“Bob Dylan to rock Vietnam in special concert,” AP reports. I wonder if they’ll censor the same songs as the PRC did?
After nearly five decades of singing about a war that continues to haunt a generation of Americans, legendary performer Bob Dylan is finally getting his chance to see Vietnam at peace.The iconic American folk singer and songwriter was set to play a special concert in the former Saigon on Sunday evening, where he’s expected to belt out some of his classic anti-war tunes, nearly 36 years after the Vietnam War ended.
Dylan’s music during that tumultuous era helped define a generation, touching thousands of young people who took to the streets demanding that Washington stop the war in Vietnam.
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And that worked out just swell for everyone. Although didn’t Dylan have an “include me out” moment back then when the protest movement tried to hitch their wagon to him?
I’ve heard of Dylan more than once say his songs are open to interpretation, and that many considered war protest songs are not necessarily so.
But how could one have anything but low expectations for his politics… commie Woodie Guthrie his hero and all.
As for the songwriting… probably the best of our time, imho