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  • "You Don't Need To Be a Weatherman..." (Lyrics to Bob Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues')

    07/01/2008 9:26:41 AM PDT · by ETL · 62 replies · 624+ views
    several sources | several authors
    "Those who later formed the Weatherman organization produced a paper at the Students for a Democratic Society Convention in Chicago in June of 1969. With a nod to Bob Dylan, the sponsors titled their epistle: 'You Don’t Need A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Is Blowing.'"http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243 "Dubbing itself the Weathermen, this new organization took its name from a line in Bob Dylan’s 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'—'you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows'—and within months had set off bombs at the National Guard headquarters and set in motion plans to bomb targets across the country"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html...
  • Bob Dylan on XM?! You have to hear this!

    06/18/2008 10:00:48 AM PDT · by LS · 25 replies · 1,024+ views
    self | 6/18/08 | LS
    Ok, so I'm surfing my XM Radio channels and I hear the most amazing thing: "Ring of Fire," sung by Johnny Cash . . . in Spanish ("Anillo de Fuego"). Then I look at the scanner to see what channel I'm on---I thought I picked "Classic Rock"---and indeed, I'm on the right channel. It's the "Bob Dylan Show," where he hosts a show with his personal favorites. Ok, this sounds interesting. Dylan (I'm sure you can here his voice here) then says, "In any language, we don't want to end up in that ring of fire. That leads me to...
  • Guns and Moses (Dylan: Heston got a bad rap)

    04/09/2008 11:41:27 AM PDT · by pissant · 51 replies · 1,932+ views
    Politico ^ | 4/7/08 | jeff Ressner
    Last December, Bob Dylan literally stopped the music on his "Theme Time Radio Hour" show to honor Charlton Heston. Following the soulful tune “Eve’s Ten Commandments,” Dylan mentioned Heston’s iconic role as Moses in the well-known biblical epic and added, “Charlton gets a bad rap for his strong conservative beliefs and involvement with the NRA, but truth to tell, he was a strong advocate for civil rights, many years before it became fashionable….” Dylan ticked off Heston’s accolades, including the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award, and then added, admiringly, “Never mind the fact that he’s in a couple of our...
  • Bob Dylan wins a Pulitzer prize

    04/08/2008 8:51:40 AM PDT · by Borges · 195 replies · 2,485+ views
    Yahoo - AP ^ | 04/08/08 | HILLEL ITALIE
    Thanks to Bob Dylan, rock 'n' roll has finally broken through the Pulitzer wall. Dylan, the most acclaimed and influential songwriter of the past half century, who more than anyone brought rock from the streets to the lecture hall, received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, cited for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." It was the first time Pulitzer judges, who have long favored classical music, and, more recently, jazz, awarded an art form once dismissed as barbaric, even subversive. "I am in disbelief," Dylan fan and fellow...
  • Bob Dylan to perform in Warsaw

    03/18/2008 10:06:29 AM PDT · by pissant · 16 replies · 766+ views
    Polskie Radio ^ | 3/18/08 | staff
    Legendary singer-song writer Bob Dylan is billed to play a single concert in Warsaw on June 7. Polish music fans, though not necessarily those of the young generation, are in for a big treat. The artist chose to perform in a student’s club rather than in a big concert hall. It will be his second appearance in Poland. His first visit was back in 1994. At 67, Bob Dylan remains one of the most influential artist and a model to follow for many composers, poets and singers. His LPs and CDs have sold in over 90 million copies. (mk)
  • What Dylan Is Not

    Agood deal of hoopla greeted the grizzled rock-musician Neil Young's musical assault on George W. Bush earlier this year. His album Living With War included a hundred-voice choir singing a song entitled "Let's Impeach the President." For those survivors of anti-Vietnam war protests, and their younger would-be imitators, it was a moment for a sharp intake of breath and the tantalizing hope that maybe now, after all, music really could change the world. I mean, everyone has to sit up and take notice of Neil Young, right? Young's crusading album included another song called "Flags of Free dom," in which...
  • Hava Nagilah - Bob Dylan Tribute At Chabad Los Angeles Appearance (Vanity)

