Posted on 05/09/2007 7:39:23 AM PDT by grundle
Not all aged rock icons followed Rolling Stone's script in the magazine's 40th anniversary issue
In honor of its 40th anniversary, Rolling Stone recently published interviews with the 20 people who, in its estimation, shaped rock culture. The magazine called it "a family reunion."
It is a way of life, a political movement, a worldview and a means of propagating correct values as understood by founding editor (and still chief) Jann Wenner.
Wenner is a leftist and a man of parts — cultural commissar, social director and master marketer.
"We seem to be hellbent on destruction," Wenner said during his interview with Rolling Stone's idol-in-chief, Bob Dylan. "Do you worry about global warming?"
To which Dylan replied: "Where's the global warming? Its freezing in here."
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I love Dylan!
I don’t think Wenner expected that particular response....
LOL!! Fabulous response! Way to go, Bob!
Dylan is more of a semi-libertarian curmudgeon than anything else, and pretty much refuses to be used for political purposes by Lefty interviewers. I’ve seen a number of his interactions with them, that are priceless, like this one. He makes some statements that I think confirm my assessment, every now and then, on his Deep Tracks XM40 radio show, Theme Time Radio Hour.
Bob never lets the lefties use him...just ask Joan Baez.
GMTA - see my previous.
He’s his own man, certainly not your cookie cutter liberal artist.
Hell, all the lefty’s are still mad he went, ‘electric’.
Since Bob’s previous interview in RS, I have a newfound respect for that guy.............
People see me all the time and they just can’t remember how to act
Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts
Even you yesterday you had to ask me where it was at
I couldn’t believe after all these years you didn’t know even me better than that
ping
Did you read the first volume of his memoirs? He is definitely a libertarian, and, after the first few protest years, has fought off efforts by the hard left to co-opt his work. I think he realized the nature of the Left when he was booed at Newport for using electricity! But he is funny and has managed to put them down in a really witty way. The documentary Martin Scorcese did on him really illustrated his disdain for the Left. He was raised by a small businessman in a small town and there is no way to deny he is a capitalist at heart. I don’t agree with him on every little thing, but I am a huge fan.
Bobby, you crack me up, dude...:)
Jan Wenner is a smug hypocite.
I’ve been wanting to bring RS up for some time now... why do they think that every Rock music lover is a Bush hater and a defeatist. Really irks me when I pick one up to read.
The staff of RS sem to know everything about how the world events should be handled.
I consider Rolling Stone to be hate literature. It nauseates me. Spin has the music without the anti-Republican hate.
Heretic!...how dare he deny the dogma of St. Algore.
He probably is well armed. Stoned out wacko’s kept showing up at his house thinking he had the answers to the world’s problems.
At least that is what I read somewhere sometime.
Thanks for this article! It really brought a new perspective to me.
I always suspected something really changed in the ‘60s (as everything did), but I didn’t think of it as a concerted effort. Nor did I totally realize how the true classic rockers were fundamentally different from the ‘60s+ icons.
Interesting all around.
There is even one loser who spent several years going through Bob Dylan's trash almost every day.
That particular lunatic, named Alan J. Weberman, now despises Dylan for never befriending him, owns an anti-Dylan website and has published a book that sells disturbingly well which claims to "decode" Bob Dylan's lyrics. Predictably, he believes that all Dylan lyrics in which the narrator criticizes someone are personal jabs directed at him by Dylan in code.
Weberman's political leanings? To the left of Kucinich, predictably.
Is the documentary worth watching overall?
My brother living in CO would agree. It’s still snowing there. Where in the **** is global warming?
At least Zimmy is consistent because he busts the nads of ALL self-righteous pricks, no matter their political persuasion.
Hello RB!
You and me both.
Yes, it is fascinating. I checked it out from the library on a whim, and ended up watching it twice. The version I got had an interview with Scorcese at the end that was also very, very interesting.
Did you read the previous interview with Bob Dylan in RS where he excoriated the 60’s hippies? They invaded his farm in upstate NY, like it was some Mecca and they were pilgrims on a holy journey! He commented that, “I wanted to set those people on fire!”...........literally!.......
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42133
Remember when all the rockers once hated AlGore for slapping labels on their offensive albums?
>>Bobby Zimmerman’s passion is the music. He respects and admires good music no matter where it’s from.
That shines through from listening to Theme Time Radio Hour. He plays some *really* *obscure* stuff. It’s fun!
I’ll have to add those to the list to add to the stack.
Thanks for the sticker, Tipper
Actually, that was Tipper. But no one talks about that any more.
BUMP for Bob!
Bob Dylan has made a few mistakes in his very long career but nobody can ever say that he wasn’t true to himself. Also, nobody can ever say that Bob Dylan is told how to think or that he is susceptible to the chic political correctness of the day.
But mostly, Bob Dylan has made some of the greatest music I ever heard.
He's knows what cold is and is praying for global warming like the rest of us up here.
Yeah, I remember that. He said people were climbing on his roof and he just wanted to set those people on fire, lol.
I remember reading that. I had a much more favorable view of Dylan as a human (I always like his music) after that!
Yeah! Hendrix was a hawk!
Bob Dylan quip ping.
It’s outta here, a grand slam home run. Thanks, Bobby. I’ll throw on a disc later today in your honor.
Best Electric-Funk Trio...The Band of Gypsies (Filmore East)
I was a WAR-head, even though it had a white guy.
I just remeber Dee Snider from Twisted Sister going at it with Al..
Caught them in Reading, PA. at a two day outdoor concert. Good stuff.
“This was so unsettling. I wanted to set fire to these people. These gate-crashers, spooks, trespassers, demagogues were all disrupting my home life.”
Now they are the current Democratic voters and activists.
The chances of Wenner asking this question during a Democrat administration is ....well, zero. It's as if global warming and every other conceivable leftist gripe about the world (and the U.S. in particular) magically vanishes when Democrats control the executive branch.
As for Dylan, it's no surprise he sees straight through the PC leftist BS. Been doing it for decades.
Dylan? Good gawd.
Want to get a feel for the grip baby-boomer culture has on society?
I was in Wal-Mart yesterday and heard “Lonely Teardrops,” by Jackie Wilson being played over the in-store music system.
That song was recorded nearly fifty years ago. Can you imagine shopping in 1965 to background music by the hugely popular Cliquot Eskimo Club of the 1920s?
And how about those Rolling Stones or Paul McCartney doing halftime shows at recent Super Bowls? Can you imagine the 1967 NFL Championship game featuring a halftime performance by Nora Bayes reprising her 1917 megahit “Over There”?
That’s the grip baby boomers have on popular culture. It’s awesome and shows no signs of going away.
The RS attitude is one reason why SirKit and I stopped going to folk music concerts. It was one big conservative bash every time. We just wanted to hear some nice music. If I wanted a sermon to go with it, I'd have been in church!
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