Groovin' to Bob Dylan

Robert Allen Zimmerman came along at the right time in our lives and changed the world and the musical message..............

"Yes, ’n’ how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they’re forever banned?
Yes, ’n’ how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind"

"You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud"

"Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin"

"Do you take me for such a fool
To think I’d make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don’t know to begin with"

"In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I’d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now"
 
Been a Dylan fan since the 60's. When I had vinyl I had all his albums.

Seen him in concert a bunch of times.

The night before I hopped a bus for Leonard Wood, I requested Desolation Row on the radio, longest (11:21) Dylan song I could think of.
 
His newest Album , "Fallen Angels" will be released On May 20th
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Johnny's in the basement
Mixin' up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinkin' 'bout the guverment


One of the best opening lines ever!


"Bringing it All Back Home" is in the CD player of my car at this moment. His early work is my favorite, and "Blood on the Tracks" is one of my favorite albums of all time.

Blood on the Tracks is in my top 5, no doubt.

"You hurt the ones that I loved best, you covered up the truth with lies--
one day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,
blood on your saddle..."

*shivers*
 
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I saw him in Peoria.
The Hot Club Of Cowtown opened.
Then Willie Nelson
Then Dylan.
4 hours standing in a rain. Totally worth it.

If you pay attention to his lyrics you can tell he has a good sense of humor. All those Bob Dylan's 115th Dream songs and such......
 
God says to Abraham "Kill me a son."
Abe says "Man, you must be puttin me on."
God says "No." Abe says "What?"
God says "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run."
Abe says "Where you want this killin' done?"
God says "Out on Highway sixty-one."
 
Bob Dylan is our generations Woody Guthrie. Proud he is a fellow Minnesotan. Just last weekend I rode Highway 61 and pasted the juvenile detention center in Red Wing that he "visited" in his youth.

In music there is no single greatest, but as the saying goes, today's artist are standing on the the shoulders of giants.
 
I was into other stuff.....

I only knew Bob Dylan for 'Blowin' in the Wind' and "Mr. Tambourine Man" and most of these through remakes by other artists.

We went to see the Concert for Bangladesh and Bob Dylan played his set with acoustic guitar and harmonica. While my friends were laughing at "..it's a hard" ala 'Beavis and Butthead' I was planning how I could find out more about him.


"Heh....Heh, Heh....He said......'hard'"

"Yeah....Heh Heh..Heh Heh"
 
All of his songs....

Dylan wrote Blowin in the Wind but Peter Paul and Mary made it a famous hit.;)

All of his songs were made famous by other people. Which was ok until I found the real deal.


PS: Saw him in concert. Somebody said that the last time he was in town, he wasn't up to it, the crowd wasn't up to it. I'm glad I didn't let that stop me. Good Lord.

Though I have lots of favorites, 'Desire' is one of my favorites. The girl he found with the violin added a LOT to that album.
 
That's 'he'..

she hands you a nickle
she hands you a dime
she asks you with a grin if you're having a good time
and then she fines you every time you close the door
Nah I ain't gonna work on Maggie's Farm no more

Isn't that verse about Maggie's brother?

I like the verse about Maggie's Ma:

I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more
No, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more
Well, she talks to all the servants
About man and God and law
Everybody says
She's the brains behind pa
She's sixty-eight, but she says she's fifty-four
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more.

:):):)
 
Always had fun with the chorus of "Rainy Day Woman", esp. with the all wino sounding Salvation Army band but I think it a seriously protestie protest song... from the war to civil rights to discrimination, even his own style of music all while keeping a sense of humor.
Hell of a songwriter.
 
Once after being bored answering the same questions in interview after interview,
Bob told a reporter that he was from Gallup, NM.
He apparently had visited a relative there.
It could be true!
Hey - Stella Stevens was from Hot Coffee, MS!
 
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