    06/08/2007 11:37:14 AM PDT · by goldstategop · 8 replies · 663+ views
    Havah Nagilah Hebrew Havah nagilah, Havah nagilah Havah nagilah v'nismchah Havah nagilah, Havah nagilah Havah nagilah v'nismchah Havah n'ran' nah Havah n'ran' nah Havah n'ran' nah v'nismcha Havah n ran' nah English translation: Come let’s dance, come let’s dance, Come let’s dance, and be merry! Come let’s dance, come let’s dance, Come let’s dance, and be merry! Come let’s whirl, come let’s whirl, Come let’s whirl, and be merry! Come let’s whirl, come let’s whirl, Come let’s whirl, and be merry! Rise, rise, brothers! Rise, brothers, with a glad heart. Rise, brothers, with a glad heart. Rise, brothers, with...
  • Why Bob Dylan Rocks (Yes he does!)

    06/01/2007 2:18:10 PM PDT · by pissant · 113 replies · 1,964+ views
    Fox News ^ | 5/29/07 | John Gibson
    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...
  • Three-chord propaganda [Bob Dylan: "Where's the global warming? Its freezing in here."]

    05/09/2007 7:39:23 AM PDT · by grundle · 70 replies · 1,937+ views
    jewishworldreview.com ^ | May 9, 2007 | Zev Chafets
    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...
  • Sanjaya's new low: 'Utterly horrendous'.....(told performance worst in history of show)

    04/18/2007 4:57:54 AM PDT · by IrishMike · 75 replies · 3,163+ views
    WND ^ | April 17, 2007
    Sanjaya Malakar, known for his wild hairdos and frequently pitchy singing style, hit a new low tonight on Fox's "American Idol," according to judge Simon Cowell who characterized his performance as the worst ever in the history of the show, now in its sixth season. "That was utterly horrendous," said Cowell. Malakar, 17, known nationally – even internationally – by his first name only, has survived the first several cuts in the program that relies on public voting to eliminate one contestant each week. He has stimulated a national debate, with his own fan base supporting him enthusiastically and others...
  • It ain't you, babe, said the Pope to his predecessor

    03/07/2007 9:47:41 PM PST · by siunevada · 7 replies · 330+ views
    news.scotsman.com ^ | March 7, 2007 | Nick Pisa
    POPE Benedict XVI tried to prevent his predecessor, John Paul II, from attending a Bob Dylan concert. The hardline pontiff makes the confession himself in a book due out next week. Dylan's booking for the 1997 church-arranged event raised eyebrows at the Vatican, given his history of drug abuse. Pope Benedict, who has labelled rock "the work of the Devil", said: "I had reasons to be sceptical and still am. I doubted whether it was in good taste to allow such a performance in front of the Pope." At the time, Pope Benedict was Cardinal Ratzinger and in charge of...
  • (Current) Pope tried to stop concert by Bob Dylan (at World Eucharistic Congress in '97)

    03/08/2007 6:17:55 AM PST · by NYer · 13 replies · 415+ views
    The Pope tried to stop Bob Dylan playing for the late John Paul II because he feared the musician was a "prophet" whose beliefs were at odds with the Roman Catholic Church.   Bob Dylan performs for Pope John Paul II in Bologna in 1997 In a new book of memoirs about his predecessor, Pope Benedict recalls the events of the World Eucharist Congress at Bologna in 1997, a gathering of 300,000 young Catholic pilgrims who were to be exposed to the singer's iconoclastic songs and their "completely different" message. Pope Benedict wrote: "The Pope appeared tired, exhausted. At that...
  • Pope Tried To Stop Concert By Bob Dylan

    03/07/2007 6:57:04 PM PST · by blam · 21 replies · 758+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 3-8-2007 | Malcom Moore
    Pope tried to stop concert by Bob Dylan By Malcolm Moore Last Updated: 1:57am GMT 08/03/2007 The Pope tried to stop Bob Dylan playing for the late John Paul II because he feared the musician was a "prophet" whose beliefs were at odds with the Roman Catholic Church. Bob Dylan performs for Pope John Paul II in Bologna in 1997 In a new book of memoirs about his predecessor, Pope Benedict recalls the events of the World Eucharist Congress at Bologna in 1997, a gathering of 300,000 young Catholic pilgrims who were to be exposed to the singer's iconoclastic songs...
  • Bob Dylan, Troubadour With A Message

