan's Interview
Dylan sounded so liberated when he talked about his audience's non-contextual acceptance of his lyrics' metaphors. His autobiography conveyed such a high degree of frustration from his early career when press and fans refused to listen to what he was saying, that I am happy for him that he now has an audience that will pay attention to his words in an absolute, non-constructionist sense. What a fate he suffered: being given the ability to communicate but being trapped with a vast audience that refused to listen. Plus having idiots invade his privacy.
Because I was a fetus when Dylan's first album came out, he is to me is an artist that I payed attention to after reading that U-2's producer recorded an album with him. The '60's to me was just the LP of the original cast of "Hair" that was filed with my parents' other pop LP's in the stereo cabinet. I was spared the misrepresentations.
The only other modern artist I can think of who was more misunderstood was Mario Puzo. He wrote the American "Crime and Punishment" and was mischaracterized as a pulp writer.
loving the interview
I'm really enjoying the interview in parts. It sort of brings Bob himself into the site a little more and gives me something to look forward to. Wouldn't it be nice if it carried on and on? I suppose I'm being greedy. He's got plenty of other things to do...
Audience & Dreams & Politicians
Mexico. Texas. Schmexas. I can always count on Bob Dylan's fans to get their factoids straight. But the interview didn't read like there was anything to get straight, just two people talking and jumping around in time.
But that's the trees. The twigs, actually. What about the forest?
In the interview with Bill Flanagan, the most interesting statements come from Bob, and his statements are about audience, dreams, and politicians.
But just when it starts to really go somewhere, Bill Flanagan takes a sharp turn down another street...my neck aches.
I'm waiting for Part 3.
Carol Shriver residing in NYC and Upstate New York
New Album Interview
Hey guys,
Mexico wasn't a colony of Spain at the time of Texas's war for independence. Mexico became independent in 1821. A least one of the U.S. settlers in Texas was that Mexico had abolished slavery.