Posted on 06/01/2007 2:18:10 PM PDT by pissant
On my recent vacation I was back in San Francisco, where I spent a dozen years as a street reporter, and a place that was always referred to as "the city" when I was growing up in the boonies of the Sacramento Valley.
There on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle was a big take-out on the 40th anniversary of the now-infamous Summer of Love. The Chronicle raided the photo archives and dragged out all the old pics from the love in's and smoke in's and be in's of Golden Gate Park and the Haight.
It made me shudder to think I could have ended up in one of those pictures, and thank god I didn't. The mutton chop sideburns — which everybody had — are probably the most embarrassing detail.
But it struck me that people in my generation are having a spasm of weirdness about reliving their past right now. Maybe it just happens as the six-decade bell rings, but I think it is wallowing in a mud hole that is best left alone.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
"Do you think it's gloomy on the horizon," Wenner asks Dylan. "In what sense do you mean?" Dylan replies. "Bob, come on," Wenner says. "No, you come on. In what sense do you mean that?" Dylan demanded.
Bronson writes, Wenner tries again: "We seem to be hell-bent on destruction. Do you worry about global warming?"
"Where's the global warming?" Dylan asks. "It's freezing here."
PING
Bob IS cool
yup, Dylan still has it...
Ain’t Bobby so cool?
Hahaha,
I guess everyone has to grow up some time.
All that foreign oil controlling American soil,
Look around you, it’s just bound to make you embarrassed.
Sheiks walkin’ around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings,
Deciding America’s future from Amsterdam and to Paris
And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend.
Man’s ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don’t apply no more,
You can’t rely no more to be standin’ around waitin’
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turnin’ over in his grave,
Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan
And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend.
Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters,
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition
But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency,
All non-believers and men stealers talkin’ in the name of religion
And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend.
Excellent. I’m glad I’m not the only one not wanting to wallow in the cesspool of the sixties. Sadly, my 64-year-old idiot brother is still trapped in the Berkeley sixties. Pathetic.
Yup. Since the day he plugged in his electric guitar at the Newport Folk festival so many moons ago.
He's pro-American. From his song "Slow Train Coming"
All that foreign oil controlling American soil
Look around you, it's just bound to make you embarrassed
Sheiks walking around like kings, wearing fancy jewels and nose rings
Deciding America's future from Amsterdam and Paris
And there's slow, slow train coming up around the bend.
Good for Dylan. The so called global warming is just another name for graft. All our money they should be spending on things that count are not what it’s about. All the money they can steal is what it is about. That’s why nothing ever gets done; because they using on useless and senseless programs such as Global Warming. Ever wonder why we have bad schools, high taxes, etc. Ever notice how our government is touting something else under a disquised banner, of course. That is graft pure and simple.
Dylan has been ahead of the growing up curve for decades.
Yep. His one line answers tend to sweep away the garbage.
Anyone who played the keys in Bobby Vee’s band, before Bobby Vee was Bobby Vee, and is not ashamed to admit it, has got to be cool!
64 and he is still a hippie.
I will miss these days of seeing WW2 vets at fairs and parades. Because the greatest generation will be gone and the worst generation will replace them.
It’s countercultural/ radical to actually be a vocal support of conservatism. That’s what I’ve never understood about the leftists in hollyweird & the music industry— they act like they’re being brave by bashing _____ (fill in the blank with any conservative). That’s not courage, that’s standard operating procedure for the “getting paid to fake it” class.
Looks like he made it out of the 60’s without frying his brain like the rest of his homies.....good for Bob!
Beat you to it. ;o)
He had zero respect for the hippies when it was cool to be a hippy.
Good point!
Much of the Sixties “revolution”was mired in pretentiousness and hypocrisy,no doubt about it.
Yet these times are pretty dreary as well.I can’t STAND Cindy Sheehan but she was right about one thing-most Americans today care more about American Idol winners than our troops in Iraq.
Besides,the MUSIC of the Sixties-and the Fifties-was much better than today’s garbage.
Johnny’s in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I’m on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he’s got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin’ for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten
"Where's the global warming?" Dylan asks. "It's freezing here."
What a fool. The interviewer doesn't realize Dylan spends most of his time when not on the road, at his home in Malibu, where it seldom gets over 85 degrees on the coast.
Dylan never knuckled under to the groupie crowd of lemmings He avoided them like the plague
It’s also supremely idiotic to buy into what the left is selling.
By the time the 1960s counterculture reached its apex, Bob was off singing country ballads and ignoring the idiocy.
Dylan came across as pretty apolitical.
“Wonderin if she’s changed at all,
if her hair was still red...”
Tangled up in Blue
Really? I'm sure that's why (from what I've read) he's never, ever, returned home to Minnesota.
Of course, one thing Minnesota is NOT is "cool" - at least to the Hollywood types. Now, Tower, Minnesota DID still hold the record for "cool" in the lower 48, the last time I checked...
(And of course, good ol' Bob wasn't there at the time... ;>)
There was a time when I could recite just about all his lyrics. Not now! LOL
Zimmy is the coolest musician out there. When is his next studio album? When is his next studio album?!
Bobby Vee!He had skills.Rubber Ball and Walking With My Angel are two of my favorite songs!
Dylan is kind of the Southpark of musicians.
I guess everyone has to grow up some time.
Well, Dylan grew up sooner than most. He cut "Slow Train" back in the 1970s and was exploring important themes even before then. A lot of people don't even realize he publicly supported Reagan for president.
I agree!A couple of years ago there was a TV review about a “daring”new show about a priest who rebelled against Vatican doctrine.
A TRULY daring show would have been one where the priest fervently DEFENDED Catholic theology and bashed the reformers AND was played as a hero,not a nut case.
And dreaming about meeting St. Augustine.
Just think, it will be very soon you will be supporting the “worst generation” with your tax money! Including me! Haha. Dig deeper, we old farts vote.
Oh yeah, so brave, bashing the Catholic church. Now THAT’S original & edgy. LOL.
Yeah, but first he went to see the Gypsy, staying in a big hotel.
You mean Robert Valine is not touring on the oldies circuit with Freddy Cannon and Bobby Rydell?
Theres money to be made in them thar nostalgia shows.
but not before the beauty parlors were filled with sailors.
Its all such a CLICHE and the Hollywood liberals think they are being SO avant-garde.
The last I heard (as a born-and-raised-there Minnesotan) was that he wouldn't even show his face back home. I honestly hope I'm 100% wrong...
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