    02/19/2007 9:52:37 AM PST · by AlbionGirl · 72 replies · 921+ views
    Ransom Fellowship ^ | January/February '05 | Denis Haack
    I’m determined to stand whether God will deliver me or notThere are always two important questions about music. The first is “Do I like it?” and the second is “Do I get it?” I have loved Bob Dylan’s music ever since I first heard him in the ’60s, so much so that it is difficult to believe not everyone shares that love. Still, even if you don’t like Dylan’s music, you need to understand it. He has had too great an impact on our world to ignore it. And in a world where increasingly the next generation finds their deepest...
  • Our MTV Unplugged Poll: Which Show Was The Best? What Band or Person Performed?

    11/02/2006 11:04:38 PM PST · by mcg2000 · 20 replies · 694+ views
    Free Republic ^ | November 2, 2006 | Vanity
    We had an extended debate at the office today....what was the best "MTv Unplugged" performance? Me? Hands down....Alice in Chains! Before any reasons are discussed ..... I was curious as to anyone else's opinions or preferences on the topic?
  • Kerry Channeling Bob Dylan: 'Join The Army If You Fail'

    10/31/2006 11:27:15 AM PST · by governsleastgovernsbest · 42 replies · 1,619+ views
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    When John Kerry, child of the 60s, slurred the military with his comment, reported here by NewsBuster Warner Todd Huston, that people who who don't study wind up 'stuck in Iraq,' he was channeling Bob Dylan and the anti-war activist's 1967 song Subterranean Homesick Blues, which includes this line"Get jailed, jump bail"Join the army, if you fail."It's the same song that contains the famous line "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," from which the domestic terrorist group took its name.Hey John, Don't Think Twice - it's not alright.
  • What Dylan Is Not ( Poet Laureate of the left, for one).

    09/28/2006 4:22:50 PM PDT · by Rocko · 261 replies · 3,621+ views
    The Weekly Stardard ^ | Sept. 28, 2006 | Sean Curnyn
    10/02/2006, Volume 012, Issue 03 A good deal of hoopla greeted the grizzled rock-musician Neil Young's musical assault on George W. Bush earlier this year. His album Living With War included a hundred-voice choir singing a song entitled "Let's Impeach the President." For those survivors of anti-Vietnam war protests, and their younger would-be imitators, it was a moment for a sharp intake of breath and the tantalizing hope that maybe now, after all, music really could change the world. I mean, everyone has to sit up and take notice of Neil Young, right? Young's crusading album included another song called...
  • Ain't Got No Cigarettes: Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller

    09/16/2006 5:58:25 PM PDT · by Nita Nupress · 260 replies · 5,649+ views
    My head | Nita Nupress
    BOOK REVIEW & DISCUSSION: Ain't Got No Cigarettes: Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller By Lyle E Style "It's an endless story about Roger. He was one of the cleverest people I've ever met in my life." (Waylon Jennings) This is my own review of Ain't Got No Cigarettes, the first Roger Miller book ever published. My review is based on reading the book (twice) and having several discussions with Lyle E Style, the author. He may stop by later to answer questions (as his schedule allows). This one is a must-read, folks. And for you radio personalities who...
  • (Bob) Dylan Earns First No. 1 Album Since 1976

    09/06/2006 10:36:14 PM PDT · by weegee · 14 replies · 312+ views
    Billboard ^ | September 06, 2006, 11:15 AM ET | Katie Hasty, N.Y.
    For the first time in 30 years, Bob Dylan tops The Billboard 200 with "Modern Times." Not only is it the legendary songwriter's first album to reach the throne since "Desire" in 1976, it's also his highest debuting album and his best sales week since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. The Columbia set moved 192,000 copies in the United States in its first week. "Modern Times" is Dylan's third consecutive top 10 studio set, following 1997's "Time Out of Mind" and 2001's "Love & Theft." Aside from "Desire" and "Modern Times," only two other Dylan albums assumed the...
  • The Bob Dylan They Prefer To Believe In

