Posted on 09/27/2005 7:22:31 PM PDT by daler
Is this a mini-series? Or are they repeating the same show?
I really had never heard about Bob Dylan until one night in 1965 when I was in a coffee house with a couple of friends. I was a junior in high school and we had told our folks we were going to the library to study that evening. We ended up at the coffee house not because we were hip, but because it just seemed like something different to do.
We were having some food and a coke or two when all of a sudden I heard a completely different sound coming from the jukebox. It wasn't the Beatles,the Beach Boys, the Supremes, or the Four Seasons. This was very, very, different. It was a new sound and it worked.
The song was "Subterranean Homesick Blues". The name of the coffee house was "The Ink Well". You're right, it remains a part of you.
No. It was a 2-part special directed by Martin Scorsese (part of the American Masters series on PBS)
I think they may be repeating it this Saturday nite, running both parts back to back. So, check your local PBS listings.
I thought the funniest line was his answer to the reporter about how many protest singers there were. "136" LOL! "either 136 or 142" LOL
Thanks. I'll try to catch it. Sounds like a great bio.
Actually, it isn't really what you might think of as a bio.
I think it was advertised and marketed wrong. It's a musical bio.
I'd say it was more correctly, the story of Dylan's early musical beginnings. It ends in 1966. There is almost nothing about his personal life.
btw - the final 1/2 hr is a Charlie Rose interview with Martin Scorsese.
Question : Do Scorsese's glasses come with those eyebrows?
hehe...I'm not a big "movie buff", so I don't know that much about him...but he was very cool and interesting.
Yeah! Lol. I liked his story about not wanting to go to Dallas.
I am old enough to remember those years and things were not all good, especially after the President was shot.
I think the way the press and the peace and love crowd treated Dylan tells us a lot. The press really were nasty and stupid and the disgruntled fans were a real threat.
Al Cooper quit because he knew the violence potential was very real even though he was joking about not wanting to be next to Bob when it happened.
I think maybe the members of The Band who were from Canada had played in mining town beer halls and were somewhat more used to the abuse.
And Dylan may very have been saved by the motorcycle accident that nearly killed him and took him off the stage.
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