...Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play .
>>The accident was Dylan’s means of escape from an unendurably fast-paced, pressurized life. As he said in a 1984 interview,<<\
While that could be, it was also true that his music was never that same...
The folkie "purist" crowd despised it, but Dylan picked up a new audience audience in the process. .....a rock and roll audience.
Now he's back to touring, touring, touring.... uh oh... maybe another accident is around the corner... this time another bizare gardening accident.
This rendition is hilarious and contradicts 40 years of information.
So now it wasn't such a bad head injury after all and Dylan actually did it to himself so he could catch some zzz's.
This goes right along with the rewrite that says Dylan wasn't a revolutionary making some discomforting waves for the power structure; he was just a wandering, barefoot minstrel boy.
We've become a nation who thinks historical perspective is going back all the way to February.
What kind of bike was it?
It was easy to see he was definitely on something since he had the same look, characteristics and mannerisms as myself who at the time had a massive heroin habit. In those days speed, & meth while available was rarely used & my guess at the time was he was a heroin dope fiend. I worked in a recording studio in those days and would guess that more than half the studio musicians & artists I worked with were hooked on smack.
But Dylan doesn't limit his contempt to the President. The long final track, "Ain't Talkin' Just Walkin'" which, with its ominous, portentous strings, is clearly intended as a major statement, sees a vengeful Dylan stalking "through the cities of the plague" to kill enemies who will "crush you with wealth and power". He doesn't name the neocons - just as he never directly named Vietnam - but he plainly despises them.
I hope this Brit writer is mistaken, because i would think Bob Dylan could see who the real enemies are in the world today.
.
bttt
my favorite source for dylan:
http://www.bjorner.com/bob.htm
PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock- 'n'-roll route?
DYLAN: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13- year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy - he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?
PLAYBOY: And that's how you became a rock-'n'-roll singer?
DYLAN: No, that's how I got tuberculosis.
On April 30, 1966, two days after the publication of his book, Richard Fariña attended a book-signing at a Carmel Valley Village bookstore, the Thunderbird. Later that day, while at a party to celebrate Mimi Baez Farina's 21st birthday, Fariña took a bike ride up Carmel Valley Road east toward Cachagua, but only made it a mile or so before wiping out. He was killed instantly.
David Hajdu's "group portrait" of Dylan, Farina, Joan & Mimi in his 2001 book 'Positively 4th Street' was a portrait of the relationships
Can't help thinking that Dylan's brush with death coming so close on the heels of Farina's untimely demise had something to do with his introspection..