    09/02/2006 8:59:23 AM PDT · by Rocko · 138 replies · 2,606+ views
    rightwingbob.com ^ | September 1, 2006 | Sean Curnyn
    Forget the Reuters “fauxtography” scandal (well, don’t actually forget it) — the Dylan world is rocked this morning by a completely unsourced quote published in the Christian Science Monitor, in an article that attempts some kind of overview of Dylan’s career coinciding with the release of Modern Times . (Thanks to RCB for the tip.) Here it is, in context (bolding mine): Dylan, who declined to comment for this article, remains, as ever, an enigma. (Three years ago, he called himself “a 62-year-old Jewish atheist.'’) But he’s more open than he’s ever been about his past, even opening himself to...
  • Fans hail return of Dylan

    08/29/2006 2:03:12 PM PDT · by kiriath_jearim · 125 replies · 1,847+ views
    BBC ^ | 8/29/06 | n/a
    Fans hail return of Dylan Early critical reception to Bob Dylan's first album for five years suggests the 65-year-old is far from ready for retirement. The living legend's 44th album, Modern Times, earned five-star reviews in Uncut and Rolling Stone magazines, with the latter calling it a "masterwork". The BBC News website asked six Dylan fans to explain their enduring fascination with the man and his music. "He has said enough important things for us to be interested in what he has to say next" Katie Melua, singer-songwriter "The music, the voice, the lyrics all combined to be something really...
  • Bob Dylan says modern music is worthless

    08/22/2006 10:20:10 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 234 replies · 2,385+ views
    Entertainment Weekly ^ | 8/22/06 | Reuters
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Dylan says modern recordings sound "atrocious," and even the songs on his new album sounded much better in the studio than on disc. "I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past twenty years, really," the 65-year-old rocker said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Dylan, who released eight studio albums in that time, returns with his first recording in five years, "Modern Times," next Tuesday. Noting the music industry's complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, "Well, why not? It ain't...
  • The Bob Dylan Motorcycle-Crash Mystery

    07/29/2006 8:18:50 AM PDT · by Rocko · 101 replies · 1,824+ views
    American Heritage.com ^ | July 29, 2006 | Tony Scherman
    On July 29, 1966, something happened to Bob Dylan while he was riding his motorcycle near his Woodstock, New York, home. Forty years and a small library of biographies later, it’s still hard to be much more precise or detailed than that. What really befell Dylan on that day remains, like so much in this pop-culture icon’s closely guarded life, cloaked in mystery. Ill-defined or not, the accident has been treated as a major event in Dylan’s life; at least one biographer divides the founder of folk-rock’s career into “pre-“ and “post-accident.” What made the event so significant? Since 1961,...
  • Cate Blanchett to play Dylan in biopic (Along with Brokeback Heath, Richard Gere, Christian Bale)

    05/26/2006 3:08:24 PM PDT · by DaveLoneRanger · 9 replies · 306+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | May 24, 2006 | Alfons Luna
    Cate Blanchett will play Bob Dylan in his "androgenous phase" in a new biopic of the great poet-songwriter's life, it was announced, as Dylan turned 65. But even as he shows up everywhere in books, films and even a Broadway musical, Dylan, who has sought seclusion and mystery all his life, remains as enigmatic as ever. Dylan has clearly shrugged off retirement age, taking on a new job as a radio DJ, publishing a selection of his memoirs, musing in a Martin Scorcese documentary, authorizing a stage musical with his songs -- and appearing in an advert for the Victoria's...
  • Reason magazine on "Rednecks & Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music"

    04/26/2006 10:00:12 PM PDT · by jdoeadeer · 12 replies · 390+ views
    Reason.com ^ | Jesse Walker
    "Rednecks & Bluenecks" is a new book about the politics of country musicians, from Cash and Haggard to the Dixie Chicks and Brooks & Dunn to Steve Earle and Sara Evans. I put up a review of this from the American Conservative the other day, and it turned out not to have a working link. But this one I found from Reason is both linkable and interesting. The One On the Right Was On the Left... The political puzzle of country music By Jesse Walker The surprise tour of last year—a surprise, that is, to anyone whose worldview froze around...
  • The Weather Underground and Ward Churchill

