SNS – Exclusive Bob Dylan Interview

SNS ^ | 11/23/09 | Bill Flannagan/Bob Dylan

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Dylan does Christmas

[the invisib1e hand]

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[WOBBLY BOB]

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[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Dylan always gives great interviews.

[a fool in paradise]

Dylan does Christmas

BF: Have you heard “Christmas on Death Row,” the rap Christmas record?

BD: No I don’t think so.

BF: Do you listen to rap music?

BD: I don’t listen to rap radio stations and I don’t play rap songs on the jukebox, and I don’t go to rap shows – So no I guess I don’t listen to rap music all that much.

BF: What do you think of rap music?

BD: I love rhyming for rhyming sake. I think that’s an incredible art form.

Dylan does rap

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten

[Recovering_Democrat]

Great quote:
" I don’t listen to rap radio stations and I don’t play rap songs on the jukebox, and I don’t go to rap shows – So no I guess I don’t listen to rap music all that much."

BWA HA HA HAHA!

[Chunga]

I love the album and this is a great interview. He’s such a real guy...he’s almost the anti-Obama.

[RanGreHad]

Dylan’s one of a kind—I love him!

[dennisw]

One Amazon review-—>>>

Worst Album I’ve Heard in Ages, November 21, 2009
By Kevin P. Mangold “kmangold” (fairview, tn) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Christmas In The Heart (MP3 Download)
Insipid versions of holiday classics that never deserved to be released. Dylan’s voice, an acquired taste even in its’ finest moments, sounds as if he’s been gargling with old razor blades. Throughout my first (and only) listen to this mess-terpiece, I couldn’t help but think that even Wild Man Fischer would have had more self-respect than to issue such drek. Absolutely dreadful and should be avoided at all costs.

[dennisw]

Another Amazon review-—>>

Absolutely Pathetic. A New Holiday Low., November 19, 2009
By R. Stack “Black Christmas” (New York) - See all my reviews
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Bob’s usual horrid, nasally whine has been replaced by an off key, gravelly Louie Armstrong-esque grunt. This cd will surely scare the bejeesus out of kids of all ages or anyone with any musical sensibilities. Give the sound engineer’s credit for getting through the obviously torturous chore of recording this mess. One has to wonder at what point did they proclaim “You nailed it Bob, that’s a wrap!” This makes Stevie Nicks’ rendition of “Silent Night” sound like an angel singing. Hallucinagenics should be handed out with this disc at the point of purchase.

[dr_lew]

However, any Dylan fan who says he was not surprised that Bob has released an album of traditional Christmas songs is pulling your leg.

So right away I think of THREE ANGELS, you know? Why should we be surprised after THREE ANGELS?

Then I see he asks him about THREE ANGELS in the interview! Says, "It always reminds me of the holidays" ... does anyone hear the music they play? Not BF, I guess.

[a fool in paradise]

BF: I know we’re out of time but I have to ask, what’s the best Christmas gift you ever got?

BD: Let me think… oh yeah, I think it was a sled.

I though that was Hearst/Kane...

[Chunga]

So what? Somebody has an opinion?

[dr_lew]

These guys are starting to pique my interest.

[Electric Graffiti]

BF: What was Christmas like around your town when you were growing up?

BD: Well, you know, plenty of snow, jingle bells, Christmas carolers going from house to house, sleighs in the streets, town bells ringing, nativity plays. That sort of thing.

BF: Your family was Jewish – as a kid did you ever feel left out of the Christmas excitement?

BD: No, not at all.

BF: What’s your idea of a good Christmas Dinner?

BD: Mashed potatoes and gravy, roast turkey and collard greens, turnip greens, biscuit dressing, corn bread and cranberry sauce.

Not to highjack this thread but this exchange reminded me of a post by 'Molly' at American Thinker. I thought it was a brilliant observation of Obama and his lack of an American childhood.

From Molly:

"I had an epiphany last Christmas Season (giant leap of knowledge). At the time I was well aware that Obama is a communist.

As I prepared my house for the festivities that lie in the days ahead, it occurred to me as I listened to Bing, Nat, Andy Williams sing the greatest from the American songbook, while my daughter was getting excited to watch Charlie Brown and White Christmas and get out the Monopoly, it hit me that this impostor was devoid of this experience. Something so quintessentially North American the Christmas Season, the music, the tree, the movies was NEVER a part of his childhood.

This impostor sat around with commie grandparents and their commie pals who probably discouraged any of these traditional activities.

Then I heard there would be no tree in the Obama white house what a surprise. There were no cowboy movies for little Obama, no lunar landing excitement let alone p.j's with cowboys or rockets, no toy rifles, no green army men to play with, nothing remotely "American" definitely no Monopoly. He is the most un-American American, and lo and behold he is the President of your country.

It just floors me when I hear a man like Cheney the elegant statesman speak about his Country, the polar opposite of Obama. God help the U.S.A and ask Santa for a new President, or for the a covert ops team to find the notes in Ayers house.."

[kickonly88]

If I listened to the what the critics thought, there would be very little music that I would listen to, let alone like.

[a fool in paradise]

Obama grew up in Indonesia in an agnostic household. He eventually came to live with grandma (he was well after 10 by then, no?) where he was raised on the knee of a Communist.

The Left doesn’t like the word Communist being thrown around. Not because it isn’t true, but because they claim “critics don’t know what that really is”.

Ask them if they find Communism as reprehensible as Nazism and you’ll find if they have any Communist sympathies.

Ask them if Communism is so great (it’s just that “no nation actually has real communism”) then they should emmigrate to a Communist nation and push for REFORM Communism within the Communist Party.

Why jack with my country just because it has thwarted Communist takeover in several countries and liberated others?

[SkyPilot]

Dylan is too smart and talented to listen to crap “music.”

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