Comments on: Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown

By: Dhiraj

Dhiraj — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:58:42 +0000

Very Interesting post. The elderly statesman of music has collided with forms ranging from folk to glam rock and many in between and has left them richer, altered forever. In every endeavour he opened new gates and redefined what can be treated as art. Dylan the unquestionable ‘poet laureate’ of the rock started with folk and transcended the form by owning it. He lent poetic nuances to the protest movement that was shrieking around him in early sixties. He was the reluctant hero who was seen as the voice of his times. Since then he has been conducting a ceaseless and successful campaign to break one rock archetype after another.
http://modernartists.blogspot.com/2011/10/bob-dylan-at-70-once-more-for-simple.html

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:32:08 +0000

seansarto,
I don’t know if you are a Christian or a Jew,
but I think you are treading on shifting sands if you presume to know Dylan’s heart and mind on this incident or why he’s put together a Christmas album, whose proceeds are to be donated to charity. WHO are YOU to know the motive of any man?! Only God can search the heart and HE always comes up with what’s going on there!

By: seansarto

seansarto — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:33:09 +0000

And now we see the reason behind this story..”Bob Dylan to release Christmas Album”…Of course, Mr. Victoria’s Secrets/Caddillac(I’ve heard Pepsi too)..etc(not too much of a sell-out is he?)…is Jewish…but “Christian” only when it pays…Even if he is donating the proceeds to charity, he needs the prestige..and the “down-to- Earth” persona which is essential to his “Americana”market…plus there’s quite a few kickbacks involved…

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:24:31 +0000

Valuable thoughts and advices. I read your topic with great interest.

By: Like a complete unknown — Cranach: The Blog of Veith

Like a complete unknown — Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:01:03 +0000

[...] man wandering around your neighborhood in a hooded coat, late at night and in the rain, it might be Bob Dylan. He’s been doing that sort of thing lately, and people have been calling the cops on him. But [...]

By: Noesis Noeseos

Noesis Noeseos — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:19:35 +0000

Dylan, what to say about Dylan? His music was an inspiration to me back in the days. His protests were not the most acerbic or subservient to the comsymps. They probably had some influence on my having filed (successfully) as a conscientious objector during the Viet Nam War, even as I deplored the North and its Russian suzerains.

When I became older, I went first through a libertarian phase and then a more (John Adams-civil republican) conservative, the position which (more or less) I hold today; I am most assuredly no pacifist. I dismissed Bob Dylan, actually paid next to no attention to him, for many a year; but I was surprised later to hear that he himself had become at least somewhat more conservative.

Truth is, he has always been his own man who has defied being pinned down upon a category. This is easy for a private man but quite difficult for a public figure, upon whom one clamoring faction or another is always freighting its expectations.

So this anonymous man wanders in the rain and is picked up by a police officer who simply cannot take him at his word. I do believe I can hear the first guitar strums of a new song, and I might someday even listen to the lyrics.

Ah, but we were so much older then/
We’re younger than that now.

Happy trails, you wandering Jew.

By: Markus

Markus — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:17:48 +0000

“One thing about Bob Dylan that few people know is that the device that held the harmonica around his neck so he could play it while playing the guitar was his own invention”

No. Jimmy Reed.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:36:43 +0000

Seems like Bob and the cops got along just fine, they asked he answered, not a big deal. No yelling, no spitting no losing their cool.

Life after all goes on, you go Bob

By: Kouba

Kouba — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:25:58 +0000

In truth, immediately i didn’t understand the essence. But after re-reading all at once became clear.

By: Renascent

Renascent — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:46:36 +0000

It’s been a joy to hear and appreciate his poetry for decades!

“Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
An’ the poet and the painter far beyond his rightful time
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.”