    01/05/2006 1:10:31 PM PST · by Land_of_Lincoln_John · 9 replies · 923+ views
    Marathon Pundit ^ | January 5, 2006 | Marathon Pundit
    See that picture? That's Richard J. Elrod. He's been partially paralyzed since 1969 after suffering a broken neck. More on him later. Yesterday I had a couple of posts on the husband-and-wife professors who were formerly members of the 1960s domestic terror organization, the Weather Underground. The professors are Bernardine Dohrn of Northwestern University and Bill Ayers of the University of Illinois-Chicago. Feel to drop by Marathon Pundit for more on information on them. On October 8, 1969, The Weather Underground decided to jumpstart the "People's Revolution," in Chicago. They blew up a statue of a policeman (that statue...
  • Oh, That Miserable Economy!

    12/08/2005 4:57:28 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 23 replies · 758+ views
    US News & World Report ^ | December 8, 2005 | Matthew Benjamin
    The strong data on jobs, growth, and even house prices belie the naysayersTo paraphrase Bob Dylan, you don't need a Wall Street economist to know which way the economy is blowing. For weeks, the experts have worked themselves into a cold sweat worrying about inflation, aftereffects of the killer hurricanes, oil prices, avian flu, and the prospect of the red-hot housing market turning white cold. Rest easy. Things are nowhere near as bad as the worrywarts would have you believe, if recent bountiful economic data are any indication. Indeed, firms add-ed a rock-solid 215,000 jobs in November, the government reported...
  • Ceasing to be the voice of a generation(Lefties Can't Face The Truth)

    11/10/2005 10:24:33 PM PST · by scott says · 17 replies · 381+ views
    ICFI ^ | Nov.9,2005 | Paul Bond
    Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, directed by Martin Scorsese Amidst great fanfare, veteran director Martin Scorsese’s two-part documentary on the early career of Bob Dylan recently screened on PBS in the US and the BBC in Britain. In a largely chronological fashion, the documentary covers Dylan’s formative years in small-town Minnesota and his move to New York City and the folk scene in Greenwich Village. It ends with the controversy surrounding his “electric” tour of 1966. At the end of that tour, Dylan was involved in a serious motorcycle accident that curtailed his work for a period. He was practically...
  • Not Dark Yet: In Search of Bob Dylan #4: A Direction Home

    10/17/2005 9:50:45 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 12 replies · 561+ views
    theratio.org ^ | Oct. 4, 2005
    Not Dark Yet: In Search of Bob Dylan #4: A Direction Home JARED BLAND Perhaps it's the recent chill in the Toronto air, perhaps it's the old ‘starting a new life phase' bit, or perhaps it's the unavoidable preponderance of media attention on the man lately, but these past few weeks I've found myself re-entering the world of Bob Dylan in the way that I imagine all truly obsessive people do from time to time after being dragged away by other preoccupations, musical or otherwise. Since I'm a romantic, I like to cling to the first reason, and imagine that...
  • Dylan Bio

    09/27/2005 7:22:31 PM PDT · by daler · 34 replies · 654+ views
    Anybody watching the Dylan special on PBS tonight? I'm a little surprised at some of the comments of the formerly reclusive folk/rock star. He seems like the kind of guy I could have a beer with...unlike his long-ago paramour, Joan Baez, or communist mentor, Pete Seeger.
  • Dylan's 'play loud' drummer recalls famed 1966 tour

    09/30/2005 10:49:35 AM PDT · by dennisw · 141 replies · 2,138+ views
    sacticket ^ | Published 11:15 AM PST Friday, Sep. 23, 2005 | BRETT JOHNSON, Scripps Howard News Service
    Mickey Jones can always say that it was Bob Dylan who wanted to see him at the Whisky A Go-Go. He can also lay claim to being in Dylan's band on the famed 1966 tour when crowds booed the singer for going electric, prompting Dylan to whip around and demand that Jones "play f****** loud." Jones, a veteran character actor who lives in Simi Valley, Calif., played drums on Dylan's historic and controversial 1966 world tour. A DVD featuring home movies Jones took of that tour came out last year, and now Jones is included in Martin Scorsese's Dylan documentary...
  • The Last Temptation of Dylan- Watching the new documentary.

