Posted on 05/24/2016 12:00:41 PM PDT by Biggirl
The Times of Israel reports: “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now,” Bob Dylan sang in 1964’s “My Back Pages.”
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Happy 75th Birthday Bob Dylan!
Probably the greatest American songwriter who ever lived.
Great song!!
In before “Dylan Can’t Sing,”
I always laugh when thinking of Bob Dylan and the left. Yes, on most issues he is probably to the left. However, the great torch bearer for all the old 60’s hippies has been his own man. There’s a clip from the 90’s when he’s being interviewed before an awards ceremony and a reporter asked him about gun control and he said he believed everyone should be packing or something like that. Carlos Santana is next to him and you can see he’s extremely uncomfortable. That’s not the pat answer Bob!!
Infidels was a good album, but it would've been a great one had it included two songs from those same sessions in '83 -- "Foot of Pride" and "Blind Willie McTell," two of Bob's all-timers, imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COsO-lPbKjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC2roZjsv44
Both were eventually released in '91 on the Bootleg Series, Vols 1 - 3.
Happy 75th, Zimmy!
A generation of oafs wanted him to be their torchbearer and he said ‘no thanks’. He knew when you’re on top the only place to go was down. Good for him.
Neighborhood Bully was always one of my favorites. Years later I learned that it was about Israel.
“My Back Pages” one of my top 3 Dylan songs. The other two are “Like a Rolling Stone” and “To Make You Feel My Love”.
Bob Dylan - My Back Pages (From the 30th Anniversary Concert) with McQuinn, Clapton, Harrison and others. THE best version ever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEIMCWob3U
To Make You Feel My Love - Trisha Yearwood {HD}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idyK3Ws3zBU&list=FLLR0KZJRLxO4vVbc4-lAyjw&index=3
IIRC Mark Knopfler was the producer.
A few lesser-known post-’60s Bob classics:
And “Down in the Flood” from the reissue of Rock of Ages, 1972: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL8C4zIMZRM
“Man in the Long Black Coat” from the album Oh Mercy, 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAPv7xWQzgs
“Highlands,” 1996 (16 minutes+) from the album Time Out Of Mind, 1996 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex5h0PHHbNI
Tip of the iceberg. Many dozens of amazing tunes in his catalog.
Yep, co-produced it with Bob.
Mark did some nice guitar work on “Joker Man”.
Another pro-Israel song from 1984: Neighborhood Bully
http://bobdylan.com/songs/neighborhood-bully/
Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man
His enemies say he’s on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He’s the neighborhood bully
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive
He’s criticized and condemned for being alive
He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin
He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
He’s the neighborhood bully
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land
He’s wandered the earth an exiled man
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn
He’s always on trial for just being born
He’s the neighborhood bully
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad
He’s the neighborhood bully
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him
’Cause there’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac
He’s the neighborhood bully
He got no allies to really speak of
What he gets he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love
He buys obsolete weapons and he won’t be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side
He’s the neighborhood bully
Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
He’s the neighborhood bully
Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
In bed with nobody, under no one’s command
He’s the neighborhood bully
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health
He’s the neighborhood bully
What’s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin’, they say. He just likes to cause war
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed
He’s the neighborhood bully
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers? Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill
Running out the clock, time standing still
Neighborhood bully
Hell yeah. Mick Taylor made some nice contributions to that album as well.
And they had quite a rhythm section, mon — Sly and Robbie.
Thanks Biggirl.
‘Infidels’ is a great Dylan album. ‘Sweetheart like you’ is a worth a listen to hear some awesome Knopfler guitar. i recall an interview in Rolling Stone atound the time this came out (early 80s) that shocked a lot of hippies when he espoused a lot of conservative views. He never accepted the role of ‘spokesman for a generation’ - he is and will always be (in his words) just ‘a song and dance man.’
Mick Taylor - the best guitarist the Stones ever had...and why Keith fired him.
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