    09/25/2005 3:47:51 AM PDT · by dennisw · 283 replies · 5,914+ views
    slate ^ | Posted Friday, Sept. 23, 2005 | David Yaffe
    <p>About an hour into Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, Joan Baez—in an interview that will be edited by your PBS station—recalls an invincible young Dylan imagining what they'll be saying about him in the future: "A bunch of years from now, all these assholes are going to be writing about all this shit I write, and I don't know where the fuck it comes from and I don't know what the fuck it's about, and they're going to write about what it's about." Here we are. This documentary comes complete with a Starbucks tie-in, an Apple logo, and a celebrity director's credit. That director is Martin Scorsese, who has surely coveted access to this footage—donated by D.A. Pennebaker, Murray Lerner, and others—having already shot Dylan as the pièce de résistance to his documentary about The Band, The Last Waltz. But before you get too excited about this crossroads meeting, viewer, beware: This project was co-produced by Dylan's manager Jeff Rosen. Scorsese was brought in well after Rosen had already conducted the interviews and approved the material. What will all these assholes be saying about Dylan? In this "Martin Scorsese Picture," whatever the Dylan people want.</p>
  • Don’t Think Twice -- A man and his music (Dylan)

    09/28/2005 4:40:54 PM PDT · by Rocko · 74 replies · 1,524+ views
    nationalreviewonline ^ | September 28, 2005 | John Derbyshire
    In the fall of 1964 I was living in a rented room in north London. The house was owned by a lady who had misplaced her husband somehow — I don’t recall the details. She had a son and a daughter living at home. The daughter was in her early twenties, and working. The son was about my age — I was 19 — and a student at the local art college. I didn’t know much about the art-school scene, and the little I knew I didn’t much like, so I can’t say I found the guy very simpatico. We...
  • Times 'a-changin' for Bob Dylan purists

    08/29/2005 7:32:50 PM PDT · by scott says · 34 replies · 392+ views
    Dayton Daily News ^ | Aug.29,2005 | Phil Kloer
    A handful of Bob Dylan fans are steaming that his latest CD goes on sale at Starbucks today. But nothing is ever simple with Dylan; in this case it's tangled up in brew. Bob Dylan Live at the Gaslight 1962, a portrait of the artist as a young folkie, will be sold exclusively at Starbucks. Also today, the two-CD soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's buzz-heavy Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, goes on sale everywhere from iTunes to Target. The simultaneous release of competing CDs by the same artist — completely counter to the way the music business usually works — is...
  • Dylan song 'changed the world'

    08/05/2005 8:50:42 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 227 replies · 4,286+ views
    yahoo news/Reuters ^ | Aug. 5, 2005
    Dylan Song 'Changed the World' - Poll Bob Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone" topped a poll on Friday to find the 100 songs, movies, TV shows and books that "changed the world" in the opinion of musicians, actors and industry experts. Dylan's 1965 single beat Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" into second place in the survey for "Uncut" magazine. Paul McCartney, Noel Gallagher, Robert Downey Jr, Rolling Stone Keith Richards and Lou Reed were among those who gave their views for the poll. "I absolutely remember where I was when I first heard it. It got me through adolescence," rocker...
  • Starbucks to release Bob Dylan bootlegs

    07/05/2005 10:19:12 AM PDT · by NRA2BFree · 78 replies · 1,775+ views
    MSNBC.com ^ | 6/28/05 | AP
    SEATTLE - Bob Dylan made his mark playing in one cafe. Soon, he'll be in thousands. Starbucks Coffee Co. has reached a deal to produce and exclusively release a CD of 10 Dylan recordings from New York's Gaslight Cafe in 1962, when he was just finding himself as a songwriter. The Gaslight, in Greenwich Village, was a focal point of the folk revival in the early '60s. "Bob Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962" will be available at Starbucks stores in the United States and Canada on Aug. 30. It includes the earliest known recordings of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna...
  • Dylan Republicans (American Spectator Article By Freeper)

    06/20/2005 7:04:27 AM PDT · by crushkerry · 63 replies · 2,090+ views
    American Spectator ^ | 6/20/05 | Patrick Hynes (freeper)
    This summer's family wedding season has drawn to a close for me. The last stop found me in Duluth, Minnesota (not Duluth, Georgia; there would be no runaway brides at this ceremony) from where hails my maternal lineage. These are a hearty breed of Norwegian and Ojibwa stock. Lutheran. Hard working. Honest. Humble. And very, very liberal. Now, I'm not about talking your sanctimonious, excruciating Northeast liberals here, but rather genuine progressives with big, if bleeding, hearts. One of my uncles is a Vietnam Vet and a genuine ex-hippie. My two other uncles share his progressive enthusiasms. For example, one...
  • An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged [Jane Fonda]

    06/10/2005 5:48:00 AM PDT · by SJackson · 34 replies · 4,202+ views
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | 6-10-05 | Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer
    An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika HolzerFrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2005For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort.  With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance. Three years ago, our book, “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam (McFarland & Co.), laid bare...
  • The enigmatic Bob Dylan

    04/21/2005 3:33:52 PM PDT · by mft112345 · 1 replies · 485+ views
    Eudaimonia and other pursuits ^ | April 21, 2005 | MT
    Today, I finished Dylan's autobiography. I enjoyed learning about his early musical influences and his explanation of how the media and some of his fans turned against him. That said, I think the narrative would have been more coherent if he had stuck to chronological order. I also believe he was more interested in conveying feelings than accurately depicting facts. How many snakes hang from trees in South Louisiana? I think Dylan tries (a little too hard) to seem enigmatic. He writes: "Sometimes you say things in songs even if there's a small chance of them being true. And, sometimes...
  • Bob Dylan's Chronicles

    04/18/2005 3:01:14 PM PDT · by mft112345 · 2 replies · 438+ views
    Eudaimonia and other pursuits ^ | April 18, 2005 | MT
    In his autobiography, Dylan writes: " When [Clausewitz] claims that politics has taken the place of morality and politics is brute force, he's not playing. You have to believe it. You do exactly as you're told, whoever you are. Knuckle under or you're dead. Don't give me any of that jazz about hope or nonsense about righteousness. Don't give me that dance that God is with us, or that God supports us. Let's get down to brass tacks. There isn't any moral order. You can forget that. Morality has nothing in common with politics. It's not there to transgress. It's...
  • Bush the Talking Pig (and Other Curious Casting Choices)

    03/21/2005 8:32:19 PM PST · by quidnunc · 1 replies · 282+ views
    The American Enterprise ^ | March 21, 2005 | Marni Soupcoff
    Todd Haynes is a great movie director, so I don't want to mock him too much, but it's hard not to at least say something about the odd direction the Oscar nominee appears to be taking in casting a Bob Dylan biopic he is making. Seven different actors are to play Dylan at different points in his life, one of whom, says Haynes, will probably be a black woman. Haynes has even tossed around some ideas about who might play the black female Dylan, including singer Beyonce Knowles, Oprah Winfrey, and tennis player Venus Williams — each possibility disturbing in...
  • I Love Bob Dylan (Why Joseph Farah's A Fan Of the 60s Great As Much Ann Coulter Alert)

    12/27/2004 11:51:13 PM PST · by goldstategop · 52 replies · 2,324+ views
    Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 12/28/04 | Joseph Farah
    just read a fascinating book – "Chronicles, Volume 1" by Bob Dylan. There are some real surprises in this book. Most of us baby boomers thought of Dylan as a man with a political agenda. It turns out Dylan wasn't trying to lead anyone anywhere. He just wanted to be a singer-songwriter. It's quite a revelation, and Dylan has an interesting way of telling the story. Dylan was a private man who tried to put his family first. He didn't want to get caught up in the '60s activism. He was conspicuously absent from Woodstock, Altamont and all the other...
  • Bob Dylan Publishes Memoirs, Vows to Speak Truth

    09/26/2004 7:24:09 PM PDT · by KantianBurke · 40 replies · 1,207+ views
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (news) said he didn't find the process of writing his new memoirs all "that splendid," according to an article in the latest issue of Newsweek magazine. "I'm used to writing songs," the 63-year-old creator of such '60s hits as "Like A Rolling Stone" told the magazine. "And songs -- I can fill 'em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book like this, you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted." Dylan said he is proud of his book, "Chronicles, Vol. 1," published by Simon & Schuster and excerpted...
  • ACADEMIC ARCHIPELAGO MEETS BOB DYLAN

    07/01/2004 10:22:07 AM PDT · by .cnI redruM · 1 replies · 103+ views
    The Corner (NRO) ^ | 1 July | [KJL]
    Professor Harvey Shulman up there in the tundra came up with the following birthday ode to Bobbie Dylan back in 2001. It combines two of the points from my June Diary, posted yesterday. WITH APOLOGIES TO BOB DYLAN ON HIS 60TH Come gather round faculty wherever you teach And condemn what the universities around you do preach Or accept it that soon you'll have no one to reach Is your integrity worth saving Then you'd better start speaking or you'll end up alone For the times, they are a changing Come teachers and scholars who never say a word Open...
  • Caption Dr Zimmy

    06/24/2004 8:54:03 AM PDT · by Revolting cat! · 22 replies · 191+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | June 24, 2004 | David Cheskin /Reuters/Pool
    Rock legend Bob Dylan on the stage of the University of St Andrews in Scotland and (inset) Dylan receives his honorary degree of Doctor of Music from Sir Kenneth Dover, Chancellor at the University of St Andrews
  • It ain't me, babe (lighten up -- it's only underwear)

    04/14/2004 9:26:57 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 32 replies · 299+ views
    The Boston Globe ^ | 4/14/2004
    BOB DYLAN, the undefinable, has done what many of his fans consider the unthinkable: Appearing in a Victoria's Secret TV commercial. They should lighten up -- it's only underwear.
  • Bob Dylan Does Commercial For Victoria's Secret

    04/06/2004 2:14:41 PM PDT · by yonif · 18 replies · 2,379+ views
    The Boston Channel ^ | April 6, 2004 | AP
    The times appear to be a-changin' for legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. For the first time, the folk-rocker is appearing in a television commercial: and it's for women's lingerie giant Victoria's Secret. In the ad, Dylan's looking grizzled and iconic while a model cavorts through Venice in a bra and panties as his song "Love Sick" plays. While it's the first time he's personally appeared in an ad campaign, his music was used once before -- as "The Times They Are A-Changin"' was used in a Bank of Montreal ad in 1996. Ed Razek, chief creative officer for Victoria's Secret, said...
  • Latest Victoria's Secret model: Bob Dylan - Singer appearing in new series of ads

    04/06/2004 1:17:55 PM PDT · by weegee · 14 replies · 1,219+ views
    AP via Yahoo ^ | Tuesday, April 6, 2004 Posted: 9:54 AM EDT (1354 GMT) | no byline
    <p>Bob Dylan appears in a new series of commercials for Victoria's Secret, his grizzled face intercut with shots of model Adriana Lima cavorting through Venice in a bra, panties and spike heels.</p> <p>Don't worry. The 62-year-old Dylan keeps his clothes on.</p>
  • Rock's Enigmatic Poet Opens a Long-Private Door

    04/04/2004 12:27:25 PM PDT · by Rocko · 7 replies · 220+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 4-4-04 | Robert Hilburn
    Amsterdam — "No, no, no," Bob Dylan says sharply when asked if aspiring songwriters should learn their craft by studying his albums, which is precisely what thousands have done for decades. "It's only natural to pattern yourself after someone," he says, opening a door on a subject that has long been off-limits to reporters: his songwriting process. "If I wanted to be a painter, I might think about trying to be like Van Gogh, or if I was an actor, act like Laurence Olivier. If I was an architect, there's Frank Gehry. "But you can't just copy somebody. If you...
  • Bob Dylan lyrics: "Property of Jesus" (must read for Mel Gibson fans)

    02/24/2004 10:40:57 PM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 82 replies · 1,627+ views
    Shot of Love ^ | 1981 | Bob Dylan
    Go ahead and talk about him because he makes you doubt, Because he has denied himself the things that you can't live without. Laugh at him behind his back just like the others do, Remind him of what he used to be when he comes walkin' through. He's the property of Jesus Resent him to the bone You got something better You've got a heart of stone Stop your conversation when he passes on the street, Hope he falls upon himself, oh, won't that be sweet Because he can't be exploited by superstition anymore Because he can't be bribed or...